THE ONTARIO ARGUS ONTARIO, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1920
HEALTH fIRST!
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ness to got woll.
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of disease.
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for appointments.
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GENITAL ORGANS
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OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of Ihe.Wook
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Roaders.
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DR. R. A. MOON,
CIIIUpi'UACTOR
Spine and Nerve Spccialint 2;
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fiBEATL,
Among the many cleaners on the market, we
selected two to sell to our customers. AVe chose
them heeau.se they represent greater value Tor
the money, "because they save more time and
hard work in the home, and hecnuse we think
they clenn more thoroughly thnn any other elec
tric cleaners. Today, $5 puts either one of these
famous cleaners in your home. Take your choice.
The. Ohio Vacuum Oleanor
or
The. Hoover Suction Swooper
A cleaner lasts for years; get the hest now while
you .arc buying. .Hut you must act nt once
There are. only a few more days. Phone for our
salesman to come to your house, or come to the
Electric Shop today.
Don't Delay
That Old Broom of yours will never
again be worth $5.
IDAHO POWER CO
Electric Shop
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Licened Embalmers
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Funeral Car Services
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The now crop of wheat Is beginning
to nrrlvo at Astoria, whence It will bo
cxportcJ.
Tho Coos mnl Curry county fair
closed a succesiiful session of four
day- Saturday.
The, Christian Kndoavor rally for
southern Oregon hold a two days ses
sion nt Ashland,
Attendaneo In tho Grants Pass
school8hns Increased nearly 22 per
cent oier Inst year.
Poultry culling tfomointrntlons will
be held In Wasco county for three
days beginning October 1C.
('Itlons of Jaclisonvllto havo start
ed n movement to resist the removal
of tho county seat to Mctlford.
ItcLOtit rains swelled tho Santlnm
river and tho llrown-I'otzel Lumber
company lost a iiiimhor of logs.
Mrs, J. M. Lane of Itosoburg has
completed a 40 days' fast. During tho
time she lost 25 pounds In weight.
Four stores at Canton were robbed
last week. Tim robbers took consid
erable merchandise but little cash.
The capital utock of tho Spauldlug
Logglng company of Salem has been
Increased from Jlf.O.OOO to $2,500,000.
A marked decrease In ordors Is not
ed by the llond lumber factories co
Incident with tho raise In freight rates.
Tho ftilso work of the new Mohamn
Lyons bridge over tho Sitntlam river,
near Lyons, has been washed out, caus
ing considerable loss.
A flow of natural gus was discover
cd on the farm of A. M. 'Ink n few
miles north of lone, which has croAtcd
considerable Interest.
Ulen Sawyer, .15 years old, a me
chanic employed by tho Oregon I'ulp
& Paper company, was drowned In tho
Willamette elver nt Sulcm.
It Is estimated that tho apples from
tho Molser district this yo.ir will total
50,000 boxes as compared to a yield
of 125,000 boxes last enr.
County I'm It Inspector Armstrong of
Douglas county has Issued to fruit
growers and dealers n warning to dis
continue the sale of diseased fruit.
Tho nnuual conference of officers of
tho Oregon Y. M. C. A. will bo held ut
Hood nivor Soptcmbor 25 ami 20.
Prom 76 to 100 delegates aro expected.
Italns nro proving harmful to ranch
ers In Crook county who have not
stacked th'olr second crop of hay. Hun
dreds nf tons nro still on the ground.
Under a decision of tho state board
of control neither tho students nor em
ploy oh of thu state school for tho blind
will be held under fast and sot rules.
An Increase In salaries of teachers
at the stnto schools for deaf and blind
approximating 25 por cent has been np
provod by the sluto board of control.
Damage to tho oxteut of between
tSO.OVO and $65,000 wus dono to the
apple orop of tho Umpo.ua valley when
it sovsro wind storm struck that sec
tion. Thu first official act of the new mo
torcycle cop added to the Itoseburg
police was to arrest a member of tho
city council for exceeding tho speed
limit.
A. B. Woolpert, .Northwest mauogor
for Bugllsh apple merchants, says thu
oxport demand fir Hood Ithor New
towns will result In prices satlsfiicory
to growers, '
On Tuesday tho Prlnevlllo Sunday
schools iwide n Joint canvass of tho
city In the Interest of tho Sunday
schools In particular and the church
In general.
As a result of high water.Vt Is prob
able that the new steel bridge across
tho Santlum rlvor, bolug built by Linn
I nnd Marlon counties, will not bo finish
ed this year.
