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Letters to the Editor.
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The Passing of the
Poor School-teacher.
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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. MAY 27, 1920.
accounts and check books. If their
prosperity continues to the upward
wise young men considering that this
is the open season for leap year game
will make it nice and easy to get
themselves proposed to by one of
these coming milBoii_i',-e-sses. An­
other raise or two and she can sup-
port you in most of the luxury to
which you have been accustomed.
with perhaps a few extras that you
never thought of.
At any rate, relief is coming to a
long-suffering and patient and little
appreciated genus of our species. Let
us rejoice with her.
leaves. The surface of the plant is
covered with a white coating, Bimilar
to the surface of ripe plunis. It has
white and light blue spur-like flow­
ers which bloom in May. These are
poisonous before and al flowering
time.
Symptoms: Straddling gait in hind
legs; involuntary movements of mus­
cles of side and legs; violent spasms;
easily frightened; appetite good until
death; few are poisoned at once. Seen
in May and June.
Yours very truly,
E. L. Glaisyer.
What the Editors Say.
The prayerful consideration of
publishers who have solicited poll-
cal announcements and other advert­
ising of like character is invited to
the following provision of the Oregon
corrupt practice law: “No person
shall demand, solicft, ask or invite
any candidate to pay for space in any
publication.” The exception given in j
the section is the solicitation of busi­
ness advertising of the candidate has
been previous of candidacy a regular
advertiser, and law makes the candi­
date who gives as well as the pub­
School Teacher.
PREVENT FOREST FIRES.
lisher who solicits equally guilty.—
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Independence.
The Senior High School Class Enter­ 1920 Fire Season Officially Open on
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Announcing
To the Editor:
It’s a long worm that has no turn­
ing—as Shakespeate would remark.
That much pitied, long-downtrodden
worm whom we have ever with us—
the poor school marm—is at last be­
ginning to come into something
slightly resembling her own. She has
not only turned but she Is climbing
upward, in the wage scale at least.
Reports from various sections of
the country indicate that >125 is a
common wage for the coming school
tainment.
year and that even $150 is not un­
McNary’s Break.
June 1st,
known. A wave of sentiment in fav­
Many good citizens of Oregon are
or of higher salaries has been brew­ To the Editor:
On June 1st the 1920 fire season is expressing great surprise at Senator
As I came home Wednesday even­ officially on and anyone desiring to
ing and agitating slowly but with a
McNary’s astounding endorsement of
deadly degree of sureness from one ing, May 16, from the entertainment burn slashings In the vicinity of Senator Johnson. We think there is
end of this fair land to the other. Of given by the class of ’20 of oqr high standing timber or old burns, must little to be surprised at and that Mc­
some one thousand professions the school I could not help saying to my­ get a burning permit to do so. Burn­ Nary Is running true to form. Lack
last one to advance in salary has self "Oh dear! Oh dear!”
ing permits may be had from the of stability Is one of his leading char­
Now by nature I’m mild of disposi­
been teachiug.
With customary
nearest fire warden. A list of these acteristics. Those with good political
slowness in seeing the light where tion and slow to blame. An opinion wardens will be printed as soon as memolies will recollect that McNary
educational matters ate concerned, It with me is nearly as slow of growth they are appointed.
voted against war prohibition a few
took our great American public a as a slip of boa or a pine seedling,
Tillamook County, as well as west months over two years ago, giving as
long, long time and a few hard jolts and almost as evergreen. Most of ern Washington and western Yam­ his reason that “the president asked
to its nervous system to decide the entertainment I watched with hill, are now patrolled by an organ­ him to”. Perhaps " Johnson asked
whether it would pay its teachers or considerable enjoyment, though the ization which was formed. This Pat­ him to” give him an endorsement,
go without them. Workers in oth­ film-drama was not one 1 should have rol organization is called The Tilla­ His attitude on the peace treaty was
er lines were advanced from 80 to chosen to show my highschool broth­ mook County Fire Patrol Association usually wobbly and half his constitu-
300 per cent in accordance with the er and sister. The picture of the in­ and is composed of the timber owners ency never knew whether he was "on
well-known increased cost of living teresting customs of the Kentucky within the three counties. The as­ again or off again."
with which we are all familiar by mountaineers perhaps was true en­ sociation cooperates wi,th the Federal
Some of his apologists say that he
now. Factory hand and mill-workers, ough and the love-making business I Forest Service and the State Patrol is merely paying back a debt, that
plumbers and dressmakers, the street­ realistic enough, but it was not the in every possible way.
