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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1910)
For 15 Days Only (O),)) For 15 Days Only We Will Sell Goods At A Reduction Of From 15 to 20 Per Cent And AVe Always Did Sell Goods Cheap. Come and See Us After On Which Date The Sale Begins A FEW OF OUR BARGAINS HEN'S LIST Sockit, formerly 10c, now 3 pairs for ....25c Heavy Woolen Sm-ks, M at 25c now go at 19c Heavy overehirta rejrularly sold at 65c, now ....45c Working Punta, our former price $1.25, now 1.10 Drww Pants, $1.00 and 5.00 grades, now 3.2u and 4.00 Suit that cannot be knight in the city for $15.00. Our price now 13.50 Underwear that ordinarily wild at 1.50, 1.25 and CV. now... 1.15. 1.00, 45c LADIES' LIST Ladies Underwear at prices that you cannot touch in the city for 25 per cent more than we will sell them at Suits and Cloaks in large variety at prices that will force you to buy. Shirts and Waists in the latest styles and patterns at a full reduction of 20 per cent and even more. Prints, Calicoes, Muslin at prices much lower than the jobbers sell them at now. , Towels, Tablecloths and Napkins at a full reduction of 20 per cent And As For Shoes. Well, We Have SHOES FOR MEN. SHOES FOR WOMEN. SHOES FOR THE BOY AND FOR THE GIRL. Here is one of our leaders and for quality they cannot be boat. Let us fit you at the lowest price you ever paid for fine shoes. mmm ALL GO AT FULL REDUCTIONS Come and see them. Come and buy them. We must have the money and will give you better values than you can get anywhere else. Remember the time, FEBRUARY ith, and also remember the place r. j. BASE EL Houlton Gity Shoeing Shop Central WacksmithinK. Woodwork and Rejuiir' pair Work Promptly and Neatly Done. Pav ing!' Cutters' Tools Made to Order. Howe nhoeinjr a Siweinlty. All Diseases of the root Scientitically Treated Free of Charge. E. H. WICKS, Proprietor First Door West of School House, ST. HELENS, ORE. ELECTRIC Fixtures Columbia Electric Works For February My dears, do y ou know Tlmt n hlior' time rgo Two dear little children Named Ted and I'incl.ot Were stolen away On a I rlght autuirs day, And -ilJ lmve been dodo Had 'IVft had his way. Their en p'ri had planned When they got litem in band , To dash for the m a rest Tall cut in the land. And there in the treis To desert them to frerxe And to die o' starvation An J grief, if yuu please. And when they mere dead Tha robin so red Were to cover them np From tlie foot to the head With leaves of the wo-wi, And lo ning alien tbey oul.l, "Fool babe In the lorest. Now will they 1 gotAV But look (ar and a ide, Nevr (oreat waa ied. Nor any place left Whew the babic might have died; For the foreeti of yore Tbey would never see more, And tbey heartily wished They had saved three or four. Whic h orca'ion a halt. And wild veibal assault They openly aaid It wan Uallmger't fault; So tbey cussed him some more, And they bitterly swore. And the babes were put bark Just as good as before. Kut that's enough of Ballinger. or for hira or fomlnst; ib ground))'; will awake again upon the 2d inst. He'll iiinch himt'.f a time or two, rollover ou his bed, engage in calisthenics till he is sure he isn't dead, recall the day's significance with never-Jailing humor, and come out to compare hi girth with that of the consumer. And side by aide before hit hole these two will riminisce.and each will tell the other what hia weight, if any, la. They'll feel of one another's rib, tell stories, laugh and prattle, jump up and down to see whose bones will make the drier tattle, and then, with standing back to back and no flnall bit of unc tion, they'll ascertain if they can throw a shadow in conjunction. Ar.d w hich the country wiil await with trembling and misgiving, for if they can, we'll lmve to think of how to keep on living another SO days and nights, frostbit and tempest-shaken, and pay ing an admission fee to see a piece of bacon. But let us all be reassured And have the heart to sing: We don't believe a dozen such Could bot e to show a thing; Or forty of them half and half In solid phalanx there, Unless they couuted One-two-three, And Oiled themselves with air. Onr Mr. Taft should be ashamed to be so fat and sleek with everything so high we can't eat meat but once a week. He ought to be too big a man in other ways than his to keep so buxom when he sees how thin the country is. A sympathetic president in smb. a time of test would ask for nothing but to take pot luck with all the rest. He'd eat his hard and simple crust, his prunes and batter cake, and join the country in the stand we've taken as to steak. It does seem ike hard-heartedness for one in such a place to feed himself on tarrapiu and set ua such a pace. He ought to live on hominy and grow so thin and gaunt hat anyone with seeing him would think he was in want. It would become him very well to say, "I live on rice," and prtive it when he wrapped his coat armit.d his body twice. We'd all stand up and honor him, alike with us bereft, and cheer him with what liltlu strength the most of us have left. - St. Valentine will open up His moving picture show And run a nickelodeon ' For ssveu day a or so. He'll show us Algernon the Dude, And Little Wit and Dunce, And lKre us ten ibly again With those unwitting stunts. And maybe this time we shall rise, As we should do, by gum, And put this whole infernal brand Of