OREGON CITY COURIER FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1902 WA NTED SEE OUR "AD" LAST WEEK. EVERY BABY IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE MUST HAVE A SOLID GOLD FINGER RING. Holiday Goods are arriving every day. We have been pretty busy, unpacking, for several days, and we are now pre pared to show you the best and neatest assortment of Holiday Goods in Oregon City.' Your money will go farther this year than ever before, if you buy here. We have no old pioneer stock to work off. Our goods are all bright and new. If you secure your Christmas present here you are sure of getting the very latest designs and the newest goods in the market. ' We guarantee every article we sell. If not satisfac tory, call and get your money. Come in, look over our stock, and get our prices. MOWE1L1L & JONES, ....... RELIABLE DRUGGISTS. Chambers Howell MMMIWfMmHHIHI PERSONALS I Eli Fellows, of Highland, waa in the city on Monday. T. B. Kilsin, of Hubbard, was in town on business TueBday. Claud Howard, of Mulino, was in Ore gon City Wednesday, F. L. Minto, of OBwego, waB in town on business Wednesday. Charles Robeson spent last week in Portland visiting with relatives. B. F. Betzler, of Falls City, was regis tered at the Electric Wednesday. H. 8. Raney, of Springwater, regis tered at the Electric on Tuesday. F, L. Mintie, one of Oswego's promi nent citiiens, was here Wednesday. Mrs. Tabor, of. Mt, Pleasant, is the guest of friends at Hillsboro this week. Mrs. Mollie Barlow, of Barlow, was the gueet of Mrs. Tom Miller last Satur day. George A. Brown, of Salem, was in this cit" the first of the week on business. 250 Moreabies Linn E.Jones Mrs. Frank Rigler, of Portland, vis ited friends in Oregon City the first of the week. Mr. Meindl resigned his position in Salem returned to his home on the Ab ernethy on Tuesday. D. H. Mosher, a student of State University, is sick with typhoid fever at his home in Redland. Mrs. P. D. Hull, of Gladstone, has been ill for the past three weens with an attack of pneumonia. J. H. Revenue, of Sandy, arrived here on Tuesday, and rode homeward nest day through the driving rain. Mrs. Geo. W. Grace and little daugh ter left Wednesday afternoon for a few days visit to friends in Portland. MrB. George Steele, of - Meldrum's Station, was visiting her sister, Mrs. J. W. Meldrum, of this city, on Tuesday. George Spees, one of Clackamas county's prosperous farmers, was trans acting business in Oregon City Satur day . R. L. Williams.who is with the South ern Pacific Railway Company, is at the Electric hotel with a . badly sprained back. Wc are nicely settled in our new store and we would pleased to have you come and inspect our immense stook of Holiday goods Burmeister The Remember we Mrs. H. Pope, of Portland, visited her niece, Mrs. F. T. Griffith, Tuesday. Mrs. William Kidd and children, of Portland, were visiting with friends in Oregon City Tuesday. Charles Moore, of Suinpter, who has been visiting relatives in Oregon City, returned to his home Wednesday eve ning. . Robert Kelland, who has been in Alaska for the past year, is in this city visiting his parents. He will return to Alaska in about a month. Miss May Kelly, Miss Sade Chase, Miss Fannie and Miss Katie Porter, teachers in Portland public schools, spent the Thanksgiving holidays at their homes in this city. Mrs. J. A. McGlaehan and son, Don, returned Sunday from Illinois, where they have been visiting with relatives for the past two months. It was their intention to remain there, but decided there was no place like Oregon. . J. F. Yost, of Barlow, a farmer and rancher of that section spent Tuesday in Oregon City buying goods and attend ing to business matters of importance. While here he paid the Courier office a very friendly call. Mrs. G. W. Shank has sold her farm at Canby, and on Tuesday moved to Oregon City, where she will reside with her boh, D, G. Shank, in one of the Linn cottages on Fourthh and Center Streets. Mrs. Shank is a mother of W. M. Shank, of this city. G. W. Kesselring, of Macksburg, one of the prominent farmers of that neigh borhood was in town on Tuesday at tending to business. Mr. Kesselring says that every thing is in good con dition in the Macksburg . country sinc9 the copious rains of the paat week. Dr. T. E. Beard, of White Wood, South Dakota, has decided to make his home in Oregon City, and will locate here permanently. He has gone to house-keeping on 12th and Jefferson. He will shortly open an office on Main St. Dr. Beard comes highly recom mended as a physician and willbe quite an addition to the citizenship of' 'this place. The Dr. has his wjfe and child with him. Masquerade ball given at the Armory on Thanksgiving night by J. H? Turney was very largely attended, 300 people being in attendance. The masquerad ers danced under difficulties. Many handsome costumes were on the floor. Miss Bessie Lyons received the first prize for the beet dressed lady and Geo. Woodward for the best dressed man. Several other prizes were given for char acter and comical costumes. , f Oregon are now located in the (Kardc Building, Suspension Bridge Corner Miss Lillian Gaus, of Liberal, spent a few days last week with relatives in this city. Miss Gang is one of Clackamas county's successful teachers. Miss Betta Fouts, who is employed in the millinery department of Olda & King's store in Portland, is spending a few weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mr. T. W. FoutB, in this city. Mrs. J. R. Humphrey, who has been the guest of her mother iu Woodstock, near JNew Brunswick, uanaua, ior ine past six months, returned hnme Wed neslay evening. Among the recent arrivals at the Elec tric hotel from a distance are : E . G. Gilbert, Centralia, Wash.; J. N. Minn, St. Louis, Mo. ; J. W. Howard and wife, Ashland, Or. ; H. C. Allen, Salem, Or. ; E. R. Wair, B. D. Jones, Chicago; Mar tin and M. S. Dreyfus, Milwaukee, Wis. ; H. L. Christensen, Newberg, Or. ; J. M. Monting, Salem, Or.; T. R. Jones, St. Paul, Minn.; G. C. Walker, Walker, Or.; Wm. Brown, pokane, Wash. A debate between the Oregon City Academy