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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1921)
t pulse. Wo have large tracts of tim ber, and there are railroad pros pect« for thia section that look ex A Weekly Paper Published Every tremely good at this time. Thursday by the In the wake of railroad develop- nrent, ' come other developmsMs that tend to build up the country, Beach exploitation is scheduled for the coming year, a*id our dairy in- Leslie Harrison Managing Editor dustry is in splendid shape, so con sidering all these things collective ly, it la a pretty safe thing to prophesy prosperity of the real sort Both Telephone« for this county in 1923. CilUniook Jjealiliqfjt THIRTY YEARS AGO (From Headlight of Dec. 31, 1891) The mall failed to arrive Tues 83.00 14)0 day night. A mantle of snow covered the earth Wednesday morning. While our people have been wor rying over the probable fate of the SWEETEST THUG ON HARTH Str. Augusta, she has been snug la harbor at Astoria. Many of our What is the sweetest thing in her merchants had Christmas goods all this world? No doubt if the question were submitted to all the board her, and when Christmas came and went and still no boat people, there would be an astonish from Portland It capped the climax ing number of answer^ according of aggravation for tbeee unlucky to the temperament, education, en vironment and mind of the individ ones. There was a terrific wind etorm ual. in the mountains Monday night. A beautiful woman, as good as Much timber was uprooted and she is beautiful, but no, that wold many trees are across the road be she is beatifiul? But no, that tween here and North Yamhill. would not answer the question for The mall is accumulating on the the reason that everyone vAuld other side of the mountain, noth not assent, because persons disa ing but a few letters coming gree a to what conssti tubes a beau through. tiful woman. Well, what about a The last census report shows painter's masterpiece? Again there that no other county in Oregon has comes an objection, for people had a greater increase of popula would differ about the subject tion during the last ten years than chosen; enchanting lands capes, Tillamook, with the exception of beautiful mountain«, waterfalls, Multnomah. noble rivers,—all sweet enough to The chicken pox has been pre captivate the eye, but lacking vailing in this section for the past quality. few weeks. What about a bautlful poem? All right, but few people are so GOT WHAT WAS COMING ' constituted as to be able to judge ayid appreciate poetry, hence that The Tillamook Headlight in ex- woufl not appeal to a majority. In pressing its honest cotnvictlons con this case we want a popular deci cerning that city's actual condiiton, sion. Thus, we might go on men and which facts should have been tioning divers things, «uiimate and made public anyway, has ruffled the inanimate, but what 1« the use? besmirched feathers of a few of the Let us leave this matter to the fowls until their crow is made one women of the world, shutting out of aggression. Like all disg'untied the men. We believe the answer individuals whose shady acts are would be: “a sleeping little baby.” brought under the searchlight they Yee, we might Include the papa of are fernlat the paper that exposes the baby, and we fancy. If he be tirem and resort to the boycott as a tbe right kind of a papa, he might means of extermination- ‘Tis a silly Ire heard saying "Yea that's the act and will make iriends for the correct answer:- "A sleeping little Headlight and an Increased subscrip baby.” tion list. They’d better take their medicine and reform.—Sheridan Sun Six moaths A YEAH OF POSSIBILITIES. It ie believed by many people, that by the early spring, every large sawmill In this county will be tn operation, Lumber Is In good demand, and all along the coast there is an optimistic outlook. As most of the timber of Oregon lies on the western dope of the Coast range, the operation of the big mills will spell prosperity to the coast section. Somehow, 1922 has been select ed for some time past, as the year whn some of the old time lumber activity was to manlfst. Men are talking It, and men of affairs. Oth-' er things bid fair to become stabil ised, so that a return to old time conditions are not only possible but probable. Tillamook county will I m in line to receive the new business ENCHANTING DISTANCE: Pos terity will call these “the good old days" because posterity won't know all that we know.