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HEADLIGHT
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now and then. Regular Handy Rev. Pontifex Beetle ...
Walter Severance
Independent Weekly Paper
The only thing to blight this other uane Deetle.........
—-......... Rose Loyd
published Every Friday by the
wise pleasant romance are the whisp Mrs. Rossmore....
........ Inez Hamrick
jUeht
Publishing
Com puny erings that Lawyer Montague is not
Miss Nesbit......... .... Nadine Williams
Tillamook, Oregon
here entirely in the interest of the Judge Rossmore ... ....Sheldon Johnson
that he has admitted that Ex-Judge Stott... ...... Orval Johnson
Manager county;
Lhe Harrison
he makes a practice of delving into Expressman ........ ... James Harrison
and Entered at the U. o. county records to find anything he Shirley ..... .
..... Catherine Smith
j>a*U>lIice nt Tillamook, Oregon,
can which may lower timber taxes Hon. Fitzroy Bag! dey .... Leonard Bales
May 2, 1888
(he doesn’t seem to be so greatly con Jorkins ...... ........ .... -........ Cyril Ware
cerned about the rest of us), and to Senator Robe.-ts . ........ Asberry Miner
'SUBSCRIPTION RATES
keep the county clerk properly in Kate Roberts ..... ......... Libbie Tucker
I Year. By Mail ..................... $2.00 formed on various things.
Jefferson Ryder . ........... Caroll Smith
Months, By Mail ....... ......... $1.00
But one can’t believe all the things Mrs. John Burkett Ryder
M Months, By Mail ............. $ .75
one hears about him—he’s so nice to
Octavia Ware
Payable in advance
one.
John Burkett Ryder .... Warren Dunn
Telephone
Thurza ........................ Betty Mowry
Pacific States, Main 68
The students have been working
PREVENTABLE ACCIDENTS
for two months on this play, which is
Every time life is lost by accidental one of the heaviest ever attempted by
♦ means everyone explains how it could the local high school. There is humor
OUR EDITORIAL POLICY ♦ have been easily prevented. And in throughout the play, but the dominat
♦ most cases they are right, but pre
ing note is a modern political
1. To advocate, aid and sup- ♦ vention when the use of prevention problem.
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is
past
helps
little.
port any measures that will
Seats go on sale this Saturday,
The horrible tragedy of two small November 29 at Koch’s drug store,
bring the most good to tho ♦
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children being burned to death in the reserved seats 50 cents, general ad
most people
’. To encourage industries + farmhouse Monday morning furnish mission 35 cents.
to establish in Tillambok ♦ es further speculation on how to pre
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county.
EARLY SETTLEMENT OF TILLA
In the first place, helpless children
3. To urge the improvement V
MOOK COUNTY
of a port for Tillamook City. ♦ should never be left alone, though
4. To insist on an American •> such a practice is a common one in
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communities. Any number of ed by Mr. Himes, Hoquarton Prairie.)
standard of labor.
V all
things might occur to endanger or They took care to bring a supply of
5. To be politically indepen
flour in with them for they knew
dent, but to support the can + take their lives.
You who have been in the habit of there was not any here excepting
didates for public office who ❖
will bring the most good to + leaving the children to look out for what could be packed in on a horse,
themselves for a short time, while consequently, those who had no horse
the people of
Tillamook
you call on the neighbor- or«do a went minus flour, some would remark
county and cf the State of
chore—keep this tragedy in mind, that it was nothing io do without
Oregon.
land try to prevent its reoc urances.
bread when a man was used to it. At
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this date a Mr. Counts came in and
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took up the land formerly'owned by
TILLAMOOK ON THE RIND
FRI; Y. NOVEMBER ¡£, 1924
Mr. Ren d’.a\v, he war a blacksmith
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by trade, and he did the first black
(By L. M. Rains)
smithing in the county. He was a
Oh, I live in the Ncstucca Valley,
married mar.
■Ttrpaycrs of this county for some
Where the ocean rolli and roars,
At this date there was Messrs.
■e na.,t have baiin treated to .ho Where the fir trees sway heir lofty Trask, Dougherty and James Quick
tops,
on the Hoquarton; Wilson on the
kcious spectacle of one of their
And the rain it pours and pours;
bay; and, I think, Harris and Killom
listed servants being constantly Where the sun it shines,
on the South Prairie making butter.
irioweil and assisted by a pair of
And shines, and everything in time.
ksrdiar.s, one appointed by proper But don’t forget, my friend, to look, Clothing was getting to look seedy,
and provisions was scarce not having
■ hority and the other more or less
For Tillamook on the rind.
had any in since the 15th of October
k:-appointed. One draws his salary
a year previous but we shared up and
the county, and the other draws I live in Tillamook County,
Where Tillamook’s stamped on the made everyone as happy as we could
Is from the Lord-knows-where,
under the circumstances.
mind.