Johnson and some of the other west­
cleaner and the hod-carrier waxed kind for my brother to see. Would a
The Association secretary’s report ern senators, edorsed him when he
real
man,
—
say
the
kind
that
Kipl
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exceeding prosperous. They bought
for 1919 shows that out of a total of was running two years ago, and that
themselves silk shirts and classy ing shows us, who can lose all and 73 fires in the district, 67 were caus­ he “doesn’t want to appear as an in­
cars. Their wives had spring hats never breathe a word about ills los. , ed by man. The remaing 6 were grate." Personally, we think it much
in January, tricolette blouses in the who can force his heart and nerve caused by lightning. This shows very better to appear as an ingrate than
summer «nd diamonds uny time. and sinew to serve his turn long alt­ plainly what must be done to prevent to be put in a class with senator
er they have gone, and so hold on future tires and the sooner this fact
They were moneyed.
Johnson.
And the school-teacher? Was she when there is nothing in him except is brought home to every man, wo­
Others of McNary’s friends excuse
the
will,
which
says
to
them
“
Hold
also moneyed? She was not. But she
man and child, the sooner the dread­ his queer conduct by saying that
on!
”
,
the
kind
who
inherits
the
earth
was dead game—for a time at leas’..
ed forest tires will be eliminated Johnson is a senator and McNary is
She kept right on training the little und everything that’s in it,— (I saw from this county and state.
a senator, and, as the fellow said on
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olive branches in the way they those stanzas on the board at the
It is a well known fact that in the jury, “it is time for us senators
high
school
not
long
ago,)
would
should grow, sometimes enough left
heavily timbered counties such as to hang together."
out of her monthly wage to buy a such a man find any passion uncon­ Tillamook, the large share of the
McNary’s own excuse is that John­
gallon of gas for the family Ford, trollable? Our young men and wom­ taxes is borne by the timber ow nets, son is a “western man.” Well, so is
en
should
not
be
-h
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n
pictures
of
but more often not. Regardless of
which applies to the small owners Tom Mooney and Bluebeard Watson
the fact that she was virtually don­ weaklings who do. There are pict­ as well as the larger one. Remove and attorney
VanDervee r. but it
ating her services, she continued to ures protraying both strength and this source of taxation and who re- would not excuse anybody in sup­
inculute arithemetlc and the rules of refinement which are just as enter­ mains to carry the tax burden? It porting them for president merely on
spelling day by day and handing the taining.
would fall on the shoulders of a com- that account. The president of the ! : ■
The songs from Romany were very partively small body of men, mostly United States represent* far more
pay check to the landlady; now and
then touching dad for a financial lift pretty and sweet and the setting was dairy and stock men. The taxes de­ than a degree of longitude. If the
over the Christmas season or a June very effective.
rived from the agricultural com­ 1 only argument McNary can think of
“A Lady’s Note” was well done munity would not make much of an is that Joltnson is a Western man, he 1
full of brides and sweet graduates to
be remembered with presents. When for amateurs. Unhappily they had impression on the various improve­ has damned him with faint praises.
she approached the powers that be accomplished little when it was over, ment bills, for roads, school, etc. Not j If a longitude argument has any mer-
for a raise they only registered lior- the skit being so slight and so very— only does the standing ti :ber lessen 1 it, then we have a right to believe t
ror, solemn and intense, and said In well, skit-ish. But it is difficult to the tax burden for the county, but : that the east would not vote for
one voice, "We never paid that be find a really good playlet for inex- while in the process of manufacture, Johnson if he could be nominated,
>ced actors und we were enter-
fore! Never!” And when a school- Pi
it contributes to each individual which he can’t be.
t
•> the predicament and the through its large payrolls. These
board intrenches itself behind that
Again, Mr. McNary’s plea for a
vhllunderlng.
mossy-grown and moth-eaten we- i>.’
payrolls will mount into millions of "western man” is a false plea on the
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de
Paris,
Oh
dear!
