TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. AUGUST 22.
THR TILLAMOOK headlight .
_?*' C' BAKER. Publisher.
Subicription
$1.50 yr
vest in land and be taxed to death,
but this is what the single tax will
do to those who own land and dairy
farms.
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The Germans don't appear to like
allied air raids into Germany. It was
perfectly proper for the Germans to
uomb London and the coast towns of
England as well as Paris, but the
Germans, now that the allies have
uecame masters of the air, consider
>t barbarous warfare to bomb their
towns. The allies, during the month
of July made 96 air raids into Ger
many and the bombs dropped am
ounted to 81 tons. It looks as though
it is getting too tropical for the Ger
mans when they have to experience
some of their inhuman methods uf
warfare, and that is why they want
io make an agreement with the al
lies to put a stop to this in the fu
ture. 'luis is a branch of the service
that the allies are going to help win
the war and now that the United
States is going to take an active
part in the bombing business, the
Germans have experienced only a
small amount of bombing to what
will take place in the future. The
Germans expected that with zeps
and submarines that this would help
win the war, but now that the allies
are carrying raids into Germany, ter
rifying the people and doing consid
erable damage the tables have been
turned on the Germans with good ef
fect. Consequently they don't like
their own medicine, which they will
have plenty of now that the United
States is going to take an active part
in those raids into Germany.
1918.
asking for the socks. The ladies can- '
COURTING TROUBLE.
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ANOTHER MOSS DRIVE.
vassed the town, and raised a sum of ELOQUENCE IN BRIEF WORDS
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It was a red-letter day for Pat Fin
Oddfellows and Others to Break the money with which to purchase yarn,
and the Portland Chapter telegraph Genera* Pershing May Be Said to Hold negan. For the first time he was a
Record Next Sunday.
ed the New York Red Cross to give
member of a jury. Dressed in his best
the Record, but There Have
Owing to the treatening weather those boys socks out of their supply
rult he was about to depart for the
Been Some Others.
Sunday, the moss picking drive to on hand, and that we would send
courthouse when his wife asked him
Sandlake did not pan out as was socks from here to replace them.
There are many four-minute war where he was going.
planned.. It was the intention of the The names of the boys, the number time speakers, but so far as known
"Shure, an’ it’s to coort Oi’m go-
Bo.tie of the old timers are trying
Oddfellows, Firemen and Shipwork- of the company was sent, but before there has been hut one four-word war ng.” replied Pat.
I ers to participate in the drive, but the New York Red Cross could get time speech. That was the sententious
The next day the same thing hap
wer rUtll,'>er ‘he date when there
the down pour of rain Saturday the socks to the boys they had been utterance credited to General Persh pened. However, on the third morn-
Au ■ 60 :nany showers of rain in
night with showers of rain in the started across the water. A law was ing. It was delivered at the tomb of lag things came to a cllftiax.
’ i0F the copious rainfall this
Mrs.
] morning caused a large number of almost immediately passed by which Lafayette on the first of Inst Septem Finnegan again asked the question.
is certainly a great surprise
persons to question the wisdom of packages cannot be sent to boys ber in the presence of a number of dis
to the old
timers, but, never-
".Shure, It’s to coort Oi’m going,”
I I IG n less,
IA»»
the
f ,
going to Sandlake with unfavorable without permission of their superior tinguished persons who crowded about vrld Pat.
• a blessing in making the
grass grow aud preventing forest
weather conditions confronting them. officers. The boys were written to the flower-covered grave in the quaint
Mrs. Finnegan took the rolling pin
Tires.
However about 40 persons were about the matter but no orders*have old cemetery.
and got In Pat’s way.
courageous enough to face the un arrived for socks to be sent. The
"Now, Pat," she replied, “take off
“Lafayette, we are here!" said Gen
J n Bull's little contemptible ar-
favorable weather conditions and money is in the bank.
them good clothes; yer not going to
eral Pershing.
y’ as
Kaiser called it, has
started for Sandlake, although they
There is a movement on foot to
There are other sententious speeches coort. If there’s any coortln’ to be
n inflicted a serious loss on the
were a little late in doing so. The keep the Library here open during in the aunals, but it is doubtful if done, shure, ye’ll do it here, an’ do
moss committee had had a strenuous afternoons for the benefit of the sol one can be fonnd that combines as It with me!”
p
army' Tommy Atkins has
tumbled the kaiser and his army on
time in providing sufficient sacks, dier boys who are in our vicinity, much sentiment with its brevity.