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. POWERFUL REMEDY: Professor can be cured by suggest'on. The Coue thinks that many illnesses can be cured by suggestion. The mere suggestion of the doctor's fee often has the desired effect.—Punch (Lon don.) THE THRIFTY SCOT. Bix- I won der why a Scotchman alwas aayt 'hae’ for 'have'?” Dlx. "Possibly it’s on account of his thrift—he saves a "v" every time he does it.”—Boston Transcript Born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mes- sersmlth of this city 27th, 1921, a son. Bunk Brine and Ballast Ring out, wild bells, to tbs wild sky Regarding certain article« thpt The flying cloud, the frost/ light have been published recently on The year la dying in th« night; Ring out, wild bells ana let him the alleged wants in «pending pufc- Ue money. County...Judge Hooftr " dK . - Mason stated Tuesday that rnahy people apparently make no attempt Ring out the old, r*ng in the new, Ring, happy bells arrow the snow to look into the matter personally to satisfy themselves of conditions, The year is going, let him go; "They do not seem to under- Ring out the false, ring in the true. stand that the county 1« a far big- Rin out the grief that saps the ger corporation than any other They they are concerned with, mind, « For those that here we Fee no seem to think it should be able to run itself, and refuse to take into mors; Ring out the feud of rich and consideration the fact that a mat ter of 8500.000 to 85,00.000 must be poor; ■pent each year to keep this county Ring in redress to all mankind. going. This 1« quite an item and should the court be hampered by Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife; » Inefficient help a great deal of this Ring in the nobler modes of lit«,'money would be wasted,” said Judge With sweeter manners, purer laws. Mason. Regarding salaries paid county R^tg out false prids In place and officials. Judge Mason stated that “During the war the salaries of blood. some of the county officials was as The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and low as |75 or 890 per month, while any kind of a fallow that could right. pack water without spilling it Ring In the common love of good. could got 35 a day without any Ring out old shapes of four disease trouble.” “I was impressed some time ago, Ring out the narrowing lusc of white visiting a lumber camp, that gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old the superintendent of the camp was Ring In the thousand years of peace a man who was paid a large salary —Alfred Lord Tennyson. but apparently did very little work. The object of having him there was, that at certain times he DO “CONGRESS” SEEDS PAY! was very badly needed and at such times he was worth all the money Communication he was paid. This is simply an 11- To the Editor: lustration." The Congress and the Govern ment have often been criticised for NETARTS OYSTER BEDS USED the policy of distributing vegeta TO BE WORKED—NOT NOW ble seeds free.. bay is noted as the home Upon Investigation I find the ac of Netarts the original small oyster of the tual cost to the Government 1 b northwest, and according to th'e In 3360,000 and the Department of dians and early white settlers, these Agriculture estimates the products delicious bivalves were used as an ar grown from this istrlbution of seed tide of trade and barter by the own ers of schooners on the bay at one at 3140,000 per year. Whether the policy is wise or not time, several ship loads having been taken to San Francisco in the late I have been allotted fqr distribu Sixties, where they brought a good tion of vegetable seeds (five kind« price. in a package) and a few flower For a time, in latter years, the rec ' seeds. ord books of the county show where in that the Government is spend many claims were taken by those ing good money for these seeds I do who sought to culture the shell fish not want to see them wasted and for their market value. But there came a time when a se therefore do not want to distribute cold spell froze the oyster beds them indlscriminitely, but I shall vere and when the weather moderated be glad to send them to any otae in they were detached in chunkc and Oregon desiring them for use. washed away, and then the once- If you will kindly let the people plentiful little oyster became scarce in your community know that I and their culture largely ceased. A will be very grateful to you. These few of the claims are still operated, requests should I m received by Dec but are no longer the commercial at they once were. ember 1st and the seeds will be traction It is said, whether true or not, mailed out shortly after January that from this natural habitat of