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Fall
ress
GoodS and
Novelty. S
Anncuncement
Extraordinary
it 18 wiui pU'umiro that we nnnnumut to our many patrons that we hnvo re
ceived and jilaced in stock tliu Inlnds'.mpst collections of FALL PRESS
CiOOllS mid FALL NOVKLTIHS ever shown in the city of
Portland or north of San Francisco.
SCOTCH PLAIDS
8ft pieces of Very Pretty Scotch
43
47
37
411
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Kill cv Mixtures, late
ViVelty Suiting"), latest I'fic
Kreneh I am ies, very latest 45o
1 in poi'tfi I ( olured Nuvrh ies 5 ie
Imported Frenrh Novelties extra (3c
Extreme High Grade Novelties, 75o to tl.1'5'
Till
LARG1-ST STOCK OF FINE BLACK ' DRESS GOODS
' EVER SHOWN IN THE NORTHWEST.
Children's School Cloak mid Jackets.
Children's "School Uinhrellas, 45c find 50c yard.
The Largest Stock of (.'apes and Jackets ever shown in the city.
The only Exclusive Dry Goods House in Portland.
McAuen & McDonnell,
Woki Fkom Confkh. A letter has
been received City from John A. Con
fer, who left for t ho Yukon July 80. It
Was dated at Lake Bennett, September 8
nnd said that in Ave or six days iho
party woul I he ready to start on down
the lakes. The four horses the pariy
look died on the Skigitay trail. Confer
left near the coast tho provisions he
took with him from hero, and at Lake
Bennett bought another supply, A boat
that would carry about four tons was
purchased at the lake for $200. Of the
4000 persons that had landed at Sknguay
since July. Confer estimated that
about 20) would go through to the mines.
Most of those going down the lakes, ho
eaid, has gone by way of Dyea and the
Cb ltoot pass, which is the best route.
He says: "Ican'tsay that I am stuck on
this country, but I think it is all right.
There is no doubt that this is a mineral
country." .'
The Hatciiehies. Superintendent
. Hubbard reports that a great success is
attending tho efforts of get salmon eggs
on the Little White Salmon river, in
Skamania county, Wash., between 400,
000 and 500,000 being taki n daily sii ce
the beginning of the worn. Probably
0,000,000 will be taken there this season.
On the Salmon river, in this county, not
so many eggs were taken as expected,
the season's outpui not much exceeding
1,500,000. There are being transported
in wagons to the Clackamas ha chery,
about 200 00J being taken at a load.
Only about 150,1 00 will lie lurched and
turned loose in the Salmon river. At
the Clackamas station the t king of .'ggs
h:is begun. The prospect is not promis
ing for a large number of eggs to be
taken there this season.
Killed bv Train. Patrick Gibson, a
Maoksbnrg farmerwas killed by the
Overland train two miles south of this
city Tuesday evening The circum
stances as examined into by the coroner,
Indicate that Gibson stopped his team on
the crossing and was himself on the j
ground when the train struck his wagon,
Gibson's head was crushed. One horse I
Was killed outright and the other was
afterward shot. The wagon was ground
to splinters. Gibson marketed a load
of grain during the day, and was in
toxicated when he left town, shortly
before train time. Gibson was un
married and lived with, his father and
Was 52 years old. His brother lived
near him. The coroner's jury on Wednes
day found a verdict of accidental dea th
and exonerated the'railroad company.
Rattlesnakes,
and.. . ?
Washington Irving said, he supposed a certain hill was called
"Rattlesnake h"ii because it abounded in butterflies. The
" rule of contrary 'governs other names. Some bottles are, sup
posedly, labeled Saparilla " because they are full of . . . well,
we don't know what the are full of, but we know it's not sarsapa
rilla; except, perhaps, eiqugh for a flavor. There's only one
make of sarsaparilla that cavbe relied on to be all it claims. It's
Ayer's. It has no secret to keep. Its formula is open to all
physicians. This formula was examined by the Medical Com
mittee at the World's Fair with ft,e result that while every other
make of sarsaparilla was excluded iiom the Fair, Ayer's Sarsapa
rilla was admitted and honored by awards. It was admitted be
cause it was the best sarsaparilla. It Teceived the medal as the
best. No other sarsaparilla has been so tested or so honored.
Good motto for the family as well as the Fair: Admit the best,
exclude the rest
Any doubt about it? Send for the Curt book."
It kills doubu and curea doubter.
