FRIDAY, MARCH 1|
TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
6
¡both of Portland have purchased four
meted
out
to
those
involved
and
the
lots across from the school house and
accusations regarding the so-called our bread, and milk and cream as
attack *t>n the timber owners by the parts of our food ration? We do notj public interests should be protected.
, will be down in June to build some
Headlight presumably refers to an care to let our imaginations run on 1 These are tense moments and the
¡cottages.
editorial in this paper of January 25, this unhappy possibility. But cer­ common people will keep their heads
(Continued from page 8)
level
and
answer
the
conservatives,
P. T. Church has sold his property
The
cow
testing
association
ha-
when certain unnamed timbet owners tain it is that every pound of import­
ber company as contrasted with a to­ were scored for m underhanded at­ ed vegetable oil sold in the form of . who would have dropped a curtain of figured that the product of 347 Cows across from the depot. Mt. Church is
tai of $29,000 for 1923 taxes:
tempt to bring discredit upon the nut margarine is just that much pro- j secrecy on the proceeding- that have will be shut out of the butter market going to put up a smaller building
in ths county annually by the sale,
State county school, etc
$22,372.54 county and its officials. The Head­ gress toward the destruction of the, startled the nation.
It is claimed j for his candy business south of the
Special school ..............
11,087.08 light stands solidly for the welfare dairy industry; just that much ad- j The voters are in such a mood that of oleo in the county. it
if
it
is
necessary
to
throw
aside
party
that 2,000 pounds of oleo products are: postoffice.
Special road tax dist. 2 & 19 8,683.43 of Tillamook county people, against vance in the movement, now being
affiliations to brine the government
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$47,250.48 fact that moneyed interests are un­ of real butter, milk and cream from back to the ideals of the fathers, they the year, which would in a yeai s called here on account of the illness
j are going to do it. The average man time displace 83,200 pounds of butter of her mother-in-law, who makes her
It must be borne in mind that the able to comprehend the attitude of our tables.
There is, perhaps, more profit made;will no longer tolerate some other
lands of this company are distant all this paper will have no effect on its
fat in Tillamook
---------- county. It is esti- home with Mrs. Bennett.
Tillamook farmers and in handling butter substitutes than fellow to dictate to him for whom he mated that the average cow in this
the way from six to twenty miles position.
from the nearest school house. I business men will be here tomorrow but it is at best a temporary advant- ■ should vote. The independent voters county will produce 240 pounds of John Johnson and wife drove in
each . year. Figuring fif- from Portland and are getting their
believe that school taxes are the last and forever; timber owners will be in handling the real dairy product, are gaining in numbers because some butter fat
—.......
ones to which objection should be here as long as there is timber to age. It is insignificant compared to J party leaders are from time to time teen cows to the herd, no less -han cottages ready for summer.
taken, but we wish to submit that a cut—then they are gone to other the permanent value of the dairy in- betraying the party to which they be- twenty-three herds would be dis-
.Mr. and Mrs. Biddick have leased
Their interests, generally dustry to the merchants of the state, long and forgetting the constituency placed by the use of oleo during the
charge of 50 per cent of the state, fields
th"
Anderson place across from the
Tillamook
merchants
are
wiser
than
(
whose
interests
they
have
sworn
to
year, estimates the association.
county and school tax is pretty high speaking, are temporary ones. The
depot and are getting it in readiness
some of their fellows elsewhere protect.—News-Reporter.
farmers
will
have
to
shoulder
the
for a special school.
The county needs more roads, and burden of a heavy debt as soon as throughout the state. We just wond­
no one can object to the business-like the present stand of timber is cut er if they couldn’t do something to
convert some of their erring brothers.
constructive program, but a $8600 away.
Some of you dairymen speak to them
The
proposition
stated
in
para
­
BRIGHTON
special road tax looks very high to
By H. G. Guild’
graph two by the correspondent is about it. It is to their advantage as
us for one year.
Mrs. John Strand left to join her
As we have written before, we have thought to be very fair, but why was well as yours to ban bogus butter
husband near Eugene, where Mr.
no criticisms against the tax for the not it offered before the county made from the entire state.—The Oregon
Farmer.
Years ago, when the Trask toll Strand has a position. The commun­
Port of Bay City, as we are heartily the last timber cruise?
