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OLUME 35; NUMBER 7
TII.LAMOOK. OREGON, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23. 1923
PRICE $2.00 THE YEAR
ADDED EQUIPMENT
RAISES PAPER VALUE
CIT/ HALL WRACKED
BY LARGE CROWDS
OMERCHEE$E_™ZA",XsS
Modern Machinery is Installed by
Investigation to Show Character of
■
Speaker Advises Taking Boys Into
Headlight
Toward
as
a
Step
Future
Aidermen to Stop Affairs
in
(«untici Able to Agree
on Hoad
City
Auditorium
Weaknesses in Municipal
Structure
Stock in Storage Decreased
With
Extra
Large
Confidence
and
Showing
More Interest
North Fork Will Receive
Some Attention From
Pending Repairs
Production
Thirty-five years of progress in the
Road Department
Over six hundred people at the
Everyman’s class met Sunday
publication of the Headlight have
boxing entertainment, it is said, tax
morning at 8:30 in the K. of P. hall,
brought to this newspaper an unlim
ed the city hall last Saturday night
breakfast was served to 102
p. ... . where a Mit
ited capacity for serving its readers
to its capacity, and the day following
DAY fathers and I sons. The menu contain
delegated and
advertisers.
numerous < racks and shifts in the
ed fried sausage, fried potatoes, hot
The Ludlow system of all-slug com
walls were noticed, which gave rise
rolls, coffee, jelly, etc, and was ample
position, the lattest addition to the
|K Percent Grade Is Expected Heudlight composing room, will now Fine and Jail Sentence Provided For to the belief that building was un N ew Warehouse Now Completed For for all.
Between
Willamette
safe.
The occasion was the observance of Connection
make possible a substantial improve
Tuesday
morning
last,
George
Chaf
Maximum
on
Tentative
Minors
Found
in
Resorts
Father
and
Son
’
s
day.
Association Materials on
As
Valley and Roosevelt
ment in the typographical appearance
fee of the firm of Merrick, Chaffee &
After breakfast, Ira Lance, presi
of the paper.
Wilson Route
of City
Front Street
Heyd, examined the building, and
Highway
dent of Everyman’s class called to
With the installation of the new
gave it as his opinion that the shift
order. Singing was led by class lead
equipment, the Headlight is entering
ing and cracks in the plaster were
er, Rev. George Harness, with a pro
The association reports the cheese gramme of patriotic songs, followed
upon a new chapter in the history of
The city council convened last Sat due to the shrinking of lumber in the
Grove,
Washing
ton
county,
I
Through the courtesy of Stanley
Foreit
business as being in a satisfactory
IS the Sim of a big gathering of newspaperdom in Tillamook County. urday night with Councilman Merrick building, and also found that the par shape at this time. Most of the Oct by instrumental music. Miss Phillippi i Coates, county surveyor, the Head
Since the establishment of this pub and Roy' Wilson were absent. Wilson titions had settled upon each other to
rendered a solo in pleasing style, and I light is able to present some figures
eaters for a short route highway
a considerable extent. He thinks, ober cheese has been sold with the ex E. E. Koch gave two violin solos that : of distance via the tentative Trask-
jni Tillamook to Forest Grove and lication in 1888, all of the larger type is in Washington for a few weeks.
An ordinance was read by Attorney however, these conditions can be re ception of probably 700 case* loaf also were appreciated.
llliboro lust Monday. Great en- faces, appearing in its display adver
Cherry Grove cut-off route from Till
tising
and
feature
headings,
have
Hall
which prohibits minors from be lieved by tightening up the trusses. and these will move out within a short
The address of the morning was de amook to Portland.
uaiasni wa manifested at the meet-
The city hall was built in 1915, at time. Several of the factories are livered by Dr. J. E. Shearer who 1
5 which wa composed of delega been produced with individual types. ing in poo) halls or card rooms, It
The new line which will be survey
again making considerable loaf and spoke on the subject “Morality, and
te from the Hillsboro and Forest This week has seen the conversion of carries a [>enalty for violation a cost of $15,000, and was designed by
ed
out during the coming year will
this will keep the triplet stock down Companionship of Father and Son.”
eve chambers of commerce and the composing room to a plant whicn amounting to a fine of not to exceed A. Burgraff of Albany, architect.
leave the Trask road at the mouth of
to
such
an
extent
that
the
cheese
$20, and a sentence of not to exceed
It is believed that the council wili
He said in part:
the north fork of the Trask about
ier interested persons. Tillumook is now largely on the all-slug basis.
Typelines miles in length can now seven days in the city jail, An emer- have the building made absolutely should all move off before spring.
