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About The Sandy news. (Sandy, Clackamas County, Oregon) 1914-1917 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1916)
You Know the Bank -------- But Does— The Bank Know you ? Banks are often asked if such and such a person is reliable, or entitled to credit. If you are a depositor, the bank knows your worth and can give you a rating. Otherwise a bank is often compelled to withhold a favorable rating purely through lack of information relative to your financial status. A bank account is your best endorsement. It stamps you as a man of affairs Clackamas County Bank Cows are certainly cheap now. E. C. Strong has bought a 7-passen- ger car, so it is reported. Still they they come. Ev, ry farmer Is looking for an opportunity to buy farm implements of best quality at the low reliable drugs • —at very— FIRWOOD. POPULAR PRICES Fred and William Alt have gone to Santam on a hunting expedition. Edith Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Hall and Mr. and Mrs. Barker, of Portlai d, spent Sunday with Edith's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Smith. Carrie DeShazer, Dorothy and Ruth Esson spent Sunday at DeShazer’». Mrs. E. D. Hart, Mrs. Dora Bean and Mrs. Koenecke visited Tuesday with Mrs. F. Ait. Mrs. Dora Bean called on Mrs. W. L. Wilkins Saturday morning. Mrs. MacKerrow is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Dixon and family. M . IMPORTANT T his D rug S tore S ells trong has purchased an auto. Frances MacKerrow has returned to Portland after visiting with her sister, Mrs. Dixon and family for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Bosholm and children, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith and baby spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Mel vin Smith at Troutdale. Johnnv Sinclair cut some wood for J G. DeShazer Monday with his gasoline saw. Your prescription will be compounded from the freshest and purest of drugs, and the utmost care as to accuracy - i l be2 baerve,t every detail. Done while you wait. STATIONERY. A complete line of plain and fancy is a feature of this store. Your every wish can be gratified both as to style and price. Economy, though, prevails in every purchase. TOILET ARTICLES. Toilet articles of every variefy for FACE CREAMS. men and women are sold at very low prices and the quality is always of the best. Face creams and other beauty preparations for women rep resent the best products on the market. No article of an injurious nature is sold at this store. They make good. R. E. Esson Drug Company SANDY, OREGON. W W - M ' H - M l l I 1 H -I-H 't U -H , Nearly all farmers know how to pro duce crops, but few of them are skill ful at selling. This Is the main dif ference between the Budlong success Albert Wilkins spent Sunday with Farmers and others can buy anything in the and the many failures which have been Verne Alt. recorded. Mr. Budlong himself says implement line from us with the positive as Mrs. Heacock, of Damascus, spent that, as a general thing, he does not Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. A. get better crops than other people. The surance that the article is strictly high grade C. BOWSFIELD Malar. land ho uses is not as good as the av and the price at bottom figure. erage Cook county soil, but he buys Bretha Stuck! has returned home Wise marketing is the key to suc many carloads of manure from the from the hop patch. cessful farming. This sums up the ex- city and keeps the ground in a fine Mena Frey, Fred Koenecke, Carl, pei fence of J. J. Budlong, a Chicago state of fertility. The fertilizer is Walter and Verne Alt spent Tuesday man who has grown wealthy In agri plowed In every fall. Sometimes he culture. Mr. Budlong for many years has green crops, like peas, soy beans Dealers in Hardware and Furniture. evening at Ed H art’s. has farmed several hundred acres of or clover, to work into the soil in the Mr. and Mrs. Gerkie visited Tuesday land and produces vegetables almost fall. There is a scientific reason for exclusively. The Budlong truck farm handling land in this way, especially with the Wendland boys. is the greatest of Its kind In the mid the plowing in of an abundance of sta dle west and In some respects the ble aud green manures, but without greatest in the world. A pickle factory pretense of scientific attainments near owned by this successful farmer han ly all farmers know how to, keep up dles a large part of the edibles raised land, although they frequently neglect on the premises. Table commodities fall plowing. 'Vhile it Is true that Mr. Budlong ir The Self Government Club of the Kcl. are shipped by Mr. Budlong to every so school met last Friday and elected part of America and to several of the rigates his farm by pumping water from the drainage canal, he does not the following officers: Eunice Jonsru,', big markets in other continents. Practically all the onions and cu attribute his success to this control of president: Gram Jonsrud, secretary; cumbers raised on this place are put the water supply, for he was success John Canny, police; Lester Irvin, line up as pickles, and by this means they ful long before the drainage canal was Honest Weight, I ests and Prices to Producers marshal: Robert Milan, bell ringer; do not have to be marketed In any hur built. In brief terms, his first step Mary Canny, inside monitor; Loyd Dunn, ry or at any particular time. There toward success was the upbuilding outside monitor: Nellie Harvison, Doro are many other commodities which of soil fertility, and then when the big thy Jonsrud, Anna Milan and H aiti work Into the scheme of canning and crops came he made his own market Dunn, detk inspectors for the 5th 6th pickling. For instance, the