I
■eve.al occasions during the past
for had the weather been favorable and money is needed to fit the li-
Truth About Premonition.
An exchange recalls a remarkably
y5ar; an<* Probably long before this
and had those who intended making brary out for writing quarters for brief dedication speech uttered by
"Once in a while an error turns out
he ».aiser has been forced to admit
up the party gone to Sandlake. 2000 these boys. If there are no objections Richard Mansfield on the occasion of to be the truth,” said the editor.
that the British army was the most
sacks would have been insufficient, to it on the part of those who con the opening of the Garrick theater In
"How Is that?” asked the caller.
contemptible thing he ran up against
which were the number of sacks the tribute to this fund, it will be drawn Philadelphia. The eminent exponent
“Why,” replied the editor, "In writ
on toe western front.
committee had on hand, To the cred- on for this purpose.
of the drama took no advantage of the ing about the death of Mrs. Rounder
it of those who went to Sandlake on
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opportunity afforded him. He came to I . . referred
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to ____________
Mr. Rounder ___
as _____
‘the
I here appears to be an Impression
Sunday they reached the highest
First Methodist Church.
the front, cast a compincent glance nt | bereaved widower,’ but the compos-
that the war will be over next year,
record of moss gathering in one day,
the expectant throng and then grace? (itor made It ‘the relieved widower,’
Chas. E. Gibson, D. D., Pastor.
Maybe it will and maybe it won’t,
fully waved his arm and said:
! and It got Into the paper that way,
about 600 sacks being gathered.
Services 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.
for nobody is authority on this point,
Half of this wes brought to the city
“I dedicate this building to theatrical uud Rounder never even called up
Should Germany decide to dig in and
on Sunday, the saw dust truck, of i Sunday School 10 a.m.
to demand a correction.”—London
art.”
Midweek services every Wednes
.fight on the defense, the war is
the Coast Power Co. bringing in 3
This was very nearly as brief as the Tlt-Blts.
i
.
.
,
JlaL'e to string out over several
tons of mosB. Owing to the wet day.
ordinary boat christening.
Jears. It is not wise to be too opto-
JACK OF ALL TRADE8.
weather the moss contained more
Which recalls an Incident that hap
MU b II c about the war being over next
pened many years ago at one of Cleve
moisture, and those who carried the
Russian Play at the Gem.
Jean Before this can come about the
land’s early-day shipyards. It intro
sacks from the bogs to the road
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•Allies will have to subject the Ger
found the sacks much heavier on
A stirring play of Russia today will duced a peculiar combination of brev
many army to a crushing defeat.
that account.
be shown at the Gem Theatre next ity and novelty.
That the German army is going to
A big schooner-rthey were nil wood
There was such a merry banter as Thursday, August 22. It is called
The Public Service Commission is the competitors went around be "The Firebrand.” and has as its star en boats at that time—was ready for
pieces is no doubt whatever, but it
may hang on for many years yet, be to have a hearing on Saturday on tween the pickers, each trying to out I 1 Miss Virginia Pearson, the noted her first dip into the waters of the
fore 'lermany is defeated and sues 1 the application of the Mutual Tele do the rest in the number of sacks of William Fox actress. It shows the in Cuyahoga.
phone Company for an increase in moss secured. Dr. Ziegler, who was a ner workings of the true and untrue
for peace.
A pretty young woman, a relntiv«* of
the rates. It is a wilful waste to have member of the party, and from Port Russians. It gives an idea of how the owner, had been selected to swing
Most of the dairymen and land two telephone lines in this county, land, said that she noticed a marked Russia has been betrayed and how the bottle of wine against the prow of
owners of Tillamook county think and as there is urgent need of con- difference between
the workers her real people are working to save the boat and say, “I christen thee J. G.
their taxes are high enough, and solidation of public service utilities, there apd those whom she was ac her from the clutches of her enemies. Frothinghnm,” if that was its name.
