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TILLAMOOK, OREGON, NOVEMBER 29, 1900.
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Have no Superior in any Market.
FUULt LINE OF
Tight
Heating
GUNS AND AMUNITION
We are Leadeis in our line,
WAGONS
BILL HEADS.
LETTER HEADS
ENVELOPES.
LEGAL BLANKS.
BUSINESS CARDS.
VISITING CARDS.
SHOW CARDS.
BILLS & POSTERS.
PLOWS, and
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Hardware, Tinware and Builders’ Supplies.
Doors, Windows and Glass.
Tillamook, Oregon
Opposite Bank
TILLAMOOK JOTTINGS
Dr. Wise, resident dentist.
Mr. Walt. Smith is in the city.
Mr. Peter Heisel’s new barn is almost
completed.
Sand Lake Cranberries, 5c. quart at
D. T. Edmunds.
Mr. G. W. Brower, of electric saw mill
fame, has left for Portland.
Rev. J. M. and Mrs. TresenrOer left on
the steamer to return to Idaho.
Mr. George Cohn returned from a busi-
ness trip to Portland on Friday.
Miss Chitty Smith is staying with her
grandmother, Mrs. High, at Netarts.
Mrs. May, wife of Dr. W. J. May, of
B:iker City, is in the citv on business.
Just received, a nice line of gent.’s scarf
pins and ladies’ broaches at Letcher’s. •
Leach & Jones have been fixing up their
meat market, making it look up-to-date.
A marriage license was issued on Tues­
day to Mr. Guy Ford and Miss Viola E.
Hogen.
Murrel Smith returned on Saturday
evening, having been at work on the tele
phone line.
Mr. W. E. Page left on the stage Tues­
day for Durand, VVis., on account of the
sickness of his sister.
The largest stock of solid gold, gold
filled and plated jewelery in thecounty at
Letcher’s Jewelry Store.
Paints, Oils,
.1
The game supper given on Thursday of
last week by the W. of W. lodge in this
city brought together n large audience,
which proved a social and fraternal suc­
cess.
Captain Dodge leftoverland on.Friday
for Umpqua to take command again of
the steamer Harrison,which went ashore
on a sand spit at that place and lost her
rudder.
Mrs. Sturgeon returned on Tuesday
front Portland, where she had gone to
bury the infant child ofher latedaughter,
Mrs. Newman, which died in this city
last week.
Since Cupid has been shooting his
arrows into the ’ Happy Seven” he has
reduced the number to five. Who will be
th- next victim to promise “To love, to
honor, to obey ?”
Mr Henry S. Westbrook, of Benton,
Ark., wants to board with a republican
fanner in this county for awhile, and if
any farmer wants t occommodate him,
they should write him.
man with the advertising habit invaria­
bly freezes out the man who has not the
advertising habit.
At the regular meeting of Star Lodge,
A. 0. U. W., on Monday evening, Bro.
C. N. Drew’, who has [been recorder of
that lodge for several years, was pre­
sented with a gold badge, an emblem of
the order, by the members for the inter­
est he has ta kenin the lodge and as a
token of respect and honor.
Don’t forget the social to be given at
Mrs. Drew's by the Presbyterian ladies
on Friday evening, Nov. 30. There will
be a musical and literary program, after
which refreshments will be sold. These
may be ordered from a puzzling menu,
part of which was published lastj week.
Everybody invited.
Business men save 25*per cent by hav­
ing their job work done at the Headlight
office, because we do business on a cash
basis. We don’t run store bills and then
force business men to give us job work to
straighten out the account, for that is
too much like an unbusiness way of
Rev. C. P. Metzler, who has arrived doing business, as one of the victims re­
from New York, to become pastor of the marked.
Presbyterian churc 1 nthis county, will
At a public meeting on Tuesday even­
preach at Bay City on Sunday morning
ing, called for the purpose of nominating
and in this city in the evening.
a ticket for the city election, which will
The Acme Club will have a Thanksgiv. take place next Monday, the following
ing meeting this (Thursday) evening, persons were nominated ;
when drive whist and probably the light
Mayor—Dr. D. Wiley.
fantastic toe will be seen on the floor.
