W. J. MUCKLE WASHINGTON MUCKLE JVlXTS 1UH.XESS DEALERS IN HARDWARE SJS1I OILS DOORS COWLITZ ami RIVER STREETS ST. HELENS, OREGON Some Suaqestions KODAKS, CAMERAS. XMAS BOOKLETS. LETTERS. POST CARDS, BOOKS FOR OLD and YOUNG, GUITARS. VIOLINS. BANJOS. LADIES HAND BAGS. MUSIC ROLLS. GENTLEMENS CARD AND BILL HOOKS. PERFUMERY AND TOILET WATERS. CALENDERS AND NEW YEAR CARDS E A. J. DEMINC, DRUOClST, ST. HELENS ClU 41JL4l44JLJL8.lltJLiLS.ft 111 ! 11 18.484 H8.8. JL .UtlfcL.Uii.L.UiULAAHiLUiUkl.UiiiLAAiikLAAiU I St. Helens MillJCo. Lath Electric Lighting (Saves Your Eyes) Steam Heating (Prolongs Your Lives) Wood Lumber Livery, Feed and Sale Stable DRAYING AND TRANSFER AH BusinesalPromptly Attended To PHONE is OR 12 WM. H. DAVIES ST. HELENS, OREGON Prop ACTI VITIES DURING 1913 State Maintaining Rapid Advance in Material Weath. Total Agricultural Product lor lcar mi Has Never Been Surpassed. Portland, Ohkcon, January 6th (Special. While in items Oregon's yield in 1113 was somewhat Mow that of the reu u. t... wiir has never been surpassed. The market value of cereals produced in the state was approximately J5.000.000 less than for 1912, but with this one exception materia gains were made in all agricultural lines. , The following figures indicate that the state is maintaining the rapi.i advance in material wealth established in previous years: GRAINS AND HAY. Wheat, bushels 11). 150,000 Barley. '.' 4.000,000.. Oats " 12.500,000 Rye " 350.000. -- Corn " 850,000 Hay. tons l.SOO.OOl)..-.. Total Foil 1913 Total Kok 1D12 - VKGKTAHLKS. Total for 1913. - lS.ft30.0tH) Total for 11)12 17,7sO.OOO $15,325,000 , 3.3S0.000 1.900,0(0 310,000 525,0(10 1 1.COO.OOO f 3S.-1 10.000 43.4SS.O0O Cattle. head Dairy cows, head Hogs - Sheep Horses " Mules Goats LIVKSnk'K. CO0.O0O..- 12.000.01,0 212,000 18.900.000 ' l.Ooo.OOO... Il.0o0.000 1.825.000 7.225.000 279,000 --- 20.000.000 8,930 --'- 1.7SO.00O 1S7.000. ... 20,000 Total for 1913 $101. 1S5.0H0 Total for 1912. I02.494.0o0 FRUITS AND NUTS. Total for 1913. Total for 1912. Total for 1913 Total for 1912 WOOL AND MOHAIR. 9.070.220 0,430,000 2,917.000 2. 701.000 DAIRY l'RODUCTJr. Butter, pounds 20.000.000 , $ 7,000,000 Cheese, pounds 9.000.000 1.410.000 Milk and Cream, gallons 26,000,000 13,000.000 Total for 1913 - $21,440,000 Total for 1912 " Ifi.090.0ti0 M I SCELLAN EOTS PRODTlTS. Including Poultry, Eggs. Hops, Salmon and other Fish. Honey, Etc. Total for 1913 $18,975,000 Total for 1&12 38,017.000 FROM OUR EXCHANGES n. VNS AND ESTIHATES FURNISHED ON ALL KINDS OF WORK E. W. KETEL 1 CONTRACTOR IN itosflt Finishing. Bricklaying, .Concrete Work .Plastering MY WORK IS THE BEST RECOMMENDATION ST. HELENS. OREGON nfJ I popllah I IS MECHANICS B f 300 HARTICLES 300 ILLU5TRA TI0N5 Popular Mechanics Magazine "wirrmn so vou can understand it" A CREAT Continued Story of the World' ProiireM which you may begin reading at any time, and which will hold your intercut forever. You are living In the best year, of the moqt wonderful aiie. of what ia douMless the (greatest world in the universe. A resident ot Mars would gladly pay i nnn for one year's pl,UUU SUBSCRIPTION tothismaKazine.in order to keep Informed ol our progress in Engineering and Mechanics. Are you reading it ? Two millions of your neighbors are, and it Is the favorite maga zine in thousands of the best American homes. It apiieals to all classes old ana young men and women. The "Shoe Note" Drpartneat (90 pur) p-ima eajr wsji to do iiiiiifcr,i.how to niAlta uml id truck tor home and abop, repairs, ete. " Amateur BTiwhanlcs" (lOpaave) tolls now to malt.' Milnn furniture, wlrelumi outttta. bnato engines, tuatrtc, and ali the things a boy loves, (.sort via, simols corns iscckt Ak f-.1T N.w1n.l.r In snow fnm II op warn row rwaa aaatpia eorv vooav lVfULAU MfcXJHANICS CO. US W. Wublnstoa U. CHICAGO OU AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE WINTER SHORT COURSE January 5 to 30, 1914 The College has spared no effort to make this the most complete short course In its history. A very wide range of courses will be offered in Gen eral Agriculture, Horitculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Poultry Keeping, I Mechanic Arts, Domestic Science and Art. Commerce, Forestry and Music. Numcruog lectures and disussioni on Farmers' Co-operation, at home and abroad, will be a leading failure. Make this a ploasant and profitable winter outing. No tuition. Accommo dations reasonable. Reduced rates on all railroads. For further informtaion address II. M. TENNANT, Registrar. Corvallis, Oregon. Farmers' Rusiness Course by Corrts ponderce without tuition. Editorial Comment on Pcrti tinent Natters. The Weston Leader issued no paper last week, because, for sooth, its force demanded a Christmas holiday. "Us employ ing capitalists are finding labor pretty blamed independent now, a-days," remarks The Leader Righto. Hanks Herald. Not many years ago California was accustomed to think of min ing as a waning industry. The total value of the mineral pro duct for 1913 is estimated at $90, 000,000, and California now ranks fifth in the list of mineral pro ducing states. Astorian. A forgotten amendment to the banking laws, enacted in 1909, will prevent any Washington state bank from coming under the new national currency act, by subscribing to the stock of a regional reserve bank. The law prohibits any state bank from subscribing to the stock of any other bank. -The Cowlitz County Chronicle. 1'ostmaster General Burleson has recommended that Congress pass a law requiring that after completing their daily trips rural carriers must then make mail deliveries in towns and villages under an eight hour law. One naturally wonders how much more the department expects from the carriers when they are notoriously underpaid and to such great expense.-- Gresham Outlook. Advices from the Philippines indicate that the islanders are experiencing a change of heart, and that there i3 now a very general entertainment of the opinion that their best interests Baled Hay I0r bale. I united states. Perhaps they CLOVER HAY FOR SALE P,y fear that the Democrats arc I. Norbeck & Co. and Chas. Kohl- really in earnest, when they pro strand. Warren, Oiegon. 1-5 fess a desire to accord independ- edce to the Filipinos. There is nothing so well calculated to cure fickleness as drt ad that it may be taken for earnestness. If the Filipinos believed that we Acre really anxious to get rid of them they would beg us to keep the flag floating over the islands. S. F. Chronicle. FREE TOI.L8 AT r-ANAMA. Congressman Adamson, of Ge orgia is to make another fight for the repeal of the law exempting American vessels in the coast wise trade from the payment of tolls at Panama. He has offered a joint resolution in Congress, suspending that provision of the law, until such time as the oper ation of the canal may show whether the revenues will justify a suspension of the tolls for American ships. It is not a question of revenue but one of principle. Whether the canal makes or loses a million a month or a million a minute has nothing whatever to do with the question of whether It is right and proper for the nation to exempt American vessels from the toll charges. It would be ah surd for the United states to re cede from her position as to free tolls. The canal was built by Ameri can money. It has to be maintained by American resources. Its securities have to be made good by American interests and in time retired by American money. Every foot of the canal is on American soil, defendtd by the American flag. The question of free tolls for American coastwise ships through the canal is not an in terrational issue, but an Ameri can domestic issue. It is an American canal, built with American money and the American people have a right to run American ships through it on such terms as they please.