Address: J. C Ayer Co., LoinU, 3Jut.
uitin
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Plaids
25ij yard
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effects
Cor. !M & Morrison,
PORTLAND, OK.
TAKE NOTICE. .
Owing to Jewish holiday the etore of
I Selling will close on Monday, Septem
ber 27th, until 6 o'clock,
Prices right. Quality lieat. Timothy,
clover, alsike, orchard grass, and other
grass seed?. E. E. Williams, the grocer.
nilllnery Opening.
We are prepared to show the ladies of
Oregon City and vicinity, at our opening,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sep
tember 22d, 23Q and 24th, the most
elegant line of imported hats ever dis
played in this city.
Miss C. Goldsmith.
Get your picture frames made at the
the Oregon City Auction House at very
prices.
Furniture upholstered and repaired at
the Oregon City Auction .
The finest gunpowder tea at 25c a lb
in the city at Harris' grocery.
Attend the millinery display at Miss
Goldsmith's on Wednesday, Thurday
and Friday, 22d, 23d and 24th, Septem
ber. --
w lien in rortiuna aon t tail to ca'i
and see the fine line of millinery kepi
at the La Mode Farlors by Miss Rose
Scheelaud at . 349li Morrisqn streets,
between Seventh and I'ark.
Do not fail to attend the opening of
Mrs. Sladen's "Millinery parlors next
week and see the fine pattern hats.
School books and school supplies at"
Portland prices at Char.nan & Uo's, the
cut-cut price drupylsts. Every purchaser
gets a tablet or pencil free.
Golden fleeced knitting yarn, saxony
and zephyrs, all colors, at the. Racket
Store
For Gentlemen Only. .
J'cLeod l.ucke Co., FashionableTailor,
desire to call attention to the arrival of
another shipment of fall suitings, over-
costings and trowserings. Comprising
the latest uovilties of the season .
McLeod Lutkc Co.,
Marquam Building.
Parents intending to enter children
into the firBt primary grade of the Ore
gon City schools this term should do so
net later September 27th, as'only one
class will be formed in this grade during
this term. L. W. McAdams, Supt.
Butterflies,
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LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
Born, on 12th to Mrs. O. A. Miller, a
son.
Born, to the wife of E. A. Brady on
14th, r girl.
Sintnn Payne of Mulino is reported
very low.
MrH II. E.Smith r.nd daughter left
last week for the Eust.
. Ernst us A. Smith will attend school at
McMinnvillo thisyeur.
Mrs. Thos. Campbell returned Monday
from a visit to Seattle.
Col. Ii. A. Miller left Saturday for a
trip to Southern Oregon.
1 H. J. Thorn of Spokane, Wash., 1h
visiting friends in the city.
John and Miss Ada Moehnke will at
tend .Albany college this yoar. ' .
Dr. J. M. Wells bus gone to Boston,
where he will reside in tho future.
Laurence Driggs returned Monday to
his law studies at Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mis.-t Daisy Lawrence left Saturday to
resu mo lier studies at the Corvallis
college.
Miss Mary E. Oonycrs spent, the past
week visiting at her old home in Coin m -
tin county.
Miss Stella Welch of Silverton arrived
Monday and is visiting her brother, Dr.
J. W. Welch.
Fred It. Cliarman nccoinpanied his
son, Fred, to the Corvallis college on
Saturday.
Web Burns returned last. Thursday
from. Eastern Oregon, where he spent
the summer.
The six-weeks-old son of Geo. II.
Young died on .Wednesday nfteratwo
weeks' illness. -
Ira Dickey of Molalla was in town
Friday lust and reports grain all threshed
in his neighborhood.
Mrs. O. D. Austin returned to her
home in Salem, after a visit to her
mother, Mrs. GrW. Jones
Jas. A. House has moved his goods to
Portland and will open a meat market
at corner of First and Main.
Miss Mamie Baxter returned last
Friday from k visit to her cousins in
Salem, the Misses Holland.
Fred tharman Jr. left Saturday for
Corvallis colleg . Fred Smith and Will
Beach will also attend the same school.
'-Mrs. S. Horn of Washington, D. O.,
on her way to San Francisco, spent lust
Friday with her sisterMrs. W. L. Block.
The loss of hops by the rainy weather
was not as great as reported. Avery
conservative estimate of loss in one-third
of a crop.
J. M. Clustering, S. E. and E. 0. Huff
man, F. M. and J." O. Gill have filed
locations on mining claims in Eagle
Creek lode. .. ." i ,
The unveiling of the Woodmen monu
ment erected on the grave of J. Pritchard
wdl take place on Sunday ufleruoon at
the cemetery.