The postmaster of Iteud reports a
40 per cent Increase In tho amount of
mail passing through his offlco over
lifst jour. Cancellations ore now aver
aging 3500 dally.
Albany's community house was open
ed Friday night with u big reception,
which was attended by hundreds of
local people and a number from Cor
vnllls and Lebanon.
Among the early day exhibits at tho
Luue county fair this week will bo a
drum that whs made Gl years ago at
Waupaca, Wis., nnd that still has one
of tho original heads.
Negotiations nro reported to bo
ponding at Klamath Kails for tho
merging of three banks. Tho combin
ation would bo the largest bank In tho
state outsldo of Portland.
Tho Sherman county farm bureau
will unload at Moro an 8000 gallor
car of gasoline. Tho supply will bo
sold at 30 conts per gallon, ns against
tho local price of 42 cents.
Initiative petitions are bolng cir
culated In Deschutes county, asking
for a vote In November on tho question
of a permauent county sent. Doth
Bend and Redmond want to bo the
county seat.
How Much Is
4ft
A Dollar
Worth?
If you were forced to maintain your home and family on the same in
come that you received in 1915, you would probably find it impossible
to make both ends meet. It's unnecessary to mention that the cost r
living has practically doubled since that time. You've learned that
by actual experience.
Tin ttitiiiifiiin Iiiih liiMii HJivpfl hv ilin fiwf tlmf 111 mmi'lv nil iiffimiitimm.
the average income has also grown from (15 per cent to 100 per cent.
The man who in 1915 received $2.50 per day, now receives not less than
.$4; and the man who drew $100 per month four years ago now makes
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to live with an even greater degree of comfort than thev enjoved in
-inir,
1915.
Our. Case is Differeut
The operating expenses of the Idaho Power Company have increased
in about the same proportion that your living expenses have. For in
stance, the rate of pay for our employes has grown GO per cent dur
ing the last four years. The cost of supplies and equipment has in
creased approximately 98 percent, and our taxes WW percent.
And hero's whore, our groat difficulty comos. Our incomo is
regulated by tho Public Utilities Commission of tho state,
and although the cost of dolivoring powor to our customors
has increased moro than GO por cent, wo "havo boon allowed
to increase our rates only 10 por cont Binco 1915.
people, the Tdaho Power Company can do ni
liners' money as economically as possible, t
no iliore
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As a servant of the
t inn sneim its customers' monev as economical v hh mission, tn urn
duce the power that they need. A continuationof present conditions,
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you as customers have a right to expect, and will prevent us from mak
ing the necessary development. that the growth of this territory is de
manding. ' -
The price of nearly every commodity you use nowmlays, from the
clothes you wear to the newspaper you read at breakfast has increas
ed repeatedly during the last four years. Yet at the slightest hint of
a raise in power rates, there is a general outcry of remonstrance.
Power Costs You Less than in 1915
Looking jit the matter of rates from our customers' point of view, it
can easily be shown that they are actually paying less for electricity
today than they paid four years ago.
You think that doesn't sound reasonable ? Well, listen to this.
If the man whq in 1915 was earning $2.50 per day, paid $1 a month for
lighting service in his home, he had to work 192 minutes en pay his
month's bill. If that man today uses the same amount of electric
power, it costs him $1.10. But he is now earning at least $1 per day,
so he is required to work only IflO minutes to pay for this power, lie
is actually getting electric service today more than i)2 per cent cheap
er than he could buy it in 1915. ,
The average price of wheat in 1915 was 78 ccnts por bushel. The
farmer therefore, required more than 20 busbels of wheat to pay for
one horsepower of irrigation pumping service.
In 1919, the average price of wheat was $2.08 n bushel, so that 8 bush
els paid for one horsepower of service. It is evident that, measured
in terms of wheat, the cost of power to the fanner in 1919 was only
'10 per cent of its cost four years earlier. And similar comparisons can
be made with practically all other products.
On tho other hand, as we havo pointed out, each dollar that wo receivo
from our customers, today, buys only 50 por cent o.f tho supplies and
GO per cent of the labor that is was capable of buying four years ago.
Two Facts Are Plain
Two things are evident: First, that we cannot meet a 60 per cent in
crease in operating expenses with a 10 per cont increase in rates; and,
second, that a reasonable increase in rates would not be unjust to our
customers, since the cost of electricity has not increased anywhere
near in proportion to tho average income of our customors or in pro
portion to tho cost of other necessities.
Idaho Power Company