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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 9. 1920
SEVENTH ANNAUL
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Feathered Creatures Sometimes
Battle to the Death.
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Contrary to Pretty Theory, Perfect
Peace Does Not Always Reign
Within Those -Little Nests'*
as Sung by Poet.
A Bank That’s Squarely Behind Business
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Of the many forms of co-operation afforded by the
First National Bank, perhaps the most striking is
that which has been contributed to the upbuilding
of the industries of Tillamook County, It would be
hard to find an important activity in which our
services have not figured
“ NATIONALIZED” ACCOUNTS.
“Birds In their little nests agree,”
wrote Doctor Watts, If tiie emiuent
preacher had chanced to witness’an
Incident similar to that which I saw
the other day, say« a writer In the
London Daily Mall, he would never
DIRECTORS.
have penned that libel.
JOHN MORGAN.
C. J. HOWARDS ,
I was walking across a London golf
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B. C. LAMB,
course when two sparrows shot past
HENRY KOGERS
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my head, chattering violently, and.
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eouting to ground a few yards away,
set to fighting so furiously that I was
actually able to pick them both up In
my bunds.
I let one go nt once; the other I
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carried a little distance before liberat
ing It. Will you believe it?—a mo
ment later the two were nt It again,
beak and claws.
Almost all birds fight furiously in
tiie springtime. Even turtle doves,
those emblems of peace, will go for
one another In the mating season.
The various method« of offense
adopted by different birds are interest
ing.
Sparrows use their powerful
heaks but hold one another with their
claws. Starlings fight in exactly sim
ilar fashion. Their combats are at
times most desperate. A friend saw
one cock starling actually kill another.
Pigeons use their wings but rarely
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fight with their wings, and their
strength is so great that their battles
sometimes result fatally. I have, how- I
ever, seen a swan apparently endeav. I
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oring to hold the head of a rival un- |
der water, but I was not near enough
to make out what happened.
Some birds have spurs on their
wings. Tiie spur-winged goose, which
Ik a small, long-legged bird and rath- •
er resembles a duck on stilts, has ex- !
traordlnary wing power. One of these
geese went for a gardener who had
gone Into its Inclosure in the "zoo”
and gave him a blow on the knee that ,
laid him up for a week. The crested
screamer has actually double spurs on
Its wings ami Is a very awkward cus i
tomer to tackle.
All the birds of prey use their talons
as their principal weapons.
The
strength which lies In tiie talons of
Cut down your tire and tube expenditures by anticipating
even a small hawk Is almost incred
your Spring and Summer requirements and getting—
ible. As for an eagle, one Ims been
known to drive its claws clean through
the skull of a large tomcat Into the
brain, killing the animal instantly.
°ne ' Ton Tested” Tube, of corresponding size, with
The pheasants are the only family j
every Vacuum Cup Tire bought at our store. Act
of birds provided with spurs. Our
quickly. This offer is LIMITED. Once it expires,
domestic fowls are, of course, members
it. will not be renewed. Early ordering will avoid
of this grtius, and It Is in the game
disappointment.
fowl that the spur Is developed to the
greatest perfection. These log spurs
resemble the lmrns of cattle, in that
they have a bony core protected by a
smooth sheath of horn.
The guinea-fowl, again, is singular
In that it has a blunt horn upon Its
head which it uses as an offensive
weapon.
I linve never seen two herons fight.
hut if they did they would use tfielr
heaks and their beaks alone.
The
driving power of the long, sharp-
Chiropractor Locates in Tillamook
All Animals.
pointed beak of a heron is Immense,
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and when a heron Is hawked you may
“Every one in our family is »oni«
Dr. Forest L. Howard, Chiropract
see It endeavor to spit Its smaller as
or, formerly of Portland, Ore., Igis kind of an animal," said Jimmy to
sailant upon its beak.
An ostrich farmer tells me that he opened an office at 211 Tillamook' the amazed preacher.
“Why, you shouldn’t say that!”
lias known an ostrich to pierce a sheet Bldg.
the good man exlaimed.
of corrugated iron with one tremend-
Portland-Tillamook Stage Line.
"Well,” said Jimmy, "mother’s a
ous kick.
dear, the baby is mother's little
A new Portland-Tillamook stage lamb, I’m the kid, and dad’« the
New Clothes on an Ol’ One.
line has been established here. The goat.”
A salesman up in gasoline row was stage will leave Tillamook on Tues
telling how lie almost had a bit of days, Thursdays and Saturdays, at
“Man Cannot Make a Worm.”
good luck. “As 1 was coining in on 7:’3O a .in., arriving In Portland at
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the Bluff road, tiie oilier evening. Just 3:30 p. in.
An Ohio newspaper editor spent a
after dark,” he said. "I saw a good
Stage starts from Tillamook Hotel. few days in New York and while
tire at the side of the road. There
there Homebody asked him how he
was not a house within n half-mile,
For Sale.
liked the big town.
so I stopped tiie car and heat it back
"I care for it very little,” replied
to get the tire. It was a now one. 1
Hercules hot water and steam heat the editor. “Did you ever think of
could tel) that as I passed it. But ing plant and fittings, in good shape.
when I got up within ten feet of it. Sealed bids to be received by district this: Suppose you lived in New York
it started to move, anil oVer into the clerk within thirty days from date of and wan‘ed to go fishing. Where
would you go to dig a can of worm»?
field it went. Just then I heard two
notice. Reserve right to reject, any
boys laugh.” Three of the salesman's
or all blds.
audience snug out. “Yes, we tried to
July 8, 1920.
get that same tire on the first night
Ruby S. Lommen, Dist. clerk,
in April.”—Indianapolis News.
