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TILLAMOOK, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1924
ELWOOD CREAMERY
BURNS UP FRIDAY
Houses and Barns of Neighboring
¡¡dates Have Been in
ield and Ball is Roil
ing for Election
mhall indignant
, Clerk "Explains Things” and
ills Why World Has Been
Treating Him So Roughly
(By Leslie Harrison)
Dame Politics is warming up
isiness and beads of perspiration
ppearing on her brow. Busy
candidates are busily buzzing
the county mending fences and
ng new ones.
te a number of complications
entered the local political ma-
i this .year; friend is pitted
it friend and brother against
¡r, verbally scratching and spit-
t each other.
; two weeks before election how-
nd it is pretty well defined who
e crowned by success at the
in the 16th. There are some of
ocal candidates who have al-
killed themselves politically by
lerish mistakes, which old ti!h-
ive been careful to avoid.
clear cut issue has been drawn
en the farmers and business
nd certain large timber owners,
Iso have their candidates in the
>r the various county offices who
be voted on this month.
>. Beals is making a very suc-
I campaign against his oppon-
id Cary of Lafayette and J. U.
ith of Newberg. From the part
district out side of Tillamook
Mr. Beals has had unusual
i, having a large number of
i and political patrons all over
itrict. Tillamook county itself
ndoubtably favor its own man
trongiy.
representative from this dis
George P. Winslow, locai at-
’ is maintaining the lead and
all appearances he will finish
» large majority in his favor
the polls close two weeks from
vening. His opponent Russell
ins, of the Whitney Lumber
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CITY CANNERY
PUTTING UP CLAMS
to the prolific quantities of
on the bay this year, Hayes and
iard of Bay City began packing
>n the first of the month and
anticipated that 500 cases will
up this year. As crabs are
a dull season, fishermen work
site firm are also digging the
!S- A crew of five girls are
tk in the cannery preparing
'or the cans.
',ew °f tEie fact that the pack
less this year at Warrenton
’ewhere along the coast, local
'en are taking advantage of the
Le- This is the first time in
r of years that clams have
l*cked commercially at Bay
' SHOP AFIRE
ENDANGERS town
SWond hand store of T. B.
,’n the —
north
side of First
.... olue
■ween first and second ave-
*to
ir°m ’ sparlt which
1 th 1 l abundant moss on the
«* building. The roof was
,n$- The fire company re-
an soon had a stream on
ole was cut through into
ut the fire had not broken
. A
minutes of start
e resulted in a bad fire in
s r°*’
*s not known
•d th*/* Came from’ but
’’’
Di-,, * ' eame from a chim-
■ <e is estimated at about
°f taI1 «^wths
«s in
r0°fs of many frame
*e city, i« inviting a big
i
non-inflamable
»nd more apparent.
LARGE TIMBER DEAL
TAKES PLACE HERE
MASON HERD HIGHEST
IN WESTERN STATES
Hawley Paper Company is Buyer of
Record of Highest Testing Herd in
Farms Barely Saved When
Plant is Consumed
Over 5000 Acres
Effects Demand for
NEW FACTORY TO RISE
AUTOMOBILES CRASH
WITH LITTLE DAMAGE
Two cars one driven by O. H.
Schwerdman of the Oregon Box Fac
tory of Portland, and the other by
Kenneth Chance collided at the in
tersection of First street and Second
avenue east Wednesday aftrnoon with
the result that the Schwerdman car
received a bent fender. The Chance
car was not injured. Mr. Schwerd
man is the manager of the Bay City
mill which was destroyed by fire this
week.
UNUSUAL WEATHER
ENDANGERS FOREST
On account of unusually dry weath
er caused by steady east winds and
low humidity last week fires, sup
posedly started to burn slashings,
swept over a tract of timber in the
Salmonberry district and consumed a
large amount of standing timber.
The flames swept down a tract a
mile wide and ten miles in length and
also consumed four million feet of
felled timber at Enright, Buick and
Bellfort. The train was delayed sev
eral hours on account of burning
trees which fell across the track. A
crew of several hundred men war
kept busy fighting the flames and
succeeded in preventing the spread to
other areas.
KIWANIANS PROTEST
AGAINST ENGINE USE
The advisability of the fire depart
ment leaving the city to answer calls
out of town and in neighboring com
munities was discussed at the meet
ing of the Kiwanis club Wednesday
noon. Rollie Watson, local insurance
agen, suggested the purchase of a
larger engine to be located centrally
in the county subject to the call of the
outlying communities.
