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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1911)
DISHES FREE TO YOU Yes, we are giving them awayone 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 3 piece set, consisting of Cream Pitcher, Sugar Bowl and Butter Dish. Jas. Muckle & Son's Department Store St. Helens, Oregon ft OOO 20001 OE3E ion The r HMf.m vregon mist Founded 1881 entered at the Postoffice at St. Helens, Oregon, as second-class mail matter. Uaaatal Erary Friday by The Mist Publishing Company George H. Flag f Editor and Manager Subscription Rates One year ....$1.50 Sir months .... .75 Advertising rates made known on aorjli- cation. Legal notices 25 cents per line County Official Paper Attend the Commercial meeting Wednesday nitfht Club Another St. Helens, half way. industry coming to Meet the promoters The perplexing task of getting people to realize the benefits to be derived from trading with their local merchants is about the hardest that the small town 1 1 . 1 m . na3 10 contend witn. Money is just as well invested in the big one, as far a3 getting full value is concerned, and we must not forget to remember that when we leave it here it 13 only taken out of one of our pockets and put into anothers, and may some day find its way back, while if we spend itin the metro polis we never see it again. There it goes to help build up the big city, to make it clean, to further beautify it3 parks and recreation grounds, and to en rich and make more prosperous its already prosperous merchants and citizens, whice the small town people sit and wonder why they are not able to cope with cities in mercantile projects. Most of us have not enough faith in our respective towns. Should a thing purchased at home prove unsatisfactory in any in any respect a person never hears the end of it; but, on the other hand, if the same article had been purchased in a big city anyRmonnt of, pxewe. would b on hand to defend it, and it would probably never be ex changed. When you buy a thing at home and it is satisfactory, give it a good word, for by so doing you are helping yourself. If, on the other hand the article in question does not come up to your standard of perfection, tell the merchant you bought it from, dont tell your neighbors. The community in order to en rich itself must consider itself one large family of which we are all members, and as members of this family the grocer should not misrepresent his wares to his brother, the clerk, nor should the clerk regard it as a good point to defer payment of his bills to the grocer as long as possible. And remember, always keep the mon ey in the family. This is not preaching nor ad vocating socialism, for socialism does not solve the problem that confronts us, but it is advocating most emphatically the community to believe in home trade. We cannot help others if we are help less ourselves. "Self preserva tion is nature's first law." There fore it behooves us to stand to gether and, if we are not mer chants instead of telling a person that we don't believe a certain commodity can be obtained in this town, just because we happen to be out of it, tell the customer that we know who has it and name a local merchant. Don't send your party to the bij? city, that's where the matter jvill end if you hesitate, and the proba bilities are that that much, custom is lost to you forever. It stands to reason that in order to sell reliable Broods rpasnnahlv the expense account must be curtailed as much as possible. This is done in the s mall town. Rents and general e jcpenses are les3, and the result is that the buyer reaps the ben efit if he is shrewd enough to avail himself of it. People are gradually be coming educated jo the science of skillful buying and expect more for their mi jney now than they ever have I jefore. In this they are justifi ed to a certain extent, rut, tra T ym,iA nf fnrgt the proverb, "The laborer is worthy of his hire." "Live and let live." i3 the motto for mer chants to adopt if they wish to thrive and succeed. Remember we all live largely on each others custom, and when we spend mon ey with J. Brown we expect with reason that J. Brown should spend his money with us whenever pos sible. Here is the essence of home trade. We would all feel offend ed at said Brown if he took our money and refused to spend his with us. But we are all Browns if we buy out of the home mar ket TACOMA'S MURDER CASE. One of the mot pitiful ami at the same time the most revolting trials for murder tltat eer took place in the Pacific Northwest has been in progress through the week at Tacoma, where a man is charged with having murdered a woman by beating her illi an oar until she couM no longer resist and then holding her under water until she drowned. This fight was evidently between a brute and a termagant. The pitiful feature of it is the fact that it w;is witnessed from its begining