Recorder—T. Coates.
Treasurer—P. W. Todd.
The ladies will provide the supper.
Marshal—Clyde Clements.
The monthly meeting of the W. F. M.
Councilmen—A. J. Cohn, M. Leach, W.
S. will be held at the residence of Mrs. H. Cary, S. A. Brodhead, A. E. Imbler.
Lamar, in Tillamook City, on Saturday,
Married, on Friday morning, by and
Dec. 2nd, at 3 o'clock p.m. All ladies at the residence of Justice Sam Dowds,
are cordially invited tobe present.
Mr. William Stephens and Miss Nettie
Did you see those pretty medallions in McKinley. Both are well known in this
Sturgeon's window ? For artistic pie county by a large circle of friends, who
tures they ar: a novel of perfection, and I wish the happy couple a long life of hap-
they make most beautiful articles for a piness. They left at noon to spend their
Christmas present. Call and see them. i honeymoon in Portland, Mr. C. B. Had­
ley, accompanied by Misses Rose Wertz
Mrs. Sarah Brush and niece, a s.ster to
and Maude Hadley, driving them as far
Mrs. Peckham, arrived last week from
Soath Dakota, and we have no donbt as the toll gate.
Dr. Wise will leave about the 10th Dec.
for Portladd and will lie absent from the
city about ten days from that date. *
Mr. Guy Reynolds will have a nice pho­
tographic studio in the new building op­
posite the post office when it is finished.
Miss Dora High starts for Nehalem on
Wednesday, where she will teach a term
of school in one of the districts in that
vicinity.
Mr. Wells Gilmore, who has been here
for the object of buying up timber claims,
left on Tuesday, and will go east in a they will find the climate of Tillamook
far more congenial than the blizzards of
few weeks.
If railroad gossip and procrastination the Dakotas.
Tillamook lodge, No. 94, I.O.O.F.,
cost anything, we believe the citizens
would be saved a lot of time chewing the elected the following officers on Tuesday
evening : JiG., Frank Severance ; V.G.,
rag about it.
J.
8. Diehl; recording secretrry, George
Messrs. Sid Anderson and Frank Trout
Cohn ; financial secretary, Otto Heins ;
will put in a small saw mill on the Wil­
son river and furnish people with lumber treasurer, Peter Brant.
The advice of bankers in Portland for
in that vicinity.
a number of years not to put money in
Mr. B. C. Hadley returned to the citv
saw mills only under the most favorable
from Portland on Friday, and the gossips
conditions, which the destruction of the
missed it this time, for he did not come j
electric saw mill bring« to mind, appears
back in double harness.
to be good advice still in this county.
Mrs. D. M. Oliver and son Edgar ar­
The advertising habit is the best habit
rived home on Tuesday from California,
a business man can have, for it beats the
where the latter was down sick with typ­
I gambling habit to smithereens forja »ure
hoid fever and Mrs. Oliver went to nurse j thing in making money. The business
him.
I have been in the jewelry business in
Tillamook city for the last 14 years, and
some of our people are wearing watches
and jewelry buoght from me when I
first came here, which proves beyond a
doubt the articles to lx? as 1 represented.
Don’t you think’that is the place to pur­
chase your watches and jewelry for
Christmas presents ? All goods war­
ranted as represented or money refunded.
—A. L etcher .
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Mr. Chas. Thompson, who has leased
the Tillamook hotel and re-named it The
Palace, is going to a good dral of expense
in putting the place in first-class shape,
and when complete will lie an attractive
and well furnished hotel, and run on the
European plan. It will probably be the
10th of next month before Mr. Thomp
$1.50 per year.
son is ready to open up. and as he be- lights, but concluded not to venture on
lieves the city is entitled to an up-to-date the outside.
hotel, he is doing his utmost to make it
The electric saw mill, or the Oregon
so.
