, FEBRUARY 29, 1924
TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
temple of Baal. Not only has this gaws that could be turned into money
j spirit of greed and carelessness crept by future civilized barbarians, that
Weekly
Paper into our national life, but that hydra they in turn, may be dragged from
indent
head of the serpent of religious in- their tombs by the cupidity and greed
I Every Friday by the
Company i tolerance and bigotry that has de- of succeeding generations. The whole
Publishing
i luged the world in blood, is again thing savors of the ghoul that watch
imook. Oregon
rearing its head, and seeking to un- es in the graveyard. It is a contem
..... Editor ¡do the work of Washington and Lin- plation in which the fetid breath of
Ison ......
Manager coin in this republic. Using the words a waiting human hyena, makes even
pSHBrar
|oi the patriot Washington: ' Let none decent oeputrtcre impossible in the
as second class mail
but Americans be placed on Guard!” face of godless greed.
the U. S. poetoffice at
Oregon.
A DYING MAN THAT FLED
The death of ex-Governor Theo
JRIPTION RATES
y Mail
»2.00 dore Thurston Geer adds another pio
A citizen rushed into a local drug
By Mail
$1.00 neer to the list of those who have store Friday night, in some excite
«, By Mail ______ $ .75 again taken the trail to a new and ment. The chair warmers perked up
untried country, but of whose exis their ears, including a deputy sheriff
able in advance
tence, few have doubts.
and a newspaper man.
Telephones
Governor Geer was a man of kindly
“There’s a man just breathing his
c States, Main 68
impulses, and left the plow on his last down on the' parking near the
farm in the Waldo Hills, to become restaurant, opposite the mill, and I
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦¡Governor. He was a strong partisan, think he’s about all in!” shouted the
♦ and was prominent in republican con- citizen. “Better send for a physican!”
UTORIAL POLICY ♦ ventions of twenty years ago, and his1 The druggist sent for a doctor pronto.
♦ services were always in demand dur- In the meantime the first citizen, (the
rotate aid and sup ♦ ing campaign times, when his keen, one who had discovered the dying
measures that will ♦ biting wit and pointed illustrations
man) followed by the deputy sheriff
most good to the ♦ were relished by his partisans, and
and the newspaper man, and sundry
♦ objected to by his opponents. Theodore
ble
other citizens, afoot and on horse-
Bcourage industries ♦ Geer was educated in Willamette Uni back, (paregorically speaking) armet
♦
llish in Tillamook
versity, and was a great friend of the with staves, arquebusses, spears and
♦ old pioneers among whom he grew to
ammonia, the latter hastily grabbed
rge the improvement ♦ manhood. 1 He
’ will be missed by many by the vetern druggist> rushed in riot.
k for Tillamook City, * friends who knew him as a jolly,
th^bod/rnd
list on an American ♦ whole-souled Oregonian. He was the I
h
for the murdered raan.3
♦ tenth governor of Oregon.
[of labor.
assailant-who could tell? The whole
I politically indepen- ♦
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[thing sniffed of mystery and foul
| to support the can- ♦
The rebelloin being carried on by
Seteral sma11 tors wh° had
far public office who ♦
g the most good to ♦ the Huerta faction in Mexico, it is flrst «^covered the dead or dying
Eple of
Tillamook ♦ said, is backed by the Catholic church, ¡°r murdered man brought up the
|nd of the State of ♦ which is not now allowed to mix up carecr’ as Mrs' P^tington would
v
__ ,
♦ church and state, as in the former I | The __
mob arrived in disorder, like a
days.
The
present
president
is
one!
♦
bunch of Jack Falstaff’s recruits from
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ who believes in keeping church and
state separate, and Mexico has pros a foray on a hedge that previously
FEBRUARY 29, 1924
pered during his incumbency. One of had contained other folk’s linen.
The first citizen gazed anxiously at
this country’s cardinal principles is
the
place on the parking where the
that church and state must be k< p£
,REAT AMERICAN
separate, as the history of the world dying man had lain, when he was
is full of chapters where the domi called to view the prospective corpse
by two small boys. The green grass
y was the anniversary of nant church also ruled the country,
was there; the telephone post that
and
bloodshed
and
cruelty,
supersti
of George Washington,
marked
the-spot was still erect, but—
(bans consider Washing- tion and ignorance followed in its I the corpse had either fled, or been
train,
This
country
guarantees
all
latest man the United
I taken hence. Up rolled the doctor
yer produced as an out- citizens the right to worship God ac- in his tonneau, but there was nothing
cording
to
the
dictates
of
their
con-
iriot. Probably that is
Not but explanations present.
¡me; but it is believed by science, and that is enough.
The doctor said a few things, ana
even
a
Protestant
church
should
be
I of patriotic Americans
drove
away. The deputy sheriff dis
allowed
to monopolize the govern-
In Lincoln is entitled to
appeared up a dark looking alley.
mn£,
and
allow
ecclesastics
to
rule.
in of being the greatest
The crowd dispersed and sought the
t only of his time, but The people should rule this govern coal stove in the drug store and spec
ment,
and
allow
ecclesiastics
to
rule.
