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
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Advertising rates made known on aorjli-
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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.
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