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Tillamook Headlight, September 3°,
Tillamook Jottings.
The following officers have been
elected by the Freshmen and Sopho­
more classes:
Freshmen—Pres., W ill Kennedy;
Vice Pres., Glenn Leach; Sec. Leslie
Conover; Treas., Max Beals.
Sophomores—Pres., Howard Wil-
liams; Vice Pres., Walter Stark, Sec.,
__ _____ Treas.,
_____ August Bo-
Nellie Gaylord;;
quist; Sargent-at-arms, Gertrude Ball.
The girls’ hiking club was organiz­
ed this week and made an evening ex­
cursion Wednesday. A very enjoyahle
time is reported.
Mrs. Cora McBride, of Portland,
the department 1 and I officer of the
Woman’s Relief Corps, held the an­
nual inspection of Corinth W. R. C.
on Wednesday afternoon and was the
guest of Mrs. O. A. Schultz and Mrs.
A. H. Rugar.
The regular meeting of the Wom­
ans’ Civic Improvement Club will be
held at the Presbyterian Guild Hall,
Saturday, Oct. 2, at 2:30. All mem­
hers are requested to be present, as I
business of importance is to be trans­
DISCOVERY
acted and plans for the year’s work I I ” REMARKABLE
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considered. Delegates to the Annual
Convention of the State Federation > Wireless Transcontinental Telephony
will be elected at this meeting.
With TiUamook County.
At the home of Mrs. A. H. Ruger
on Wednesday evening was given a 1 (Special to the Tillamook Headlight)
500 party in honor of Mrs. Cora Mc­
San Francisco, Cal., Sept 29th, 1915.
Bride, of Portland, Mrs O. A. Schultz '—Wireless Transcontinental
Tele­
and Mrs. A. J. Stillwell being the as­ phony ceased to be a dream and be­
sisting hostesses. Those present were came a reality at to o’clock yesterday
Mr. and Mrs. Hill, Mr. and Mrs Con­ morning. At that hour Theodore N.
over, Mr. and Mrs. Gruber, Mr. and I Vail, President of the American Tele-
Mrs. Carl Schultz, Mr. and Mrs. I phone and Telegraph
Company,
Walls, Mr. and Mrs. Partridge, Mrs. I spoke a few sentences to John K.
McBride, Mrs. Huet, Mrs. Bowls, ■ Carty, Chief Engineer of the Ameri­
Mrs. Stranahan, Mrs. Stillwell ¡.nd can Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Mrs. Rugar.
Vail was in New York and Carty was
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at Mare Island, San Francisco. 'I he
words traveled three thousand miles
Cheese Score at State Fair.
through air without a wire to carry
1 them, propelled through ether at the
Just as we go to press a message rate of 50,000 miles per second. The
from Salem says the cheese scoring human voice has been hurled into
at the State Fair was as follows: space at the Naval Radio station at
Hugh Barber, .Fairview, 95% points; Arlington, Virgin a, and conducted by
Ballenstein, Menmouth, 95; H. Thom­ ether to the Mare Island towers.
as,Cloverdale, and 11. Haugen, El­ The achievement marks the solution
wood, 94!^; Unknown name, 94, A. of nearly every
problem involved
Schmelzer, Red Clover, tied with with the future development of tele­
three other Tillamook factories, 93.
phony. Again Vai) has ordered Carty
‘ to accomplish the "impossible,” and
Sunday at the Presbyterian Church. again his orders have been carried
( out The achievement has been fraught
' with meaning. It means that the pro­
The Sacrament of the Lord’s Sup­ blem of talking across the Atlantic
per will be observed in the morning Ocean has been solved. It means that
service, which will be an occasion of a man in New York can talk to Hon­
special interest since it is the first to olulu and Tokio as soon as the con­
be administered since the coming of struction work has been completed.
the new minister. The subject of. the The voice can be carried by wires to
sacramental address will be "The San Francisco over the new transcon­
Finished Work.’’ All the members tinental wires of the American Tele­
are expected to be present and they phone and Telegraph Company and
join with the minister in an invitation from there hurled through air over
to all in the community who are with­ the ocean to Tokio. It can be carried
out their local church connections to in relays around the world.
join them in this service. “Royal Am­
The announcement of yesterday’s
bition” is the sermon subject for the achievement brings the day nearer
evening service at 7:30. Young men when ;. will be easy to talk from San
and young women will especially Francisco to Londan and Paris, as it
find something of interest in this is today to talk over the transconti­
message. ________________
nental wires from San Francisco to
I New York. Furthermore, it means
Tillamook Wins Prize at National that passengers on ships will be able
Dahlia Show.
to call central and talk to shore, and
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I if these achievements are not enough
Tillatnok County was represented another baffling problem was solved.
at the National Dahlia Show in Port­ A perfect connection was made be­
land last week, J. H. Dunstan taking tween a telephone wire and a wireless
out 12 boxes of those flowers, con­ , ether line, making it possible for
tributed by Mrs. I.. M. Zaddach four I everybody with the regular Bell Tele­
boxes; Mrs. J. 11. Dunstan, three phone, to be connected with the air.
boxes; Mrs. C. B. Wiley, one box; The success of Transatlantic and
Fred C. Baker, four boxes. These Transpacific Telephony depends larg­
were entered in the amateur class by ely upon the success of the attempt
Mrs. Dunstan, and won the first prize to span the continent with an ether
for the best display outside of Port­ line, and the achievements of wireless’
land.
