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About Oregon City courier. (Oregon City, Or.) 1902-1919 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1903)
ORErM C'TY COURIER, FRIDAY, SEPTMBER 25 1903, THE STORE NOTED FOR GOOD GOODS AT THE LOWEST PRICES. Sale Extraordinary BREAKING THE RECORD Come NOW For your Dress Gccds, Coats, Jackets, Suits or Wrappers. Your size may be sold out to-mor-row.: Ccme for your Curtains, Blankets, Quilts and Table Linens. Come for your Gloves, Underwear and Hosiery. We are noted for the best goods we guarantee the lowest prices ard test service. Wen- Alteration Sale Prices mefflen & McDonnell POPULAR DRY GOODS STORE (CORNER THIRD ANDIMORRISON LOCAL NEWS ITEMS iWWIMWttMMIWMM Born, to the of Frank Cross, Tuesday, a boy. Millinery display Sept. 22,23, 24 at Mrs. H. T. Sladen's. School supplies at Charman & Co Drug etc re atlowest prices. Millinery opening at Miss Goldsmith's Sept. 25 and'26. Beatie & Beatie, Dentists, Weinhard, building, room 16,'' 17 and 18. For Echool books and school supplies gotoMoore'a pharmacy, Seventh 8t., Oregon City. f If it is Bed Top Rye or Planet Whis key, it's right. Kelly & Kuconich, Garde Building. Call and see the beautiful hats at Miss Goldsmith's on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 25, 26. ( For echool books and school suprlies go to Moore's pharmacy, Seventh St., Oregon City. Divorces were granted Saturday to Fred D. Love Irom Elizabeth Love, and Rebekah E. Selz from 0. L. Selz. A. Robertson is bavitg a new glass front built to his grocery store on the hill and is making other improvements. Since the fire, the woolen mill gets its dyeing done at the Albany woolen mill, which also belongs to the 0. C. M. Co. The goat thrives in Oregon and the time will come when it will supply a gcodly portion of the 20,000,000 goat skins imported each year. Mort Latourette, who has been in a Portland hospital for treatment for ap pendicitis, is reparted as recovering, and will return home in a few days. You want to remember that the 'Millinery opening at Hamilton'son next Friday is an eye opener. It will posi ively be the test ihicg 1o be seen in Oregon City this fall. Carl Horn was acciderrrally shot last Saturday afternoon while he and Johnnie Adams were playing with a 22 rifle. The bullet pierced the leg below the knte, inflicting a painful but not serious wound. Elmira Ginther an employe of the Portland lodging house, was badly scalded while at work Saturday. She stumbled and fell, overturning a vessel filled with boiling water, scalding her face and breast. Psia Trunk, who has been verv ill with typhoid at his father's home at Green Point, for a month, is some better though still a very sick boy. While he is not yet out of danger, it is believed that be will recover. . New tailor made hats and the latest veilings at Miss Goldsmith's. SCHOOL BOOKS at Charman & Co Drug store, at lowest prices. Hats, hats, hats. Come and see our beautiful hats. Mrs. H. T. Bladen. Have you seen Hamilton. Well you want to see Hamilton's millinery. Just received new styles in hats, veils and caps at Miss Goldsmith's For echool books and echool supplies go to Moore's pharmacy, Seventh St., Oregon City. Go to Miss Goldsmith and 'see their new style in ready-to-wear hats and veils. The finest line of Millinery In Ore gon City is being shown at Hamilton's Red Front store on Maine street. Pitv Hphnnl cnmmfinCB Monday and we can furnish Books for any giade at the o west puce, tnaiman s io drugs a Ibooks. ' The kind our fathers and grandfathers used long ago, Planet Whiskey, a band made sour mash. Kelly & Ruconich, sole agents. Garde Building. While the manufacture of beer steadi ly increases in England decreases. At one time the acreage in hops was 17,327 ; today it stands at 48,024 a decrease of 8,103 from the acreage of last year. The high price of Oregon hops 1b not hard to account for. The school board which was in ses sion Tuesday, opened bids for the con struction of closets and sewers for the Barclay and Eastham schools. All the bids were rejected, the members of the board considering them excessive. They think the work ought to be done for about $2000. W. E. Marshall, the efflcent and good natured clerk in Huntley Bros., store, has bought a half Interest in his brother's store at Highland. He will move to Highland this wet k and assist in running the business. Highland is an excellent location and the two boys will no doubt do a good business. Tuesday was Jewish New Year,' and almost every member of the tribe of Benjamin from Oregon City Bhut up his place of business on that day and with his family went to Portland to ob serve the day. There are eiitht places of business operated by Hebrews in Ore gon City and each one of I hem was clos ed up all day Tuesday. Oregon City and the A. & L. baseball teams of