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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1923)
• 2 FEATHERS OF STUFFED PARROT STILL GROWING « • 1 OWNS “NARROWEST FARM’’ W. A. Dresser Property la Twelve Mlles Long and Ilghty-FIvs Foot Wide. Clippings Made During Past William A. Dresser of Lafayette. Ind., owm one of the moat un 1 Thirty Years Now Measure fams in the world from a topom Six Feet. cal standpoint T>»- place ta is » long nly 80 feet wide and la lo to the Wahnali river in the •’Alox,*' a parrot born in Central cated America fifty-four years ago, sits In vicinity of the village of Americus. a glass ease at the residence of Ills Tim ground formerly was right owner, Mrs. George Spellman at New of way of the Wabash and Erie oahal. a waterway that outmoded the Grout Orleans. 'lolly Alox" net er stirs and he Lakes with the Mississippi river and was the chief avenue of transporta never talks. Tho only sign of animation about tlon in western Indiana. It was aban him—and this is a slow process—is doned as a caunl. howover, shortly be the feathers. They grow steadily. fore the Civil wur and Mr most Of Ito Every six months or so Mrs. Spellman distance was oonverted into turn land has to trim them In order for "Polly Mr. Dressor bought the entire strip recently whan It was offered for solo Alex" to lit In the glass ease. The parrot has been dead for thirty for taxes years. He was twenty -lour years old when he died, lie was given Io Mrs. PORCUPINE FALLS INTO BOAT Spellman when she was a baby. “I have trimmed the feathers, tall, wings and sides, of Polly Alex at least Praaoher-Fleherman Dives and Swims Ashore, Once a year for thirty years," salti full-grown porcupine. qulUs and Mrs. Sisdlmnn. "At first many per- Ml, A dropiiod from an overhanging tree sons were Incredulous, so I have been Into tho rowbofit front which saving the trimmings. In thirty years Jire<1t)y M, I have trimmed more than six feet of the Ilov. flldney Buck of -Wash., wm fishing, in Lakv feathers from the bird." Mr. Spellman Is sexto* of a ceme Tho Rev Mr. Book, better verted in tery near the Spellman home and he block sheep and goats than t>otcupln<w. Spoke jylth authority when he told of rather than tnko chances of knocking how hair and finger and toenails of I’orky off the boat with the oars, dived off the craft and swam to shore. humans beings grow after death. “I have seen very long hair and long Balls on several bodies we disinterred,’’ said Mr. Spellman. "1 couldn't ex SCHOOL WILL SOON COMMENCE plain how or why they grow, but I do know they do just us I know about Our bird." Were your children back "I am very font! of Polly Alex." ward in theri studies last chimed In Mrs Spellman. "‘He's been year? If so, it may be dead thirty years, but because hl» feathers grow he still seems alive. He due to eye trouble of some kind. Bring was a constant companion for twenty- 1 them to Dr. Turner, National Bldg., four years. It was a great sorrow to Tillamook and have their eyes exam my family when he died, but after he returned from the taxidermist very ined. If there is trouble he will cor much lifelike he seemed to be still rect it and f not he will tell you so With us. After we discovered his frankly. You owe this to your child feathers were growing he seemed more ren. Dr. Turner has all the latest up- alive than ever." to-date instruments and equipment, "I don't know what I will do with as well as a complete lens grinding Polly Alex. For a long time I have plant, and he can grind your lenses thought 1 would like to have him buried with me when I die, but per- and deliver them to you the same day baps I will give him to some museum.' H ’ they are ordered. But if he's given to any museum. Mrs. Spellman Indicated. It will be with the provision that his feather« are to be manicured at least once a year. KOCH DRUG STORE BEING REARRANGED OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO E. E. Koch, the druggist, has just installed a fine mahogany wall dis SAYS EXPLOSION OF ATOM