- Ta coma Tribune. 7 I For your protection, Mrs. House- keeper, wo have just installed The One Writing MolhoJ of lunJUnj? account. pnc.ul .at h .fit lm liom ' Ml. I'PU mI lip Kowi. lta awls asiilsii I. aa 1 i.m4.j up. w dh ik - aralMi VHI AIM.U3 I.V1W V.JI.tT tOU OWB ... , I - .... ....,aif rrr.ivr. W llh puirn . , i W aiul iiiw p."" " " - Y..ur arc-... '" ":!.: ' .ITuJ d Ikal Ih. mZ. ZTZLZ M.mi...t".t . ,,.,! ,,.,(, fU,mM. r'-lU .tip U thU K.J.U.. lh Uat ip ,) . HWUAIr. 1K HXMK u;Nn Wn?(0 W. .1.-11 b. sl.d ..i,l' 1 MCa.ksy Sr.i.a. tu yo. Our customers keep the Ltooki, but they spend no time nnd have no trouble in i!oinj so. Lvcry customer lus the same record of his account as we have and in the same handwriting. This we accomplish ly the use of 1,1 SYSTEM 1 The One Writing Method of handling credit accounts. Vl'ilh eaih punltase, we (urni.K a sal slip wkicK shows lh aonja pair. cKaaed. the prica charted for atb item auJ ihs Usl previous Ulanc all footed up. There can La no error in handling your accounts as You Always Know What You Owe Vs furni.h a holder for tha sale slipa. Wa prefer that you file every slip In this holder a nl.n.e ol the laM ona will tell fott whal you owa. Tha slip become an eipeme account, wuliout ettoit on youl park Vl'ill you Irl us eiplain our McCaakey Systom to you) it-. ..'l.Tlnrli h 1 Ilang your slipholder on t!ic Kitchen wall, Mrs Housekeeper, or wherever it ii mot conven ient. It is part of 11 SYSTEM 1 The One Writing Method of handling accounts. Py the ma of The McCaskry iysJcm we furnish each customer with a sale slip nftcr every putcl.ase. 'I his sale slip ahowa what waa bought, the price paid fur each item and the last previous balance, all fooled up. Our customers have the same record of their account! as we. and in the same handwriting. Our customers always know what they owe, their accounts cannot Rfow over night The McCatkey System protects you against error, il saves time and labor for us. wo"' ''ke ' ',ave n opportunity of explaining our McCatkey System to you. THE CENTRAL MARKET "0DC TO OSWALD." WYst vwu runninir tho whol show l' in Cji-ri'u'll. Oswalif ifot a hunch About an awful hunch Serving liiK' r and frt lunch Up in Coppfrfu'M. llu;n he swore an awful swrar Anil he raved and tore his hair Then he sent a lady fair Up to ('iii.erliilil. Now thi.s lady meek and mild Seemed a timid helpless child 'Monjfst these rufliaiin hold and wild Up in Copperlield. I!ut the lady said hhe'd come i'o put them on the huni And to chase the deinnn i um Out of Cnpperfu-hl. Tha4. the Covernur of the Slate Said before it was tno late To ship fixtures by f;,M fri.j,.,t Out of Ceppcrficld. Then the lady went away; The militia came to stay, Like a moving ,ic(rL. ,,,,yi f Up in Cop,erC;eld. Thev made the council u,, I Til.. me court to Ko lJCow - There's a show of injured piety. Melo drama with variety And newspaper notoriety, Up in Ccipperfleld. Hut the Governor's at it still Willi his notoriety mill While (he uxpaycr foots the bill l'l in Copperfield. LEASE AND SIOCK FOR M l'lncic' farm with 2 acres in cultivation; have 4 year lease which will he K1,l,j very cheap and at a j -heap rental. Also head of ntihh cows, t ain, hack, harness and ; farming .implements, houwhohl j If "ods ir lesiied, Prices reasonable. I terms cash. Fair buildings. About j t 1-2 miles from Peer Island. Fine , nut rantce. 2tp W. S. Francia. Iker Island. MKTHOMST NOTICE. Sunday School at 10 o'clock n. m. , I'reaching 1 1 :00 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. I'diworth L nguo at 6;45 p. m. I Iost thou love life? Then wast n 't time, for time is the stuff ithat life is made of. )