TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT JANUARY 10. 1919
Tillamook Jottings.
Help Find Work for Soldiers
“Reports gathered from all rell-
Indian Louise, a county charge, is liable sources in Oregon show today
that there are approximately five
dead.
thousand men out of employment in
J. Altenburger died at Blaine from the states," says Wilfred F. Smith,
the flu. He was a cheesemaker and Federal Director U. S. Employment
made cheese at the Upper Nestucca ' service.
Valley creamery.
It was to meet an emergency of
A southwest rain and wind storm this sort and devise some methods of
struck Tillamook county in the early relief that the Reconstruction Con
hours of this morning, which was vention was called in Portland by
Mayor George L. Baker last week, at
the first “hummer” this winter.
which representatives from nearly
A telegram was
received this every section in the state were pres
morning that G. F. Apsley died in ent. Out of the session came the
Portland the previous day. The de knowledge that immediate action is
ceased
resides in
this city and required.
recently lost a child. He is a member
Hundreds of soldiers are being dis
I
of theorder of moose.
charged every day and returning to
Joint Representative C. J. Edwards their homes to once more enter civil
was appointed on the following com pursuits. Some have been unable to
mittees: Commerce and navigation, secure employment, and where others
forestry and conservation, railways have been given their old places upon
and transportation (chairman), and their return, the civilian who held
the Job now finds himself lacking for
salaries of public officials.
other work.
The Shakespeare Club met at the
Large bodies of idle men are not
home of Mrs. B. C. Lamb. Jan 10, conductive to the welfare of this
1919, when eleven member» were state of a community, and the co-op
present. Guests of the afternoon were eration from every source that has
Mesdames Haltom, Koch and Robin any influence Is sought to relleve
son. The afternoon was spent read the situation.
ing the first chapter of Cymbaline,
It is hoped that this will not be
after which a guessing game was in looked upon as a pessimistic view.
troduced which afforded much mer but a plain statement of cold facts.
riment, Mrs. Crenshaw was the The attention of every employer in
prize winner. A delicious luncheon the state is directed to the situation
was served which all present enjoy and they are urged to expand a lit
ed.
tle if possible. Those who have de
layed some needed improvement un
The Flu Situation.
til after the war should start it now.
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If each employer of labor will ar-
The flu situation in Tillamook is range to absorb only a few of the
not growing any better, in fact, it is idle men the new problems will be
somewhat worse in the rural dis-
easy of solution.
tricts. Three deaths are reported this
Unemployment breeds soup houses,
week two in the Beaver district and and soup houses have no place in any
one in the north part of the county. well regulated community. Then, it
J. Altenberger and Mrs. Trinkley may breed something worse.
were the persons who died in the
Questionnaires in the form of a
south part of the county.
blank card will be mailed to all em
Tne City Council met on Wednes- ployers in the state this week. Upon
day evening and took under consid- being filled out and returned to the
eration a drastic ordinance to grap- Federal Director with the informa
pie with the flu situation.
tion asked for he will know exactly
Ancther meeting will be held this how many men may be placed
evening for that purpose.
throughout the state.
Opening vs. Closing Schools
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Postal cards were sent out to par
ents of the public school children to
ascertain whether they favored or
disfavored opening the public school,
and of 191 replies 148 were in favor
of closing and 43 in favor of opening
the .schools. This is a overwhelming
majority and shows distinctly the
sentiment of the parents.
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Tillamook, Ore., Jan 16, 1919
Editor Headlight:
Herewith summary of results In re
ply to my circular of last week for
an expression as to public opinion
regarding matter In connection with
the present "flu” epidemic.
Question 1.—Are you in favor of
prohibiting all gatherings of people,
in schools, churches, lodges, fire
meetings, card rooms, pool rooms,
dances, crowds in stores, etc.?
Answers received, Yes. 74 No 58.