Ira Wishart, who has been in the era-
poy of Churman's drug store for several
years, left Saturday for Corvallis college,
to take a laboratory course.
The westsiuo school opened Monday
with Prof. J. W. Gary of Milwaukee as
principal and Misses Norma Fox and
Olive Luelling as teachers.
Miss Florence Morey and Mi83 Helen
Eastlmin of this city and Miss Lillian
Morey of San Francisco left Monday for
New York to resume their studies.
J. O. Linn of Currinsville was in Ore
gon City lust Friday. He says that the
roads are hard and smooth, the best he
had ever seen at this season of the year.
Editor Fred Hess of Clackamas Post
(German) and Attorney J.E. Marks are
now occupying offices next door to the
"leading paper," in old M. E. church.
Mike O'Kane furnished considerable
amusement for bystanders on Saturday
by getting into a yellowjackets nest near
j depot and trying to' take possession of
the same.
The Parkplace school will open next
Monday with Prof. J. W. Gray as
principal and Misses Harnett Dotson,
Estella Bracken and Margaret Williams
as assistant teachers.
The ball given by Junior Dancing
Club in honor of Misses Flore nee" Morey
and Helen Easthum and Lawrence
Driggs on last Friday evening was a
very delightful affair.
D. W.Kinnaird, J. A. .Moore, Geo. 0.
Kinney, Clay Green, Jas. M.Tracy and
W. L. Beckner left Tuesday for the Blue
River M. & M. Co.'s mines for the pur
pose of surveying them.
The following papers were granted by
state boord of education on Monday to
Clackamas county teachers: State
certificates Mrs. Nora Burney andJ.
C. Zinser; state diploma Miss Bessie
Wells; life diploma S. W. Holmes.
The new gymnasium and play room
now being erected adjoining the Barclay
school is fast nearing completion. By
another year the same will probably
have to be used as a school room to ac
commodate the increasing number of
pupils.
Prof. Swan ton, with the assistance of
Mrs. McDonald as musician, will open
his dancing acadamy at Weinhard's hall,
with a ball Friday evening, September
24, to which all his former pupils and
their friends are invited. During this
season the school will open only every
Friday from 3 to 5 p. m. and 7 to 9 p. m.
for lessons and from 9 to 12 for dancing.
New dances will be introduced.
Dr. Curll returned Thursday from a
hunt up the valley.
Nashville Students at Baptist church
Saturday, November 2d.
Charles Galloway left Monday for
Eugene university to continue his
studies.
J. G. Pilsbury moved into the houso
formerly occupied by Mrs. Ackeriuan
this week.
H. A. Piltiuucr bus moved his real
estate ollico from the postollico to the
Courier building.
Dan J. Moore, clerk of the circuit court
of Multnomah county, called on Clerk
Dixon on Wednesday. .
Lee Harding left Thursday for Cor
vallis college.- Ho was accompanied by
Ids father, Geo. A. Harding.
George Doll lost an eye on Monday at
the paper mills by being hit a small
sliver from a piece of iron he was work
ing on.
Itev. Harold Oberg, the new M. E.
minister arrived with his family on
Wednesday. Rev. T. L. Jones left for
his new field of labor .on 'f uesduy.
Word has been received from Ernest
Rands, who h.is a government surveying
contract in Idaho, that he will return
about November. He is now surveying
land covered with rocks and a few trees
and lots of rattlesnakes.
Hul Rands will attend Cornell
University at Ithica, N. Y., tho coming
term. lie will go direct from Idaho,
where he bus a large government survey.
ing contract. Success to him. He will
take a course in chemistry.
Licenses to wed granted by county
clerk on 16tb. to Ohristiua Agnes Cham
bers ntid Geo. T. Silvers; on 16th to
Minnie Hoffman and Frank Turney ; on
15th to Anna Feaks and August Peters;
on 13th to Id.i Weiriuh and B. C. Esch.
The Oregon Hity Y. M. O. A. is re-
papering and repainting its new quarters
in the Graham building" and will have
much better rooms than in the old
locution. Men are cordially invited to
visit the free reading rooms of the
association. ,
The following Oregon Oityites will at
tend Corvallis College this year : Misses
Huldah and Blanch HoUten, Daisy
Lawrence and Edna Garrow; Ira
Wishart, Lee Harding, Wilbert Garrow,
N. R. Smith, Fred Cliarman, W. F.
Smith and Thompson Meldium.