cabbage for the hulk of the products, getting th and 6th grades respectively. The crop pays well when turned into sau all cash that was possible to obtain from the commodities raised. He keeps executive committee consists of Lester erkraut, and beans and peas pay best close records of all crops and knows when canned. It is always best to Irvin, Hazel Dun, Jim Hite aud Mildred produce a variety of staple products, exactly what any given line of produce Jarl. so that if one or two of them are low' costs him. He enu tell what propor Mrs. W, A. Barnum, who is now prin- In price the others are quite likely to tion of the expense each acre should 'pal of the Mt Pleasant school, sjient pull up the average to a profitable hear, what the labor Is worth and what basis. This is a common experience in dividends are pnid by each particular H ednesday last week here visiting all kinds of farming. Sometimes wheat unit of land every season. From long friends and the school. experience he knows that diversity of production is better than to risk every Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Jonsrud took a thing on a single crop. It is probably trip to Hood River by auto Saturday, true that if the whole enterprise hung returning Sunday. oa one product his success would be much less pronounced than it is. Joe Albell bad the misfortune to cut his hand quite badly while splitting wood Sunday. He wus taken to a Port, L im e Increases W h e a t Y ield . land hospital to have his wound attend “Neither manure nor any combina ed. tion of fertilizers has been able to pro duce a full yield of wheat without the Road supervisor, Jarl, has had a crew help of lime.” said Director C. B. of men at work graveling the road to Thorne regarding the value of lime on Pleasant Home. soil similar to that of the Ohio Experi ment station at Wooster. This year Mrs. Joseph Albel is taking care of manured land yielded 21 to 20 per cent Mrs. France’s baby while Mrs. Frances more wheat where lime was applied. is away at the hop yards. Another plot fertilized with nitrate of The Parent-Teacher Association of soda, acid phosphate and muriate of potash gave 21 per cent more wheat Kelso will hold its first meeting this where limed than on unllmed soil sim year Friday evening, September 22, ilarly fertilized. The yield on a pint 7:30. All are invited to atfbnd. receiving complete fertilizer with nitr.u Mrs. Updegrave marketed veals Tues gen in snlphate of ammonia gave 115 day. per cent Increase In crop by applica tion of lime. Edd Wolf and family an- visiting at School started Monday with Miss Updegrave. Edd bought his father’s Brown, of l’orilaod as teacher. W in te r Vetch and Rye. auto and intends canvassing with a W alkie Proctor, Mabel W».gner and An expert says that winter vetch Mrs. Ray Weiat, neice of Mrs Upde- number of useful household articles Eva Beers are attending high school at does best as a cover crop if a little rye CABRAOE CROP PA TS W ELL WHEN grave. has returned to Portland after a Mr. Develin and family, of Sandy Gresliam. T V k N E O INTO 8A V ER K H A Ü T. is seeded with IL One bushel of vetch lew days visit with the Updegravea. are moving on to the Pitts place. Misses Hazel Goger and Pearl Rttegg or corn will pay enormously, but If to one-half bushel of rye per acre is Don Bodley and Birch Roberts left Mr. Pitta stacked grain for W. P took up their duties as teachers in the raised as exclusive money crops thpre about right. In mild climates crimson Monday for the mountains for a few Rol>erts last week. Boring school Monday. will be years of total failure. Thou clover can be used Instead of vetch. ■lays hunt. sands of industrious farmers have l>een A very pleasant surprise was tendered The Hardee boys, of George, ruineil sticking to the single crop T. Milne snd family have returned to are threshing at Dover this week. Grain Mrs. Charles L. Hunter Tuesday after Idea ou by Between H u m o rists. farms too large for their equip the city after visiting two we^ka with is good. "Ton stole one of my Jokes out noon by the Pleasant Home Embroidery ment and capital. A. J. Morrison, Mrs. Miln's father. Club, it being her birtiiday. Canning, preserving and pickling en rig h t'' declared the first press humor. The huckleberry pW-c,-, ~nt horn„ able any farm family to double the 1st Most of the hop pickers have return Sunday night and report a jolly time Guy Hood »tent the pest two weeks “Well." said the second press humor price which it would otherwise obtain ed with varied success and some fun. They brought back ¿«gallonaof berries. at Sheppard Springs. for such things us sweet corn, pens, ist. “when 1 see I can't Improve a Joke Week-v Bacon has gone to Eastern cucum tiers, onions, peppers, berries, I don’t try I t ” — Louisville Courier- Joe DeShazer'a new house ready Oren Bolliver is beck on the R. F. D. shingles. Mr. Frace currants, plums, cherries and a dozeu Journal. doing again. Can’t keep a goo,! man down. Oregon to work in the harvest fields. Similar commodities. This plan en the carpenter work. Mr, \\ isltart, of Hood River, has been Education begins the gentleman, but W P. Roberts sold a fresh cow Mon ables one to charge full retail prices W. 11. Roberta, A. J. Morrison and day to Mr. Huntington for 60 dollars. vkiting his daughter. M-s. Lawrence snd so make the farm return high leading, good eom|«any and reflection Craeswell. Mist finish him.—Locke. PP'flls. est possible price. Such purchases represent a suiutantial Having at the end of the year. Sandy Mercantile Company USE Mt. Hood Butter KELSO Always Good STOCK CLEARING SALE AT B eckw ith’s 25 per cent off on all goods Except alarm clocks, $ w atches and elec trie lamps. Buy now and sav e money. DOVER COTTRELL Making the Little Farm Pay
