, 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- ♦ ---- ------------ —1 [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 ------- .-------------- ; 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 -------- [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 , . —------ -------------- 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.