debating club and the Thurs day Night debating club of Portland will take place at an early date. The ques tion to be debated is: ''Resolved, That the present system of marriage is a ben efit to the community." The affirma tive will be handled by the Oregon City club, and will be headed by Howard M. Brownell. He will have for his col leagues George Callff and William Puge. Mies Edna and Clara Caufield enter tained a large number of their friends at a social dance last Saturday evening. About sixty of the elite of the town were present, who tripped the ''light fan tastic" till far into the "wee sma' hours" of the morning. The music was fur nished by Mr. Frank Turney, and a great time was enjoyed by all present. Mesdames C. B. Moore, L. L. Porter and L. L. PicRens assisted in the arrange ments and acted as chaperones. Refresh ments were served at midnight. Special Notice. The Courier does not furnish to its ad vertisers free a copy of the Courier. In this respect all subscribers must be treated alike, and after January, 1, 1902, this rule will be put in force and be ab solute. Use ''Bromo Lax" for coughs and colds. Price, 25 cents a box. With each box you are entitled to one guess on gold watch (guaranteed); by Char man & Co., Cut Price Druggists. Wanted A few more engagements bv the day by a first-class dressmaker: or would take work home. Prices reason able , Apply at Courieb Office. , & Andresen City Jewelers 1 LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Born, November 25, to the wife of J. V. Green, a son. Every hat trimmed or untrimmed at a great reduction . Mis O. Goldsmith . E. A. Brady has receiyed a large as sorted lot of wines from the Sonoma Rhine Farm in California, selected for Med!cinal Purposes. Reeiots in Recorder Henry Stevens' office for the month ot November amounted to $290.40, against $223.65 for November, 1901. The sale .of Mat Clemens, one mile north of Liberal on Saturday, waa not very largely attended, but nearly all property brought good prices. At his public sale on Monday, R. O. Thomas bid in most of the cattle, which were the object of the 'sale sale himself. The bids were evidently too low. The Wilsonville school will have a basket supper Friday night. Miss Mc Nulty, of this city, has charge of the school. W . W. H. Samson will preside as auctioneer. County Clerk Frank A. Sleight's re ceipts for the past month, amounted to $282, against $197.75 for the previous month. For November, 1901, the re ceipts amounted to $374.35. Everything must go before the holi days. Everything reduced. Miss C. Goldsmith. On the Agency Plains, in Crook eounty, where several Clackamas peo ple have located homesteads, a farmer named Brown has struck water at the depth of 27 feet. The absence of springs or accessible streams is the greatest drawback in that section, The Ladies' Guild of the Lutheran church will hold their Christmas Ba zaar on Wednesday, Dec. 10,in the after noon and evening in the store room north of Huntley's drug store. All kinds of fancy work and useful articles will be on sale at reasonable prices. Coffee and cake will be served. . Great Clearance Sale on every article in the store. Miss C. Goldsmith. The Clara Mathes Company is filling a week's engagement at the opera houBe this week. Uenerally speaking their plays are proving satisfactory. Miss Mathes !n the role of the Red Cross nurse was especially good. Mr. Van Cleve is making a decided kit in all his parts. All the members of the com nanv are doine their Darts in a credit - w able manner, and altogether the show is a success. The St. Agnes Guild of St. Paul's church will hold a Village Fair in Wil lamette hall on Friday evening, Decem ber 12. Good music. See program in next week's issue. The members of the Baptist Sunday school will devote the regular time of the morning church service, 10:30 o'clock, December 7, to the obser-, vance of Bible Day exercises. All will be made welcome, particularly the pa rents of the children who attend the Sunday school. . At St. Paul's Episcopal church holy communion will be celebrated at 11 a. m ., and a sermon preached by the rec tor on "Signs or Superstition and Re ligion." At the evening service at 5 o'clock the subject of the sermon will be "The Opening of .the Books." Mrs. J. W. Loder will sing the offertory solo. Everyone cordially welcomed to all ser vices.; Hon. C. D. Latourette has quite a sick son in his boy, Earl. He is threat ened with appendicitis. On Wednes day morning his symptoms were so pro nounced and alarming that he was re moved by the orders of his physicians, Dr. Norris and Sommer to the hospital at Portland, where if necessary he will have an operation performed. Mr. and Mrs. Latourette went with their son to the hospital and one of them wilt re main with him all of the time until ha fully recovers.' , . J.D.Wright, of Oolton, was in town on Tuesday and made the Courier office ,; a pleasant call. Mr. Wright has a com plaint to register in regard to the mail service between here and Colton. It seems that the Oolton people do not get their Oregon City mail until four days alter it is put in the postoffice at this place, and their county papers are until . Tuesday reaching them. He claims that much better time ought to be made be tween here and Oolton, and it lookB like he is right about it. Great Clearance Sale on all millinery. Miss C. Goldsmith. , The Hiawatha Mining & Milling Co,, of Cottage Grove, Ore., Bohemia dis trict, have recently, during development work, struck very rich ore in large quan tities, and the company has decided to place a stamp mill on the property at a very early date and have placed a block of stock on the market to raise money for that purpose and are selling stock at only two cents per share, which no doubt will be worth at least $1 per share as toon as dividends are paid, which will be in the near future. Don't wait until this block is sold and then kick yourself because you can't get stock for less than $1 and more per share. Ad dress at once Hiawatha Mining & Mill ing Co., Cottage Grove, Ore., or see O. D. Eby, of this city. - lie si P