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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1900)
« THE HEADLIGHT JOB IS THE Newiest, Brightest and v‘- eading Newspaper of Tillamook County BILL HEADS. LETTER HEADS. ENVELOPES. LEGAL BLANKS. BUSINESS CARDS. VISITING CARDS. SHOW CARDS. BILLS & POSTERS. j ALL THE COUNTY AND CITY OFFICIAL NEWS. . Patronize Local Industries and all Home Print Newspaper. Guaranteed First Class at Reasonable Prices. TILLAMOOK, OREGON, JULY 5 Mowers and Rakes, Hay Tedders, Hay Tools, and a Full line of AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS Stoves, Hardware and Builders’ Supplies. Paints, Oils, Doors, Windows and Glass. We are Leaders in our line. BRIGGS, Opposite Bank ’•SS<*SS*SS<>SS<*S * TILLAMOOK JOTTINGS. Tillamook, ♦1.50 per year. tured only on a small scale until the gov ernment makes an appropriation suffi ciently large to improve the harbors and bars so that large ocean vessels can cross with safety if we are to depend upon shipping to develop the county. When Congressman Tongue visits Tillamook this should be impressed upon his mind. McCORMICK and DEERING tlWftfW,' PRINTING question which should interest the citi zens more than this ? Although Tilla mook City has been extremely fortunate in being very healthy, we presume that it may not always remain so, therefore, it is none too soon to be considering the advisability of putting in a system of sewerage. When Mr. B. L. Eddy was The advent of the Oregon Telephone mayor he called attention to it in one of Company into Tillamook coimty will his annual addresses and the matter mark a distinct advance in the right dropped there.______________ direction for the people of this section. THE ELECTRIC SAW MILL Time was only two or three years ago when the building of a long distance tele Has Many Good Features and will phone line was regarded with indifference Probably Prove a Success. by the people whom thecompany looked The company incorporated in this on as prospective patrons. Its utility county in April of 1899 to operate saw was still to be tested. A very short time mills by electricity is making a success of sufficed for this, and at present the long their experiment, although it will be distance business is steadily growing and necessary to make a few changes in the the volume of business hauled that way machinery before it will accomplish all is remarkable. Primarly all progress de that it is claimed it will perform. Two pends on communication and the tele things were perfectly demonstrated this telephone affords means of communica week, viz., that saw mills can be operat tion with slight inconvenience. The long ed by electricity and that the saws oper distance telephone used by the Oregon ated by electricity will cut perfect lumber Telephone Co. makes conversation with in regard to size from logs of any dimen Portland or San Francisco as plain as sion ; larger they are the better it suits this when talking through one to your neigh kind of asawmill. Waterand electricity bor next door. J. E. McGilliory, special | are practically the propelling powers of agent for the company, is in town now, I the electric saw mill, and without plenty making arrangements for an exchange j I of the former it cannot be operated, and here. The company will also build out in the country to any point where a tele- | I here is where the inventor of the mill ' realizes that he is at a disadvantage in A person should use the phone can be rented to each mile of line I not having a large enough supply of for $2.50 ]>er month. same judgment as he would water to maintain the necessary power Rain interferred with the Fourth of to run the mill at a sufficiently fast pace. in selecting a horse or cow. July celebration on Wednesday, which , The water is flumed about 1500 feet from It costs as much to feed a was a disappointment to a large number | a small stream and then enters a large of citizens and those having the arrange- iron pipe by the side of the hill about 100 scrub cow or horse as it does ments in hand. The procession had to above. This causes enough force to drive to feed a good one. be abandoned, also the races and fire- * a 50-horse power water motor, which works. Mrs. P. W. Todd and Mrs. | operates the electric plant and generates In making a suit, the Clough had gone to a good deal of trou-. the electricity. Wires are strung from work costs nearly as much ble in dressing the girls for the liberty I , the power house to the saw mill, and at- on a cheap suit as it does on car. However, they occupied seats on | tacbed to the machinery and the saws the stage at the exercises at the opera are motors to operate them. The saw a good suit, hence the differ house and looked very pretty. Miss Ne mill has a peculiar appearance, it looking ence in price is in the