Question 2—Are you in favor of
strictly quarantining the individual
"flu” cases and home where confin
ed till he or she 1 b assuredly past the
state of communicating the disease,
and prohibiting visits to and from
the home, and for prohibiting the in
discriminate mixing with other peo
ple by those immediately waiting on
, the patient or those otherwise expos
ed to the disease, till time for taking
and communicating the disease is
past?
Answers received: Yes 141. No 3.
From this report It would appear
that the public Is not as one regard
ing the question 1, but practically
all are decidedly In favor of No. 2. I
believe, however, after talking with
several that voted against being in
favor of closing meetings that no
serious objection will be made pro-
viu’ng a strict and impartial closing
order is made for a short time, and
providing the Individual quarantine
of those having or exposed to the
“flu” be enforced strictly.
Respectfully,
Erwin Harrison.
For Sale For a Short Time Only.
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One of the best ranches in Tilla
mook County, close to town, fine im
provements, good buildings, eleetrlc
lights, thoroughly up to date. This
has never been offered for sale before
and is only on the market now for a
brief period. It will pay you to see
Everson.
Letter from Serg. C. M. Hall.
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Contress, France,
Dec. 4, 1918.
Dearest Mother.
1 received one of your most wel
come letters tonight, and will answer
it now. Of course 1 am well. .You
mentioned in your letter about 'me
being at the front. Now the ban of
censorship has been lifted somewhat,
so I will make this an explanatory
letter.
To begin with we were on dock
guard last winter at St. Nazaire,
where we landed on the 27 th of De
cember, also Provoost guard. We
were there for a little over three
months, then we moved east to St.
Aignon, where our divisional head
quarters were, and is still located.
From there we walked over to Con
tres, a distance of 17 kilometers, or
about 10 miles, carrying all our
possessions on our backs. Then we
took up our abode in French attics
as our billets. We were issued gas
maskes and helmets. ThlB was last
April and May. After about a week's
drill we began to lose our private sol
diers. An order, for instance, would
come In for 40 men to go to mounted
Military Police, but most went di
rectly to the front.. We lost all our
company but about forty-five non-
coms.
We drilled for about six weeks
about eight hours a day, with two
hikes a day to our drill field, which
Is over three miles from thfe village.
During this time we went to Lyons.
We had a memorable trip, seeing
most of southern France. Then the
I
drafted nlen began to come in, We
had from 25 to 50 men each to drill.
We outfitted them and sent them on
tp the front after from five to seven
days here.
We—that is the two battallions of
the 162nd Inf, have drilled over
25,000 replacement men to fill In the
gaps. I went to 3rd corps sehool for a
course in gas defence.
I had been on several convoy trips
to’ the front, but never got to visit
Paris until 1 went on the last one,
after having returned from school.
Then went on a pass to St. Malo, so
you see I have had lots of traveling
and have seen the greater part of
France.
On these convoy trips, we take our
men right up into the front line, and
were often up right under shell fire.
We were often up there for a week at
We Must Economise -Everybody is Doing ft !
a time. So I do know considerable
about it. We are marking time now,
and drilling has slackened up a lit
tle. Don't know anything as yet
about returning. It is very muddy
here, not very cold, thank goodness.
If it was like a year ago, I know we
would not be so very comfortable
without a stove. I sent you a small
package with some trinkets. Don’t
fail to keep the shell cap, it will
make a good paper weight. I picked
it up hot just back of the lines.
Chaplin Gilbert has left us for a
better position. We have another,
though not so satisfactory. We have
our^regiment at church every Sun
day.
You can see by the address that i
have been made Sergeant.
Much love from, Cllf.
PERTINENT BEMAEKS.
Secretary of Labor'Wilson wants
the government to build one mllLon
houses at three thousand dollars each
We know they would want to pre
sent every deserving democrat with
a house and lot before the big show
was over.
