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_________________ FRIDAY, DECEMBEtu
TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
WILSON RIVER ROAD
THO’T UNNECESSARY
interests all through the county for -
local improvements, and because con­
tractors, machinery and automobile 1
houses see big profits in heavy road
expenditures. The average citizen
To the Editor: During a recent does his kicking when his taxes are
trip to Tillamook the writer was told due and never appears before the
by some of your citizens that they
Board of equalization. We have no
were desirous of building a highway
doubt the majority of your citizens
through the Wilsun river valley in
will oppose this proposed expenditure
order to anticipate the railroad, as ft on the Wilson river as unnecessary
was felt it would be much more ex­
anu uowairaiiveu at Liiia uuic; that
pensive if the railroad were built
they believe it will create an undue
first. If your people think the high­
fire hazard out of all proportions to
way will help the community more
the benefits secured.
But unless
than the railroad that is sound reason­
there is intelligent discussion and act­
ing. It is not necessary for the Hill
ive opposition this project will be put
road to come to Tillamook bay in or­ over by an active well organized min­
der to take out the Wilson river tim- 1 ority.
ber, if obstacles ^re placed tn thafcr
We do not expect all of you to
way the logfeal thing for the road agree with all we say, but we are
to do is to stop where it is and wait writing this letter in the hopes that it
for logging roads to be built into the may bring ou some new angles to the
timber. The real reason your people situation. At any rate before Tilla­
desire this road is to cut down the mook county is definiely committed
running time by auto to Portland an to this project we would suggest that
hour or an hour and a half. Would in fairness, a hearing be held and al)
it not be better business to finish interests be allowed to present their
paving the loop road and. construct views for and against, Yours truly,
laterals connecting it with outlying
Wilson River Lumber Company,
dairy districts? The proposed ocean
WELLS GILBERT, President.
shore road between Garibaldi and Portland, Oregon, Nov. 27, 1923.
Wheeler and especially north to Can­
non Beach from Nehalem will give
J. E. REEDY BUYS RANCH
you a scenic road, and there is more
justification for it.
J. E. Reedy last week concluded a
We are opposed to the Wilson river
road for the following reasons. There deal for the purchase of the Connie
is no commercial necessity at present Dye ranch, one mile east of Tillamook,
justifying such an expenditure. It and has taken possesion of same. If
will take away tax monies needed you don’t see “Doc” on the streets,
thioughout the farming district. We or find him in his town home, look
expect the pressure upon the county around the ranch and you will discov­
commissioners to continue and that er his repairing fences, or sowing
the tax increases will only be limited oats, or making a few hen coops on
by the six percent limitation, hence the side.
bucket and pointed out a old roan cow, man hailed a passing truck bound foi From this one gets a most wonderful
and then hid near by to watch the Portland, and made his escape, with­ view of the handiwork of man to be
found anywhere, as it gives a pan­
outcome of the fellow’s boast. In out his wages.
In anticipation of his possible noc­ orama of the Atlantic ocean, the
about ten seconds the cow kicked the
turnal return, the parents are lock- Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Staten
fellow out of the stall, and caved in
ing the romantic maiden in for a few island, the Jersey Cities and New
a perfectly good milk bucket. The
nights.
Jersey beyond Brooklyn, and the vari­
fellow had attempted to milk the cow
ous burroughs which comprise great­ 1
from the wrong side.
LIBRARY CIRCULATION GROWS er New York, the Hudson river, the I
He was then given a team, and told
four bridges crossing the Hudson, and
to go to plowing. From the corner
According to a report from the
ilooa evtent of great skyscrap-
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city library the circulation for Nov-|ers, whjch are typical of New York
Pretty soon he heard the fellow yell­
ember was 72 books per day.
(city. There seems to be mile upon
ing "whoa haw” and trying to stop
The library received a table for the ¡mi]e oi gtreets flanked on both sides
the runaway team, which came gaily
children’s room from the women of ’
twenty to thirty stories office
gallaping up toward the barn, The
Hereafter it buddings.
buildings. Fifth avenue and the ad-
plow got caught caught in a barb- the Shakespeare club.
is planned to acknowledge all receipts 1 j8tent streets have some of the finest
wire fence, and when it finally stop-
of books in the local papers when’stores t0
anywhere and be-
to be
De found
iuuiiu anjwnvxv
ped at the barn, there was enough
gifts are made to the library.
ing
near
Christmas
time it is hard to
wire strung out for several chicken
A number of new books have been’;
the crowds which surged
yards. The fellow had hitched the ordered and some of. the old ones1 imagine
1
through
the streets. We also visited
tugs between the horses legs. Amus­
have been sent to the binders to be I ¿’roa([way and the financial center. I
ed, the farmer asked if there was put in good shape so that readers will1 had letters of introduction to the rail-
anything else he could do. The fellow
have a better assortment in the near road officia]s jn New Orleans, New
scratched his head, and finally admit­ future from which to choose.