“The first fundamental principle of fourteen and a half miles up the old
is represented by a committee of
Storage stocks in Los Angeles total
isiness men whose personal was as be produced with ease in the Head gency clause was tacked to the ordi safe, if possible. A number of per about 5500 cases and in San Francis- business life should be honety. No road from Tillamook City. Entering
light
’
s
own
composing
room.
nance
and
it
was
rushed
through
to
sons
have
an
idea
that
the
roof
sup
man or boy can succeed in this life the canyon of the north fork, the sur
Hows G. A. Reeher, H. H. Rosen
(Continued on page 6)
For those who make use of the a third reading, and passed, and is ports at the sides of the building
for long, who is dishonest. A boy vey will probably follow the canyon
rg, H. T. Botts and C. I. Clough,
have slipped from place, and in that
should have good, healthy amusement of the north fork to a point near the
je county court was represented by Headlight advertising columns, its now effective.
The Woman’s club requested case, the roof Would be weakened to
to work off the surplus energy of summit of the Coast range, thence
. 0. Richards, county commissioner. Ludlow carries a host of advantages.
mind. Too many fathers do not take over the summit, or rather around
The Hillsboro delegation was com- It expedite* each process in the prep through the Mayor that a door be the extent that it might cave in. If
enough interest in their boys. Too the summit by the best grade obtain
med of Chas E. Wells, M P. Ready aration of the advertisement for pub cut from the chamber of commerce such an accident should happen when
much time is taken up in business. able, to the head of the Tualatin riv
id Ed L. Moore, und one of the lication, from the time the first type room to the council hall, so that both the building was filled with people,
The committee of twelve appointed Boys want to know things, which er, thence down the river on a water
Washington county commissioners, is set until the press starts grinding rooms would be available for the use it would spell disaster.
of the club on certain occasions.
The action of the council in for by the Kiwanis club several weeks parents would better tell them, than grade to Cherry Grove, which is fig
lie Forest Grove committee wus: L. off copies of the Headlight.
It
then
developed
that
since
the
big
bidding
public gathering in the city ago, met Wednesday last in this city, to get distorted ideas from older boys ured to be eighteen miles from the
It
also
provides
the
advertiser
with
Graham, John Thornburgh and
hall auditorium until the real char and discussed the matter of the ap who may lean to the wrong side of mouth of the north fork of the Trask,
(Continued on page two)
clean, dear, easily-read type faces
ihn Ireland.
acter of the weakness is thoroughly proaching departure to Washington life.
one and one half miles below the old
IL. M Graham was made permanent that are always new. At the same
established,
is though to be wise, as of the committee appointed by the Ki
“Don’t be afraid to talk to your boy, Trask road house, Allowing eighteen
time
it
insures
him
against
any
em
lairman of the organization, which
a precautionary measure.
wanis club to go before the board of just as you would to another man. miles from the mouth of the north
| to continue until results are obtain- barrassment that may come at a re
sult
of
broken
or
battered
letters
ap-
U. S. engineers at the national cap Don’t give them short and unsatis fork of the Trask to Cherry Grove,
| of a satisfactory nature to the
ital in an effort to get that body to factory answers to questions. Don’t add five miles from Cherry Grove to
m countie , respecting a short route |a*aring in his advertisement.
This latter feature is of special val
reconsider its former action whereby scold or nag at them. Make compan Seegers, a station on the Southern
The Roosevelt highway from the
the coast from Washington county.
ue
to
advertisers
in
this
newspaper
the
further improvement of Tillamook ions of them. The eary training a Pacific, where a connection also is
Clatsop
county
line
to
Mohler
is
all
1 L More, h Hillsboro live-wire,
bay channels- and harbors was adver boy gets is what counts. The older made with the Portland-McMinnville
Is made |s-rmanent secretary, and who are accustomed to use italics, done, and ready for all kinds of travel.
the brain, the harder to understand; highway, and you have a total of
sely closed.
, T. Botts was made vice chairman since the Ludlow italic is cast in such The road improved represents a total
The matter of additional data was so fathers start early to educate thirty-seven miles from Tillamook
a way that it will not break during distance of six miles, and is a per
the organization.
taker up, and a final counsel with the your sons in the things they ought to to Seegers, or to a connection with
manent part of the big system of the
Much enthusiasm was manifest in the course of printing the paper.
Elvin Fairbanks and Frank Wilson committee was had. The committee know.
thff Portland-McMinnville highway.
