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About The Sandy news. (Sandy, Clackamas County, Oregon) 1914-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1916)
Use Our Phone Sandy 4 x 2, Fo 'Ite m s, Subscriptions ; P rin tin g , A dvertlsin SANDY NEWS VOLUME 3 SANDY, CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1916 Sandy Items Don’t forget the Xmas dance in the Shelley Hall next Saturday night, De cember 23rd. The Beers 4-pieee oí dies tra will furnish music. All who have books from the library at Beckwith’s, are ns; nested to return them at once as we have to return them immediately. There will be a joint installation of otlieers by Sandy Lodge, A. F. A A. M. and Mountain View Chapter No. 125, O. E. S., tonight. FCR SALE—Some Fall and Spring Vetch seed. Apply to John Macho, Sandy Ridge. The Live . Sandy > East Clackamas > Booster NUMBER 5« FORCING RHUBARB. M ethod o f Securing th e P la n t F o r W in te r Use. Q R E E T IN G S By The Editor We sincerely extend to you the compliments of this Christmas i-eason. May Providence deal gently and generously with you and yours, to the end that in the fullness of life and the ripeness of age you may reap bountifully of the bless ings that accrue to man and womankind. To You As you follow the Star of Destiny through life, may your acts and your ex amples be such as to prove an inspiration to others who are yet groping in the shadows of existence. C. L. Hensen, of Zig( Zag, was in town for a couple of days this week. We wish you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous and extended journey through life. B. F. Baner returned home Sunday morning lor the Christmas holidays. Christmas, Nineteen sixteen. Marshall Dayis made a business trip to Portland last Friday. Mrs. R, F. Dittert spent a lew days ill Portland this week. H. 8. Eddy has moved into one of Proctor’s houses. HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. Rhubarb plants will be benefited by replanting the roots every three or four yeurs, dividing the elumps and setting them In new, rich ground. For best results loosen up the soil fully thirty Inches deep, being careful to leave the subsot* below, working in manure down about sixteen Inches be low the surface, using an abundance of manure. Autumn Is a good time to do this work. During the growing season keep the soil loose and mellow and water dur ing dry weather, giving occasional ap plications of manure water. In gathering the crop do not cut but pull the leaf stalks and be careful not to strip the plants entirely. As soon as the leaves have faded mulch the plants with manure, which should he dug In around the plants In the spring. Rhubarb Is easily forced for whiter use. Plant strong roots In light, rich soil In a box, water moderately, cover with straw and place In a dark, mod erately warm cellar or uiider the green house benches, hanging a curtain down In front of the bench to shade the plants from the light. By planting sev eral boxes, keeping them in a dark, cool place, placing only a box or two at a time In moderately wnrm temper ature, rhubarb may be had from Christmas until late In March. In the garden the roots may be forced by covering them with boxes and covering these with leaves or ma nure. x Mr. and Mrs Danielson’s fourtieth ••■ed- R. S. Smith attended the blacksmith’s ding anniversary. Many beautiful gifts 8 u g a r Beets F o r D a iry Cows. convention in Portland, Saturday. He were bestowed upon them by friends. Sugar beets and mangels tend to in was present at the banquet at the Mult crease milk production when fed to David Eoseberg made a trip to Port nomah Hotel, and returned home Sun The High School Boy’s Basket Ball dairy cows, hut experiments conducted land last week. team has received a challenge from the day. ut the Ohio experiment station show Boy’s team of Boring for December the Early Monday morning the dead body that corn silage Is far more economical twenty-si venth, which they will accept. of Joseph V. Strack, aged 31, was found to feed. Because of tills fnct these Raymond Gray was reported on the in a cabin on liis brother’s fsrm near dairy experts do not advise the feeding Mrs. Malar, Mrs, Shelley and daughter sick list one day last week. the Sandy bridge, a bullet hole through of heels except for high records where Johnnie, visited the high school last The Parent-Teacher bazaar held Sat his heart. Evidence gathered by Coro cost Is a minor consideration or where week. urday evening was a splendid success, ner W E, Hempstead indicated suicide the number of cows Is too small to per Harry Reed received the second de Mr. Aiken, stopped on his way from while intoxicated as he hid consumed a mit the use of a silo. the amount cleared lieing $42.00. gree of Cddfellowship last Monday Minnesota to his home in California, to quart of alcohol each day for three «lays Cows fed beets had keen appetites night. Robert Jonsrud had a well drilled on and ate more food because of the stim visit his daughter, Mildred, our English before his death. his Bluff place. Water was struck at a ulating effects of this root crop. After teacher. He visited with the high school ten years' work the Ohio station has depth of 150 feet. Martin Lennartz was in town Tues Monday. found that two pounds of dry matter day. The school library books have all been A number of the high school girls have can be produced In the form of silage The State at less cost than one pound In the form lieen attending church regularly for a varnished and pocketed, Don’t forget to attend the big dance traveling library is also kept at the of beets. Convenience In feeding Is In number of Sundays. They must lx- ex at Sandy next Saturday night. A good school house and is free to al1 who wish favor of silage. SETTLING A RATTLER. pecting a big bag of randy from Santa time assured to all. to Dorrow books on Wednesdays and Claus on Christmas. Fridays between 4 and 5. P ra irie Dog» Did