Iragh quite a number of ordinary
I must now return to look after
Where
the
ranchers
go
with
a
bucket
kplc suspect.
Messrs. Thomas and Howard at As-
hooked
To get down to cases, Mr. David
On their arm most all the time.
ka has been hired by the county to
Where
the milk cans sway, and jingle.
k hat things go right in the clerk’s
Keeping in tune with the rhyme.
Ike. He is paid a higher salary
kn the clerk is, and his business ap- Oh, that’s my native country,
Where Tillamook’s stamped on the
krently is to do the work his
rind.
Iperior is incapable of doing and
kp the more important and intri- i live in the burg of Beaver,
■te records of the office. That is
Where Bill Gilbert keeps a store.
lite proper as it is .necessary, for as Earl Wallace repairs Fords, and
k as voters will elect county offi-
things,
L who arc unable to do their work,
And keeps gas at the door.
Idas long as the work must be done, We have a fancy Postmaster,
I l < altogether proper that experts be
Francis J. Wash is his name.
hl to keep things running smooth- He is a first class carpenter,
And Radio brought his fame.
[The other guardian—ah, yes, the Nicklas Sheets is the cheesemaker,
Who’s keeping it up to time,
per one we spoke of—what of him ?
Fycr Montague is a very estimable And never forgets to stamp his cheese
With Tillamook on the rind.
n; one who has had wide learning
■ experience, and one of a whole- Oh, come down to Tillamook,
■rted generosity and patience.
I’m living here you know.
Ikiie he is supposed to live in Port-
Down here where you’ll always find
Id he spends a great share of his
The best of everything that grows,
he in Tillamook, in the office of the
Where the cows are grazing on
to y clerk. And he’s very handy
grass,
I. He helps the clerk in all sorts
And walking to and fro.
I little ways; waits on “customers’, My friend, it’s down in Tillamook,
•Peets the records, suggests,changes
Where you want to go.
h and there, and might make a few
i am dreaming of my Love Land,
Which I am coming to visit some
[O.B. WILLIAMS CO. Sash &‘Doors
time,
But, I’ll always live in the land of
cheese,
Where Tillamook’s on the Rind.
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i-jria. They learned there was a-canoe, and came on down to my land
small sloop on the tideland not far ing, thence to my cabin. I was just
from the Skipnr.on I-anding in a commencing to milk my cows. At the
wrecked condition. She belonged to I siRht of these men my cows broke
a Mr. McEwing. Sam Howard thought I away, tearing down fences and smash
One man
it was no; worth looking at but ing things in general.
Thomas, who was a good mechanic, named Riggs said. “Now we have
thought it could be fixed up to an played thunder! let us get the cows up
swer our purpose until a larger or.e again.” I advised them to go into
could be built. They saw the owner my cabin, and then I could easily get
and bought the sloop for $50, her sails them back. I soon finished my chores
had been taken off also her running and went in. 1 learned that they
rigging. This was all in the bargain, wanted to stay al! night and would
but they went to work and got her like supper if I could give it to
off the tideland to where they could them. I said, “Yes, if you can stand
work on her and raised her up. They my fare? 1 have no bread, sugar,
found her keel was all right but tea nor coffee but, I have plenty of
quite a number of her timbers had milk and dutch cheese, and a few
been broken, and her planking badly potatoes, also plenty of salt salmon.
smashed in, her rudder, mast, booms Now if you men will turn in and help
and bowsprit, were all gone. Every to get supper, why you are welcome.”
thing of this kind had to be made So all pitched in to work. Some built
new. Mr. Thomas said that after a good fire, others roasted potatoes,
getting her up so that she could be others boiled potatoes, I filled a large
examined, he was very much dis pot with salt salmon right straight,
couraged, but said nothing to Howard. without freshening a bit, and filled
One thing was in their favor viz:— 3 pails with sour milk for dutch
They were able to get all the lumber cheese. When ready, all had supper,
they required to repair her in Astoria. and they all declared they never en
Lumber was worth $25 per thousand, joyed a meal better but, this was be-
and all other material correspondingly cause they were so hungry. I gave
high, It all cost money and we were them all the milk they could drink,
not overstocked with that material. and mixed the dutch cheese with
Mr. Thomas had money due him in cream, and they just let it slide down.
the valley and he drew on this fund
and both went to work with a will,
for they knew this was their only
hope of getting in a supply of pro-
visions. All the little crafts on the
Columbia was fully engaged on that
river, and not only this but the cap
I am demonstrating the
tains stated it would not pay to bring
half a caigo and return empty. First nationally known Fuller
of all a shed had to be built, or work Brushes.
would be suspended during rainy
I leave with every woman I
weather this was extra expense, and
visit
a Fuller Handy Brush,—
when done with they wen* unable to
to
prove
the service and quality
sell it, therefore this was a dead loss.
of
my
line.
