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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1901)
ìillainmil; Braòliuljt TILLAMOOK, OREGON, MAY i >1.50 per year It may be interesting to know that w.m from Captain J. J. Dawson's observation 4 MT Mwet wc*w K — w If you want a can that is a good can, that we are going to havesevernl months of fine weather. Good ; and if this is the A milk can that can’t be beat, case we feel sure that the ladies who haye Go and buy the Buhl Can pretty hats and dresses to promenade in At Wade & Briggs down the street. will think the captain a dear old gentlemen for giving them fine weather so that they can display their finerv. W hen the next mail contract is let for carrying the mail north of this city, we understand that it is very probable that it will be made a direct route to Nehalem, also a free delivery route. This will lie a great'eon venience to the settlers, altho ugh it may necessitate the closing of sev Prices Quoted on Factory Outfits. eral of the intermediate post offices, but there will lie no kicking on thistscore if a i’C free delivery is substituted. The cut worm, which did so much dam age in Oregon and Washington last year and caused some little annoyance in Tillamook county by making a raid on PAINTS, OILS. GLASS. SASH and DOORS. 1. I Set Furniture from Nels Thompson... . garden truck and showing thei»* appetite for clover meadows, is beginning to ap Fishing Tackle Ammunition, Guns, etc 2. I Coupon Book, good for $20.00 in trade. pear in limited numbers in Lewis County, 3- I Ladies’ Black Dress, Duchess Silk .... Wash. We hope, however, this county or 1 Gents’ Suit will not be troubled with them again, although there is a possibility of that 1 Gents’ Suit or Overcoat 4- being the case. 1 Gents ’ Mackintosh 5- Cornei» Main and Stilimeli Avenue We do not think the taxpayers of this 1 6. Ladies ’ Mackintosh city feel inclined to bond the city and Ladies ’ Dress pattern, Black Henrietta . 1 plaster it with a bonded indebtedness at 7 5“ 7- the behest of those who have no real pro 8. 1 Pair, all Wool, White Blankets............... 6 50 perty, either for a new water system or 5 «J 9- 1 Gents’ Stetson Hat.................... Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Holmes have I Prefident McKinley has abandoned his 1 electric light plant. Let those who are TILLAMOOK JOTTINGS 1 moved from Woods to this city, having tour of the Northwest states owing to dissatisfied with the present systems put io. 1 Pair Men’s Heavy Rubber Boots 5 00 bought the Letcher property. the sickness of Mrs. McKinley, and in up their own money and form new com Dr. Wise, resident dentist. IX. 1 Ladies’ Serge Dress Pattern For sale, at a bargain, one set of har stead of coming to Oregon will take the panies if they have the city’s interest so Go to Todd’s for groceries. 12. 1 Pair Men’s Dress Shoes. ness tools, complete, including splitter most direct route from San Francisco to much at heart and it is going to be such Umbrellas at Mrs. Sturgeon's. 1 Pair Ladies’ Dress Shoes Washington, D.C. 13- and creaser. See Ralph Ackley. * a paying investment. Crash skirts nt Mrs. Sturgeon's. Bbl. Best Grade Flour . 14. 1 Dr. Wise will remain in his Tillamook ' <^Elder Durfee will, no doubt, make it While Mr. Clark Hadley, with Misses Grass and garden seeds at Todd’s. office only a few days longer. Those ; all right with the hose company by send Maud Hadley and Iva Curtis, were 1 Suit Men’s all Wool Underwear 15- Bny your clothing, lints and shoes nt wishing to see him will pleasecall at once. ing them a box of cigars, and in that going to the logging camp on Mon- 16. Suit Ladies ’ Fine Wool Underwear .... 1 Todd's. Our stock of glassware and crockery is event we won’t question ’whether it was dry, they came near meeting with a seri 17- 1 Ladies’ Silk Umbrella ... Hams, lard and bacon just arrived at without doubt the finest in the citv. the elder or the boys who were the cause ous accident. Miss Maud was driving, of desecrating the Sabbath. Todd's. 18. 2 Gents’ Dress Shirts, $1.25 and after leaving the main road they sud Call and get our prices.—King & Kerie- Miss Minnie Nelson, of Bay City, was denly heard something cracking, and to New line of shoes just received at mans. • 19. 1 Gents’ Umbrella.......... Todd's. Postmaster Severance has ordered a a passenger on the steamer Kruger which their great surprise saw a tree commence 20. 1 Pair Ladies’ Kid Gloves. Miss Iva Curtis i< visiting Miss Maud safe to keep Uncle Sam's ''dough” in, but left Hobsonville last Friday for San falling across their path. Clark grabbed 21. 1 Pair Gents’ Kid Gloves Francisco. It is reported that Miss Nel the lines and lost no time in bringing the | we hope it won't act as a magnet for safe Hadley. son is to be married to Mr. Geo. Balmer, team to a sudden stop just as the tree 22. 1 Ladies’ Corset................ A full line of Palace goods at King & crackers. crashed across the road and only a few Dr. Wiley reports that George Knight, who is well known in this county. Kerremans. 23- 1 Pair Men’s Oil Pants .. who had bis leg broken at the Truckee The steamer Sue H. Elmore came in on inches from the animals’ head, splashing 12 Cans Tomatoes A. & L. handwheat flour at Ring & 24. saw mill, is progressing as well as can be Saturdav and left again on Thursday, mud all over the vehicle and horses. Kerremans. taking out a number of passengers for expected. 25- Sugar Let us hope, now that Mr. Durfee is Mr. I. C. Quick went out on the steamer Rev. C. P. Metzler will preach in Bay Portland. She took out 80 bundles of, i fixing up the Watchtower building again, on Thursday. City on Sunday afternoon, and in the hides, 10 hales of wool, 17 cases of eggs, it will no longer be a fire trap, putting, The only genuine Ceylon tea at King Presbyterian church of this city morning 396 cases of cheese and 135 boxes of not only neighboring residences, but the butter and crossed out Friday morning. entire city in jeopardy of being wipped & Kerremans. j and evening. A game of ball for Sunday afternoon is I The parties who lost some money in The telephone has struck ex-judge W. out by fire, which, had there been a being arranged. the Racket Store have not called for it, W. Conder’s place, and with that im. I strong wind from the east, might have A few infant’s cloaks at a bargain nt and from this we infer they did not read provement and advancement in that part ■ done so on Sunday. The city cannot af of the country we do not despair of see ford to take any mure chances with fire Mrs. Sturgeon's. last week's Headlight. ing the ex-judge shouting for more re trap buildings, and wherever they are let 9 Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Wilson have gone Just arrived, from the Art Wall Paper ii! publican prosperity by the time another the fire warden keep a sharp look out Mills, Chicago, a lotof wall paper, which to Harvard, Neb. Ui and see that people are complying with election rolls round. Born, ou Tuesday, to the wife of Mr. include the new designs just out. At the city ordinances. This is something Attorney T. H. Goyne is being visited Thompson's Furniture Store. L. Solomon, a son. this week by his father and brother, | which we are all more nr less interested It will be noticed by the real estate Canned Asparagus at King & Kerre Again the Evening Telegram takes up Messrs. W. H. and W. J. Goyne, from in, and it is just as well to keep a stiff Portland la Bellyaching Again. transfers again this week that a good mans. High grade. the subject and says the Portland j co Pennsylvania, who are on their way to upper lip with those who want to evade many timber claims are changing hands, Mr. Wililam Reid’s interview, which pie have the money, Mr. A. I. Stillwell went out on the J I, Alaska. They are the inventors of a building brick chimneys and who persist the prevailing price being $1,000. j on another page, throws some 1. in 1.1 the 1 .uh 0.1 <1 t<> t iiisconnty. If that steamer on Thursday. machine for separating gold, which they in using stove pipe where it is dangerous apjiears For a nice stock of shoes, for summer will operate in the Klondike. to do so and a menace to to neighboring additional ; light on the railroad mystery, is the case, then why t It« devil io it that Ralph Acklev has sold his timber claim wear, go to the Red Shoe House. Shoes property and the city. I but as to what actual moves will be they don’t put the money ap or hold their to J. H. Cook for $1,000. Consistency KJ lloloCyllVl is ICT C a j jewel. V W c. I • Last i rll CT V week W W. ■* the HIV- I for ease, shoes for wear, and fashionable Portland, Nehalem & Tillamook railroad ' The Watch tower building, belonging made on the railroad chess board it fur whist, for it is getting sickening to read Mr.; and Mrs. W. Stephens returned shoes, see P. F. Browne’s new stock. * ■ • a « . *. e ♦ S'* •• If (A lit. nrrnto urrltl A --o company was going to build 43 miles of to Mr. B. 0. Durfee, again caught fire on nishes but very little light, although it so much procrastination in the Portland fronrPortland on Thursday. If the members of hose cart No. 1 think railroad by next November a nd this week Sunday morning, and when the fire bell points out several moves which may be newspapers about the Portland, Nehal Mr.AV. A. Whieler came in from Ne- i themselves smart, those belonging to made to give Tillamook more than one em & Tillamook railroad. This is the it wants to sell out. But we fail to see rang a fierce tire was burning in the halein and went out on the stage. hose cart No. 2 are imbued with the same what that company lias to sell apart roof of the building. The hose company railroad at no distant date. What Mr. latest from the Telegram : Reid wants to avoid is a scramble bv the Allen Page leaves on the steamer for idea. They’re a smart lot of boys, any "The way and the only way, for Port promptly responded to the alarm, and it different railroad companies in building from wind and a game of bluff. Astoria, where he isgoing to work. was only a few minutes when the fire to Tillamook, and he proposes that the land people to l>e sure of a clone and way. Dr. and Mrs. Wiley had become quite proper connection with the timber, coal, For sale a few articles of furniture; call Mr. Nels Thompson leaves for Portland anxious about their son Robert, who is appliances were at the scene, and two Northern, Southern and Union acquire farming and dairy lands of the Nehalem joint ownership of the proposed Port minutes from the time ihe water was nt once if you want to buy .