The Oregon City Ohautauquans has
organized for winter's course and have
elected Mrs.R. A.Miller leader and Mrs.
A. S. Dresser assistant, Miss Mina Kelly
secretary and Misses Mary Conyers,
Mina Kelly and Neita McOown member
ship committee. The first meeting will
be held the 27th at C. H. Cuufield's.
The . fall" opening of Mrs. Sladen's
Millinery parlors will take phico next
week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, September 22d to 25th
Miss Edith Wishart, who has charge,
has secured some of the finest pattern
hats to be had and those attending will
be conviued that it is not necessary to
go out of town to get a first class stylish
hat. All are cordially invited toattend.
Among the Oregon students at Stan
ford university are Miss Dorothy II.
Chase of Oregon City, class of 1899,
drawing, and Miss Sade II. base of
Oregon City, class of 1901, English ;
Horace Pomeroy of Oswego, class of
1897, electrical engineering ; J. P. Rusk
ofMilwaukie, class of 1900, economics;
Miss Hester Kusk of Milwaukie, class of
1901, hygene. (
Take steamer Lorelei for Portland,
round trip 25 cents ; leaves Oregon City
9:30 a. in. and 4:30 p. in., returning
leaves Portland, Yamhill street, at 7 a.
m. and 2 p. m. If business warrants
the boat will make three t ips a day.
The follow ing will be the themes of
the pastor in the Baptist church on
Sunday: Morning "Breaking of Fal
low Ground ;'' evening the second in
the series of Bible doctrine will be,
"Regeneration, or How One Enters the
Kingdom of Heaven."
Monday afternoon about 4 o'clock,
while the two sons of T. M. Baker of
Sherwood, aged about 5 and 15 years,
were handling a gun in the house, it, in
some way, was discharged, the entire
contents passing through the younger
boy's head, killing him instantly.
Leighton Kelly returned Wednesday
from his mrveying trip in Idaho to ac
cept the position of local salesman for
the flour mills in Oregon City made
vacant by Erastus Smith, who has left
for McMinnville College to study for the
ministry.
W. II. Savage of this city has struck it
rich and didn'tgoto Klondike. Abouta
year ago he filed on 40 acres of improved
land five miles south of Salem on the
main road. His filing was first rejected
by the land office but he carried the
matter up to the commissioner and won
and last week was permitted to file a
homestead on the land. The land has
been occupied 45 years, it being filed on
as a donation claim in 1852 and was held
as such until 1S76. About 1858 or 60 the
present occupants, wlioclaim owhership,
bought the land as state school lieu
land. Mr. Savage left Tuesday to put
in his crop, the land being already
plowed by the alleged owners, who will
no doubt fight for their land.
Rev. R. A. Rowley, state superinten
dent of Sunday schools, occupied the
pulpit of the Congregtaional church last
Sunday morning and gave a very inter
esting taik on his work in the state.
J-LLLLf I
NEW
OK
UMBRELLAS & CANES
At
Burmcfctcr & Anteen's
i i i i i i 1
Fall and Winter Styles !
FOR SEASON'S OF 1S97-8
Now Open! Overcoats,
logs lor man or boy.
toe Artists
There is. something powerful in
viouuer miiii uraws unio useu
iiiiu wnen a line appeals convincingly to the masses there
must be something in it that is worth the investigation
of every buyer. Our prices will suit anv purse, no
matter how small or how large it is. 'Suits or
Overcoats $10.00 to $40.00.
A D Ct rimniiMi
ft. u. 01 CIIMLJMOn
Fine French
Millinery.
...Miss A.
OPENING SEPTEMBER
I.AniRN OF OREGON CITY
AUK COItDIALLV INVITED TO ATTEND
291 Mtrrlsou St., Bet. 4th
Jas W. McA.nulty is now employed as
clerk in Harris' grocery. ' Wm.Rhoades
has taken Mac's former position in Wil-'
Haras grocery.
Everett Hickman and Ralph Miller
expect to open an upholstering and re
pair shop about the 1st of November in
the Schwan building on Seventh street,
next to d''pot.
Tho wife of Rev. Buttle'r, accompanied
by the two youngeBt children, arrived to
occupy the parsonage of tho Congre
gational church lust Wednesday. They
had spent the summer in Wullti Walla
county.
A public reception will bo held in the
auditorium of the M. h. church on
Wednesday evening, September 29th ,
at 7 :30 p. m. A short musical program
will bo rendered; admission free;
donations for the pastor will be accepted.