Attention is called to the lavish use
of first person pronoun in the
speech delivered to Congress by
President Wilson on his way to the
boat. There seems to be a big ..r.
in “President" as well as in "kaiser"
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It cost the American people about
$18,1000,000,000 to run the war gov
ernment and make loans to the allies
in the year ending Tuesday, Decem
ber 31st, according to computations
from treasury reports.
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Although hostilities ceased nearly
two months ago, the government’s
outlay each day is mounting on ac
count of the liquidation of tremen
dous war contracts, and Treasury of
ficials said indications are that the
demands on the government in the
first month of the new year may be
even more than for December.
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The reason eggs are so high is be-
cause
the price of chickens is so
high and the price of chickens Is so
high because eggs are so valuable,
The same theory accounts for the
milk’s getting into the cocoanuts.
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What has become of the old-fash
ioned Democrat who was violently
opposed to all vain pomp and glory
and especially to royal flubdubbery?
He is now puffing out his chest be
cause a Democratic President ate din
ner with His Majesty the King of
England at Buckingham Palace on
gold dishes worth fifteen million dol
lars.
What a time some people have with
their press agents. William Bayard
is following into the discard by Geo.
Creel, who has just given up the job
of discovering America to Europe.
I NAVY BEST PLACE FOR HIM
Reason Why That Department of the
Service Would Bo Most Appropri
ate for the Town Drunk.
REFLEX
SLICKER
Waterproof
Absolutely.'
Its loose Fit and "^ood
feel ’putyou at ease on
any job that turns up.
SATISFACTION
GUARANTEED
A J TOWnt CO BOSTON
COAXING YOU TO SMILE.
o
Nothing Doing.
Apropos of the attempts that are
continually being made to asslssinate
the bolsheviki leaders of Russia,
Ring Lardner, the humorist said:
"Charlotte Corday stabbed Marat
in his bath. Dora Kaplan wasn't so
successful with Lennie. She did her
best, but, of course, to catch a bol
sheviki in a bath tub is an utter im
possibility."
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Where He Belonged.
"A great business success must
have honesty for Its keystone,” said
President Grace, of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation.
"A dishonest business never devel
ops. There's no hope for the business
of Grocer Boggs.
"What ye been doin' down the cel
lar so long?” snarled Grocer Boggs
at his new boy.
"Been cleanin' out the quart mo
lasses measure, sir," the boy answer
ed, lightly. ‘It was so clogged up It
only held about a pint."
‘Say, you're fired” growled the gro
cer. ‘You go home and tell your fath
er to educate you for the ministry.
The tow« was not exceptional. It
Statistics have been collected by ths
had a weekly newspaper which had an clothing and equipage, subsistence,
editor who ran It seemingly on natural conservation, reclamation and hard
gas, and it had a town teller of fish ware and metals division of the quar
stories, and It had a town pump. But termasters' corps. United States army,
this town wouldn't be complete with to lndlcnte just what it costs a year to
out a town drunkard, and this town, maintain a soldier overseus and In the
somewhere in America, of course had United States.
him. The drunkard, as is usually the
These, according to the Army and
case, was the subject for much earn Navy Journal, show that the cost Is
est conversation among the children, <423.47 a year to equlp'and maintain a
and home-loving eldera would bold soldier overseas and $327.78 to equip
him up as a horrible exampls to their and maintain one In the United States.
worldly Ignorant heirs. This drunk Subsistence, figured at 09 cents a day,
ard was not unusual, either. He had amounts to $251.85 yearly for each
his sprees, and his alternating mood» man overseas; figured at 51 cents a
when he would “hit the sawdust trail." day tn the United States, It amounts
The war camo on, and it shared with to $189.80. The cost of the initial
the drunkard as a topic of equal Im equipment for the soldier the flrat year
portance for the town. Many of the In the United States Is $11530, while
boys enlisted. Some of them went the cost of his additional equipment
tnto the infantry; others into other for the first year overseas Is $42.41.
branches of the service.