A committee was selected to take
up the matter of a women’s rest room
in the city hall. The same committee
will discuss the fire department ques
tion with the city council.
County Agent Pine went to Mohler
Tuesday morning to ship calves.
SOLDIER MEMORIAL
IS CONTRIBUTED FOR
Contributions are being sent in to
the Woman’s club for the soldier mon
ument which will be erected this fall,
if present plans are carried out. It
is thought possible that the monu
ment will be placed on the court
house grounds though no definite de
cision has been reached.
A majority of the women’s clubs
in the city are contributing to the
fund and assisting with the work. A
campaign will be launched in the near
future by the committee in charge.
Any one desiring to send in a con
tribution may mail it to Mrs. Leslie
Harrison, secretary of the club.
Claimed Highly Infectious
by
The Wright-Blodgett company,
Limited, of Grand Rapids, Michigan,
sold and conveyed to the Hawley
Pulp & Paper company, of Oregon
City, this week a large tract of timber
in this county in townships one and
two north, range 10 west of the Wil
lamette Meridian. The acreage of
timber involved, which is mainly pulp
wood, was 5896 acres, and the price
paid in round numbers was $550,000.
In addition to this deal Don E. and
Doris Meldrum sold a tract to the
Hawley interests in township 1,
range 10 west embracing several hun
dred acres, with $10 given as the
purchase price. The timber is near
the bay section, and adjacent to a
large tract recently purchased from
the Wheeler heirs some months ago.
MAY CIRCUIT COURT
CONVENES MONDAY
— ——
Circuit court will convene Monday,
May 5, with the following cases set
for trial: Monday, Cook vs. Bell and
Toney, action for money; Tuesday,
Garner vs. Rogers, action for money;
Cross vs. Talbot, action to quiet title;
Wednesday, Crimmins vs. Buffum,
action for money; Thursday, Harmon
vs. 'Steinbach, action for money in
connection with contract.
\
WELL KNOWN WRITER
TOURS IN COUNTY
On a tour of the state with the
view of writing up the more unusual
points of interest, Lucile F. Saunders
stopped over in this city Tuesday and
Wednesday. Miss Saunders is a fea
ture writer and her account of this
trip will appear in the Portland Ore
gonian and several eastern publica
tions. Two years ago she made a
similar tour through South America
and the same camra, suitcase and
typewriter that accompanied her on
that tour are her sole companians on
this trip.
Jack Rupp lost a prize Jersey bull
in an accident on the railroad at Moh
ler last week. The animal had been
just recently purchased for his Ne
halem farm where he has a large herd
at present The loss will be greatly
felt as this animal was one of the best
in the north end of the county and
was not insured.
BAY CITY SAWMILL
STARTS BAD FIRE
Ten Western States Belongs
Large Tract in County, of
Big Lead Over Wisconsin
Just before 2 o’clock last Friday
Present
the fire department was asked to go
out to the Elwood cheese factory,
about four miles east of this city. It
was not deemed prudent, however, to
take the Stutz engine away from
town, ’ but Chief
— - - Coates sent out the
hook and ladder truck with several Creameries in South Part of County
men, who got out too late to save
Installing Separators For
the cheese factory, but did succeed
in saving the two story home of Mrs.
Taking Butterfat
Donaldson, and a big barn, the roof of
which was several times on fire.
The fire started on the roof of the
The cheese market is exceedingly
cheese factory from a spark from the
dull, reports Carl Haberlach, due to
smoke-stack, and fanned by a strong
east wind soon had that building in the fact that Tillamook cheese prices
flames. Most of the cheese was re are from 8 to 9 cents higher than
moved by men at the factory and Wisconsin prices on the same styles
neighbors, but a quantity was de of cheese. All hands are hoping for
stroyed. Both the barn and the resi an increase in Wisconsin cheese this
dence of Mrs. Donaldson were on fir« week. Should this fail to materialize,
from sparks carrying from the cheese it will probably be necessary to de
factory, but the firemen hooked up a crease prices another cent Wiscon
line to a stand-pipe near the resi sin prices are 5 cents lower than a
dence, and put out the fire. The use year ago.
One of the association’s factories,
of the chemical extinguishers finally
the Elwood creamery, burned down
saved the barn and its contents.
