Thursday, May 3 1928.
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handy for pinning them back.
heavy objects. When a break does
Minint-n
ro
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■
Scotty
Macpherson
went
over
to
Cords for electrical appliances occur it is usually safer to have
LAURENCE LOCKNEY, Editor
NUMBER 48, 40. < the counjy seat iast Thursday and
will give longer service if coiled it „paired at a shop rather than
lavished a haircut upon himself.
SURVIVORS OF WILD
[ several days on account of a red­
LOCAL NEWS
loosely when not in use and pro- ...
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tected from being jammed between attemPt ProPer sPllclng at home'
WEST TO STAGE RODEO
SCIENCE AND ART
Mescal Bill set a bear trap last wood log falling off a flat car
Arrangements are being arrang­ week and was successful in catch- and landing on his head. The de­ The movie palace over in the
pression on the log plainly showed county seat showed another one
ed and preparations are being per­ ing a mosquito.
pared to stage one of the biggest
The scarecrow which has been that it must have been a hard of those triangular pictures Satur­
, day
_ night,
_
____ to be _ a
rodeos and wild west shows of the I standing in Cliff Gilmore’s field bump.
which proved
Bearcat Boone left Cactus Flat great sexation.
present century this summer if nec- for the past year, was arrested to-
Doc Horsecollar warns our clti-
cessary funds can be raised to: day for impersonating a policeman. Saturday on an extended Journey
make the hairraising scheme pos­ Lawyer Lilikell is suffering this to the county seat, returning In zens to be careful about letting
about an hour.
sible. Cayucos Sam, who says he week from a stroke of genius.
j pigs sleep in the house with chil-'
can ride any hoss ever walked, is
, dren. There is danger of the pigs
FISH! FISH. FISH! FISH!
1 getting disease.
the promoter of the affair, and OLD TIME WESTERNER
he has already taken into his con-1
Do you know the fishing season
DROPS INTO TOWN
LAW AND ORDER
fidence everybody who would listen] Old
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Bill ______
Hankins, from up on is about ready to burst upon us?
to him, and every time he tells the headwaters of Rattlesnake Ar- Wel1’ 5t’s 30! And if you are un-| Constable Twist Newton has in­
about the big rodeo it keeps getting royo, dropped into town today to prepared to take advantage of the augurated a plan to cross rum­
bigger and even the Siskiyou Kid, say hello tothe boys and likewise I many bargains being offered to
t„ hounds wih skye-terriers for the
who is a deadly enemy of Sam, to do a little shopping, as his shirt ¡angulars who are willing to spend purpose of chasing bootleggers by
has agreed to bury the warhoop, was in bad condition from long /hours and hours on a dirty slough I airplane.
and the two have become fast wear, making a new one necessary, with the muskeeters biting them at
friends the last few days, as the
This is the first time Old Bill every jump, why you have no one
Home Reminders
Kid wants to have some of the has been in Cactus Flat since that to blame but yourself. We have a A mixture of flour, pepper and
credit for promoting the show.
time he got into an argument with bunch of garden tools on hand for salt placed in a paper sack in
Cayucos has been on the lookout the officers for shooting a China- "hich no demand was felt, and handy
_ when
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chicken _ is to
be . fried,
for horses and riders to make the man several years ago. At that I these tools will be placed on sale Pieces dropped in and shaken will
rodeo a huge and spectacular suc­ time the officers remonstrated with as bait diggers and 10 per cent be well floured and seasoned
and
cess and he says he has already Old Bill about the deed and Old j knocked off for cash. Also free ad- the
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" ’ be spotless.
DAILY SERVICE
CAREFUL HANDLING
kitchen will
heard of a hoss over in the Table Bill got mad and left the Flat flat 'vice given on places to fish if you ] To hard cook eggs that are
Mountain country that can pitch and said he wouldn’t stay In a haven’t got sense enough to know slightly cracked, put a little salt
Vernonia Phone 1041
lickety-split for election, and if place where they wouldn’t allow a where to fish.
in the water and it will prevent
FATTY HOOPER
he just get holt of that one and man to have a little fun.
the contents from cooking out.