the Job W e ll by Bu-y- Good C a lk F o r Horseshoes. The Freshmen boys are very earnestly ing H im A live. The Scientific American In Illustrat Miss Rutii Revenue is reported on the practicing on their song for Christmas. It would not seem a very easy thing ing und describing a toe calk for horse Card of Thanks. sick list. to bury n snake alive, but that Is what shoes, Invented by W. Gordon of Phil Don’t forget the Literary program on I wish to extend thanks to the neigh- Thuiaday evening, December 21st. at Ixirs and friends who kindly helped me an Oklahoma man saw some prairie adelphia. says: dogs do. The Invention relates to Improve W. H. Phelps spent a few days of last 8 P. M. during the sickness and death of my He was resting under a tree when ments In calk attachments for horse week in Portland. wife, Sarah Fellows, To those who The girls Basket Ball Club held a very he noticed a commotion among some shoes and has for an object to provide successful practice Friday night. After furnished auioes at the burial and the prairie dogs near him. They would run Mrs. Scales sjient last week in Port the practice the girls journeyed to many floral tributes, also to the Pleas up to a certnln spot, peep at something and then scamper hack. Looking more Professor Brehaut’s, where they spent ant Home choir, land. closely, he saw fifteen to twenty dogs Willis Fellows. a very enjoyable evening. about a rattlesnake. which presently Oh! Hear those Freshmen sing! went Into one of the dogs' holes. The Sandy Mercantile Co., invite Notes of M. E. Church. No sooner had It disappeared lhan May Klinger spent Friday evening everyone to call anti get one of their the little fellows began to push In dirt, with Habra Deaton and Sabra spent 1917 eallendars. They wish their many evidently to fill up the hole. By the Epworth League, Sunday School and friends a Merry Xnms and a Happy Saturday with May. time they had pretty well covered the all the church services are moving for New Y’ear. Walter Helms spent Sunday with his ward. A large number of people pres entrance the snake stuck his heHd up through the dirt, ami every dog scam folks in Marmot. ent ast Sunday that we do not always pered off to a safe distance, all the The price of admission to the school Mary Junker was absent from schtol see. We want you to come often. time barking. entertainment will lie 10 cents. Enter Monday. Decemfier 18th. The snake crawled to another hole The Quintett sang well. The quart- tainment will liegin at 8 o’clock. Don’t Come and watch the Junior and ett will sing some more, The 9olo by about a rod distant and went In. Then a simple construction which can he miss it. Sophmore boys inarch to the front with Miss Katie Junker was fine. We desire forward came the dogs again, and all easily applied to and removed from went to work to push up earth to the the horse's hoof and will, when In great big letters. Miss Junker to help some more. hole. This time they succeeded and place, he securely held against dis I .E . Dawson was in Portland last Let us all ask ourselves what can I do completely covered the entrance. Till., placement In any direction and will The program for the Literary is: Tut stlay. done, they proceeded to lx-at the earth embody means which will aid in the to help along. Song................................ Freshman Boys down, employing Ihelr noses for tills Christmas...........Soph, and Junior Boys The Dear Lord wants us to help Him purpose. When they had rendered the adjustment of the attachment to hoofs of different size and shape. At the annual election of officers of Piano Duet,Gertrude Meinig, Leta Beers to save this world. earth quite hard they went away. The High School Notes........... Lula Roberts H ,n 'y Lodge No. 158 A. F. A A. M., There ar» many things we can do to observer examined their work and was the following officers were elected: Vocal Solo.......................... Kate Junker help keep up the interest. surprised to find that they had packed L a te L ay in g Pulleta. R. I. Anderson, W. M. Ed Bruns, S. W; Farce, The Sniggles Family. When pullets do not liegin laying be A Christmas sermon next Sunday the earth In solid with their nosos and Fred Proctor, J. W ; A. L. Deaton, Sec; had scaled the snake Inside.—Loa An fore February It may lie the fault of morning. Christmas exercises in the geles Times. C. M. Quickaall. Treas; M, A. Deaton, Itelng late hatched, or It may he due evening. Only a short talk by the pas to Insufficient feeding of the proper S. II; R. S. Hensen, J. D; II. H, Eddy, tor. Macy others will lake part. hone and muscle food. Pullets hatch F. M. Morgan, Stewards; A. Wendland, 8 a lt F o r D a iry U te . Pastor. Tyler. Salt la required by all animals. The ed In April should lay In October or Carl Hanson and family spent Sun dairy cow requires an ounce or more November and will If they are proper Roughage F o r Cows. day afternoon at Erdman's. a day. and while she should lie given ly grown. Growing stock need range, Under most circumstances the cow all she needs she should not lie forced and the food should he of a nitroge Electric light bulbs for sale at Arnold Ackerson spent Sunday after should be fed all the roughage that to take more than she wants. It la nous order. G ranetta. noon with Joe Blomvick. she will eat up clean, adjusting the best, therefore, to give only a small C e re uf L a w n M ow er. A surprise party was given on Mrs. grain ration to the milk production quantity on the feed and to place rock Clean the lawn mower thoroughly Edward Danie'-on, Sunday afternoor, Only when the cow tends to become salt In boxes In the yard where she E. F. Gran rt was in Portland Thurs it being her sixty-fourth birthday, and overfat should the quautity of rough- can lick It at wllL with kerosene oil, give It a good coat age be restricted. ing of some heavy oil and store away day. for the winter. Joseph V. Strack is Shot Dead in Cabin KELSO DEEP CREEK