ma vada Grayson represented the Goddess as though the carriage was up-side-down. terial. of Liberty ; Miss Ella Perkins, justice, This is a novel feature of the mill, even if and Miss Dot Stephens, Columbia. it does take millmen some time to get it The same applies to HATS and Mayor D. Wiley presided over a large through ____ _______ _______ their _____ heads ___ how ______ it is operated. SHOES : audience and the Tillamook brass band but when they sec it at work it appears furnished some music mogt after simp the |e This carriage is raised and ----- - excellent ----- We are well stocked up in audience had sang “America.” Miss Lily lowered by electricity, long screws in each all lines and are ready to Baker recited the declaration of independ corner of the mill is where it gets its sup- Suit you, Shoe you or fur ence in faultless style and Representative ' port anc’ by which it is lowered or raised, B. L. Eddy gave an excellent oration but the carriage is moved to right or left nish you with a Hat. appropriate to the occasion, reviewing by hand power. Inside of the carriage the causes which lead to separation from (is another carriage traveling length We have a extra fine line England. “Marching through Georgia” | ways to which two saws are fixed, one by the audience brought the pleasantest ■ working perpendicular and the other hor of SHIRTS, TIES, etc., part of the day’s paoceeding to a close, izontal, and inside of this carriage an suitable for such occasions. save perhaps, the dinner served in Todd’s operator sits and travels with the car hall by members of the G.A.R. riage, the saws working directly under him. After a saw log is hauled into the mill (also by electricity) it is placed be- Water, light or Health 7 tween two small logs to keep it from roll The recent talk by some of the citizens ing, and without any fixing to keep it in of bonding the city and putting in a new place, the carriage is lowered to the top water system is being enlarged upon and side of the log, when the operator turns an electric light plant added. No doubt on his power, and every time the car this is in line with the progressive age, riage passes over the log a complete but as long as the water and electric light board is cut. It is not neccessary to re plants in this city are givingsatisfaction, turn the saws to the same end of the log it is not advisable to encroach upon the I to which it commenced cutting, for in rights of those who have money invested returning the saws cut out a board com in these enterprises. Another thing, it is ing back. This is a brief description not well to bond the city if it can be | of the first electric saw mill, the inventor avoided, although a water system and of which is Mr. G. W. Brower, a millman an electric light plant would lie a nice ( of some 33 years’ experience, who was thing for the city to own. Perhaps we formerly connected with the Brower & are not far wrong when we say that one I Thompson Lumber Cumpanyat Brower, of the needs of the city is a sewerage sys i which did a large lumber business in tem, the necessity of which is plainly to | Multnomah county some seven or eight be seen if people would only think for a 1 years ago. Mr. Brower is perfectly sat few moments and reason out the situa isfied with the results accomplished thus tion. A closet ten feet, more or less, in I far, although he is aware that some proximity to residences and business pre alterations will have to be made before mises is not conducive to the good health the mill can cut 12,000 feet |>er day, and of those w ho live near them nor the city; : if Mr. Brower can accomplish this there in fact, every intelligent person is aware i is some probability that his prediction that this is one of the places where I of his mill sawing out lumber at one half microbes germinate, and these disease the cost of ordinary saw mills will be ac germs go a long way to cause typhoid complished. For a general purpose mill, and other malignant fevers which lie- the electric saw mill as at present con- come more prevalent every year in cities , str acted would not l>e serviceable, but which have no sewerage system. We i for certain size lumber it appears espe- have heard a great deal about good roads, I cialiy adapted. Some $5000 is already l>etter shipping facilities, etc., but here is i expended in machinery, etc., the incor a matter which may cause serious and porators, as we announced over twelve expensive sickness, with the possibi months since, l>eing Robert Watt, Frank lity of it terminating fatally Is there a Long and J. W. McKinley. CLOTHING. We carry the Best Stock in Tillamook. In Choosing a SUIT, Oregon J B. H. Bunn has moved his tinsmith and getic young men, they hope to receive a repairing shop in the building opposite share of the patronage. the Headlight office and next to the har Dr. Wise, resident dentist. The person who lost a gold watch be * Choice Jersey bnll for sale.