Thus It appears that If the soldier
One evening the banker's little son going overseas did not take with him
came in earlier than usual from Ma a great deal of hie equipment already
'nevitable baseball game.
supplied In the United States the con
"The old drunk's enlisted I” he an- trast between the cost of equipping
nounced breathlessly to the family, and maintaining a soldier tn this coun
who always did manage to get start try and abroad would be much more
Sperlo» Versenkt.
ed eating before the young son did. marked. Not only Is the amount of
He was a professional conjurer.
"What?" demanded his father, T equipment needed abroad greater than “Now, ladies and gentlemen," he
law him drunk this morning.”
that needed In this country, but the said, with a wave of his hand, "this
“Yes, I know,” replied the son. statistics of the conservation and re is the magic cabinet. I Invite any
“Everybody saw him drunk. But Tom clamation division show that equip lady in the audience to enter this
McDonald, the big kid that goes to ment and clothing overseas are subject cabinet. I will then close the door,
high school, and Is a sophomore, an' to much harder use, wear out more and when it shall be opened again
umpires our games, an* thinks he quickly and are less effectively re- the lady will have disappeared, leav
knows everything about everybody, claimed than similar material, cloth ing no trace.” There was an impres
well, he said he did. ‘Ole Drunk's ing and equipment used In the United sive silence until a little, undersized
gone again,’ I said. ’Yep,' answered States. The amount of reclamation of
Tom. ‘I heard he’d joined the tanks.' each Individual soldier’s equipment in man In the second row turned to an
enormous woman, who sat by him,
Now, what do you think of that?"
this country Is $75.80 a year, while the
"He’d better join the navy,” mut amount of reclamation of similar ma and breathed eagerly: "Maria, dear,
won’t you oblige the gentleman?"
tered the banker, as he slowly but terial abroad Is but $33.31.
tered his war-bread.
Getting What We Want.
Since America wants nothing at
TRAGEDY
ABOVE
THE
CLOUDS
AFRICAN DEMAND FOR LACES
the peace table, she will probably
draw “the part that went over the
Trade of That Section 8ure to Be Well Individual Combats and Disasters That fence last..”
Test
the
Nerves
and
Wits
of
the
Worth Cultivating, According to a
Flying Fighters.
Consular Report.
The press agents said that Presi
Though airplane battles are tre dent Wilson, visiting the eoldiers at
No laces, embroideries or dress trim
mings of any kind are produced tn mendously exciting for all those par the front looked "weary and worn”.
West Africa. Of machine-made goods, ticipating in them, it Is not ulways in Two days later the same press agents
principally cotton, large quantities are actual conflict that the nerves and wits reported, in connection with Presi
Imported, being supplied chiefly by of flyers are tested to the utmost. Many dent Wilson’s reception in London,
Englund, Frunce and Switzerland. The adventures may be met In tamer pur that he “looked extremely well.” Let
the sob-sisters get together, so we
native women use them In embroidered suits.
Every now and then comes the roar will really know when it is up to us
under and top skirts, chemises, chemi
of a gun from below, followed by flash to cry softly.
settes and kimonos.
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This is true as regards the native es of blue and red, harsh, angry explo
It must be admitted that the Dem
women in all West Africa, even in the sions right and left, front and rear;
far Interior. They fancy the top chemi the disappearance In flames sometimes ocratic politicians show a positive
sette, or short chemise, worn us a ki of what till then had been a welcome genius in making a dozen public jobs
mono. For the most part the goods companion on the wing, the drone of sprout where only one grew before.
are embroidered, but many have begun some hardy adventurer strenuously en
to wear garments with insertions and deavoring to climb Into the night, and
When President WilBon said to the
laces. Light figured and flowered now and then the awful spectacle of soldiers that every man in this coun
a
machine
emerging
safely
from
a
voiles and dimities are well liked In
smoke cloud only to go smash Into an try was eager to go to war and that
Senegal.