Dist. No. 24, Balm School.
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The following special prizes have been offered
the 1st National Bank of Tillamook $15.00.-$10.00 and 85.00 for the best three calve8,
exhibited by boysand girls of Tillamook County.
the Tillamook County Bank $20.00, $15.00, $7.50, $5.00 and $2.50 offered as prizes in
milk test.
Nehalem Valley Bank, silver cap for best et of sire, Jersey, Holstein, Guernsey.
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Bays, of Cloverdale, a pure bred Jersey heifer calf lor the best
Jersey calf exhibited at the fair by boys and girls.
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Tuesday, September 14th, 1920
OPENING DAY
BASE BALL GAME
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BEAVER vs. TILLAMOOK
1.00 P. M. Sharp
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Horse Raceing Following the Ball Game
Speaking in the Evening at 8 O'clock
Wednesday, Sept. 15th, Stock Judging Begins
AFTERNOON SPORI S:
Big Base Ball Game at One O'clock
HORSE RACES
View the Exhibits and Listen to the Band Concerts Afternoon
and Evening
All School Children Admitted Free
JUDGING
Sports in Afternoon: Ball Game, Horse Racing, Foot Racing
Awarding of Medals in Watson Essay Contest
24 Medals Awarded to Boys and (¡iris.
Come and Sec This.
Awards by 0. M. Plummer of the Pacific In
ternational Stock Show.
Band Concert Afternoon and Evening
FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, Big Pure Bred Stock Parade
See Boys and Girls Club Exhibit, Calves, Etc.
Band Concert Afternoon and Evening
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Absolutely FREE
WILLIAMS, & WILLIAMS,
Tillamook City, Oregon.
Novel on a Sheet of Paper.
Thursday, Sept. 16, Childrens’ Day
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Pennsylvania
Notice to the Public
The publishing house of Bailey Bal-
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liere In Madrid Is publishing com
Having bought out Mr Sutton’«
plete novels, each printed on one large interest in the Sutton & Loll Meat
sheet of paper, folded once, about the Market, I wish to inform our patrons
size of a four-page newspaper. The they will receive the same courteous
type is arranged In book-size pages, so
treatment in the future as they have
UNIVERSITY
that by folding the sheet several
in the past.
times and cutting the pages the pur
L. E. Loll.
chaser has an unbound book.
The
nalntained by the state
first novel thus published—“.Tose.” by
Restaurant Open At Rockaway.
in order that the young peo
A. Palacio Valdes—was sold for five
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ple of Oregon may receive,
centavos, or about 1 cent.—From the
The Elmore Annex Restaurant,
Writer.
without coot, the benefits of
next to the Elmore Hotel, is now
a liberal education.
op9,i for the season. Chicken dinner
Two in One.
served Sundays from 1 to 5 p. m.
The University include« the Coileft of
Recently the six-year-old son of the ^Special attention given parties on
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Literature, Science and the Arts, the
family attempted to take up the ques
Graduate School, the School of Phys
reservation. “Quality our Motto. •
tion ofr future habitation with his
ical Education, and the professional
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Schools of Law, Medicine (at Portland).
three yenfi-<.|<| brother with the follow
But, Somehow. They Can't Live it
Architecture. Commerce. Journalism,
ing result :
Down
Education and Music.
“Where are you going when you die,
High standards of scholarship are
Billy?”
Ap amusing incident marked the
made possible by an able faculty, well
"Tn my grave.”
equipped
laboratories and a library of
visit to South Bed, Ind., of Governor
“I mean are you going to heaven
nearly 100.000 volumes.
Cox the other day. The stand from
too.”
Supervised athletics are encouraged
which he spoke in front of the court
and every attention given the health
house was elaborately decorated. It
Slow,
and welfare of the students.
was discovered however, that there
“Well.” said the genial old ttentle- was no picture of President Wilson a-
With a heightened confidence
man. “are you getting ready for the mong the flag bunting effects. Demo
gained hr the recent eiprsaaisa
of pnnlie eapport. the Uaivorshr
next war?”
cratic attics were searched, and fin
ie now •■«•ring wpoaa an or« of
"I should say not.” replied the for
ally a large picture used four years
large developaaeat and ex tended
iner doughboy. "Why. I haven’t writ
ago in the campaign was located. It
naefnlaaeaa.
ten a book about the last war yet.”—
was prominently hung at the very
For a catalogue or for any information,
Birmingham Age-Herald.
front of the stand.
address:
The statement of Secretary Baker
The picture had been in place sev
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that American boys dying on the eral hours when a word got around
University of Oregon
field of battle in Germany were con that the South Bend Republicans
Eugene. Oregon
soled in their last monements by the were having a great laugh and had
thought, that they had given up gone so far ns to have photographs
their last moments by the thoughts of the decorated stand taken. Upon
that they had given up their lives investigation the Democrats found DR. J. E. SHEARER
for the league of nations is just a- that under the Wilson picture of
DR A. C. CRAM.
bout the most asinine bit of political 1916 vintage was this inscription:
bunk yet exploded in the Coxonian
"Pence with honor. He kept us out
Dn. Shearer A Crank
piffle barrage.
of war."
Medical A Surgery.
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Governor Cox has been appealing
Forthwith the big picture was
to the vets, or perhaps, as was re hauled down, and after another
National Building.
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marked to Samuel WelUver, it should search a smaller picture, sans in-
be "»pelled with a ’we’.”
scription, took its place.
Tillamook • * • Oregon.
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