the 1st. species, Indians conveyed and plant Most sincerely yours, ed oysters in both Shoalwater and Yaquina bays. Both of the latter Robert N. Stanfield. places still tong and ship these highly edible and popular oysters A WEIRD EXPERIENCE to the various Washington and Ore H. W. Liberty who was In Tilla gon markets. The Indians of this section, in for mook the latter part of the week on mer times, esteemed them highly as business, returned Saturday to Port an article of food, and never failed land. Mr. Liberty has had a weird to describe them as "hyas closh experience. Two of his brothers have muck-a-muck”. been killed during a period of two years past In automobile acctdcnte, WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW and recently a third brothers was Corvallis school census shows so severely Injured In a similar acci dent that little hopes are entertain growth of 2000. Hillsboro cigar factory making six ed of his recovery. Such an exper ience falls to the lot of few men, and brands displacing foreign cigars. Farm bureau to publish weekly It Is doubted if it has bad a parallel paper at Oregon City—"The Call.” In this or any other country. Portland —Machinery and equip J. D. Edinger and wife were Port ment for new clothing factory in stalled. land passengers last Friday. The fellow In the hotel loooy uodded eo a remark of hie compan ion. He applied a snatch to his brier pipe,'a*d answered: “Ye«, two-thids of the people have the disease called ‘hot-foot.’ No sooner doe« a man get settled In a new place than he announces to his family that 'here’s where we stick our pegs, Nice place; fine bunch of people; business survey looks No good;—here’s where wo stay, more rainbow chasing; no more freight bills; no more van bills; no more donations to the railways." “And they mean it for the time, but the lure of the place just over the mountains, finally eats up the glamor of the new place, and then they begin to see the new found home in another, but different light. Where formerly the picture showed in gaudy colors, they began to de tect that it was just a common, cheap chromo, sans the touch of the master's brush. Ane some of the people who seemed so ‘fine,’ later developed course qualities that were not at first apparent. ▲nd then—” The epeaker stopped, lighted another match—“well, you know the whole story, so what'« the use of burning up words.” “Alaa, too true,” said the good listener, glad that the well-known particulars wer not to be rehashed, “I’m a ‘hot-footer’ myself—never mind the trimmings.' What about Alaska? Do you know, I believe that's a mighty good place to go to now. Just got a letter from a friend ol mine—” “All aboard for Portland! Auto stage.” "See you again, some time!” "Bye, bye!” “So long, brother Hot-foot!” • • • Senator Stagifieid is destined to be Just popular with some people, now the senator is working over- time in Washington.. With hls clerk and stenographers, he is said to Bpend his afterwork hours tying up packages of garden seeds to »end to his far away constituent»— “Where rolls the Oregon”—and he is anxious to get the packages out here for early sowing. If his con stituents could see the busy senator in Bome of his old sheep clothes, earnestly sweating over the seed blns of the agricultural department, in his effort to get the free seeds to his people, there are sympathetic people who would read with tear- dimmed eyes, and have to wipe their specks. Sweat begrimmed, tired, yet happy in the consciousness of having done a good deed, we can, in fancy, see the erstwhile sheepman glowing with proud satisfaction. The senator is not stuck up, nor is he hard to approach. All one has to do is to walk up to him. While some Eastern Oregon poli ticians seem to be sore at the sena tor for not appointing them to posi tions of honor a(nd profit, fellows like Wess. Caviness, “father of irri gation,” are thankfully taking their pre-Christmaa appointments, with out *T«n so much as a wry face, and several of hie former sheep hearder«, will no longer show up at “lambing time,” because of the senator’s handouts. • • • The Jap ie now our ally. With the Briton and the French; While the other nations, minus. Watch proceedingsfrom the bench. • • • Paris is trying to hoist the long skirt into favor again. But giddy woman, on this continent, is trying to decide just how long it will be before the authorities will allow her to make the skirt into a highland kilt. • • • It is believed, without definite knowledge, that some of the monn- shine stills, lack a whole lot of bo ing still, just now, on account ot the approach