The Oregon mist., May 19, 1911, Image 4

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DISHES FREE TO YOU
Yes, we are' giving them away one with every $2.00
cash purchase, and the dish $4.00 worth ot goods is
twice as good as the dish with $2 worth, and so
on up to a $10.00 purchase, with which you get a
piece set, consisting of Cream Pitcher, Sugar Bowl
and Butter Dish.
Jas. Muckle & Son's Department Store
St. Helens, Oregon
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Every member should be pre
sent at the meetings of the Com
mercial Club. ' It is a duty that
he owes to the town. The club
is now doing a good work, though
it has but started, and it takes
the help of everyone to make it
an entire cuccess. The day when
the people of a town can keep
still and wait for things to come
to them in this country has long
since passed, and at present there
is mighty strong competition all
over the State in the work of
getting new settlers to locate.
Only nine votes were lacking
in the lower House of the Illinois
Legislature to submit the direct
legislation amendment to the
people of that State for their ap
proval or rejection. If this par
ticular nine had voted right, how
ever, very likely another nine
would have "played the goat" in
their place. Coaxed on or whip
ped on by Big Eusiness, the
standpat Republicans and the
reactionary Democrats were de
termined to defeat submission of
the measure to the people, not
withstanding the platform
pledges of both parties, and not
withstanding the popular vote of
447,908 in its favor last fall to
only 128,398 against it,
A ruling was recently made
by the attorney general of the
State of Washington that when
a road foreman works his men
men for a day and a quarter he
violates the law that says that
men shall not work more than
eight hours on public works.
This is, to say the least, rather
hard on the road boss and on the
men if the boss is in a hurry to
get the work done and the men
need the money.
The time of year is again here
when the question of the sane
fourth is again before the people.
Shall we have ihe firecrackers
and the chances for the loss of
life and limb or do without them
and not give the due display of
patriotism that is shown on ly by
spending a nickle for a bunch of
the abominations, setting them
off and burning a hole in our
trousers? If any step i3 to be
taken in the matter the city coun
cil should do something before
any of the local merchants put
in a stock of fireworks. They
should, at least be ruled out of
the business part of the town, as
a fire along the waterfront here
at the present time could do an
incalculable amount of damage
if it got a good start The risk
of such a catastrophe seems hard
ly worth while for the sake of
allowing a few people to make a
little patriotic racket.
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In speaking of the sale of Jer
seys at the West farm .at Scap
poose, the last issue of 1;he Pac
ific Homestead has the fc dlowing
to say;
Taking it all through tho sale
was declared a success ajid Mr.
West will soon be on his wa.v to
the Island of Jersey for a n?W
importation which he e xpccts to
put on the market next spring,
he having already secured steam
er berth from New Y ork to Liv
erpool. It is hard to estimate
the value that such i mportations
as Mr. West has I teen makino:
will do to the country at large.
They are put up ami sold at auc
tion, scattered bror idcast through
the land, and will do the country
a great deal of p ;ood by raising
the standard of t he cattle. It is
to be hoped that these men will
find the businefis nrofitable en
ough to justify them in continu
Many thousands of years a,'o
among the majestic volcanoes of
the Cascade Range towered one,
perhaps the loftiest of them all,
which has now disappeared.
After the cataclysm which swal
lowed this huge mountain there
remained however, an enormous
crater, a caldera, which more
than compensates in interest for
the loss of the mountain. There
are thousands of craters in the
United States, but there is only
one great caldera,. and that con
tains Crater Lake, truly one of
the wonders of America. If Cra
ter Lake were situated in the
bosom of the Appalachians, thou
sands of people wonld visit it
annualy; if it were an Alpine
crater, many Americans would
rave over it as the choicest gem
of European scenery. As it is
although the Crater Lake region
has been a national park since
1902, the people who have visited
it number only a few thousand.
But an awakening is at hand: the
railroad is building a line close
to the park, the Government is
planning roads and trails, and
within a short time it will be the
fault only of the people them
selves if they fail to visit this
wonderful region and receive
impressions never to be effaced
from memory.
The veto bill has finally passed
the House of Commons by a ma
jority of 121 and is now before
the Lords, who are politely but
firmly requested to vote away
their principal powers. They will
squirm a good deal, but in truth
it is the inevitable which con
fronts them and they must yield.
The deflation of the British Lords
and popular election of American
Senators are twin reforms which
may be staved off for a time,
but ultimately they are as certain
as death.
The City Council at their last
meeting instructed the City At
torney to draw up an ordinance
vacating a part of Washington
Square for Bchool purposes.
Now to get the school. The
proper time to consider the mat
ter is at the forthcoming school
election and every man in thia
city who wants to see the town
go ahead should say a good word
for this proposition. Our pre
sent school facilities are alto
gether inadequate and the old
building will not be large enough
to serve the community for even
another year. Aside from this
St. Helens is away behind the
other towns in the country in not
having any complete high school
course. From a financial stand
point there is no time like the
present to put up the new build
ing. The old one can be, sold
for more than it cost, and a new
one put np in time for occupancy
next fall.
The matter of settling the title
to the tide lands in front of the
city is to be taken in earnest and
fought through the courts to a
finish, but how many of us will
still be alive when it is finished?
It should have been done long
ago, but it is better late than
never. It is hard to say
who the land really belongs to,
but doubtless the present oc
cupants will be glad to have it
settled once and for all as well as
the people of the city.
Notice To Creditors
In tho County Court of the HUM of Oregon,
for Columbia County.
In the matter rf the eatate of John A. C. John-
BOIl, lllT.eaacd.
Notice la hereby gWen by the iinderalvni-d,
the aMmltilalrator i the eatate of John A. ''.
Johnvm. ileceawd. to the credlUire of, an all
peranna having clalrnf agalnat eaid eatnt. to
preaent them with the proper yotichcra, within
all montha from the date of thla notice, to the
ttalrl admlulMtrator, at hla reahle tn-e at Mlat,
Oregon, the Maine being the place for the trana
action of the hiiHlncaa of aald eatate.
listed April lull.
I.. A. PBTKRKON.
Admlnlatratnr of the Eatate of Johu A. C.
Johnaon, dt-ceaeed ,
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of tho Interior
U. 1, Land Ollivo at Cortland, Ore.
May l.'th. lull.
Notice la hereby given that Clifford H. Ilarrla,
of Yankton, Columbia Comity, Oregon, who on
April 10th MM, male Hometeal Kntrr No.
I lUtfi Herlal No. mm. for one quarter Mertlon
Town-hip 4 North, Hang 'I Weal, Willamette
Merid'an, baa hied notice of Intention to make
final five Year Proof, to eatahllah claim to Ihe
land alioye oewrllied, Ix-fore the Keglater and
Keret 'er of the Unliot Htatee l.an I ottlce, at
Portland, Oregon, on the 'nh day ot June Mil.
Claimant nainea aa wltneaaea; Fred W, Khm
ter, ol Yankton. Ir., Joe Impont, of llimltnn,
Ore , (ieorge KceMe.of lloulton, ore., T. K. Mill,
of lloulton, Ore.
If. r. HKiBY,
Krglater.
For Sale.
New 8 room hnu, 0 choice lots (or
ivap.loti terifflfT fvmt I r... f.. n. I ! .
p,.....wl, .n.......fi nil..,,, IIVII, ((-
proved with electric Halite ami ttiilewalk,
three1 Mock from ('uluinMa River, one
block i:itv park. St. Helens.
Trie fKMJU.OO, a tine home,
John Kubtni
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