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never-dld-it-before defense there is
dollars in the next fifty years, pro- face of it. His Johnson statement
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Are our teachers—and
nothing that mortal may do except Oh
viding fires are kept out.
came to this office in typewritng
mothers and fathers encouraging our
retire from the field.
No doubt a large number of fires from from Portland the day the
Then the Civil Service began to young women, or permitting them to I are caused by people from outside, Hoover announcement of withdrawal
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be
encouraged,
to
prepare
for
pro
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have thousands of vacanies that
fishermen, hunters, campers and was made. Evidently, it must have
could be admirably filled by teachers fessional careers as chorus girls in tourists. Everyone in the county. been sent to the Johnson managers
and we began to hear of resignations our decadent present day ballet? Are . loyal to its interests, should see that from Washington by letter. Even had
and closed schools, and patriotic ap they inciting them to express in these people passing through, are im-‘ it come by telegraph, it is quite evi­
peals from solid citizens not to desert public artfully and brazenly before pressed with the importance of fire dent that it was made before it was
their posts in a national crisis, even many, those perfectly natural and prevention, and also give every pos­ known that Hoover was to withdraw,
it the wolf did put his head in ut chaste desires which, by those of re- sible aid to the fire wardens in bring­ and Hoover is “a western >nan" and
the front door. And then came a flnement, are (and always will be) ing to justice violators of the fire Charles McNary used to play one
great exodus to other professions. expressed naturally and with the ut­ laws. A good many fires could be o’cat with him in the streets of
Anything paid more than teaching. most delicacy only in the presence of put out at the start, if people pass­ Salem. “A Western Man!” Bosh!
Stenography cluimed some; others one? Why are they (whoever they ing through the timber would report Also Hypocracy!
went in for factory or shop work, or are) Inciting or allowing our daught­ them at once to the nearest fire
Verily, Mr. McNary may have paid
nursing, or millinery, or the chorus. ers and sisters to do this or even to I warden. The telephone
operators off his senatorial indebtedness, but
attempt
to
inflate
those
who
do?
Some were even driven to commit
have to do so he heavily mortgaged the
throughout the country will
’
matrimony. At any rate there was an "Not failure, but low aim, is crime!” I lists of the fire wardens I and their respect and esteem of thousands of
That encore— that music was play­ 1 headquarters. Notices will
inceasingly large number of know­
I also be hitherto friendly Oregon voters.—
ledge dispensaries with no knowledge ed for me once when 1 was selecting posted over the county stating Gazette Times.
dispenser to be obtained. She simply Victrola records and 1 would not take I ' where the nearest warden can be
was not. The solid citizensand mag­ it home for every time I hear it I see I ileached.
Admin stratrix’ Notice to Creditors
azines got busy with touching stories again a picture 1 once unfortunately
A large number of Eastern people
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saw
of
a scantily clad Hawaiian
of the passing of the littje red school '
are expected to come to Oregon dur­ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
house, of the blank, coming generat­ painted lady ( that's far too pretty ing the coming summer. Without a I County Court of the State of Oregon,
ion. of the total and complete degen a name for them) successfully per- doubt many of them will be business for Tillamook County, has appointed
eration of a democracy's fondest and forming her alluring seductive dance ' men of means who are looking for a the undersigned as Admlnstratrix of
onllest hope—the schools. Tile wom­ before her coveted beloved. And place to invest Ihelt capital. It would the Estate of HENRY S. DAVIDSON,
en’s clubs took it up and even on the there are so many beautiful dances be hard to Interest them if a heavy DECEASED, and any and all persons
edge of department store ads along for our girls to express their-exuber- | pull of smoke is hanging over the having claims against said estate are
with Buy Breud for Armenia you ance with, beautiful folk dunces from i country. It wouldn't look like a safe hereby required to present same, pro­
perly verified, together with the pro­
the olden-time Greek dance with aj
might glimpse A Living Wage for
investment to a hard headed opera­ per vouchers, to the undersigned at
Teachers. A few of the Old GuarJ ball, the Celtic, Scandinavian, Bo- ! tor. It Is to the interest of every per­ her residence at Beaver, Oregon, or,
talked in the papers about affiliating hem Ian and English peasant dances i son In the county to help keep the to T. H. GOYNE, Attorney-at-law,
with the Labor Unions and got them­ on down to some of the beautiful In- < the fires out of the timber this com- at his office in Tillamook City, Ore­
selves some denunciation and some terpretlve dances of our own Ameri- i ing summer, and by the earnest co- gon, within six months from the date
can Indians. The girls and their I
profitable advertising.