play case and prescription case com WOULD DESTROY WORLD bined, over 15 feet in length, with OOOOOOOOOOooooooooooOOOOOO I plate glass mirrors, and up to date finishing that, has greatly added to the interior of his store. He has also moved his prescription medicines to the first floor. The whole store has been re-arranged. □ FRIDAY, AUGUST 21,1923 TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT KLAMATH VISITORS WITH RELATIVES HERE M. M. Stastny and family are guests of Glenn and Mutt Terry and families this week. Mr. Stastny’« wife is a sister of Glenn and Mat Terry of this city. His home is in Malin, Klam math county. He states that the U. S. reclamation service is draining allot 40,001) acres at Tule luke, and that wheat raised on the reclaimed port ions of the lake have yielded from 40 to 50 bushels per acre. Mr. Stastny states that Tule hike is the greatest wild fowl resort in Southern Oregon, there being million» of ducks and geese there. Mr. Stastny is prom inent in business in his section and states that the dairy industry is re ceiving attention, and that a cheese factory is in operation there. VALUABLE HERD SIRE BO’T BY WIN NECK ing in this city has 116 tons of drain pipe on the Lamb-Schrader docks awaiting shipment to Taft, n little town on Siletz bay, where it will be unloaded on the tide land» and later forwarded to the Warren Construc tion company who are building a stretch of the Roosevelt highway, the pipe to be used in culvert construct ion. Tho little gas schooner Siletz with a big barge is expected to ar rive soon to take away the present supply of 115 tons. Mr. Dolan, the local manufacturer has been kept busy this summer filling tile orders for contractors on the Roosevelt high way in Lincoln county and employs a number of mon at his '»hint. PERSONAL MENTION An event for the thrifty, onethat will bring big savings to those who come to Morris Schnur» sacrifice sale —adv. tumbled over with his rifle. and is improving nicely. ing, as well as fishing on the trip. Many autos of the different towns in C. E. Trombley and family left Till this county are carrying big cloth amook yesterday for some part of the state of Washington where he may signs calling attention to the coming go into the newspaper business. county fair, and giving the date. Are you a fair booster? You ought to be, Workmen are plastering the new if you are not. Beals building corner of Second ave- nue and Third street and expect to Wm. Hartzell was down from his have it ready for occupancy by the place near Nehalem on Monday last. middle of September. Mrs. A. L. Bowers who has been very ill for some weeks past, was able Every article in the house is reduc to ride down to the beach last Sunday, ed in Morris Schnal’s sacrifice sale. —Adv. J. A. Todd of Portland, a brother of Prince Todd of this city, came in Friday night to remain a few days and is at the Todd House. Joe slates that since his former visit here last June he noticed great improvement in the Southern Pacific line between here and tin- valley. The S. P. Co is shortening up its trestles and putting in concrete abutments at the bridge ends atid otherwise improving the road. Mr. Todd also noticed many new logging spurs from the muin road recently opened leading to log- ging camps. Joe still thinks Tillamook is a mighty good town. The county clerk issued a license to wed on August 21 to Sydney E. Un- W. I’’. Winneck of South Prairie bus evin and Jessie E. Bruce both of just bought n junior yearling bull Portland. for which he paid the sum of $<>()(). Mr. and Mrs. Clarence lame of Ash Men’s suits and overcoats for less The youngster is a Jersey, and was land, Oregon, .visited A. A. Penning at Morris Schnal’s sacrifice sale.