if Christman Its a sad commentary on the civilisation of the age, whqn persons mistake the anniversary of the birth of the "msm of Galilee” for an occasion for drunkenness and moral riot. • e • The onion which soared to such awful heights during the late war, gnd which subsequently got so cheap that it didn't nail good, M now being extensively used on ths passenger steamers again, to help to make the first-clam passengers you where he's from,** tte fine speaker. "I suppose some on» toM you - suggested tie bunchgrasser, pfckuL his teeth with his pocket-knife. “No, you’re wrong," said the that he is from,the Tillamook eoast." ‘How come?” asked the E. O. man, “He was sitting by me a while ago, and I smelled the salmon egg* in his whiskers." ♦ • • “E-e-e-k,” said the last of the Til- lamook bay jack-snipe, as it passed a belated straight-away bee, “th,; hunter bird narrowly missed shoot ing off my tail-light! The poor gump didn't have sense enough to lead mo about a quarter of a mile!** - • • « "I see that moot of the printing- offices have discarded the old offlee - towel, and pow use a sheet of white news to wipe their hands on,” mid i the editor of the Backwoods Buck saw, musingly to the foreman, “but white our present towel hasn’t been i washed since the flood of 1811, when I lathered it and hung it |j , the swooleR waters of Soap creek, I have got accustomed to its odor, and don't propose to discard an old friend for any of those new-fangkd paper towels.” ' “Same way with 'Dutchmen,'” mid the foreman, “J was raised to make a ‘Dutchman’ out of matches, and now comes the new city printer guys and use a tooth pick to wedge loose type with!” “Beats all,” said the editor, as he filled his jaw with fine-cut, “how the rampages of civilization are tear ing down the good, old orthodox ideas of the common people.” Siras Buckstrop of Battleaux can yon was in the city this week, and was induced to talk about his im ported Canadian deer hounds, which arrived after much fuss and red tape from Alberta, Canada. They are about three months old, and Sira«. has already begun their training. His method ie to take the hoof .of a .■jccntly killed deer, attach a string to it and drag it out in the wood«, for a spell, apd then back to thf nouse The hound pupe gets a whiff of the scent and follow it up to and turns and comes back to the house, and have got so that they yelp Bome„ all hough too young to bay. There are a number of fine hound« in Tillamook county, but as it la against the law to hunt deer with hounds, they are now used to chaae pewees, which are becoming very bothersome in picking the buds from young fruits trees. The hound« are taught to smell of a dead pewee, and after that they take their trails and chase them up a tree where they may be finished off with buckshot from the family shotgun. Siras thinks a great mistake was made in prohibiting hounds from running deer. Many of the old pio neers have so hunted in times past, and somehow the baying of a hound on a hot trail had. come to mean music to their ears “Now due to medlesome work of peanut statesmen in our legisla ture,” said Siras, “we have to tram these noble animals to hunt pewee«, and 'grind’ squirrels. It seems that our liberties are elowly being taken away from us by such jackass legit- lation.” Many people who love to hear the baying of a hound on a deer trail, will agree with Mr. Buckstrap, that half of the joy of hunting was when: a fellow could hunt with hounds There is no law against fox hunt big, and that is just as cruel, if it cruel to hunt deer with the mellow voiced hound. The following poem was written by Mr. Buckstrap on the decay of' deer hunting with hounds and 1« entitled: THE LAST OF THE HOUNDS “No more is heard the baying hounds. His voloe is hushed apd still; When he used to come a-baying A down the rocky hill. He sulks about the kitchen door, And housewives mutter:‘darn;’ Give ulm a kick,that makes him «iek Or, chaae him to the barn. T'me was, when ‘Sounder’ was so«»’ dog; Time was hero he. But now, with occupation gone, He chases but the flea. L'ENVOJ Alaa,.the mellow bay is hushed. No more the hounds sweet lay; No more the hunter takes his ‘bort. When hounds have ceased to W- EXPERT ADVICE. "The I“** are beet expefided by deep breeibB» •aye one of our moot brilliant m*®’ cal men. This is mush better tM* using a glove-etreteher for the PW pose.—Punch (London.) FORCE OF HABIT. “Why wte * Xettter as severely reprimanded " the club llbreriran?” . — "They eaught him abren-min«» iy removing tbe appendix from w» book be was reading—The A» cam Lacto» Weekly-