Everybody invited.
Dr. Buttler's evening lectures on Man
are atiracting large congregations at the
Congregational church. The subject
for next Sunday evening is, "Alun
What is He, What is He Here For, and
What is His Possibilities?" Being the
third of the series. By request, the ser
mon given a few weeks ago on "Heavens
Perfume" will be repented at the morn
ing services, lhe public is cordially
invited to all services.
Ladies, come and see our corsets,
atest styles in short corsets, also child
ren's corset waists, at the Racket Store,
Customers can leave orders for bottled
beer, porter, steam beer or keg beer at
Knapp's Bismark saloon. John Q. Wil
helm, proprietor Scllwood brewery.
Go to l!au in A ISrandefl, 145 First
street, right on the Oregon City car lino
for your lunches and dinners. We make
a specialty of ladies' and merchants'
lunches; try them, only 25c. Agency
for Mailland's candies. ,
Don't fail to see our variety of ladies',
gents' and children's underwear, wool
and fleeced lined, at the Racket Store.
The cheapest place in town to buy
your hosiery is at the Racket Store.
If you want a fine lawn sow our fancy
lan grass seed now. E.E.Williams,
the grocer.
It is reported that Rudolph Bpreckles
who owns a poultry ranch in Sonoma
county, on which there are 10,000 fowls
has added an X ray plant to his outfit
to determine which hens are layers and
which are not. All hens which have no
eggs in them are sent to market.
TO CURE A COLO IN ONE DAY
Take L.l.Ove Brorno (illume Tablet. All
VruH'at reman toe Mouejr II II lain lo cure, ijt
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MAIN STREBT, NEAR COURT HOUSE, OREGON CITY, OREGON f
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Suits, Hats ad Furnish-
Made and Tailored by
of tag World.
our lines of Perfecting Fitting
tne best elements in the trade,
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(X UU.. PORTLAND, OR.
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21st and 22d
& oth, PORTLAND, ORE.
We have received a line of silver plated
ware, which will be glvbn to our patrons,
The quality Is a f extra coin silver plate
1487 Wm. A. Roger. We Solicit you to
Inspect the same at the store of I. Selling.
If you want a nice steiik, roast or boil
call at Albright's shop and got some of
his cold-storage meat which is acknow-
edged by all to be suporior to the meats
commonly sold at butchers' shops. He
also keens on hand a f u 1 stock nf Wl .
hams, bacon, etc.. made bv himself and
warranted purest and wholesomo. Re
member the old established shop on
Main street.
The clieape.-t and best line of crockery
in Portland is at Haine's Tea Store, 288
Morrison street.
Fine new line of umbrellas and canes
at Burmeisters & Andreseus's Jewelry
store.
Get Peacock flour if you lovo good
bread, at Harris' Grocery. """ -
"Five years ago, I was taken so ill with
rheumatism that I was unable to do any
work," writes Peter Chrisl nBen, Slier,
wood, Wis. "I took three boxes ol
Ayer's Pills and was entirely cured.
Since that time, I always keep them in
the house." They aro easy to take.
What Hood's Sarsaparilla has done
for others it will do for you. Hood's
Sarsaparilla cures all blood diseaoes.
Wise Men Know it is folly to build on a
poor foundation. Relief obtained by
deadening symptoms is short. Hood's
Sarsaparilla cures and gives lasting
health. '
Hood's Pills cure nausea, sick headache
indigestion, biliousness. All druggists.
25c.
JUST THINK OF IT-
Only one fare for the round trip from
any point on the lines of the Southern
Pacific to attend the greatest State fair
ever held in Oregon. Ojen8 September
30, closes October 8, 1897.
Every department and building will
lie filled with the choicest exhibits and
displays possible to be seen. Every show
ring will be graced by the finest types of
the various breeds of animals.
On the race track and in the amuse
ment park, trotting, pacing, running,
hurdle jumping, novel ties .special saddle,
and harness classes. New features and
new attractions. A rich programme for
every day and evening. Only one 'fare
for tho round trip. Popular admission
of 25 cents. '
LAXATIVE BR0N0 QUININE TABLETS
More the bowel, (frntljr. rellerti the r.h,
cure the fererWi conditio and Head lit,
making II the boat and i)l. kt reinHy (r
(Jouglia, Colil. end Le Orlpjie. Cure iu eiia
dejr. No cure, do pay. P-kei'.
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