Portland Phone East 9923
Grocer and Fishing Tackle.
two or three more and money
A useful article in the kitchen
Old Bill was in this vicinity when
enough to pay for prizes he will raw gold was being washed out of
is a childs pan cake turner. It is
put on a rodeo that will make the J the ground
very handy in turning eggs.
____ pans
,__ STAGE SET FOR GIGANTIC
„___ J with little tin
SHIP BY TRUCK and SAVE MONEY
Old West look like something that and he remembers when a man
AND COLOSSAL RODEO
Here is an easy way of keeping
was left out in the rain.
could stake out
wwv a « claim and wash
The stupendous and unparamount-[ the kitchen clean. Prepare all food
The Siskiyou Kid, who has six out enough gold in one week to led rodeo which Cayucos Sam has over newspapers and then burn
will
notches on his gun, says he
last him a life time and then lose been talking about getting up and^be paper. The paper is easily dis-
give an exhibition of shooting free it all in one night playing poker. I putting over for several weeks, Is Posed of and leaves the kitchen
gratis if somebody will pay for
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as Sam is still in Perfect order.
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was quite
handy with
gun, I an assured ’ fact,
the ammunition he burns up, and too, in those days, but his eye-¡talking about it.
.
!• To keep curtains clean when the'
Heck Tombs has promised to loan sight is getting so bad that he said
Sam was held back for a time windows are open, snap clothespins
his team of blooded Missouri mules he probably wouldn’t do any more] on account of not being able to decorated to match the curtains are
to haul the stage coach in the shooting, as he got into a fracas1 find any pitching horses and buck-!
great stage coach robbery, but with a neighbor a couple of weeks1 ing bronchos, but that danger has
Cayucos says there ain’t a stage ago and shot at him six times and been permanently and unequivocal-
in the whole country, and hasn’t when he got through shooting the ] ly thwarted in the bud because it
been for a long time, and the only man was still running and he said was learned at the last moment
way he knows to make a stage that since that time he had been that the team of dray horses which
coach is to put a tongue in the the laughing stock all over his sec- Heck Tombs has been driving to
old high school automobile bus that tion of the arroya for having wast- a dray would pitch their fool heads
has been discarded over at the ed all that ammunition.
off when they were spurred to ac­
county seat, which would make a
tion by a pair of spurs stuck in
INCORPORATED
SCIENCE AND ART
right likely stage coach and no
! their ribs.
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STORES AT
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one would ever know the difference.
Prof. Flyleaf Adkins states that
Now all that is necessary is a
western colleges will be flooded couple of famous broncho peelers
NEWBERG
CORVALLIS
ANYHOW, RECENTLY
SALEM
next fall as he expects to graduate who are not afraid to sit astride this
HILLSBORO
SHERIDAN
M c M innville
“When were you in Paris?” ask­ about a dozen seniors from the team of prancing mustangs and jab
VERNONIA
MONMOUTH
the spurs into them while the my­
ed Mrs. Mescal Bill, of a movie high school.
Tobe Elkins, the landscape garde­ riads of assembled people applaud
actress who came through Cactus
Flat on her way to the mountains, ner, watered the highway between with fiendish delight.
The parade in the morning which
where her company was performing. Cactus Flat and Whiskey Slide this
“O, about two husbands ago,” re­ vreek when his radiator* sprang a is planned but not near completed,
leak.
[ will be one of the most astounding
plied the lady from Hollywood.
presentations of the Old West that
SPORT SECTION
[has ever thrilled an awed populace
The proprietor of the meat market
Cayucos Sam says the most pa- ¡f Cayucos can get some entries to
has added another link to his chain thetic object he ever saw was a g0 in the parade. The old school
of sausages.
one-armed man trying to tell a fish-; bus that was on its last legs has
ing story.
been patched up for a stage coach
Mayor Abe Barlow is again in and with a half dozen or so row-
BUSINESS AND FINANCE
the
limelight,
having
developed
a
. boys in goathair chaps sitting up
Cliff Gilmore was the recipent
of a handsome prize last night new twist on his style of pitching ! on top of it and shooting six-shoot­
horseshoes.
ers and' yelling like demons, it will
when he opened a box of cracker­
Gil Hightower, who was recently be the most thrilling stage that
jack.
discovered
in
Mescal
Bill
’
s
chicken
has ever been staged.