[times in the history of
ulated as to the disappearance of the
[Both men came when a Church rule has been tried in Mexico, dying man. It was agreed that it
I life of the republic and found wanting. The sympathy was not possible that the poor man
s very life. Both filled of all who believe in real democracy had gone straight up. If not, where?
las leaders to the credit will be found backing the rule of Ob
A few minutes later the deputy
I the American people, regon and his government.
sheriff came out of the alley and
¡that at the close of his
struck a trail leading to the big saw
» as president, Lincoln
Over in Egypt, the Egyptian gov mill. Some girls who were passing
■sasinated by a church ernment and the excavators, an Eng- had seen a man making crooked
hade his memory dearer lishman and an American, are dis- tracks toward the lumber pile, and the
■than that of Washing- puting about division of the gold re sleuth followed the dim trail.
He
Bed his appointed place cently found in Tutankamen’s tomb. enlisted the aid of the night watch
Blistory, and the mem- The Egyptians are willing to have and a lantern, and the trail giew
■ held in sacred remem the grave of one of the distinguished fresher. Finally, a pair of shoes pro
in who were especially ancestoria! kings Tipped open and truded from the lumber. Like the
■me by what is believed rifled, but naturally, they want the ostrich which sticks its head in the
■something akin to di- lion’s share of the gold found, The sand, and foolishly imagines that it is
k r Perhaps this cannot other parties also want the big end hid, the fugitive from prohibition jus
borne people, but history of the divide. It should be an in tice, had forgotten to cover his feet.
h instances of men who tensely consoling thought to the
“Come out of that," said the dep
et-ii the stage of action wealthy potentates when they come uty, quite loud enough for the man to
Serially assist in avert to die, and be buried with gold gew- hear. Instead of obeying, however,
■saster and ruin, it is
fcs to think that both
■d Lincoln were divine-
■ to believe these great
(dentally. The writer is
■es that God, the cre-
■iverse, is not careless
the races and worlds
reated. To think other-
ibe all things to acci-
nte chaos, and mental
blivion.
when all that is spir-
in man is needed. A
an greed is rampant;
i pleasure-loving and
is inviting the very
Ity to a thror.e on the
-ti
hte corpse made a wild lunge for I gaily. But at that place it began to
ward, and fell through a hole in the meet with adventures and bad treat
floor to ^nether level about six feet ment. The packer on the other side
below, and lay there. That period of of the moutain had been relayed the
lassitude was his undoing. A mo information that Tom’s hat was on its
ment later the deputy had him, and way. The story is that the packer
led forth his wobbly form—all cov was a nephew of the man for whom
ered with dots and dashes of sawdust the hat was intended. When he had put
and splinters—and guided him to | all Qf the sacks on the horte, there
ward the hoosegow.
.yet remained the hat. To the other
Had the knight of the buize can, man who was assisting the packer
collected his mind soon enough after said:
his fall, he might have threaded his
“Here’s where I pack uncle Tom’s
way through the mill from the low hat carefully—like_____ .{"
er floor, and like Leander, swam the
And he did do that very thing. He
Hellespont, to the woods beyond the 1 placed the box on top of the pack, and
slough, and twisted a garland of I then threw the deadly diamond hitch
evergreen for his perspiring brow squarely across the hat; and putting
like many another hero of fiction;'his foot against the belly of the
but again his imitation of the delusion groaning horse, proceeded to make
of the ostrich proved his second and the sack safe for the Tillamook dem
final undoing.
ocracy. The rope cut cruelly inti
The rather portly citizen who heard uncle Tom’s hat, pasteboard and all
the famous death-rattle in the throat and later, when the postmaster with
of the dying man, will hereafter not'an ill concealed grin, handed the cov-
conern himslf with expiring men on ' eted tile to Handley, the latter was
the parking. He’ll let ’em expire, I heard to say things that would have
and then notify the coroner.
made a Sunday school convention
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; blush with shame.
THE PLUG HAT AND THE DIA-i But Tom never wore that hat; and
CRES of land now in profitable
MONO HITCH
.several tough guys unloaded their
**■ crops where nothing but stumps
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[carefully oiled six-shooters and sigh-
grew before— that is what Pacific Stum p-
ing did for me and did it at lower cost."