Electric Lumber Company, was incor­
•‘Bleeding Kansas” evidently is not as porated in this city on the 25th of April,
prosperous^as it is painted, even though 1899, and the amount of capital stock to
it did go republican, for in a letter from be subscribed was to he $6,000, divided
that state asking lor information about into six thousand shares of the value of
Tillamook to be sent to thirty persons, $1 each. Robert Watt. Frank Long and
it say8 : “Find enclosed list of names of J. W. McKinley were the incorporators.
From what we can learn the stock­
people of means who are dissatisfied with
their present location” and who intend holders in the electric saw mill have sub­
coming to Oregon next spring and locate scribed something like $10,000, and out
in Tillamook if they find the county will oi the wreck probably $1,000 will be rea­
suit them. If they have means and want lized. Some twelve or fifteen persons
to be happy, prosperous and satisfied no were interested, who had stock ranging
bettery country can be found for dairying from $2000 to a few hundred dollars in
it, and as some of them had put all the
than Tillamook.
The electric light plant of our city has money they possessed in the venture, it is
changed hands, and the new owners, a serious loss to them.
Mr. G. W. Brower, a mill man of long
Messrs. J. E. Sibley and G. W. Kiger, are
having the plant put in first-class order experience, and for several years con­
and will remove it to a new location nected with the Brower & Thompson
as soon as arrangements can be made. saw mill in the Eastern part of Multno­
OF THE SEASON
The rate for lights are now based u|»ou mah county, was the inventor and de­
the same rate as those paid in towns of signer of the electric saw mill, who suc­
is our new Golden Gate
like size to this. The new company means ceeded in inducing a number of citizens in
business and intend to furnish good lights this county to put up the money for the
Hat at $3.00. All men
and an all-night service. One person will purpose of experimenting with a new de­
be given the same rate as his neighbor. parture in operating saw mills. Aside
What the people want is a good service from the fact that it cut perfect lumber, salute it
and a gefud light, which the new com- the electric saw mill cannot be said to l*e
a success, for after it was erected many
pany assure us they will give.
Our stock, however,
parts were found weak and not capable
of performing the work. Some of these
includes other selec-
ELECTRIC MILL PARALYSED were icctified and the mill commenced
cutting lumber, but it could not be cut
tions of the best and
Dam Broke, Carrying the Saw out very fast because the saws were too
small. Some of the stockholders had
Mill Down the Canyon, Com­
most becoming fall
long since come to the conclusion that
pletely Destroying IL
the mill would have to be re-designed and
shapes and colors—and
A most serious accident, which would re-built before it could have been made
have been attended with fatal results had a success, but whether they would have
there’s good style in
it occurred later in the day, took place put up the money for this had the mill
between four and five o'clock on Satur­ not been destroyed we are not able
them for every man.
day morning, to the electric saw mill, to state. One thing is certain, they have
which is located in a canyon near East j faith that someone will make a success of
Garibaldi, completelv paralyzing it be­ it yet. The above loss includes $1,100
yond all hope of ever being replaced, which Mr. Brower was entrusted with
to purchase machinery while in San Fran­
again.
The dam. which was situated about cisco, which, it .is said, he invested in
300 yards above the saw mill, and the mining stock.
water from which was used to furnish
the motive power to propel the electric
Death of Mrs. Thorell.
plant at the end oi the canyon, suddenly
Mrs.
Thorell, who has been quite sick
gave way and caused a regular avalanche
down the steep canyon. The immense body for several months, died on Friday, and
of water as soon as it broke loose picked the remains were buried on Sunday
up logs and trees, and striking the elec­ afternoon at the Oddfellows’ cemetery.
tric saw mill, literally carried it away The funeral service was held in the Ad-
with its foundations and deposited it be- yentist church. Rev. S. A. Smith preach.
low about a quarter of a mill, near th, •e ing the funeral sermon, There was a
bunk and power houses,wherethecanyon large congregation of sympathizing
.widen*out. The avalanche made a clean friends and neighbors present. Revs. F.
sw eep of every thing about the mill, com­ H. Neff and J. M. Tresenriter also took
Mrs. Sophia
pletely demolishing nnd smashing it up. part in the services.