The
Ludlow
is
a
pioneer
invention,
Roosevelt
highway,
which
will
extend
e discussion of the new route, and
were arrested by deputy game ward appointed to go to Washington in be
“Boys, learn to use your own heads. Add thirty two miles from Seeghers,
the
lirBt
noteworthy
improvement
all
along
the
Oregon
coast,
and
later
e meeting went on record in a neg
en Russell one day this week, charged
Think. The sooner you begin to work and you have a total of 74.5 miles to
ation for the establishment of the made in the composing of display connect with the California highway, with shoting ducks between sunset half of bay improvements c 'sists of out the problems that come to you,
Portland from Tillamook by the new
ilson river route as a road. It was type in many years, and the forerun making it possible for coast autoists and one half hour before sunrise. The Russell Hawkins of Garibaldi, A. F. the sooner you will gain in knowledge Trask route. It is 109.2 miles from
Coats and Carl Haberlach of Tilla-
and
tourists
to
go
from
Astoria
along
ner
of
an
age
that
is
fast
approach
4o decided to complete a survey of
men were shooting on the Kilchis riv mook, and Ralph Williams of Port- and usefulness in this world. Culti Tillamook via the present highway to
l<* Trask-Cherry Grove cut-off down ing in the printing trades when type the coast line to San Diego, Calif- er mud-flats, when the deputy ward
land. The committee from this coun- vate a clear, mind and a sound body Portland. The new route would thus
will
be
set
exclusively
on
slugs,
at
ornia.
»■ north fork of the Trusk to the
en appeared, and placed the men un ty will leave here in time to be in and keep them that way.”
represent practically a saving of
the
Nehalem
The
big
bridge
over
least
in
newspaper
work.
d road next summer.
der arrest. In Justice Stanley’s Washington before the 4th of Decem
thirty-four miles over the present
the
finishing
river
is
now
receiving
Comprising
a
system
for
compos-
It came out during the discussion
court the next day, the men plead ber, when a meeting with the board
route, a matter of an hour and a
touches
which
will
connect
the
people
(Continued on page 7)
at a maximum grade of not to ex-
half of time to the average auto
of the north side of that river with guilty to the charges made against of engineers is scheduled to occur.
ed five percent can be secured over
them, and each of the offenders paid Ralph Williams of Portland already
driver.
the
dike
highway
to
Wheeler,
when
e Wilson river route, and the grade
Surveyor Coates, however, states
is in Washington, and it is understood
the dike road is gravelled and an over a fine of $25 and the costs.
111 not liproach the maximum of five
that the north fork of the Trask may
that he has cleared some ground in
head
crossing
is
finished
over
the
tr cent except in one place on the
contain surprises in engineering that
The Pacific states telephone com- behalf of the committee, and that be
track of the Southern Pacific track
The district convention of the will cause curves and diversions,
Site, and that is the zig-zag near
sides
the
Oregon
delegation
in
con
pany
is
now
engaged
in
the
work
of
near Wheeler. The steel for the
Knights of Pythias for Clatsop and
e Coast range summit.
bridge is now being bolted in place. setting new poles from the Tillamook gress, the aid of other senators and Tillamook counties, was held in this which will have to be subtracted from
A big meeting of the joint com-
an air-line estimate, and therefore
The completion of the bridge was river south through Netars to Ocean representatives has been enlisted in
ittees from Tillamook, Forest Grove
The old time Bowie knife, like the long delayed on account of the failure side, and will later string the wire support of the demands of the Tilla city last Monday in the K. P. hall. add a maximum of eight miles to
The session lasted until late in the the above estimated distance. Even
td Hillsboro will be had with the old cap and ball six-shooter,, which
of the bridge steel to arrive at Ne for a new special line for the latter mook delegation from the Kiwanis afternoon.
irtland chamber of commerce and was common in the days when hardy
at that, there would still remain a
club.
resort.
halem.
The page rank of the order was gain of 26 miles; and again, a survey
her civic clubs in Portland in the pioneers came across the arid plains
confered on a waiting class. There may gain some ground. Last sum
ar future, when it is believed that to the western states in their covered
was a good representation from towns mer, engineer Hobbs of Hillsboro, left
Irtland will become enthused over wagons drawn by patient oxen, has
in Clatsop and Tillamook counties Cherry Grove with a companion and
* prospect of a short route from now become a rare thing, and a curi
where lodges are located.
at city to a junction with the Roose- osity.
walked over the proposed rute from
The business meeting lasted until Cherry Grove, and down the north
It highway on the Tillamook coast.