York,
and presented
join, and
anu Chicago,
vine
ted that he could “swing a mighty
A magazine for nature lovers
nasty scythe.” The farmer gave the been added to the already large **as these in the various points,
list
“Chicago was almost as busy as
hand an old dull scythe and set him now at the reading room.
’New York and the crowds were al­
to work cuttinng out along a fence
most as large. We visited Marshall
row Presently, the fellow earns rac­
Candy canes at “The Palm” made Field’s store. They were doing busi­
ing down to the barn, and dived into in Tillamook.—Adv.
ness this year in the wholesale and
the big water-trough, yelling for help.
retail establishment at about $225,-
About him was a swarm of enraged
000,000.
This is probably more busi­
yellow-jackets whose nest he had in­
ness than any store does anywhere in
vaded. When the farmer’s wife had
the world.
given him the arnica bottle, and he
(Continued from page 5)
“The first complaint we found of
had dosed all the stings, that he could
business
was in Minnesota. The farm­
Practically
each
one
of
these
is
con
­
well get at, he was told that dinner
was ready. He refused to come in structed of rough lumber and on each ers throughout the middle West have
and sit down, claiming that he felt porch one finds the usual number of not been getting large prices
better standing up, and took his plate pickaninnies, and the inevitable wash­ grain this year and they are
of grub outside of the house and stood ing is hanging either on the clothes much dissatisfied. Times were good
while he ate. The farmer’s daughter line or on the fence. Evidently they in the Eastern and Southern sections
brought him out a piece of custard do not think it healthy to live in of the couptry.
“Although we spent thirteen nights
pie, and expressed sympathy for his painted houses. The sugar cane is
mishap, whereupon the fellow, with the only crop that really shows up and seven days on the train, six nights
one eye stung shut, and his lower lip well in the South. Many of the larg­ in the hotel and eleven days in the
protruding waspishly, like that of a er towns have cotton mills, and num­ various cities. We were glad to get
Senegambian colored man, winked the erous sugar mills are to be found back and believe that no where in
small cities did we see any place that
o’her eye. and asked the girl to elope throughout the sugar growing belt.
showed
greater prosperity and chance
“
While
in
New
York
we
ascended
with him,. While the sympathetic
girl momentarily hesitated between the Woolworth tower, which is 57 for the future than we have in Tilla­
love, and duty to her maw and paw, stories in height and 750 feet high. mook county and in Oregon.”
the mother who had been listening in,
sans the radio, appeared in the scen­
ario with a broom, and drove the
WHEN IN TILLAMOOK STOP AT
pseudo hired hand out upon the high­
way; and while the now enraged
farmer was nervously attempting to
again charge a department store muz­
C. J. & A. L. NEFF, Props.
zle-loading shot gun with shingle
No. 8, First St.
Tillamook, Ore. |
nails and powder, that already had
two loads of buckshot in it, the young
YOUNG JOB HUNTER
HAS DIFFICULTIES
COAL—CEMENT^
LIME
28-W
LAMB-SCHRADER CO.
^5 on ¥1 jetth ^ rainy ^ d
MOVING
THE CITY TRANSFER COMPiwv
IS PREPARED TO SEND EXPERIENCED PACKERS t
YOUR HOME WITH CANVAS TO COVER
ALL YOUR GOODS
!
CALL US DAY OR NIGHT
Our Motto: “Quick Service and Reasonable Rates
TRIP WAS INTERESTING
the Wilson river road will delay more
meritorious road improvements in the
valley. ’ Again the expense of build­
ing the Wilson road will be very
heavy. The old road will have to be
widened and straightened and in
A young fellow recently applied to
many places re-built. It will cost a farmer and dairyman down in the
around thirty thousand dollars per south end of the county for work. He
mile to rock and pave it to say noth­ had been working on the construction
ing of grading ami bridges. Four of the Roosevelt highway, and one day
or five months in the winter the cost when told to go back obout a mile
of keeping it clear of snow and re­ and bring up a crowbar, he returned
moving slides will be very heavy. carrying a monkey-wrench, and the
Much of the way is Bide hill construc­ boss gave his time and let him go.
tion often with steep cliffs running
The farmer to whom he applied,
up a thousand feet or so. A road asked him if he could milk cows. The
would hinder logging and make travel man replied that cow milking was his
very dangerous if logging were in
process. We do not oppose it much
on the tax question as we do on the
fire risk. According to Mr. Johnson
there is a total of about six and a
haif billion feet on this water shed.
Reduce this to wages and it means
sixty six million dollars to say noth­
ing of supplies purchased. If in ad­
dition it can he cut into lumber on
Tillamook bay add almost as much
more Put in an auto road and you
will have thousands camping along
the road for three months in the year.
Then you will have forest fires and
your community will be the loser.
Nothing will keep out the fires. Every
well travelled road in the state travels
most of its distance through devast­
ated forests. Haven’t the timber
people a right to ask protection for
their property? Isn’t it to the inter­
ests of the people of Tillamook coun­
ty to give us this protection, especial­
ly when they already have a good
road to Portland and this road is not
needed at present?