I Telephony means that, the telephone
We understand that Mrs. F. Zad­ , will bridge the Atlantic as soon as
dach was considered in the profes­ the conditions in Europe are normal.
sional class, as she sells bulbs, con­ It is a vastly more difficult task ac­
sequently her splendid assortment of cording to Chief Engineer Carty, to
dahlias were not included in the am- cross land with its ever changing
ateur display from Tillamook.
typography than to cross an equally
great or greater expanse of leVel
Ralph Parlette to Lecture.
water. Chief Engineer Carty, first
heard President Vails' voice yester­
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Ralph Parlette, the well known day, first comment was, “the problem
humorist—editor, is to lecture here of Transatlantic communication ha,s
on Friday, October 29th instead of been solved” and those gathered
Monday, October 25th, as originally round him predicted that it wonld not
announced. The great demand for be long before the wireless Tele­
Parlette'» services made the change phone and Telegraph Company es­
tablished communication
between
necessary.
Parlette began lecturing in 1896 W ashington D. C. and the Isthmus of
and he has been touring the United Panama by wireless telephony. The
States annually ever since that time. achievement of yesterday was only a
He gives all the year to this work. further development of the earlier
< hi trains and in spare moments, he success.
The announcement of the success
edits the Lyceum Magazine. He has
tilled over 4,000 pay engagements and in talking from Washington to the
has addressed more than 125,000 peo­ isthmus was withheld until the great­
ple each year. He travels 50.000 miles er goal had been reached. President
\ ail did not leave his apartments in
each year.
I he reason Parlctt grows in de­ the Hotel Gotham when he called I
mand each year, even though his Chief Engineer Cartv at Mare Island.
price keeps rising, is that he preaches His voice traveled over wires to the I
Optimism and Good Cheer. His lec­ Naval Radio station at Arlington,
ture “University of Hard Knocks” Virginia, and were there transferred
has been delivered over 2,000 times to the air line of the company at
weeks.
and has been published in book form. Mare Island. For several
"Paridise Regained" is the title of Chief Engineer Carty has been in
another of his lectures that is well San Francisco, secretly working out
known. On another
page will be the detail» of the great problem. On
found some of his characteristic say­ other occasions, similar connections
have been made, but the transmission
ing».
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did not satisfy Carty. He was work­
School Notes.
ing for perfection. Tuesday condi­
tions looked right and a sniall party
Friday night in the Guild Hall will left San Francisco for the Mare Is­
see a reception for the new students land Radio station at 3 o'clock a.m.
and new members of the facu'tv
1'he party was conveyed by boat to
given by the classes, Sophomore. Mare Island from Vallejo, and from
Juniors and Seniors. Front the pre­ then until It
o’clock preliminary
paration being made this promises to test» were made until all obstructions
be a very interesting and enjoyable had been removed from the wireless
program.
hues. At that hour Chief Engineer
Both football and debate are attrac­ Carty surrounded by a group of Na­
ting a good deal of attention by sec­ val officers and officials of the Amer­
tions of the students. Every evening ican Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
this week the school grounds have made ready for the supreme test, and’
been the scene of light football prac­ awaited the first call. Carty took up
tice.
the receiver, he smiled with satisfac­
I he class in debate is working hard tion, and those around him fixed re­
on the state debating question of this ceivers to their ears. Among them,
year "Military training for young Lieut. Commander Sweet. U S N
men in the United States similar to retired; Allen If. Babcock. Consult­
the Swiss plan.”
ing Ingmeer of the Southern Pacific
Railway Co.¡Chief Electrician Peter-
son of the U. S. Naval Radio Station;
H. n. Arnold; A. H. Griswold and
several other engineers of the Ameri­
can Telephone and Telegraph Co.
In addition to President Vale, U. N.
Bethel, senior vice-president of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
C ompany; John I. \\atcrberry, one of
the company'» director»; Mr. B
Gherardi. one of Carty’s engineer
staff, also spoke from Mr. Vail’s of­
fice. All of the other voices were dis­
tinctly heard and easily distinguished
by the group at Marc Island Station.
Before the connection was made in
Xew > ork, a large number of wire­
less telephone messages were receiv­
1 have some choice young pigs for ed from the Naval Radio station at
sale, both sexes, the kind
that Arlington, \ irginia, among those who
matures very young. One of my herd talked to the party at Mare Island
boars weighed b-’O lbs. at eighteen station from Arlington, were Captain
months old. My hogs have won rib- Bullard, chief of tne radio service of
bon» at county and state fairs.