Everything was in readiness. The
they are in some cases loo high. But especially in these war times, some- customed to see in Portland. That Miss Pearson as the Princess Natalya
if Jackson, editor of the Portland thing should be done to force the while every one was merrily talking is a real aristocrat but when she last prop awaited the final blow, the
-Journal, has his way, and carries Mutual Telephone Co. and the Pacif they kept right at work Just as fast learns that her brother has been bottle was poised in air. The yard
through the single tax fallacy, it will ic Telephone and Telegraph Co. to as they could, but in Portland so killed in battle through the treach manager waved bls hand. The hottie
xpean almost confiscation of dairy consolidate. It requires two offices many stop and stand in true slacker] ery of some of her relatives she Joins struck the side of the ship.
Unhappily, there was a defect in the
farms and other land in the county, and two working forces to operate style while they talk. Four teams the revolutionists and fights valiant
glass. The hottie collapsed in an un
lor the single taxers want land to these two telephone companies, and from Sandlake, hauled a large share ly for her country’s freedom.
bear the burden of taxation and not where there is so great demand for of the moss out to the top of the hill,
She falls in love with an American expected manner anil threw Its con
improvements thereon. And Jackson help, it looks altogether wrong and where Bert King and Henry Cren writer of Russian family. He is a tents all over the young woman’s nice
Ss the fellow, who lias became sud- a waste as well to operate two tele shaw had brought the King-Cren revolutionist. Then she hates him be white frock. Consequently what she
dely rich by absorbing the stock of phone companies in Tillamook coun- shaw and the Coast Power Cc. cause he kills her uncle but when he said was this:
"I like men who do things.
“I christen thee—good gracious!”
the Journal compuny, who Is now at I ty. if the two companies cannot get thucks to bring it in with.
proves to her that her uncle was the
"Well. I have done as many different
And the stanch three-master Good
tacking the country newspapers be together on a satisfactory buy or sell
The men furnishing teams from , arch traitor ' who caused the death of Gracious gracefully slid into the water. things as anybody you know.”
cause they are opposed to single tax. proposition, then appiont a commit Sandlake were Roy Robertson, U. S. , her brother by furnishing the troops
tee of disinterested persons to place Edwards, Mr. Brant and Mr. Smith. ] with bullets 1 that did not fit the guns
Ever Notice It?
Save Milk and Save Lives.
For political reasons Os. West is a value on the property. One tele
Some one has Circulated the rumor she became a veritable firebrand of
Whipped cream desserts and lots of The man that wails that times are hard
out with another spectacular state- phone company is all that is neces that the government pays for the the revolt 1 against these despicable
Vou
will
observe
full oft,
looking- for a berth in life
menl who seems to want to rub it in sary and one should absorb the other sacks which are used in handling the traitors. And in the end she marries butter on bread mean that milk which
babies
need
is
being
sacrificed
to
pam
Particularly
soft.
to Governor Wlthycombe. He com The question of raising the tele moss. This ic a mistake. The Red a revolutionist.
per adult appetites.
—Boston Transcript-
plains about the governor not being phone rates, will, we hope, bring Cross purcheses them. Portland fur
The childrens' bureau of the United
with
about
consolidation,
for
able to run the state with the money
nished several hundred, but the local
Her Remedy.
States department of labor Is trying to
Notice.
provided by the state legislature, everything going skyward it is time Red Cross is financing the larger
"When I told Maria her new hat was
save
100,000
lives
of
young
children
while he claims he could do so. But to practice economy and Hooverize part of them.
One hundred and thirty-two acres during this second year of the war. unbecoming, she said she would face
(his is not the first time that Os as much as possible for should the
Those who went to Sandlake en of land, near Devil’s Lake, for sale at Clean milk Is a food babies must have the trouble and make it the subject of
war
continue,
several
years
more
this
foolish
statements
West has made
joyed themselves even if most of $16.00 per acre, between 20 and 30 to thrive; if they are not bottle-fed serious reflection."
and made a fool of himself, Every- is what will have to be done, and it is them did some hard work, The party
"And did she?”
acres good bottom land, balance their mothers need to drink It for them.
body knows and huve known for a ' Juel as well start in as soon as pos- consisted of:
“Sure. She went for the nearest
With the appalling rise In the price
slightly
rolling.