Regarding the charge of radicalism,
road was in operation, and the mail ity will miss them as they helped in
in accord for this improvement. We
, being carried over the mountains in all community affairs and Mrs. Strand
think it is an injustice, however, that the Headlight would like to remind
I stages, and on horse-back at times, a was on the school board.
the lands of this company and the the correspondent that this state of
rather loquacious driver, who chewed
others on the Wilson and Kelches mind flourishes in other fields beside
Arrests for traffic violations during navy plug tobacco and expectorated The W. C. T. U. met at Mrs. W. A.
watersheds should have to cany the newspapers.
the past week included: Edward Hodg­ at flies that tried to steal a free ride Rowe’s home to elect a new president
brunt of this improvement when the
southern half of the county is doing JUST GOOD BUSINESS JUDG­ es, merchant, Newberg; A. D. Gross­ on the dash-board and boot of the to fill Mrs. J. Strand’s place. Mrs.
man, Portland; G. C. Nicholson, Sea­ stage during the summer months, en­ Ida Burgess was elected. They also
nothing in the matter This is an
MENT
side;
A. E. White, Tillamook; W. D. tertained a quiet sort of a man who planned a hard-time dance to be given
improvement which will help every
farmer, mei chant and timber man in
The grocers and merchants of Tilla- Murphy, lawyer of Portland who said rode in one day, with stories of coug­ in the near future. The women are
the county.
mook county displayed some high he was going to return here on March ar hunts, panther fights, bear and working to make money for the boys
The and girls home in Corvallis and they
Our taxes show an increase of 60 class business judgment when, as re- 8 to fight the case; Ernest T. Drew, deer chases, and what not.
per cent. We are, of course, helpless ported, they defiintely agreed to sell Portland; M. D. Ackley, garage man stranger, who refused to state his hold meetings every two week and
business, his home residence, and even sew for the home.
in this matter of tax incrase, and we no make-believe butters over their of Tillamook.—Sheridan Sun.
the state of hia nativity listened with­ Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Hartman spent
can only appeal to the spirit of fair counters—or over any other route,
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play among the residents of the coun­ for that matter. Just plain business
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert O’Dell of Til­ out special comment. Finally, after the week-end in Portland visiting
ty.
judgment, that’s all. They did not do lamook are in McMinnville for sev­ a long interval of silence, in which relatives.
Out conception of the duties of the it out of the goodness of their hearts, eral days. Mrs. O’Dell came here to the driver drowned several unsuspect­
The man who choos­
Mrs. J. Darnell of Wheeler spent
newspaper is that it should represent out of love for the dairy farmers of be near her sister, Ethel Roe, who ing flies in amber saliva, the stranger
fairly all classes of property owners. the county, though they hold the lat­ was recently operated on at the Mc­ asked if this were a good country in Friday with Mrs. Ray Keenholt.
es a suit from our
There has always been an element ter in high esteem. They knew down Minnville hospital.— McMinnville Tele­ which to hunt deer.
Mrs. Ida Burgess went to Tilla­
extensive display of
in Tillamook county opposd to timber deep in their financial consciousness phone-Register.
The driver replied that it was a
mook last Wednesday shopping and
and lumber interests, which has re­ that every time they sold a pound of
“Jo-dandy.”
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on business.
fine woolens has ev-
sented any attempt on the part of the bogus butter they destroyed the buy­
The conservatives are warning the
“Say,” said the driver indicating a
timber people to interfere in any ing power of the dairymen of that countajc. It is good of them, isn't it? near-by ridge along the road that
E. Schlavin had the misfortune to
ery assurance that
way with tax matters. We have prob­ the merchants and business men of They call the interest of the masses was somewhat bald-headed on ac­ get a piece of steel in his eye. He
ably made mistakes, as has every one, great dairy county. Would that all in the oil scandal an “oil hysteria.” count of a fire of some years before, left Monday to consult a specialist in
the fabric will stand
but we submit that we are entitled to the great dairying state of Oregon They term it a remarkable illustra­ “right over there on that hill last Portland.
our day in court, and we believe that could likewise see the light and help tion of mob psychology because good week, while I was laying off on my
the most exacting
The 4 L are giving another one of
a new era has begun in Tillamook build up the genuine butter industry American citizens are stirred over vacation, I killed the biggest six-
their good programs Wednesday eve­
county, and that your inhabitants ap­ of this state rather than the business things at the nation’s capital. The con­ point buck you ever saw!”
tests and that the
ning in the hall.
preciate that the lumber industry of the cocoanut orchardists of foreign servatives may be as conservative as
As this was well into the closed
model is correct.
in a few years will be your leading lands.
they choose, but let the common peo­ season, the stranger asked: “I guess
Mrs. George Lundy' left for Port­
industry, and that if you are to en-
What kind of dent would it make ple be on the alert and kept informed
ou don’t know who I am, do you?” land Monday on a short trip.
courage manufacturing institutions in Oregon’s industrial life were her on all_ the doings at Washington so
At the same time he pulled back his
they must not be met by confiscatory dairy industry, which runs into many that when the opportunity presents
Mrs. Sisk returned from Portland
coat and showed a game-warden’s
taxes.
millions annually, destroyed? Quite itself the people may talk in no un­
Sunduy and Jack was at the train all
star.