!» J $ Navy; Colonel Sam Reber,
t. S. Army; Dr. S. B. Jewett; Prof
Phone or write for price».
John Mills; and A. E. Stevenson of
JOE DONALDSON,
<• hief Engineer Carty ’» staff.
R. F. D. 1, Tillamook.
^fern’s
The Home of
Florsheim Shoes,
Sampeck Clothes for
Boys,
Arrow Shirts tS5 Collars,
Stetson Hats,
Wayne Knit Hosiery,
tyMunsing Wear for
E ver^ bodyl.
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It’s a Woman's Privilege to Shop
Before Buying Her New Coat
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A Better Blouse
at $2.00
The latest delivery of
these Beautiful Waists
includes Crepes de Chine
in pink and white with
tri m tilings of the daintiest
and prettiest effects.
Come in and see for
yourself what splendid
value they are at the
price.
At the same time take
a look at the well-known.
Wirthmor Waists
we show at the low price
of SI OO.
One Dollar. Worth More.
E WANT the women of this community to
“shop” in this store. We want them to
compare Classic coats. We want them to
see the style—the exquisite tailoring to know
the fair classic price.
Only comparison shows the full worth of the
Classic coats.
Come to the store before going elsewhere-
come and try on a Classic coat.
Get in front of the glass—it will show you how
beautifully you can be fitted in a Classic coat. It’s
no trouble to us—it’s a pleasure to have you
shop” here.
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We want yon to see these coats that are so
“STYLISHLY DISTINCTIVE.”
Full Showing
of-
U ,
Wooltex Styles ¿A
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If Dollars Count With You,
Let Your Suit be a Wool tex.
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OMEN who are economical buyers, as well
as lovers of good style, arc among the
greatest admirers of Wooltex tailored gar­
ments.
They know by experience that Wooltex gar­
ments give more pleasurable wear than ordinary
garments, made in the ordinary way.
Come and see the latest shipment of Wooltex
Suits, received by express Wednesday of this
week, and see for yourself why your fall Suit
should be a
WOOLTEX STYLE.
Thrifty Shoppers
Save by Purchasing
tyAlill End Remnants..
G.prn«ht Out Shatfoer k M m »
VARSITY
FIFTY-FIVE
THE YOUNG MANS
SUIT OF TO-DAY.
Almost unnecessary to
add that it is a Hart
Schaffner & Marx model
—the style speaks for
itself.
Notice the lines of the
Coat, the hang of the
trousers ; young men
want such clothes and we
are ready to supply them-
Come in with f 25.(111
Yon may pay more or
leeamid get good value.
The Bargain Square un­
der the Balcony should be
visited by every woman
who is desirous of getting
the maximum value at a
minimum cost, in every
purchase she makes.
Here we show’ Mill End
Remnants at savings that
are »imply astonishing.
For instance: —
27 inch Percales.......
8c
27m. Apron Ginghams 8c.
27m. Outing Flannels 9c.
27 inch Ginghams and
Zepyhrs ...............
9c.
34 in. Madras Waistings 15c.
27 inch Kimona Crepes 15c.
32 inch Romper Cloths 15c.
When looking over the
above don't leave the Bar­
gain Square without ex­
amining
the
garments
shown in the
Sale of Women's Vests.
Pants and Union Suits
For Fall and Winter Wear.
TWO
SILK SALES
OFFERING REMARKABLE SAVINGS
TO ECONOMICAL BUYERS.
You cannot afford to let this opportunity go
past without securing at least a length fora
petticoat.
See the silks displayed in the Silk Section
of the Drygoods Dept, on the Main Floor.
SPECIAL VALUES
36 INCH SILKS
From the Silk Counter.
That Sold for $1.48 to $1.98 36in. Foundation Silks 29c.
Block Check Waisting
Now on Sale for
Silks................. . ■ • ■ 59c.
30in. China Silks ■ • ■ ■ 69c.
Included in this lot there 27in. Plain and Floral fl.OO
Messalines .............
are Silks that sold for $1.48, 27in. Taffeta Waisting
11.03 and $1.98 and they
Silks ............. fl. 00
are shown in all colors as 2 7in. Shepherd Check
Silks........................... fl. 19
well as in Black and White.
27in. New Plaid Waist­
36 inch Wide
ing Silks................... fl. 19
40in. Crepes de Chine fl. 75
BLACK SILKS 40in. Pussy Willow
Taffetas................... fl.88
Beldings Yard wide
Satins ........... fl.OO
For Values fl. 25 to fl. 50.
36m~Sjunnerji_Satin__fH>£
For ladies who choose
CHILDRENS
Black for dresses, skirts or
KNITTED TURBANS
About twelve different
petticoats here is an oppor­
styles and shown in
tunity for making consid­
many plain and combi
erable savings on wanted
nation colors at prices
silks.
from 25c. to fl.OO.
79c.
98c-
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