-Dr. Wire. Friday to purchase a large supply of new in the Klondike, for they hnd not heard land, Nehalem ¿Tillamook road. There is country is for Portland people to build Dr. W. Tatom, the painless dentist, furniture, which will be the handsomest from him for several months. A letter turned on the boys had the fire under nothing to indicate that this can be an independent line. They have the money, or can get it. because it. can be will remain in the city but a few days. * line of goods ever brought to Tillamook. was received from him last week, which control. There was a good force of brought about, but what Mr. Reid fears easily demonstrated— has. in fact, been water and the only thing which retarted is that the Southern will extend its line The band boys are tooting their horns Wait and see them. allayed all fears, and which made the the work of the hose company was the from Sheridan and build through to As sufficiently demonstrated— that the iuu<i bursting of one section of hose, but as toria, and his fears are not groundless, will j»ay. This is a large and.i|isooooory again, and we hope they will conuinue to Mr. O. Heins has received a check for Mayor and Mayoress feel happy. Chief P. W. Todd was prepared for this, fora number of pmons have predicted oonwideration. of couise ; LikA there fo toot. $1000 for Mrs. E. Davies,whose husband This city will have another dry goods, it did not take long to detach the "bust and who believe that this road will tap another on»» of still more iniportanco to Misses Ruth and Race! Crawford, died and held a beneficiary certificate for clothing and furnishing store in the near ed” section. The damage to the building this county first, while there are not a Portland capitalists, real »»HtrtW wntfB, from Nehalem, went out to Portland on that amount in F. U.of A.,having joined future, R. Jacobson & Co , of McMinn was in the root, amounting to $150, and few who believe it will come in from the large shippers, steamer owners ana the fire was caused by thechimney catch opposite direction and by way of Astoria. other business men ; this more impor- the lodge in this city. Thursday. ville. establishing a branch here. Mr. D. ing, and this being defectively construct However that may be, it is plain to sec taut consideration is Hint a <I iomi L hi I- Mr. W. Olsen hns opened his new fur M. N.iyberger arrived in the city Wed ed, caught the roof on fire. County that the Portland people never intended pendent Portland-Nebalem-THlamooll Mr. J. E. Tuttle has the telephone line up as far as Jasper Smith's and is still niture store^n Main street with a nice nesday for that purpose, renting the only Clerk H. Mason, who resides next door, nor are they likely to put tip the money line would supply Portland with ele* I merits and products that in tMe Very near stock of new household furnishing goods, vacant store near the post office. first discovered the fire, who, previous to to build a railroad to Tillamook, and ktHsWvb- that had called Mr. Durfee’s attention to now there is some probability of the rail future will t»e necessary to it» oaeeass aa which came in on the last boat. .See his How the fire boys did roar when Edgar smoke coming out between the bricks of road companies building to Tillamook h commercial center, a kadi ng port- of Mr. and Mr to. Frank Severance went advt. on the last page. addessed the president thus : “May I be thechimney, but that gentleman after and diverting the trade away for Port the Pacific Coast, and a city where on the ittanti r on Thursday tor Baker Call and see the new carpet samples. excused to allow the kid to go to the making an investigation said that noth land, naturally enough it it loginning to manufactures must be built up. That atjr.wlw.tl ¡jery go as delegates of the thereto naturally rich region will supply us with Twenty five patterns toselect from. The band practice.’’ The president looked ing was wrong Besides Mr. Durfee and make Portland people feel bad. But they coal, with timber for half a century, I. O. O. F. have no reason to bellyache because his wife residing there, County Surveyor new displaver shows the whole floor puzzled, yet thoughtful, but seeing how A. M. Austin and wife and Miss Lottie other parties step in now. As far as the with agricultural and dairy pioducts, Nr t a few people at the fire on Sunday covered. Orders taken for carpets at the boys snickered, asked no questions Freeman occupied part of the premises. citizens of this county are concerned they with a considerable trail»» her wise.» It wished that the boys had let the build- , Mrs. Williams had some things stored would prefer trading with Portland, but is exceedingly important that POTtlM Thompson's Furniture Store. and immediately granted the request. ing burn down. it is only fair to ask. What has Portland have a railroad line through that regh there, which was damaged by water. The Durham Ball Bearing Sewing Ma- j Grass is King in Tillamook ! And the done for Tillmook ? When we had irre that Will make it <lirectiyijftBd entire Just received a fine lot ofjapanese mat chine, for ease in running and durability, | way it is growing brings a smile and a gular shipping facilities, did Portland as tributary to Portland, a 1 < <j that tba pf ting from San Francisco, at Thompson s he n sist ns or look after its own interest by ducts and trail« of that INSURE WITH is the best machine for the price on the ' contented look upon the face of every Furniture Store. putting on a boat from that city ? And diverted to some oilier |s»rt or locality. market today. Call and see them at I dairyman, which is sure to make his i ••It will lie advantage» Claude Thayer, ha ving failed to do this, it is hardly to Tillamook public school will close next Thompson's Furniture Store. pockets jingle with "sound money” and who live or are Agent or Fireman’s Fund and London lie expected that Portland people arre people week, when it is expected there will be a have this direct independ going to construct a railroad that will Considering that the city council was his bank account to Swell out to larger miimcation*with the nea and Lancashire Fire Insurance cost several million dollars. No, they large number of graduates. explicit when ordering the 1000 feet of proportions. Old Bossy is industriously entrepot in the Pacific are not built that way. Companies. hose that no time should be lost in deliv doing the rest. An exchange asks : “Why is a news, ing it. some surprise is felt that it did A A A A A A A paper like a wife ?” These various an not come in on the last steamer. Mr. A. Watt, who has gone to Mon swers have been given : “Because both tana with several other Tillamookers, have to lie appreciated.’’ "Because it may remain there all summer. With so hns to have something to run it.” "Be I much talk of oil in this county, they con cause it changes its dress.” The correct sider they have a sure thing inthatstate. I answer is : “Because every man should the eyes is different from most of dealers, especially those who sell the Ira mew all ready fitted with the If in need of any thing in the have one of his own and not run after his glasses. Bv the aid of a large complete trial or test case I can fit any eye, making it a very easy matter Should the effort being made to have Line of Sporting Good». Give us a to detect any slight variation of the eyes by testing each eye seperately. the West Side trains run out from Port-1 neighbors'. call. Messrs. H. G. Davies and O. W. Tefft land on Sundays turn out successful, it or glasses are put into frames of your own selection, after the eyes have l>een thoroughly tested. The Special attention given to order» is probable that this would give Tilla i have gone into Washington tolook for a same quality of lenses is put into every frame sold, the difference in price being only in the frame. I new location for their saw mill, and it is before »ending east for goods, mook a mail from North Yamhill on Sun If you don't want to use a pair of spectacles come in and try my system and see whether yonr Come and see what we can do. ' more than probable when they return eves are all right or not, then day. reliable We bay cheap and of J. C. Hunter has opened a wood and they will ivmove the Pacific mill from dealers, therefore, can furnish lumber yard on Waterstreet, and is now Tillamook to some point where the pro. : goods at lowest prices. prepared to furnish cord wood and all posed railroad will run down the North THE RELIABLE DRUGGIST. TILLAMOOK, OREt kinds of dressed and rongh lumber. You side of the Columbia river. We shall be j sorry to see the snw mill removed from . will save money by getting my prices on Tillamook. Or. this comity. I umber. I GIVEN o AWAY THE LARGEST STOCK OF DAIRY SUPPLIES On JUNE 1st, 1901 We Distribute the following prizes pAI(DWAIÇ, Tinware, fSTO VEg RA^E? Each $1.00 Cash Purchase Entitles You to One Chance I? H ?i 1 H si fl li 1 Drawing to be Superintended by our Customers J. A. TODD & CO TILLAMOOK, OR. m i i4 J 1 J SPORTING ☆ * GOODS Ralph Ackley, I I » » > I » » I » » I I £ SPECTACLES Mv System of Fitting The Lenses Let me All your prescriptions CHARLES I. CLOUGH.