Harry Hogan, the manager , lived last week. The factory was insured
over the factory, and while seeking to for $2,000 and the cheese for $4,000.
save articles belonging to the family, There was some loss on the factory,
was forced to jump from a second but the cheese was fully covered by
insurance. There will be a meeting
story window to save his life.
Most of the contents of the factory, this week to decide upon whether or
except a quantity of cheese, were not a new factory will be built this
year.
consumed in the fire. The factory
A contract was given to J. Heyd
had just installed a brand new boiler
and smoke stack. The factory had et al to build the East Beaver factory.
been working on the spring run for This will be a modern, up-to-date
building, and will be a credit to that
about a month.
section of the county.
The total value of the factory build
A committee has been appointed to
ing was about $10,000; with $2,000
look after the erection of the Central
insurance on the building, and $4,000
creamery but no contract has yet
on the cheese and other contents. The
(Continued on page 2)
total loss given by Carl Haberlach,
was about $3,000.
PRICE $2.00 THE YEAR
Authority,
Flames Quickly Spread to
to Local Cows
North End of Town
And
Warning Sounded
ALL ANIMALS SUBJECT
Dr. Lytle Tells Symptoms of Cattle
Sickness and Gives Pre
ventative Measures
The purebred herd of Guernsey cat
tle, belonging to Homer Mason has
the record of being the highest test
ing herd of fifteen cows and under
in a group of western states which in
cludes Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Ne
vada, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona,
Oregon, Washington and California,
according to word given out this week
by the county agent’s office.
Ira Lance had the highest produc
ing individual cow for the same states,
producing 122 pounds butter fat in
one month.
Oregon is again in the lead of all
the cow testing associations in the
above mentioned states. From the
number of cows represented for which
the government takes its figures in
the state of Oregon, 75 percent are
tested in Tillamook. During the past
three years in this county the test
ing associations have increased 300
per cent, in the number of cows test
ed. Last year in the three associations
there were 2,964 cows tested, this year
with only two associations approxi-
Figures from the county agent’s
mately 3,200 will be tested,
office show $4,680 worth of calves
shipped out of the county since the
first of the year.
(By W. H. Lytle, State Veterinarian)
Foot and mouth disease is an acute
and without any doubt, the most high
ly infectious disease that attacks eith
er man or beast, found chiefly in cat
tle and other cloven hoofed animals,
It does however, affect practically all
animals and it is doubtful if any
warm-blooded animal taken as a spe-
cies is actually immune.
The majority of losses in an epi-
demic are confined to cattle because
they are perhaps the most susceptible,
followed closely by garbage fed hogs
which have their resistence reduced
because of being fed garbage. Next
in order of susceptibility comes sheep
and goats. Many of those experienc
ed in foot and mouth disease control
report that sheep carry a high per
centage of immunity, but in a large
band there will be some few animals
that will take the disease, hence the
entire band must be destroyed. There
is some difference of opinion about
the susceptibility of deer, antelope
A fire originated in the attic of the
and wild cloven hoofed game. The Parker B. Rumford dwelling at the
most authoratative sources of inform- end of First street, east, last Fri
(Continued on page 4)
day morning at about 8:20 o’clock.
The cause was the breaking up of a
concrete chimney between the ceiling
and the roof which communicated the
sparks to the attic. When first notic
ed, the fire was appearing through
the roof. The fire company responded
The fire department was called out quickly to the alarm, and soon had
Thursday morning when a wood saw the fire under control, although the
owned by the Coats Lumber company roof was badly damaged. Both the
and operated by Ross Chilcott caught roof and the ceiling below will have
fire while in operation at the wood to be nene wed, and there was loss to
yard near the railroad tracks. Much the contents by water. The property
fear was expressed regarding the pos is owned by Parker B. Rumford, a
sible explosion of the gasoline tank, non-resident, and was occupied by
which contained five gallons of gas Harry H. Bryans, prescription clerk
oline at the time, but the extinguisher at Lamar’s drug sto-e, who with his
held it in check until water was turn family occupied the building.
ed on. The saw is thought to be dam
The loss is about 75 per cent. In
aged beyond repair.
surance to owner is $1500. Bryans
had $700 on the contents, A valu-
Mr. and Mrs. Alex McNair moved ation of between $3500 and $4,000 is
to Rockaway Thursday where they placed upon the house. The total
will spend the summer, having rent insurance is in the Watson agency.
ed their property in the city. They
plan to go to California for the win-
HOUSE IS DAMAGED
BY FRIDAY’S FIRE
BURNING WOODSAW
TURNS OUT ENGINE
PAROLED CONVICT
IN AUTO SMASH
J. Merrell Smith, Oldsmobile dealer,
driving in from Portland Sunday
night, had his machine rammed by an
automobile in which were Glenn Win
ters, Herbert Rose, Miss Dorothy
Nonamaker and Miss Holly Zurbuch-
en, all of Portland. The accident oc
curred at the All near the bridge.