•
other
traveling in a different direction, it really took more moral courage to
Many of the women are seen weal
An awful smash, a hideous explo- stay than to go, was he thinking of
ing some of the best qualities of these
sion,
smoke, human cries, flames and friends EdBel Ford and the Scripps
goods, especially the votles, though, of
then,
with volcanic Intensity, the sud- brothers?
course, the cheaper grades of the dimi
den
plunging
into the abyss not only
ties find a larger sale. While no sta
General Crowder declares the se
tistics of Importers are available, the of what a few moments previously
trade undoubtedly Is of sufficient im were two magnificently equipped bomb lective service law has sounded
portance to cultivate. All the large Im throwers, but four human souls, brave, "taps to the volunteer system of rais
porters are more or less Interested In proud, youthful and adventurous.— ing armies in the United States. In
18 months it registered 23,740,000
these articles, as In cotton goods gen Washington Star.
Americans, put 3,000,000 fighters in
erally, and would appreciate samples
the field and held in readiness for
Blondin's Feat Recalled.
with price lists.—Consular Report.
In the whirligig of momentous training 2,000,000 more. He believes
world events it Is not strange that the law will remain our permanent
New and Powerful Explosive.
method of raising an army.
For many years mercury fulminate there should pass almost unnoticed a
few
days
ago
the
fifty-eighth
anni
has held its place as a detonating
substance superior to all others. Of versary of Blondin's exploit of cross
Chamberlain’» Tablets.
recent years, however, its place has ing Niagara gorge on a four-inch
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been threatened by other compounds tight rope, a feat that still stands as
When you are troubled with indi
the
acme
of
daring
and
nerve.
One
which bld fair to replace It. One of
gestion or constipation, take Cham
the most promising of these Is lead of the thousands of spectators that berlain's Tablets. They strengthen
lined
the
river
bank
was
the
prince
azIde, a salt of hydronitric acid. This
the stomach and enable it to perform
acid forms a great number of salts, of Wales, late King Edward. This was its functions naturally. Indigestion
the
first
tkne
anyone
had
crossed
Ni
as mercury nzlde, silver azIde and so
is usually accompanied by constipa
dium azide. Large crystals of lead agara gorge on a rope. Blondin car tion and is aggrevated by it. Cham
ried
a
man
on
his
shoulders
on
one
azide and mercury azide have been
berlin’s Tablets cause a gentle move
found to be very sensitive to mechani trip, wheeled a wheelbarrow over on a ment of the bowels, relieving
second
trip,
and
on
a
third
trip
car
cal shock, says the Scientific Ameri
constipated condition.—Paid Ad.
can, the sensitiveness Increasing with ried a stove on his balancing rod and
fixing
It
on
the
rope,
cooked
cakes
and
the size of the crystals. Even the threw them to people in small boats
breaking of a single large crystal Is below on the river. Blondin was after
said to bring about explosion. Crys ward killed In Paris.
tals as large as 3 mm. In length, when
He made a test In 1859, and In the
What Doctor Pierce Has
dry, often explode when brushed with following year successfully car
' Done_Por Humanity
a feather.
ried out his feat. October 10, I860,
When President Wilson tells the
French people what a tough tinft he
had pushing the American people In
to the war, the said people, recalling
the 1916 campaign slogan, just grin.
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,
Secretary Baker says the govern
ment has spent more money in the
past couple of years' than anybody
ever dreamed of, and that none of it
has stuck to anybody's hands. Im
portant, If true, but if true It may be
because the money has been moving
so fast it didn’t have time to stick
around anywhere.
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The United States Supreme Court
has decided that news is property. A
good bit of the news handed out to us
during th« past year or two, how
ever, has been damaged goods.