operation of everyone it can be done. of this notice.
Dated this May 20, A. D„ 1920.
Finally the public stretched and teachers might even have originated |
ELIZABETH DAVIDSON,
woke up. People said, "Here seems some free, animated and graceful
The Merry Song of the Profiteer»
Administratrix of the Estate of
to be a situation. Can it be that th? bodily expression of their own lives,
Henry S. Davidson, Deceased.
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teachers have conspired enmasse to experiences and hopes which would
(By D. M. Moody, Albany, Ala.)
leave us in the lurch? They couldn’t have been beautiful, artistic and
Adminiitratrix’i Notice to Creditors.
really have the heart to do that to highly entertaining.
We are the royal profiteers.
One who attended.
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us, could they now? We'll pay a
Our hearts are tilled with Joy,
Notice is hereby given that the un­
little more and coax the re.vamlng
We rob the people without fears,
dersigned, Vine Dw'ght, has been
ones to stay because Johnnie and
Poisoned Weeds
We have the right alloy.
duly appointed administratrix of the
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Susie simply must get through this
We are growing fat on profits
estate of W. G. Dwight, deceased,
year.” And then, they figured, you To the Editor:
We are allowed to take
late of Tillamook County, Oregon,
could always get low-priced begin­
Dear Sir: As there is about this From the "easy marks," the people,
and has qualified as such adminis­
ners from the yearly crop cf new time of year considerable trouble ex­
With our Democratic rake.
teachers. Some way the new crop perienced by cattle owners on ac- We will squeese them till they yell tratrix. Notice la further given that
all persons having claims against said
failed. It got so that there isn't much count of plant poisoning, 1 think per­
with pain,
estate must present the same, duly
of any crop, new or old.
haps a few words on the commoner
Now that we have the chance,
verified, together with vouchers, to
The statistics show appal'mgly the poison plants of our locality will be And as we may not get In again,
the undersigned, or to her attorneys,
hundreds of school rooms without of Interest:
We will even take their pants.
Johnson A Handley, at Tillamook,
teachers or with untrained ones,
Oregon Water Homlock
Now that we have the right direction Oregon, on or before six months from
many schools in rural districts have
(carrot family.)
From the good old Democrata.
this date.
not opened their doors for a year.
This is found in springy and boggy To hell with the "common people,"
Dated April 29, 1920.
City and town boards in frantic places along streams of the ranch. It
They are nothing more than rats.
Vine Dwight.
attempts to retain the over-decreas­ is very poisonous, and has a root­
We will raise the price of clothing
Administratrix of the
ing supply have been doing some stock with several branching root­
Till diamonds blush with shame,
Estate of W. G. Dwight,
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things unheard of in history. Would­ I lets. Grows to a height of four feet;
deceased.
And tools for the “hayseed farmer,"
n't it be fun to get grandfather on has green ribbed, hollow stems,
We will raise them pll the same.
the ouija board and tell him that spreading In an umbrella-like ex­ Our yard sticks are just two feet long.
Notice for Publication.
Pumkin Ridge district paid couslr pansion of white flowers. The poison
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We do not give a heck;
Amaranthls a bonus of $150 to stay is contained in the roots, but tops of
We will sell them flour and corn meal,
Department of the Interior, V. s.
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till the end of the term, or that in plants are also poisonous.
Six quarts we'll call a peck.
Land Office at Portland, Oregon,
Hickory Holier all the teachers got
Symptoms: Violent convulsions;
April 20th. 1920.