—Apply to ness shop. tween this city and Hobsonville had bet A subscription list is being circulated ter be hunting up E. B. Jacoby before he J. Svenson. Mr. W. H. H. Cary returned Monday to raise money to pay off the debt on St. disposes of it to pay the editor forgiving Alphonsus academy, which is receiving I the owner this hint where he can find it, from Portland. liberal donations. but if the owner is not a subscriber to the Cook stoves and heaters cheap forcash Headlight he will probably remain in the Owing to the rain, it is probable that at W. E. Page’s. another date will beset for the fireworks, dark as to the whereabouts of his watch. Miss Maud Sturgeon came in on the due notice of which will be given in the The annual teachers’ institute forTilla- stage on Friday. local newspapers. I mook conntv will take place in this city All the recently elected county officials Mr. 1 • J. J • 1 P. * Jllllll, Allen, who VI UV llll.l has had UMU Cl a long j i on July 18, 19 and 20, for which County have filed their bonds. spell of sickness, is able to be wheeled | Superintendent G. B. Lamb has prepared Furniture, good as new, at lowest round, although it will take some weeks “ programme covering the three days, prices, at Page’s store. before he is well again. and those who have been allotted sub- Mr. Fred Kabkeeand Miss Stella Can- J«*1 to ,‘liscuss are State Superintendent Campers are arriving, but they had a J. H. Ackerman and Profs L. II. Baker, wet reception the Fourth. field were married on Sunday at the resi The dancing academy will give a social dence of Mr. J. E. Sibley al Hobsonville, G. A Walker, David Torbet and B. O. Snuffer. Public lectures will be delivered dance on Saturday evening. Rev. S. A. Smith officiating. bv Prof. David Torbet, of Albany, whose If you want to buy. sell or trade any The band boys are to be commended subject will be “Little big things and big for the excellent music they furnished on little things,’’ and State Superintendent thing call and see W. E. Page. Let’s all pray for fine weather, for the the Fourth, and we hope they will again Ackerman will take “Expansion in edu all pull together with the same harmo. hay crop is ready to he harvested. cation’’ for his theme. nious results in the future as they did Mr. Geo. A. Edmunds returned from a The intention of the Pacific Navigation on that day. business trip to Portland on Friday. Rev. R. K. Ross, who was pastor of the Company to run a steamer direct from Born, on the 3rd inst., at Bay City, to Presbyterian church in this city, has been Portland to Tillamook is a move in the the wife of Mr. George Williams, a son. transferred from the Portland I’resbvtry right direction, and the remarks by Mr. New woven wire bed springs made to to that of Eastern Oregon, where he has Wilcox makes verv pleasant reading and order from $2 to $3.50 at W. E. Page’s.* lieen placed in charge of the churches at looks exceedingly nice on pa|>er. All that we hope is that the intentions of the Pa Born, on the 3rd inst., at Fairview, to Elgin and Summersville. cific Navigation Company will be carried the wife of Mr. William Carver, a daugh The battle ship Oregon, which went on out, for a regular steamboat service will ter. the rocks on the coast of China during a be a great advantage. People aresome- Dr. and Mrs. T. P. Wise left for Port fog, has been successfully floated and what inquisitive to know why an agent land on Sunday to be gone about two taken to Nagasaki for repairs. It takes of the O. R. & N. has lieen inquiring into weeks. a webfoot to accomplish such a fete as the freight situation in this county the Mr. S. V. Anderson has been appointed this after getting stranded. past two weeks. Perhaps Tillamookers administrator to the estate of \\. W. A full report of the proceeding of the may see something develop in the trans Curtis. board of commissioners, which is trans, portation business which will surprise Mr. W. R. Robedee has been appointed acting business to-day, with County them yet. administrator of the estate of W. D. Judge Sappington and Commissioners Development of coast trade by means Priestly. C. Ray and L. Parrish in attendance, of a regular steamer service out of Port For the finest Machine Oil, warranted will appear in our next issue. land is the object of the Pacific Naviga not to gum your machinery, go to D. T. The Fourth of July committee ought to tion Company, which has filed articles of E dmunds . be discharged with a vote of censure for incorporation in Portland. The incor Mr. Peter Brant returned on Monday not making arrangements for fine wea porators are Theodore B. Wilcox, L. A. from visiting his daughter at White Sal ther. Well, Weather Prophet