The law of supply anil demand will n dent. What would develop in the certain tones. The people have a per­
smiles to greet his little new daugh­
The driver got another foolish fly ter, Peggy Maria.
regulate lumber prices. Timber will health and stamina of the people of fect right to be aroused in what has
be cut as fast as the market demands the state were genuine cow butter been going on at Washington in the on the boot of the stage, before re­
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it. It would benefit your county to completely eliminated as a spreud for | nation’s councils. Justice should be plying, and then turning his head he
ROCKAWAY
I looked the passenger fairly in the eye,
encourage owners to hold timber un­
| and said:
til there is a fair profit in its manu­
W. R. Irwin, formerly of Heppner, I
’ITS A LONG WAY TO TILLAMOOK”
“I guess you don’t know who I am, is putting up a store building north of I
facture. This will result in good
wages and good prices for supplies. Up to Brighton came a tourng car one day,
either, do you?” The passenger con- the postofl’ce.
the streets are paved with plank, shure tis a goodly way,
Forcing the market results in poor As
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fessed that he did lack the driver’s
Going down to Rockaway and on by Whitney's Mill
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Gray have re­
prices and poor wages. The policy When they found there was no road—they shouted and stood still.
name. “Well, I’ll tell yuh just who I
of many counties is to try and keep
am—I'm the blankest liar in Tilla­ turned home after a months visit
Chorus
with their daughter at Yamhill.
the timber as long as possib) in order
mook county!”
It
’
s
a
long
way
to
Tillamook
it's
a long way to go,
to spread a payroll over a long term
The
stranger
had
a
first
good
laugh,
Mrs. Crosby spent two days visit-
It’s a long way to go up Foley and the crookedest way we know,
of years. If Tillamook county is to
' and the driver wasn’t molested.
Good-bye Ocean Beaches; Farewell Bar View,
ing her daughter, Mrs. Over
tax its remote timber land as high
It’s a long, long way to Tillamook, the pass to go through.
George Grayson brought the story Brighton.
as some other counties are taxing
over to Tillamook from the outside,
The
people
wrote
a
letter
to
State
Commission
O
lands lying close to th railroads, it Why not give to us a better way to go,
Mrs. Charles Reiha and son have
but there are a number of old timers
will result in forced cutting, and your If the people pay the TaX to put the road right through,
gone
to California to visit her sister
who like to identify George with that
county, as well as Columbia and Clat­ its not the people’s fault the blame will rest on you.
‘ driver, especially, when there are
C. W. Ross of Salt Air left for
sop, will be through with the lumber
Chorus
some newcomers about to enjoy the Portland on a business trip.
industry before some of the up-state
joke.
John Meyers and George Fuller
counties have barely started cutting. Then why not write the comniisson and tell them plain and true.
To
get
good
and
busy
and
put
the
road
right
through.
Yours truly, Wilson River Lumber Or the ballot.'- will be dropping and they will be to blame
Company,
This road has drove us crazy and we’re thinking they’re the same.
WELLS GILBERT, President.
Chorus
Portland, Oregon
Do
not
try
to
shift
the
blame
on
the
railroad O
*
March 4, 1924
For you're got another route thi road can shurely go.
The people want thi« road, then why not push it'through
Phe correspondent’s Before November elections. Lest the polls may fall on you
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—J. J. DUMAS
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TESTING ASSOCIATION
REPORTS COW FIGURES
TIMBER OWNER WRITES
IONEER G
P
for the season.
Eugene Crosby and family
mook were Sunday visitor.
Crosby’s parents.
Mrs. Fred Menard of lda,
a visitor for the day.
George Sutherland !ln(j _
Donald, drove to Portland'
weeks stay.
« . ’ ....
-’ip ' ..a- pm ln a
yard back of the New
theater.
Elsa Wright and wife
from McMinnville with a
friends for over Sunday
Wright Inn.
Bill Schaumacher, real
insurance man, has left for
Dakota for a visit.
I ALL WOOL SUITS
Made to Your Measure
FROM OUR EXCHANGES
$32so
H. £
eside
cture<
•ed th
IT PAYS TO PAYCASH
AT
LARSON & HECHTNER
Our Pet Peeve
d at
ne si
hum
. Th
wat
test
Stump Acres Earn No Money
The new Overland Champion is an
entirely new kind of closed car.
Removable rear =«at and upholstery—
big carrying space useful tc merchants,
salesmen, farmers. Both seats adjust
I ackward ind forward — comfort for
tall and sb art people. A outness car,
family car and cftmpmg car — in one!
Seats make into a full-size bed in the
car—your own hotel on wheels. Big
power. Bu reliability. Touring $495,
Sedan $795, f. o. b. Toledo.
T TNCLEARED land will “eat its head off” in n
in the loss of crops you could produce on it.
don’t earn anything—they’re “squatters” and sb
replaced with crops.
The lower cost of clearing land with Pacific Stis
shown by the increase in the number of rancher»
neighborhood who are using it today. It shoots,
stick, with any standard stumping powder, but
one-half more sticks for your dollar. Pacific ST
the job right— more land cleared at less a
Pacific Stumping docs not freeze or give a he
handling.
We can give you complete explosives service,
include Pacific Stumping and other du Pont d
use on the farm. Let us figure on your requi
V2
more per dollar
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Hdw. Co
TILLAMOOK OREGON
non - headache
Star Garage
STUMPING POWDE
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Portland. Ore.