Small
brush
in
creek
long time that it costs more to live sible and save man power and a du-
Mrs. S. S. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. C. bottom, easy cleared. No improve of grain, and the scarcity of labor, looking glass."
and run business establishments, ! plication of public service utilities. J. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. Dolph Tln-
ments to speak of.—Address R. E. farmers are selling off their cows and
and persons wh" 11 ■ good common I This is what the givernment is bring nerstet, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Tlnnerstet
Public Representation.
not nearly so much milk Is being pro
Winter, Grand Ronde, Oregon.
sense knows that it costs more for ing about in other places, by taking Henry Crenshaw and family, Glen
“After you are gone they may set
duced as heretofore. This In face of
food for prisoners and the unfortu 'control of railroads, express compan- Terry. S. W. Conover. Mrs. Hansl-
the fact that malnutrition of little chil up a statue of you.”
Hubby—Hurry, dear, or we shall be dren means certain death to thousands
nate Inmates of the asylum, as well ' ies, etc., with a view to prevent wast niair, Tom Coates, Stanley Coates.
“Don't sugegst it,” replied Senator
as for labor, but West wants to play and conserve labor.
—lives needed to replace the awful Sorghum. “I’ve been looking the statu
John Aschim, Wilbur Brpughton, D. too late for church.
Wifey—We can't be too late when waste of war.
ary over and I don’t want any. It’»
Billings, Will Harris, A. C. Everson, j
politics and in doing so makes a fool
I’m wearing this new dress and hat.
bad enough to be cartooned while you
jof hiniselt as usual.
In
order
to
save
wjiole
milk,
both
Rollie
W.
Watson
and
son,
It.
L.
;
Frank Cross Heard From.
England and Italy have curtailed the are alive.”
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Shreve. Harry Long. Mrs. Knight.
Word Wasting.
sale of cream and butter. Surely every
Bert Thayer, Ben Eggie, Ollie Eggle, I
<i ¡With the prospect of the govern
Vancouver. Wash, Aug. 14, 18.
Oh. conversation doth enhance
Getting Hie.
community In the United States will
R. Warren. Robert Stillwell, Allen
ment increasing the army to five To all my Tillamook friends: —
The Idleness where danger lies;
"You seem to enjoy seeing the Judge
exert itself to control the price of milk
l lie 18th of this month 1 will have Page, Bert King. Frank Epplett, Obe I
million men, and an addition of
Perhaps here Is another chance
I
so that it may not fail to reach the with his wife.”
For people to economise.
Three million men to be called, it will been in the service two months. I Harris. Mr. Burkey, Les Lucas. F. H.
children in homes where the Income is
“Yes. I like to see him get some of
be necessary to readjust
business came here to help
win the war. Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Robert
Its Class.
pitifully small, and will use the con his own medicine.”
hffalrs to obtain that number of men. Sometimes 1 feel as though
1
I am not son. Mr. Smith. U. S. Edwards, Mr.
“Ehr
“What Is that list hanging up tents of the morning milk hottie very
From where and what line of busi doing much where 1 am, but each Brant, Dr. Ziegler, from Portland.
there?”
sparingly until our sick soldiers are
“I like to see her overrule him."
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ness are these men to be obtained? day 1 do a day's work
and that
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“It Is a catalogue of articles not sub plentifully
supplied.—By
Relnette
There is to be another moss gather
That is a problem the government is seems to be all that 1 is expected of
Lovewell of the Vigilantes.
Forgetful.
ing drive to Sandlake next Sunday, ' ject to tariff duty.”
wrestling with. A large proportion one In the army..
"Then it ought to be the free list
Mr. Brown—What did I do with my
Of the three million men will have to
During the time I have been here when the Oddfellows will make an- 1 suspended."
hat. Jane?