Years ago, when T. B. Handley was ' ed deeply. They had made boasts
Many ranchers around here say this
an attorney and politician in Tilla- tbat they would shoot Tom’s new hat
from actual experience. Pacific Stump
mook—when the local press spat ridi-1as iub of holes as is a well ordered
ing gives you one-half more powder for
cule, venom and personalitis at each sa,t cellar. They wouldn’t have to
your dollar—shoots stick for stick with
any standard stumping powder, but
other over politics; when elections I do it now.
you get 142 sticks of Pacific Stumping
were red-hot with interest; when
That’s the story -of the first plug
as against 100 sticks of the others. It
automobiles were a rarity, and there hat that never came safely to Tilla
will not freeze or give you a headache
from handling,
was considerable more charity for mook, as related by an old timer; and
We sell Pacific Stumping and other
one’s fellow man than now; when the it’s a true story of the times when
du Pont dynamites. See us before buy
old stage coach was looked for as every man who started for the valley
more per dollar
ing your next supply, y
anxiously every night as was a drink with a team and wagon, kissed his
of one’s favorite beverage in the ■ wife several times good bye, and took
early morning at the local thirst dis- a small load of fence rails along to
pensaries; when a stranger was given 1186 "’hen he got stuck from ten to
the “twice over” by almost the entire 'ono hundred times in the mud be-
population, and there was speculation ' tween here and the “great outside,”
as to whether he was an escaped con- ' which was a trip the average citizen
TILLAMOOK OREGON
vict, a Pinkerton detective, a life-in- ' to°k with many misgivings, but for
surance man, bunko artist or a pros- which there was no time schedule,
pective homesteader to be located for
, .
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a consideration; when a dollar was I • " bd®
timber for the Coats
NON-FREEZING
NON-HEADACHE1
harder to get, and lasted longer;—he I
company east of town last
concluded (this is a long sentence; week, I hillip Booth was struck in
connect it up with T. B. Handley), i hls right eye by a splinter from a
that nt-
he wanted
new siik
silk nac,
hat, ana
and wed . *’e’ wb*cb badly damaged thatj
vwuv
wanieu a 3 new
A Pacific Northwest Product
!
’ . He was taken to a Portland
sent out to his old friend Muessdorf-1
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS 8. CO., INC.
Poi tian ,
¡hospital
Wednesday
last,
where
he
er of Portland, and ordered a good
one. All old timers remember Muess- i will receive special treatment.
dorfer, the hat man of Portland. Tom
waited patiently for the hat. Pretty
soon the whole town knew that Tom
had ordered the hat. People were
RELIABLE
WORLD'S
on the tip-toe of excitement to see
QUALITY
LARGEST
how T. B. would look in the new tile. I
fil V
GOODS
ifel i IB 'll
CHAIN
But fate, that jinx of life, had other |
ALWAYS
DEPARTEMENT
plans than the safe delivery of that j
ÀT LOW
l7n. orinatali
v
■ STORE •
hat. In those times, everything came I
PRICES
ORGANIZATION
by mail; many a woman received a i
475DEPARTMENT STORES
I
brand new hat from Seers & Sawbuck |
that looked as though it might have
OPPOSITE SUNSET GARAGE
contacted a cyclone or accidently been '
TILLAMOOK, ORE.
run through a threshing machine af
ter it left the store in a well packed '
pasteboard box. Much of the mail in'
the winter time had to be packed on I
Good* You Uke
horses, and the diamond hitch was
To Carry Home
used to secure the pack on the anima!, j
Is a Distinctive Marathon of High Quality
and in this last statement is the es
Added to the helpful
sence of the story.
personal service we give
The hat started blithely on its
you, is the assurance of
journey to Tillamook, carefully wrap
crisp, fresh goods which
ped in a stiff straw board receptacle.
you
like to carry home.
It made the trip to North Yamhill
“I cleared my land
at lower cost by
using PACIFIC
STUMPING’’--
King-Crenshaw
Hdw. Co.
<BU PONI
PACIFIC STUMPING POWDER
Men! The New “ 1 st Inning”
Our co-operative buy
ing power with the 4/4
other Stores in this
Nation-Wide Institution,
brings the new things and
the good things to you
while they are still new
and good.
Every Marathon” is a hat of quality to justify its
ne. But our “1st Innina” is the leader. New open
ipe block.
Welted edge and contrasting band.
:kory Brown, Blue Pearl and Bamboo.
In School—Out of School
Boys! Wear a “Penney Jr.” Suit
And not the least
factor in making your
shopping here a pleasure'
and a profit are the
uniformly low prices you
are asked to pay for1
goods of thoroughly
reliable quality.
—fLi
Smart Hat9
AU-Wool Tweed
They're alwayi on the job, giving
the most wear and satisfaction a
good suit can.
A “Penney Jr.* Suit is superior:
because it has two knickers, each
with double seat and knee* extra
belt with buckle—double stitching
throughout.
StHctly all-wool eeaskneres and
tweeds, carefully tailored In the sea
son’* correct style*.
Mothers 1 See these remarkable
suits.
Th* boy* like to wear
"Penney Jr*.“ Parents like to buy
"Penney Jrs.” There’s so much li
quality for only
High ¡p-ade snap brim
style, with contrasting
genuine silk band. Lined'
with good quality silk
serge.
Let Ut Pe Yom* Hutter'*