Smith's machine, which he was de
livering to a customer was damaged
to the extent of about $500. The
other automobile was also slightly in
jured.
Mr. Smith brought the entire party
into Tillamook, placed the girls in a
hotel and Winters in jail. He noti
fied the parents of the young women
and Mr. Nonomaker came and took
them honA. It later developed that
Winters has a jail record. He was
charged with contributing to the de-
linquency of a minor and was fined
$1000 and sentenced to one year in
jail. His jail term was paroled, also
$900 of the fine was lifted after his
parents had paid $100 to get him out.
The girls’ ages were given as 15
and 16.
Winters is being held in custody
pending advices from Portland. It is
alleged that he gave bogus checks to
the P. H. Dunn Motor company for
a machine.
The new car which Smith was driv
ing was fully insured.
by Wind
VOLUNTEERS ON HAND
Fire
Department
From
Tillamook
Responds to Call and Helps
Check Flames
Volunteer fire fighters from Bay
City, Tillamook and Garibaldi Monday
afternoon joined in combatting th«
flames which completely destroyed
the Oregon Silver Spruce company
mill on the water front at Bay City
and for several hours threatened th«
entire northern end of the town, The
home of L. M. Thompson was cou
sumed, also a barn adjoining th«
house of Homer Flagg. Sparks set-
tied on the roof of the dwelling sev-
eral times, but were promptly extin
guished.
A high wind from the southwest
fanned the flames into a roaring fur
nace in the rear of the Oddfellows
hall, where hoses were in constant
play. Brush east of the main street
ignited and the burning area stretch-
ed across the coast highway and up
into the timber, where brush smould-
ered all of Monday night.
From 2:30 p. m. until nearly S
o’clock Bay City was blanketed in
smoke and was a scene of confusion.
Many, families moved all of their be
longings from the houses and furni
ture was stacked along the sidewalks,
chickens in coops mingling with fruit
jars. A pet coon, tethered to a fence
by the creek, was among the refugees.
The fire was caused by an over
heated box on the cut-off saw. With
in five minutes the mill was a flam
ing torch. Small lumber stacks were
moved and bucket brigades worked
to save a storage shed and a quantity
of pulp near the railway station. A
special engine was sent to clear the
railroad tracks of a number of
freight cars standing near the mill.
Fire Chief Thomas Coates of Tilla
mook was one of the early arrivals
on the scene, bringing a hose truck.
The pumper, sent for later, made the
run in 13 minutes and was established
beside the creek, from which hose
lines were laid to the mill. The er>
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FAMILY THREATENED
BY FOREST FIRES
One of the most harrowng ex
periences attendant upon the recent
fire menace in Tillamook county was
that of the Sam Shortridge family
in the timber above Idaville. Last
Friday night the house was hemmed
in on three sides by flames and it was
necessary for the women to pass
buckets of water and wet sacks to
Mr. Shortridge and his son, Bob, who
stood on the roof and beat out the
sparks. The house caught afire three
times before morning, but was only
slightly damaged.
According to Mrs. Shortridge, they
had watched the fire in the Bald Butte
country for two days before they
realized that they were in its direct
path. Friday dead stubs about the
house were burning and the ranchers
backfired, as their only means of pro
tection. While they were at work to
save their home during the night,
sparks were carried over the house
and ignited timber on the mountain
slope opposite, which was soon ablaze
from top to bottom.
CHEST IS CRUSHED
REPAIRING MACHINE
While working under a craft at the
Arstill garage at Hebo last Friday,
Lloyd Coulson of that place had his
chest severely crushed by the auto
chassis, resulting in serious injuries
of an internal nature. Dr. Work of
A son was born to Mr and Mrs. I Cloverdale was called. Coulson was
William Anderson at the Vidito hos-1 employed by Hugh Arstill, the owner
pit al Wednesday.
of the garage.