— sold to him by Clifford Reid of Mc ton this week. Mr. Lane is a busi- Adv. Minnville of the Reid stock farm neHs man of Ashland. Miss l.ura near that city. The hull bears the I. Labowitch of Portland is here for Bland accompanied them from Me- title of Goldie’s King of Nehalem. a while helping out in his brother’ Minnville. store. Henry Crenshaw went out into the Norton Bradford of the Federal mountains Tuesday and came home with a fine two—point buck that he Reserve bunk of Portland, and his mother, Mrs. Bradford, and G. A. Reeher of this city, left Tuesday for .1, A. Omiandy, general passenger an outing up Wilson river, and the agent for the Southern Pacific, was in Oregon Fire Relief Assn. men of the party may do some hunt of M c M innville the city the latter part of last week. Mr. Ormandy recently received a pro IRA G. NELSON motion along with other of the rail RESIDENT AGENT road employee», and is »aid to be one 702 Second Ave E. Corner 7th of the youngest general passenger agents along the Pacitic coast. Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Moon - S«i<m were guests of A. L. Bower: and fan,, ily Saturday, while on their way to Netarts beach. Come to Morris SchnalV sale and save money on y<- clothing.—Adv. Mrs. R. W. Bennett ami Daughter left for a two weeks stay on Monday last at Rockaway beach. PENNINGTON’S FOR REAL VALUES—BETTER QUALITY SO. PACIFIC AGENT YOUNGEST ON COAST LOCAL DEER HUNTERS TO INVADE ROSEBURG Bert Thayor, Art Case, Matt Terry and Ray Grate of this city left Sat urday for Ro»eburg, and from that place will go into the mountains, where the deer are supposed to be thick. If the boys realize their ex pectations they wfll come home with a good share of the limit. A number of their friends are waiting with vision» of venison, for their home coming. CONCRETE TILING SHIPMENTS RESUME A. T. Dolan, manufacturer of til- Our Pet Peeve 1924 MODELS AND PRICES-/ o. b factory LIGHT SIX 8PKC1AL SIX J-Pm, 112* W. B .40 H P 5-Pae. IlVW.fi 50 R. P Touring................... ............ $ 995 Roadster (3 P hm )............. 97 5 Coupe Roadvter(2-Paaa ) 122 5 Sedan ........ 1550 Touring................. $1350 Roadster (3-Paaa )______ 1325 Conor (5 Pasi.) .... 1975 Sed .n 2050 Sir Ernest Rutherford of England, former winner of the Nobel prize for chemistry, and the world’s leading au thority on atomic structure, whose ex periments, brought down to the under standing of the lay mind, mean that by firing an atom, which, like the rest of the world, Is fill«! with hydrogen, the entire world will explode In a puff of smoke Howover. have no fear—no atom lias yet been exploded, It Is he lleved that Sir Ernest's experiments are so fundamental us to promise so- lution of many problems of physics which a few years ago seemed tnca- pable of solution, among them actual transmutation of elements, or rather of wme of the lighter ones, and the ISMMiblllty of harnessing the stupen dous energy nt present locked up In the complex structure of the atom. U. s. SLOW IN WAR CHEMICALS Othor Nations, With Japan and G ot - many In Lead, Excel Amerloa. Foreign nations are outstripping America in the development of chemi cals for warfare, with Japan and Ger many collaborating in secret, tho American Chemical society charges. “We learn," said an official bulletin Issued by the society, ’’that Italy lias organised a chemical warfare service Of twice the strength of our own; that Belgium also has organised a new chemical warfare service, and that both France and England continue ac tive support of their servtcaa In Ger many the onl» official activity 1* the chendcal warfare defense schooL Ja pan has purchased from the German industries such warfare secrets as are wanted and the various contributions made by Japan for support of certain Gernptfi universities are said to be One method of paying for the Informa tion secured." Hte H oítot Misjudges Joker Pays 11,261 Damages for Jeot A ’’practical joker" paid 21,851 dam- agM to Mrs Mae Grlffib of Des Moines, ¡a.. M settlement for her claim {or an Sjure«) spine. The joker had pulled a ialr from under her as she was about to alt down. • i w aenfjc, winfct BIG SIX 7-P«aa . W W B..60 R P Touring.—..—..................... $1750 bye ed s te r ( 5 - Paaa. ) — 1 b3 5 Coupe (5-Pnss.)________ 2550 Sedan................ 2750