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FEATHERS OF STUFFED
PARROT STILL GROWING
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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
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Thirty Years Now Measure
fams in the world from a topom
Six Feet.
cal standpoint T>»- place ta is
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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