hauior on the bum. We never did know what it meant, if anything at all, or who it was that started if, or why we had to fall for sat li a custom. Oftjj we think the way that we behave most make the good St. Yaltn'iue turn over iu his grave. It is a shame to bleak his sleep, which else were quite, seieno, and ke'p him spin ning just as if there were a belt between thai ancient and respected tomb of him a long time diad and all the wheels thereto in some fool picture maker's head. At any rate the country will by hook or crook survive and hail the blessed day that saw tieorge Washington arrive. As time procof we rm... predate his make, and wonder If buy coming here was not a great mistake. We can't help thinking that be was sup posed, to go 10 Mars, or possibly to on of the older, riper tw. , w'ho will not tell a lie is not like one of u and we'll bet a dullar he was billed to go tf Uranus or somewhere, else where one of an bud been lo them as queer and unlike everyone as (ieorg has been among us here. But be it as it happily wiil, . Ii tvn shall cnie about . i That I )Ur y upMhelp 1 ue poor meat striker nnt And Halley's con.ct .Will a.snrue The aspect of a gorgon And see what ii can do to savo . T" all from Mr. Morgan. . , ' If that won't muke him Inote hla orl'n, it will be time 10 wonder if Mr. Morgan, too, la no. .i nluiiPtarv blunder, nit if l should n ,t have been born where others sncli as ha are and no one is to far ad vanced In ethics yet as we are. However, from the 17th we hall be under Pisces, the avmhr,! f ii.o fui. and the significance of this is that per sons born beneath the sign, thougli tut quite WaahiDgtona. will not be liars likw e wie, uui onij tittle one. Tha moon will fill the 25d, and th last week will be oabt onions ... suflragilteoranti-tariffiiot. The frosts' a union men win see the month out riht, and bef at 30 cents a pound will win the prize for height. And then the welcome gpring will come. The Winter go a footing, , And March come in like one of what - T. Roi isevtlt is shootjnz. OUR FOP.TLA5D tETTEtt Portland, Or., Feb. 1. (Special; Pre liminary steps were taken here tha wet-k for the lor ma two of a Westers Fair As-ociation for the cmutry west of the Rocky Mountains, to bear th mamm relation to this territory as the Ameri.. Trolling Association and Natlonrt Trot- ling Aasociauon do to the East Tfi step was taken at the meeting of Uie North I'aciflc Fair Association, which appointed a committee to work on the project and report at the next meetfrnr. New officers for the Xnrih Associatiau were eltctel a follows; F, A. Welch, president, fjalem; W. 8. Gibbons, vice-pieaident, Boise, Idaho; John W. Pace, secretary - treasurer, North Yakima, Wash. Dates for the various racing meets of the Northwest daring the coming seasoa are as follows: Everett August 29-Sep-tember 3: Portland Seotember S-IO- Salem September 12-17; Walla Walla September lS-24: North Yab ma September 2M)ctober 1; Spokane Oo- lODcr ju-i.j. The anneal convention of the Oregon Retail Merchants' Association at Kuwna dnring the past week was a triumph. Its membership is comoosed of nrvtn- date merchants, whese aim Is to serve tue consumers with first-class mer chandise at moderate prices. During tUeUiscassion at the various sessions of the convention they insisted on pare food products, and the trend of th gathering was toward tetter citizen ship. Modern commercial activitv is eninh. stied by the progressive spiiit of tha Medford Commercial Club. It ha membership at present of 662, and when one realises ihat there is an initiation fee of $5 iu addition to the monthly dues, one gets a better aenrermtinn nf tK. reason why people hear so frequently of me itogue Kiver city. State-wide interest is shown in the de velopment congress to be held at Eugene February 11 and 12. Commercial Day, the tiflv-nrst anniversary of the admis sion of Oregon as a state, will becele- Dratea on iebruary 12. Questions of general interest, such as the conserva tion of the state's resource, extension of irrigation, country conditions, and educational subjects will be taken up. Japan, showing its friendlv feelins toward Oregon and the Pacific Ooaat. has sent 170 bushes of native roses to be set out in the parks and public tquarea of Portland on February 22. the official rose-planting day. when the metronolia will make a holiday and hold special ex ercises. ..he gift is a gracious one ami is much appreciated by Rose Festival oitionils. A number of foreign nations . have been heard from, each contributing native roses to be planted hero on Wash ington's birthday. It is expected by rotarions that the bushes will thrive in their adopted country as well as their own clime, An instance of the advance in realty values iu Portland during the past 60 years was brought up this week when the cor.ier of Fifth and Morrison streets sold for f 105,000 and an additional $110, 000 Wfis pai.l for the transfer vf leases. Peter W. Severson, who sold the prop erty, owned it for 61 years. It was lit erally fcrced upon him us apparently of little value. He was then owed a week's wages by the owner of the property, who also banowtd Seversoti's shotgun and lost it. The ninn who held the lot of fered the property in lieu of tha week's wages and the missing weapon. Sev etsou (Kmurred but filially was forced to accept the lot to cover the double debt.