The drug store on the corner of
The date has not yet been set
Main street and Wildcat avenue hotise late one night, said today
has received some of the newest that a law should be passed for­ on account of it being so hard to
bidding the loading of a shotgun find anything to make a rodeo a
creations in hip-pocket flasks.
i success, but Cayucos, assures
Stokes Cole, who recently took with buckshot.
fellowmen of the Sagebrush
a couple of bottles of Doc Horse-
SPORT
SECTION
that he will leave no boulder
collar's home perscription, has filed
in
While
doing
a
pole
vault
the
turned to get up the big show
suit for recovery of his appetite.
.
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1 Artie
_ when
»»»ICil it
It is
IO got
Fi'-'U up
lip it
IV will
Will be
L»C
Heck Tombs was over in the track meet last Saturday,
county seat Tuesday on a search Watson failed to clear the bar by bipgest thing of its kind ever pre­
sented to an American audience,
for work, but he forgot to men­ the length of his nose.
The Siskiyou Kid, who says he both white and black.
tion his errand to any one-
Giralock Jones went over to the is a bad man from Bitter Creek,
STATE NEWS
county seat the other day to buy went on a rampage today and count­
a pair of number six shoes, but ed the notches on his gun.
Fluke
Hoat
writes from the In-
Cleve Clifton has traded his old perial Valley that
after trying for about an hour to
flood danger is
wine
barrel
in
on
a
portable
keg.
get his toot in one of them he
past on account of the violent ap­
decided to take twelves.
pearance of the drouth season,
NATIONAL NEWS
Kim Hedge, who works up at
which started out with unprecedent­
Howe
writes
from
Wash
­
Hurd
the sawmill, has quite a lot of
ed vigor.
that
the
principals
in
the
ington
freshly cut sawdust on hand and
is receiving bids from the breakfast Teapot Dime affair were found
SOCIETY PAGE
not guilty. He says it must have
food concerns.
Miss Tootle Tatum’s music teacher
been
two
other
men.
Abe Withers is making great
advised her to become
familiar
headway in his correspondence
with the great composers, and now
LOCAL NEWS
course on business management and Fatty Hooper advises the ladies she refers to them as Dick Wagner,
was appointed foreman of a cor- of Cactus Flat that he has received Ludie Beethoven, Charlie Gounod
oner’s jury today.
a new lot of silk ribbons which and Fred Handell.
they can paw over at their pleasure.'
THE POLITICAL CRISIS
SOCIETY PAGE
Rattlesnake Ike was assaulted
Advices from Kansas City state
The horse trough on Elm street I with o silk umbrella last Sunday
rendered yoeman service Tuesday while trying to get the time from that all the roads leading into that
hamlet are being oiled so that the
when Centipede Clark’s pants got an ankle watch.
Abe Withers’ wagon sank to the delegates to the Republican conven­
on fire from putting his pipe in
his hip pocket without first ascer­ hubs today when his front wheels tion will have easy sledding.
Ham Grimes writes from Houston
taining if all the tobacco had been rolled off.
There will be no services on the that the mosquitos are getting ready
smoked.
“We can’t enforce the Bnghteen- corner next to the drug store Sun- to give the delegates to the
th Amendment,” said Constable day, on account of a drove of hogs mocratic convention a warm
penetrating w?lcome.
Twist Newton today, as he bought having made a wallow there.
Scripps Booth, who quit his job
Bearcat Boone «ays when
another pint from Rattlesnake Ike.
Gordon
Star Brand
Gale Clow’ will leave S iaturday to run for coroner last month, has mention petticoat government
for the county seat where he , will gon? over to Whiskey Slide to look rising generation don’t know what
Hats
Shoes
you are talking about.
get a haircut and take in the for a job in the sawmill.
Clem
Slaw,
who
works
at
the
Rattlesnake
Ike
says
the
only
which
he
will
picture show, after
play a game of pool before leturn- saw mill, is back on the job again way to purify politics is to give
after having been incapacitated for woman the vote.
ing to his home.
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