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uiid-year increase for fear that ti.ey d frothing at mouth and nose; exces­ The price of shoes has gone so high
Notice is hereby given that Fred
We charge them for the squeak.
get a notion to go and be cooks <>r sive urinations; shallow breathing
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Eugene Munro, of Dolph. Oregon,
Our
slogan
is,
"Root,
hog.
or
die!
lady burglars? Who ever thought or and coma. Seen in early spring or
who. on June 19th, 1915, made
This is the prayer we speak
dreamed of such goings-on in the from slough hay In winter.
homestead entry No. 04536, for N.E.
Of all our friends and families.
good old days when lordly boards
Fly Amaneta (Polson toad stools)
H. N.E. U. Section 34, Township 5
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We
like
ourselves
the
best;
hired and fired at their own lordly
This fungus growth Is found prin­
South, Range 9 West, Willamette
If
the
Democrats
can
just
stay
in.
pleasure from the ranks of trembling cipally In the timbered pastures and
Meridian, has filed notice of inten­
The devil tuke the rest.
applicants.
Now It's the school produces considerable losses during
tion to make final 3 year proof, to
boardstiiat do the trembling and im­ the season. This poison Is the one We have been so busy hogging things establish claim to the land above de­
Into the pile of loot.
ploring. They are beginning to offei used to make poison fly paper, and
scribed, before the Clerk of the
what sounds like sure enough salar some idea may be had of its poison­ That our snouts are geting callous­ County Court for Tillamook County,
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les to anything that at all resembles ous nature.
Oregon, at Tillamook. Oregon, on the
It
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s
easy
now
to
root;
a pedagogue and even at that some
Symptoms: Frothing at mouth,
Sth day of June. 1920.
We have got things fixed to suit us.
of them are going to be left out in staggering gait, coma and death.
Str Auckland Geddes says: "It is j
If the money that was wasted in
Claimant names as witnesses:
the scramble.
I’m Just telling this to you;
Larkspur.
essential that there be respect and cost plus contractsand in other ways
G. T. Baxter, of Dolph. Oregon.
Verily and truly, the tables are
There are several species of this But we see the coming end of it
Clarence Cornell, of Dolph. Oregon. sympathy and understanding be­ during the war were now in the
turning. Soon the teacher can have plant but one most concerned here
About November two.
tween the British Empire and Amer- ’ United States Treasury the matter of
Waller Sedor, of Dolph, Oregon.
a 1920 model hat while it is still the Is the "Columbia River species". It
lea.” The way to bring that about I paying a bonus to soldiers of the
A. Stem, of Dolph. Oregon.
year of 1920, and can take out life is found along the streams and mea­
The Sultan of Turkey sticks to his
Proof mads under ths Act of June is for each nation to attend to ita World War would not constitute so
insurance, and buy thinga like other dows. It grows to a height of sever­ job aa stubbornly as a deserving Dem­ II. 190«.
own business and not try to put any­ perplexing a problem. As it la, the
folks. Maybe they'll «ven have bank al feet, having broad geranium-ilk« ocrat to a superfluous oflice.
problem of how to pay the proposed
Alexander 8week, Register. thing over on the other.
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Our New Vulcanizing Department.
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OR the past several weeks we have been
searching for a Vulcanizer far above the
average. In this we finally have been rewarded
and now have with us Mr. Robert S. Coleman »
who has been in the vulcanizing business for
twelve years and who had charge of one of the
most complete shops in Portland at the time we
secured his services.
In keeping with his high quality workmanship
we have installed a complete and up-to-the-
minute Vulcanizing Department in the Sunset
Garage and are now prepared to give you tire
service such as Tillamook has never known.
This vulcanizing service along with the Stand­
ard lines of tires which we are handling enables
us to give you tire service that means Genuine
Economy and incidentally the necessity of get­
ting every dollar’s worth of wear out of your tires
will probably never be reater than it is this
year, due to the high price of tires and unques­
tioned shortage of fabric for first class tire con­
struction.
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bonus and at same time escape nat­
ional bankruptcy or a financial panic
is not so easy as it looks.
Much of the trouble we are now in
as a nation is due to the fact that
during the war the administration
spent so much money it didn’t have
for thinga It didn’t get.