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Under political ownership railway
service cost the people of the United
States $130,000,000 more in Sep
tember, 1918, than under private
ownership in 1917, and virtually all
of this increase was used up in in
Contrivance Defies Germs.
creased operating costs. Yet there
A Baltimore woman. Miss Cornelia
was an actual decrease in travel, due Fiske, has devised a simple scheme to
to the increased cost of fares, and
there was probably no greater vol prevent the possibility of contamina
tion when making use of a common
ume of freight thaa in the preceding drinking glass. It consists of a square
year. Great is politicalized Industry! of rather stiff waxed paper, folded
through the center, and when desiring
a thirst quencher of any kind the paper
is placed over the edge of the glass
. >.rn<je5,iHs.fijr5 direct Io
nnd the lips then can not come In con
tact with the glass and therefore there
ALBANY TANNING CO.
Is no exchange of germs. A supply of
these papers can be carried conveni
■ - sdlemonj profit ano
- ptompi. returns.-
ently In the purse nr pocket, or they
may be made more substantially of cel
luloid or some other equally suitable
•material and one of the lip protectors
made to do a prolonged term of duty.
TOWERS
FISH BRAND
WHAT OUR DEFENDERS COST
Self-Sacrifice.
"Has the war made any change In
Spongelelgh 7”
“I should say so!”
“In what respect?"
"Spongelelgh says that In view of
the fact that his friends are buying
Liberty bonds and contributing to war
philanthropies, he considers It his pa
triotic duty not to borrow more than
$5 at a time from any of them.”—
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Cause for Thanks.
“I met a real optimist the oilier
day,” said the war hospital surgeon,
“a fellow to whom I certainly doff my
hat. He had lost a leg and when
they picked hinf up the first thing he
was: "Thank God It was the leg
the rheumatism!*’'
Weekly Health Talks
""
The Thirsty Sailor.
.Here's one they are telling about a
British sailor and a civilian host:
The civilian brought out a bottle of
bourbon and took a drink, neglecting
to offer one to the sailor.
He did this about three times and
then thought that the sailor might like
to wet his whistle.
“Are you thirsty?” he asked the
sailor.
“Yes, muchly so,” answered the tar.
Whereupon the civilian went out and
got him a glass of water.
“1 said I was thirsty,” said the Rail*
or, “not dirty.”
BY DOCTOR CRIPPS.
J
It has always seemed to me that
Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., should be
placed near the top when a list of
America’s great benefactors is written.
He studied and conquered human dis
eases to a degree that few realize.
Whenever he found a remedy that over
came disease, he at once announced it
in the newspapers and told where it
could be bought at a small price. He
i did not follow the usual custom of
keeping the ingredients secret, so that
the rich only could afford to buy the
medicine, but openly printed the name
of each root and herb he used. And
so to-day the names of Dr. Pierce and
bis medicines are widely known, and
Ostentatious Words.
Why cannot scientific persons who they stand for better health and better
undertake to be Informing to the pub citizenship.
lie learn to display their learning less
One of this great physician’s most
ostentatiously and to convey their successful remedies is known as Doctor
meaning more Intelligibly? One health Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. These are
authority tells us profoundly that “an little, sugar-coated pills, composed of
orexia” also is present with Spanish Mayapple, leaves of aloe, root of jalap
influenza, We take this, from the dlc- things that Nature grows in the ground.
tionary, to rnean loss of appetite, These Pellets are safe because they
which renlly would not be a bad thing move the bowels gently, leaving no bad
these days; but unless It Is assumed after-effects, ns bo many pills do,
that nobody but medical men are to Very often they make a person who
have the disease. It might be well to
takes them feel like a new man or
give the miscellaneous lay public
woman, for they cleanse the intestines
chance to know what may ail It
of hard, decayed and poisonous matter
that accumulates when one is costive.
Very Likely.
“The political and military situation If you are constipated, by all means
this month will be In one respect like jo to yonr druggist and get some of
I Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They
the family one.”
I may prove to be the very thing your
“How so?”
"There will he a earvtng up of Tur system require« to make you well and
happy.
key about Thanksgiving.