“Green Balls.”
be drawn from large and small cities the cut-up plant has increased its other attempt to get a large crowd i
Mrs. Brown—You left it on your
The Germnns are great lovers of
and this will mean that there will every 24 hour output from 300,000 to go there in a^body, and other or- I
aead. Bill.
A Good Reason.
fireworks,
and
perhaps
no
one
sees
so
ganlzations
are
asked
to
go
along.
It
’
be a greater demand for women in ft. to nearly 1,000,000 ft. and they
"Why don’t you accept him if he has much of these as the flyer by night
Mr. Brown—Gosh! Next thing Hl
>11 line« of business. It is Just as are always trying to make it more. I is hoped that the weather will re-I offered to have his life Insured In your over the Hun lines.
be leaving my head in my hat.
Well to loo* ‘Be matter squarely In have been told that the fighting ef main fine, for it is the intention to! ! favor ?"
There is one device, above all, which
a , fgoe. Many small business hous- ficiency of one plane
is equal to gather over 2000 sacks next Sunday.
“Because if he was a good risk for Is most Interesting and inexplicable,
Wai He Right?
Those
who
have
autos
are
asked
to
■a will have to close and business about 5000 men. If so, we are help-
the Insurance company, he'd be a bad as well as being extraordinarily beau
“What’s the dispute about?” de
help (he Oddfellows in the matter of one for me.”
■pen of draft age without families ing some.
tiful. This is known variously as mand«! the proprietor. "Remember,
ulll be given a few weeks to wind
Every state in the Union has rep conveyance, for this la one of the
"flaming onions." "chain rockets" and .n this store the customer is always
up or dispose of their business. Men resentatives here at Vancouver, and difficulties of the committee and
Just Reward.
“green balls." It consists of long right.”
engaged in non-essential occupation altogether there are thousands of persons who are making the arrange
“He says you’re an old shark," ex
Weary Willie—Dat's the worst pif chains of brilliantly luminous balls, a
ments
for
Sunday.
In
the
matter
of
In cities, of which there are large them, the whole country around is
I ever tasted.
bright emerald in color, which rush plained the clerk briefly.
sacks, thlaja also a troublesome ques
numbers, "Hl be another source Just like a bee-hive.
Mrs. Jones—Wait just a minute and upward from the ground in lines of
where the government will obtain
ThiH soldier life is not all fun, tion.. The moss committee has bought m give you a dollar. That pie was thirty or forty, or even more, and
JONAH'S REPUTATION.
So the next few months is go neither is it all hell. We have good over 2000 sacks and there is a de- j baked by my husband's mother.
which are chiefly fired at allied ma
mand
for
2000
more.
Persons
who
ing to i*e ailxll,UB times for those food and pleuty of it, good tents and
chines when on bombing raids at night.
who are in business of a non , ssen- good beds. Our officers, are nearly have sacks and wish to donate them
Crowded Out.
The green balls form light relief and
tial character, with a very large all, real nice men. and quite often to the Red Cross, they will be great
Mrs. Flathunter—Are there any rats take the airman's nervousness and
number of women taking the place an excursion or something is gotten ly appreciated, but they should be ( or mice tn this apartment?
strain away.
up for the boys. The Y. M. C. A. is washed or hosed and dried before
of men.
Mr. Cubicle, the Agent—Only mice.
sure a fine thing. The civilians (es they are left or sent to the moss We can't supply space for rats at less
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Parcel Post by Motor.
rooms.
| than $150 a month.
One of the biggest steps yet taken In
The Oregon System will receive pecially the people of Portland) treat
This is a copy of a post card sent to
the Introduction of motor trucks as a
another black eye the coming fall, us real royally. Take it all in all I
the Oddfellows:
The Proper Time.
dty-to-clty carrier results from the de
for the people of Oregon will be giv am well satisfied and wouldn't (if 1
Dear
Brother
—
As
an
Oddfellow
“About what time was It when the cision of the postoffice department to
en another opportunity to see how could) leave the service for anything
/
you are patriotic, but what are you < witness was giving his evidence that establish numerous parcel post motor
money po"er, in the hands of schem until the war is won, and won right.
doing for the boys in France? We I the prisoner lost countenance?"