They had the sloop ready for sea
about the loth of May. Thomas wrote
Watch for me, I’ll be around
to us stating that the vessel would soon or better still write or
be in Portland about the middle of
phone me when you’ll be at
May, and those parties wishing to
have freight brought in must have home.
it ready by that time. Some of us
EARL L. RICHARDSON
obtained our supplies from Portland,
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and some from Astoria. About the
last of May, 27 men came in, in one
party, via Grand Round to Hoquarton
prairie. They went to Mr. Trask’s and
borrowed a large yawl and a large
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Now came the rub, to sleep them all.
I told them to build a gobd fire r.iul
then cut fern, spread it on the floor
then use their blankets, (each had
one) this they did, and there was not
room to step. I lay down but not to
sleep for it puzzled me how I was
to get along after these 27 men left
me for I Knew they would eat every
potato I had, then I would have to
go it on dutch cheese and salmon
straight. In a short time one of the
The Fuller Man
is in Town!
men remarked, “Oh that nolle! 1
don’t think I can sleep.” It was th.*
.-urf they heard, and were not used to
the sound. All were early risers, and
they sai<l I had better milk before
they stirred out. After getting thru
feeding I took in three pails of milk,
and found breakfast ready, all but the
dutch cheese.
They then wished to go by boats
to the mouth of the bay, they had a
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COLISEUM
SUNDAY-MONDAY NOVEMBER 30-DECEMBER I
BETTY COMPSON in
The Enemy Sex
The loveliest of screen heroines in the jazziest of Broadway-
Butterfly pictures, produced and directed by James Cruze of
‘Covered Wagon” fame.
“SHOULD LANDLORDS LIVE?”—Comedy
TUESDAY-WEq.NESDAY, DECEMBER 2-3
Merton Of The Movies
Starring GLENN HUNTER, the star of the original stage suc
cess, with VIOLA DANA playing Sally (Flips) Montague. If
you really enjoy good screen entertainment—don't miss “Meiton
of the Movies.”
FABLE”
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1-5
The Family Secret
Starring BABY PEGGY. The story of a secret marriage, a jail
sentence and the re-uniting of the father and mother of the
child born shortly after the husband Went to prison. A good
picture done in a great way thirt will be su”e to please you
“WIDE OPEN SPACES”—Novelty reel
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6
Open All Night
Starring VIOLA DANA and ADOLPHE MENJOU. The story
of a bored wife in search of a thrill, and when she finds it ----- !
See this lively French farce and laugh till it hurts. The fun
throttle will be wide open in “Open All Night”—Don't miss it!
FLYING FINANCE”—Comedy
Blue Bird Confectionery
Come in and try our fountain drinks
Ice Cream and Candies
We have a nice line of box candies
Get one for that Anniversary
The Blue Bird
Zella M. Harrison Prop
► DEPENDABILITY <
breakfast
S ave the WOUEN-FOLK endiess step»
nd keep the dining room tidy all day.
The men like one because it is neat,
•»active, warm and cozy. O. B.
^nxuMS Breakfast Nocks are easy
” put in the old home. Specify it in
®e new.
IX’e make two designs in sizes to
ttactly fit your own measurements.
Made of high grade kdn-daied fzr
Himber specially sanded
.
*»dy for paint or stain.
Our catilog gives full par-
[teurirs. We sefl direct frem
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b.B.WlUIAMS
Sash and Doors
LI,T* First Ave. S, Seattle
My Friend, I’ve lived in many a state,
And looked over many a nook.
But, I never tasted the flesh of fish
Like that of the Old Chinook.
Tis’ here where the cheesemaker
meets them,
While travling the sands of time.
Oh, take me back to Oregon,
I claim it all as mine.
Let the Ocean roar, the milk cans
sway,
And the fir trees beat the time,
But I’ll never forget, no matter how
old,
That Tillamook’s on the nnd.
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The high school dramatic club will
present “The Lion and the Mouse at
the high school gymnasium December
5 at 8 o’clock.
This four act play written
y
Charles Klein delineates the modern
Ke of a' money king. John Burkett
Ryder, who by treachery forces the
Rossmore family into poverty. The
daughter, Shirley Ro»«more dis
guised, goes to the Ryder home to
seek information
so she may save her
I limnwn ——
How
»he
in love and
fat her. 1— — falls the
audience
plays the game keeps
guessing until the end.
The following are the cast of char
acters:
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WINTER
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here in Tillamook and Tillamook County.
Strength, Service and Security in greater
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outstanding results of our Federal Re
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This year don’t wait for the
oil to congeal and half-lubri-
cate bearings, cylinder walls,
etc. Don’t overwork your
starter and risk having to
make expensive repairs.
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Change to free-flowing, low
“cold-test” Zerolene lubri
cants as recommended in the
Zerolene Correct Lubrication
Chart for the winter lubrica
tion of your car.
Head for the Zerolene sign
at dealers, garages or Stand
ard Oil Service Stations and
make the change to winter
lubrication today.
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(California)
Bank with us and profit by them!
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