to its fatal ending for the woman by three children of tender years, a son of the Woman, aged 5, and two sons of the man, 5 and 7 years old. The story told by thee infants on the witness stand conceled whatever sympathy may have been felt towards the principals in this battle and transferred it with added volume t the terror-stricken little boys. The woman's death may or may not have been caused, as charged, by drowning due to the man's ability to hold her un der the water. If guilty as charged, it may be hoped that he will receive the full penalty of the law. But, however this may be, sympathy and protection are due the little boys who were the horror-stricken witnesi of the brutal tragedy. It will take a full measure of kindly borne influence and ju licious care, to gether witn the attrition of time, to blot this frightful scene from tho memories of the children. It may 1 hoped that these agencies will work out their mis sion in this cae, both for the sake of the state and the little bnys wh have man ifestly, in their earliest environment, gotten good citizenship. Oregonian ALFALFA WEST OF CASCADES Alfalfa has passed beyond the ex perimental stage west of the Cascade - i f i r i Tin i - -1 It this region is slowly but surely increas ing, and tho-e who in a position to know say that western Oitvon will he doing ils share in growing this htaple crop. I'p to the present time the best results are reported from sandy land along the water courses. Soils which overflow or have the water table nearer than 4 feet of the surface cannot be counted on for alfalfa production. The old adae that "alfalfa will not stanil wet feel" still hoiiN true. Like other rich countries, the weed question is the perpleiing problem. If the field is use I for some other crop two or three wars prior to seeding, truublesome weeds can be eauly elimi nated. However, some of the graces, such as Kngli-h rye, Italian rye and conch may bother indefinitely. In other alfalfa sections such grawes are kept down In going over the field with a renovator after each cutting. Tne use of the difk lias been abandoned by many successful farmers berauae, a a rule, it works an injury rather than a cure. However, in some localities the; disk liar row is still recommended, but tlie regu lar alfalfa renovator is so far ahead of the former implement that the old disk should be changed for the new. In getting a stand of alfalfa the Ore gon agricultural college gives the follow ing advice: If barnyard manure is put on, from 15 to i'O tons per acre in the fall, in the spring when the land is in good working condition, cutting it up thoroughly with the disk harrow and working it down fine, let it lie for a week or 10 days, then give it a good har rowing, so as to destroy all weeds. Sow about 15 pounds of clean seed per su re and cover with harrow. If the soil is inclined to be dry finish with the roller. At the time the seed is done put on 70 or 100 pounds of land plaster to the acre. Notice To Creditors In the r'oiintv f'onrt of the State of Oregon, for Columtra fount jr In the mailer I the eatate of John A. C. John- will, leeaael. Nolle ! hereby given by the nn1enlgne1, the sdminiatrnior o' th eatat of John A. C. Johnaoh. 'Ieren.e.1. to the Crerlllora of. an all peraona harlot claims agalnat iM tate. to preaenl them with th proper vom-hera. within alt rnontha from the date of tbla noth-e, to the ah) I in 1 ri ii rsl'ir. at lis rallnre at Ml.t. Oregon, the Mmi being the pla for the tram i Hon of the hnatneaa of nald estate. iate1 April IK, Vi'.l. I.. A. PFTKRSOV, A'lmlnltrtor of the Eatate of John A. C. Johhfton, de'-eawl. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior t'. 1. I.aii'l Uftice at Portland, Ore. May l.'th. mil. Nolle la hereby given that Clifford H. Ilarrla, 'if ankton, roluMhia Cotmty, ori-ipm, who on April loth l'.). ma le Hotiieatea.) Knlry No. I Itj, Serial No. lllJfVI, for one onarter Heel Ion S lownahlpt North Hatnr i Weal, Willamette Merl.l an. ha tile.l notlee ol Intention to make Final Kit Year Proof, to eatahli.h elaim to the lan.l above .1e.erlt.eil, before the Hrgl.ter ami Ke. el er of the I'nlleil Miaiea I. an I Olllee. at I'onlatel. Oregon, on the awn day ol June W. flaimarit nam, a wllue.ae.; Kred W Ko. ter. of t ankton, ore., Joe loimt of llonlton, Ore , i.eorge Ki'ella.of llonlton, or., T. K. Mills of llonlton, ure. it. r. niohv. ksflstar. NO USE TALKING When you want the bet in Job Printing the proper place to go is THE MIST PRINT SHOP ST. HELENS, OREGON pint b a s b b b snryrYSTrerro mi-arg iiiiiuiinii rmj I FINE STATIONERY l For PARTICULAR People o We Are Confident of Our 0 Ability to Please You. 1 A NEW LINE OF FOUNTAIN PENS a From One Dollar to Five a i arge yfssorntent of 9?ost 6ad o Jo - I Deming's Drug Store st. Helens, of! Columbia County Abstract And Trust Co Absracti, Real Estate, Insurance, Loan, Conveyancing St. Helens, Orcg