I
have
recently
been
transferred
to
truck
routes.
These
have
already
ing poli‘*ciaiis can be used to their
need you at Sandlake Sunday, Aug
"I suppose It was when his face be. n surveyed and aggregated between
advantage The editor of the I*ort- the 113th Engineers, 2nd Prov. Reg.
ust 2 5, 1918. rain or shine, to pick 1 fell."
3.000 and 4.000 miles in length, with
land Journal an advocate of the and we are now adding onto the mill.
With wishing all of my many Til moss. Road is gix><l and moss is thick.
shorter routes. One chain of routes
■x.
single t*x- is using the initiative law
Will leave City Hall at 9 a.m. sharp.
Wrong Again.
extends from Portland, Me., to New
for personal spleen and to put the lamook friends good luck and plenty
Mark this card, sign it and mail it
McGonlgle—I think she's a brazer Orleans, and another through the mid
of
it,
I
will
now
close.
Yours
to
the
country newspapers out of business,
to R. L. Shreve immediately.
< dame. Louis!
dle western states, while still others
for Jackson known full well that end of the war.
Hanlon—You’re wrong. Ed; sh« connect principal cities on the Pacific
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Frank E. Cross.
country newspapers are opposed to
-------------------- I cannot come because 1 aren't even ride In a stripped roadster coast. It is hoped that the operation
bls single tax propaganda
Hence,
of these routes and of othern to be e»-
Registered Calves For Sale.
gs lntti,,le‘* two measures, that are
Signed.........................................
tabllshed will materially aid tn the dis
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Intended to deprive the country news-
"Oddfellows are not Slackers.
tribution and In the lowering of the
Having sold my ranch, will sell
of Just revenue, giving Mult-
cost of food products.
'^Opportunity makes the man."
The complete Electric Light and
noma* county a much higher rate three high grade heifer calves, one
"Sure thing; where would Jonah
Power Plant
Some months ago when some of the
far I«“1 advertising than the other year old this fall—from choice cows,
have been if the whale had not bean
Her Kind of Meatlee.
^^Hfs of the state. It Is to be hop also three full blood bull calves, sub Tillamook boys were at home for the
Endorsed by more than SO.000
During a session In the primary room waiting for him?"
satisfied users throughout the
tk*1 (l>,‘ people of Tillamook ject to register, from choice cows, last time before sailing for France,
at one of the local schools recently,
will not be fooled by this <f also one yearling bull, from W B. some of them told Mrs. Maddux and
world.
one of the scholars “broke out." The
Change.
ff the < ditor of the Portland Eadd Estate.
Mrs. Edwards that if there was any
R“’h to an alchemist I know.
teacher sent her home with a note to
If you want something A-one thing which they wanted before
1 to force single tax upon
I
And so I n have to drop hew
the effect that she believed the child
, and the scheme to use the 'heap, call at postoffice or Todd they went It was more socks. These
For every time I'm out with her
had measles, hut “perhaps only Ger
P. W. Todd.
My sliver turflk to copper
Ive law to force the country Hotel.
ladies told the boys that when they
man mensies." When the mother read
pers out of business. It la the
-Widow.
knew they were on the way to
■ that part of the note, the child scream-
led efforts of the single tax ad-
Two Jersey cows for sale one fresh France to let then» know and they
In These bays.
1
ed
out
:
ya that Is keeping capital out of ipply to Staffords on Wilson River.* would see If they could get the extra
“It’» as useless as the fifth wheel to
“I don't like that old teacher! 1
ACKLEY A MILLER
ate. for as long as thia single
Small dairy ranch for sale. Apply socks for them. Some weeks after
haven't got German measles. I got 1 wagon.”
Tillamook
Garage.
enace is a burning question in io F. M. Stafford two miles north of ward a letter arrived saying they
“That adage Is out of date. AU ao-
'Merica public measles I"— Indianapolis
Tillamook
Oregon.
n people are not inclined to in town.
were on their way to France
'Otnobilei carry an extra tire."
News.
Editorial snap Shots.
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DELCO-LIGHT
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