Dawson Lewis, Paul Schrader and Samuel El was in the city the previous dav and pre more. The capital stock is fixed at $50,- mon, Wash. Herbert Cooper was taken quite sick dicted wet weather for the Fourth, after 000. Such is the news item which ap peared in the Portland papers, added to with inflammation of the bowls Wednes which he said it would be fine again. which is a statement bv Mr. Wilcox, in day evening. Mr. Wm. Wallace, agent for the Eilers which he says "A regular service will give Mr. and Mrs. M. Munson will leave for Piano House in Portland, is stopping for the people of Tillamook and Nehalem an a visit to California, where they will the next 30 days at Mr. M. Perkins’, in outlet for their produce in the open mar Tillamook City. Any person thinking of probably remain. ket. Instead ofguessing when t hey can get buying a Piano or Organ soon will do There was a pugilistic encounter Sun- their goods to market, and doing busi wed bv getting prices from Mr. Wallace ilay because a young man danced with ness in a haphazard manner, by means before trading elsewhere. Terms reason, another fellow's girl. of a regular service they can build up a The steamer Sue H. Elmore, for the able. steady trade. It will give them a chance It will be noticed that the city council to develop their resources and increase Tillamook-Astoria run, was launched at has put the marshal on night duty, the their output. And we shall keep pace Portland on Saturday. reason being that it was thought more with the industrial activity and provide The dancing academy isopen daily, ex- desirable during the dry seasons to have other steamers when warranted by the cept Sundays ; and the latest, as well.as someone on watch during the night in volume of business.” well as the old, dances taught. case of fire, and, besides, keep his eye on Mr. Frank Batter, who is in charge of Rev. F. H. Neff has been re-appointed nocturnal pilferers who may lie prowling the government improvement in Tilla to the United Brethren church in thiscitv around after the lights are out. mook county, has been engaged prepar and Rev. T. E. Armstrong to Beaver. The city council will hold a meeting on ing a report for the government of the Work was commenced on Monday on Monday evening to take up the matter amount of freight shipped in and out of the new building near the city hall to lie of entering into a contract with the the county, the amount and value of used for a machine shop and foundry. water company for fire protection. What lumlier, cheese, butter, etc., manufactur Dr. Lowe, the oculo-specialist, was in the city council will do we are not pre ed, canned salmon, in fact, everything the city this week as per announcement, pared to sav. as it was stated at the last in the manufacturing and shipping for who will visit the city at some future meeting ofl he council that Dr May would the year 1899. This is no easy task, for no exact records have been kept, conse make a proposition to the council. time. quently Mr. Batter had to fish out the Tillamook City is to have another new Mr. Barnhart Jacob and Miss Rosette information from different sources. As firm in mt the grocery — and furnishing — ........ r- line. .... Wyss were married on Sunday at the nrm Messrs. Frank Kerrem.ans and Bert King the« reports."" Catholic church. Father J. J Burn per- I having purchased the whole of Mr. tV m i. ing an appropriation for government im- forming the religious ceremony. ■ Olsen's grocery stock, and they will con i- provements, itis to beregretted thatthis Elder J. E. Lister will preach at the I tinue to do business in that store. They was not attended tomorcclose'y so that Christian church next Sunday at It a.m. ! commenced invoicing today, and will exact figures could lie kept. One thing and 8 p.m. All are cordially invited. . be readv ready to do business by Saturday. It which should form a report to the gov The rev. gentleman has been engaged to | is their intention to put in a new stock of ernment is the timber resources of Tilla hold services in this church for several ^furnishing good,, and both living ener-j mook county, which cannot be manufac- months. GROCERIES, FOUR and FEED Choice Bacon, Hams and Lard always in Stock Measures taken for Suits Short Notice. J.A.TODD^CO. TILLAMOOK, OR. Kodaks and Cameras They are so Simple in Construction and Easily Understood that any Child can Operate them. I have the agency for the Fa moue Vives, Cyclones, Ravs and Premos, ranging from $2.50 up. Every instrument guaranteed in every detail. I also carry a full line of Photogenphrr s Supplies for the amateur trade at Eastern prices. lour Prescriptions and Family Itereipts receive the moat ch refill attention, and with my system of checking it is impossible to make an error. CHAS. Reliable Druggist CLOUGH, Tillamook, Or