We guarantee big savings on
Aren’t the Tillamook people looking
the wrong way. Several years ago
we voluntarily placed our lands in the
port of Bay City, not from any al-
Here in this sale are unquestionably the lowest prices ever offered in Tilla­
trusitic motives but because we
mook on high grade stoves. The right kind of a stove is a great comfort
thought it was good business policy
in any home and this is yours if you will take advantage of this sale. We
to put some money in a project which
are showing a variety that makes choosing easy and what ever style you
need you will find here.
promised a sea port on Tillamook bay.
We have paid over $25,000 in port
taxes. How much have the City of
Tillamook or, Trask and Tillamook
Our $18.50
One $85 Steel
river dairly and timber interests for
this project? Isn’t it a pitiful sight
to see a concern which has invested
millions in your county lightering its
lumber from its mill to ships.
A
south jetty and deep channel around ;
Miami Bay to Bay City will line the j
lower bay with industrial plants. For i
We are getting low in
every dollor lost to the assessment ;
Our $¿6 50
$95 Steel
many
of these remark­
rolls when a tree is cut, five will be
added to the county valuations for
able bargains. Come
improvements made with the money '
in at once before it is
released in wages .«nd supplies. In
too late
twenty years Chehalis county, Wash­
ington, which includes Grays Harbor
may have lost one third of its timber (
HEATERS
FIREPLACE
but we have no doubt it has increased
its valuation at least ten times, owing
HEATERS
$32. 50
to the money released.
Tillamook Bar has as much water
today as Grays Harbor had in 1900
Isn’t it time for all interests to sink
local jealousies and get together on
this improvement ..f the bar nml har­
Well built tnbles of at­
bor and do some constructive work,
IS in. Splint Market Basket
2tk
tractive design* and
go a little slow on scenic roads, and
priced ■<> low that they
Fancy
Splint
Work
Basket
22c
up
confine then energies to business con I
are bargain- extra­
struct ion
i
ordinary. Only one of
u oven Fibre Shopping Basket
15r
each left so come early.
Wi might -ac a h'tle on taxes and |
27e
Fans)
Splint
Waste
Basket
outstanding warrants and gerryman- I
ilering the road districts, We believe '
Splint Clothes Baskets
$1.30 up
most of your officials honestly wish
Billow Clothes Baskets
$2.15
to keep down expenditures and to
attract capital. You have the exam­
ple of a neighboring county which is
charging all that interests can pay,
and the resultant refusal of nianu-
factoring interests to submit them­
selves to extorion. The reason taxes
are high is because of the pressure
brought upon tax levying boards by
THE
HOTEL NETHERLANDS
|
FOLDING CARD
14 IN. FIBRE
TABLES
$3.45
SUIT CASES
75c
is the time to buy useful Christmas gifts at money saving prices
OUR COMPLETE CLOSEOUT SALE
Will furnish values that cannot be duplicated, quality considered
STOVES
a few left, so come early
RANGE
$65.00
RANGE
$78.95
Dining
Tables
Xmas
Toys
HEATERS
$13.95
HEATERS
Basket Specials
$28.85
$11.85
STORE OPEN EVENINGS
IN THIS SALE YOU WILL FIND THE BIGGEST
Best 6-Tine Manure
24 in. guaranteed hand
BARGAINS IN
FORKS
SAWS
READ THESE PRICES THEY ARE IN­
COMPARABLE
$15.50 42-pc. gold hand set is reduced
to
$11.95
Special: Regular $11.50 32 piece
set is now ...........
$6.45
$32 value fancy 50 piece set is
now ...............
$20.95
$22.50 decorated 42 piece is now $14.35
H qt. heavy tinned
Good
Long Handled Square
steel
SHOVELS
85c
Dinner Ware
Here are lower prices just in time to choose dinner
ware for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Here
you will find the most beautiful patterns of high
grade ware at prices far below those ordinarily ask­
ed. It’s up to you to get your share of these
bargains, ones you cannot afford to pass.
heavy grub
14 in. steel garden
PAILS
RAKE
3-4 in. best rubber gar­
den
$3.25 value
HOSE
$6.35
AXES
$2.70
Beat large size farm
Four quart
LANTERNS
CHURNS
L handle round P*»1
SHOVELS
I lain white cups and saucers set
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b-'ERY THING IN DISHES IS HERE AND All
ARE VERY LOW PRICED
One Minute Hand
Washing Machines
A. B. BLOOM
FURNITURE
COMPANY
Tillamook, Ore.
’
Here just in time for
IX*»
and priced just at about a
you would have to P»? * .
Walnut finish, beautifully
roomy compartment« for P*”
tobacco.
$22.65
NO. I WASH TUBS
WRINGERS ........... _
1 UOTHES PINS 8 DOZ.
" IRE CLOTHES LINE
STANDS
SMOKING
SPECIALLY PR1UEP
...85c
- $3.45
....... 25c
3Se
$6.95
$11.35
STORE OPEN EVENINGS
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