The Bowie knife was invented by
6 p. m. Following adjournment of fork of the Trask to an intersection
The county courts of the two coun Col. Bowie, a Texan, who fell before
the business session, came a banquet, with the old Trask wagon road, and
ts will be thoroughly backed by the Santa Anna's hordes of half Spanish
which was succeeded by an open the pedometer showed showed 18
mniercial bodies of the two counties, and half Indian peons at the A Imo.
meeting. M. F. Hardesty of Seaside miles from Cherry Grove to the
Ki should Portland awaken to the It is related that Bowie used one of
former grand Chancellor, presided An mouth of the north fork of the Trask,
leuaity for a direct highway to the his celebrated knives on the enemy
address of welcome was given in the which comes in a mile and a half be
•st it is believed that not only until the last, as did the famous old
evening by J. E. Shearer. The main low the Trask house. It is under
te aid but even national govern- hunter, Davy Crockett at the same
address was by grand Chancellor C. stood that the Hillsboro engineer was
rnt aid may be secured.
time and place.
W. Barrick, who was followed by rather pleased than otherwise, with
J. R. Collins of this city has an ol<q
John Aschim, Grand Master of the the proposed route.
time Bowie knife that has been in
I. O. O. F. of Oregon, the guest of
Next summer, states Mr. Coates, it
the family for more than seventy
honor. Grand Master Aschim made
years. It has a bone handle that re
(Continued on page 4)
an excellent address on fraternalism.
sembles ivory, and the blade, which
A musical and literary program was
Skomp was down from Sa- is a sixteenth of an inch thick on the
given, interspersed with fine selec
•<ia Bend last Friday and Saturday, back, has a total length of nine and
tions by McGhee’s orchestra. Among
t Skomp is interested in the short one half inches, and the handle meas
the other speakers were: Rev. Tabor
ures
four
and
one
half
inches.
The
«te up the north fork of the Trask
and Jack Leslie of Nehalem, Fire
Ver over to Cherry Grove, and blade is about one and a half inches
Chief Barrett of Seaside, H. Egger
in
width,
from
the
back
to
the
edge,
Walter and Miss Matilda Harvey of
«««■ to .Seegers atation on the Port-
of Astoria, W. R. Gould ami John
Centralia,
Wash., are visiting their
uii-M, MinnviUe highway. He Hays and rests in a leather scabbard tipped
Bozarth of this city. The oddress of
• the road already in operation at both ends with German silver. It
welcome to the delegates at the day cousin, E. J. Schelling, and family
this city to the Trask house, is a handsome but dangerous weapon,
session was by Rev. Lois Anderson of this week Last week Mr. Harvey
senior of Centralia was in-Tillamook
u be shortened one mile at least with an edge like a razor. No doubt
this city.
for a few days, and at that time
tunneling n point on the road at the knife could tell of Indian fights,
bought Homer Mason’s pure-bred
« Place, which would not be hard and of its potency in bear fights at
Guernsey bull, said to be the best bull
expensive. He also close quarters, for the forebears of
i. ’ nor very
■ ■«-JvpcuBiw.
of his breed in the county. The son
*vts that the road could be short- the Collins, were Texans, who knew
is now here with a big truck, and
•t other places by the engineers, how to handle such weapons, and they
will take the Tillamook animal to thi
ninks the route via the north lived in Texas at a time when it be
Guernsey
farm of the new owner nea.
hooved
a
man
to
have
his
arsenal
O.
A.
C.,
Corvallis,
Nov.
20
—
Hubert
1,1 the I task, and Cherry Grove
Mathews of Tillamook is one of the Centralia.
■ upon
"ixm survey, prove to be the with him, on all occasions.
The Harveys are breeders of pure
Mr. Collins cares for the old fam
men turning out regularly for the
’t route from Portland to the
ily relic, which apparently is just as
first year wrestling team. Mathews bred Guernseys, and while it is not
is showing up well in the 135-pound known what price was paid, it doubt
bright and well kept as when it was
’.
He is a freshman in electrical less was a satisfactory one to Judgs
first
bought
and
carried
by
members
J. *
*JarnaH of Brighton was
Mason.
engineering.
visitor the fore part of this of the family, who have long since
crossed the "great divide.
WOMEN ASK FOR ROOM
«AIRMAN
8 TONS MILK PER
DIRECT LINE FROM EAST
HARBOR COMMITTEE
PLANS EASTERN TRIP
ROOSEVELT HIGHWAY
READY FOR GRAVEL
LATE DUCK HUNTERS
MEET GAME WARDEN
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
CONVENED MONDAY
OLD TIME BOWIE KNIFE
OWNED BY LOCAL MAN
Roosting High
AN SHORTEN ROAD,
SAYS WILSON FARMER
BULL BOUGHT HERE
BY CENTRALIA MAN
FORMER H. S. STUDENT
OUT FOR WRESTLING