Electrical appliances, shafting and saws Augusta Thorell (nee Steborg), was born
were twisted and broken beyond repair, in Sweeden, Sept. 9th, 1850, and died
nnd being mixed np with saw logs, trees, Nov. 23rd, 1900, aged 50 years, two
lumlier, etc., formed part of a great heap months and 14 days. She came to the
of debris where the water had left it I United States in the year 1865, and was
piled up near the bunk house. To give | married to Chas. Bowman in the year Of neckwear, hosiery, shirts,
some idea how destructive it was, it ■ I860, who died in 1873, leaving her a
swept the canyon of almost everything widow with one ten weeks’ old daughter, and other furnishings, and of
two sous having died just before their
moveable down to the rook.
father. She married John Thorell Feb.
good places to buy them, our
It was a miracle that the bunkhouse
9th, 1878, at Genesee, Ill., who survives
and its occupants escaped being covered
her. ¡Her last marriage was blessed
store is sure to be favorably men­
up. A large tree bad been felled in the
with four sons, the eldest of whom died
canyon, and the avalanche striking this when but a child. She leaves three sons
aliove the bunk house, caused it to vere
and one daughter, who unite in mourn­ tioned.
to the right, and by doing so the force of
ing their loss with the husband and
the water became spent and the bunk
WE HAVE THE NEWEST
father. She leaves besides a brother and
house escaped, also the power house.
sister, one in Kansas and the other in
The avalanche, which sounded like the Illinois. She was converted and united FALL SHIRTS. GLOVES, TIES.
roar of heavy thunder, nroused those in with the S. D. Adventist church six years
the bunk house, and befoieit reached the ago,being baptized in that faith five years
COLLARS, ETC
end of the canyon, Doc McKinley anil I). ago, in which faith she died. Her last
Martiny managed to get partly dressed testimony being “ Christ is my life and I
And we want to see you among
and on the outside. The former yelled die with the hope that I shall have part
to those it the bunkhouse that the dam in the first resurrection.”
our early callers, to get your
had broken. He also yelled to Mrs. Sar­
gent and her daughter in the dining
Call for County Warrants.
choice of the novelties.
house, to climb the bank. They were up
at the time, and being terrified with the
All County General Fund Warrants,
noise and misunderstanding the com. Series E, from No 25H7 to No. 2614 in.
mand, failed to do so. The avalanche elusive, lire now payable and will lie paid
having been diverted to the right of the when presented.
ennvon, fortunately collapsed about this
Interest ceases Nov. 2H, 1900.
time, and those who were on the outside
W. H. C ahv , County Treasurer.
By E. D. H oag , Deputy.
escaped with a drenching. R. Watt, G.
W. Brower, Frank Frane and Alfred
Magnuson were in the bunkhouse nt the
It is mockery to pray that your child­
time, and as the door closed they were ren be gathered home in eternity while
under the impression they were hemmed you do nothing to keep them home in
in, so Mr. Watt broke one of the window time.
Wljei) Men Tallç
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CLOSING OUT SALE.
Having «.joyed IhTZnSn« »4 patrooageVthe people of Tillamook eoo.ly
Having cuj y
necessity hav ng arisen for us to devote our time
for the past nine years, we fee that the ne«A.
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misfortunes and
to our household duties we will give our customers
place
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Wge of’De.vee, of Ponland, and all good,
will be found strictly up-to-date.
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Thanking you for past favors,
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Will doubtless bring back that troublesome cougli. If you use WHITE PINE
COMPOUND you’ll be free from the hemming and hacking that so often is started by
autumn dampness and chill.
WHITE PINE COMPOUND does not dry up a cough. It cures in the rational
way ; by soothing and healing the inflamed bronchial passages.
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