Portland crossed bats at Canemah park last Sunday afternoon. The game resulted in a victory for the home team by a score, of 2 to 3. The baseball season in Oregon City is practi cally over and the football season it com ing on apace. Billy Califf is organizing a football team which heexpeots to be a corker. There is fine material in Ore gon City for a football team. 4 prescriptions B Properly Q repared " This represents the foundation of our business the corner stone of our success. That word "properly" means something here, It means that we are careful to have none but the pures and lreshest drugs careful that every prescription gets just exactly what it calls for, It isn't an easy thing to properly compound a pre scription. It requires care and brains; it requires accuracy and practice..",w - No boy's work behind our prescription counter. " We make a specialty of putting up prescriptions. ,We can do it better than the man who doesn't.j' We have had experience, long and varied. . . We want your prescription trade ; ',, - HOWELL ft JONES THE RELIABLE DRUGGISTS iJ. Latest novelties in ready-to-wear hats, c ape and veils at Miss (ioldemitn. The store of I. Selling will be closed Thursday, Oct 15th, owing to Jewish Holiday. Grand Millinery display at Miss Gold smith's on Friday and Saturday, Sept, 25,26 and the following days. . There is no more exhilerating bever age than Red Top Rye or the Planet wniBKey. aeny x aucudicu, ju wo Garde Building. The evening service of the St. Paul's Episcopal church will be held hereafter at 5 o'clock instead ',of 8 o'clock. Sun day evenihg there will be a song service. Everybody welcome. A. 8. Hunt, an employe of the P. G. E. Co. in this city, while cleaning one of the water wheels, got his finger en tangled in the gear and it was so badly mashed that it bed to be amputated. The following Oregon City ladies have again eecured positions in the public schools of Portland: Miss May Kelly, Mies Sade Chase and Misses Fannie and Katie Portsr. Miss Jennie Beatie was also re elected, but resigned. Henry Cook, of Willamette Falls, died of pneumonia at a hospital in Walla Walla, Monday at the age of 68 years He leaves a wife and five children, one of whom , Mrs. G. H. Rogers, was with him. The interment took place in the Walla Walla cemetery. Earl Davenport, the young man who was so badly injured at the Clackamas bridge some two weeks ago and who was taken to the Good Samaritan hospital for treatment, is reported as improving and is believed will get over bis injuries and will be aB good as new. Mrs. Minnie F. Cooper filed suit for divorce in the Circuit court last Friday from her husband, W.J. Cooper. She alleges desertion. . The couple were married in Greely Center, Neb., soma seven years ago. Two children blessed the union and the plaintiff asks that the courfgive her charge of them . At an adjourned Bession of the Circuit Court last Friday the suit of theadmin istrators or the estate of Roy P. Sunder land to recover $5000 damages from the Crown Paper Company for the killing of Sunderland in the mill several months ago. On motion of the defense the case was ordered transferred to the United States Court, the defendants being resi dents of California. Messrs. Rothe and Baker opened up the Depot saloon last Saturday and commenced business. Both parties are well known to Oregon City people and will no doubt do a good busini ss in their new place. They are refitting the build ing, putting in new fixtures and in many other ways making the old stand more attractive. J Mildred Sladen, the little four-year-old daughter of Mrs. H. T. Sladen, while playing with some small compan ions last Thursday afternoon, fell and broke hbr collar bone The child seems to be peculiarly unfortunate. About a year ago she lost a foot by being run over bv an electric car. A false foot was Improvised ana sne manageu to get about fairly well. The clumsiness of the artificial foot, however, was the cause of her fall. There were two funerals in Oregon CHtv last Rtindav. Onn was that of Mrs. Matilda Vigelius, who died the preced ing Friday. The funeral was held at the home on iourtn street ounaay ai tnmnon at 2 o'clock and the burial took place in Mountain View cemetery. An. other funeral was that of little Francis Devine, who died at the home of her father, John Devine, in Kansas uity ao- dition Friday, of pneumonia. The fu neral was held at the residence, Rev. E.S. Bollinger officiating. Marriaee licenses were issued Tuesday to Fay Franklin and Harvey Roddy. The parties were married attheOongre- . . r i i- i nn: Rational manse Dy ttey. uuiunger. Martha NnrdpnhftURfn and Jacob Yost were granted a license to wed on the same elate. Florence ecninaier sou Orville Steven were married by the Catholic priest". Ada Nelson and P. A. Nnknn were married bv Rev. Grimm of the Methodist church on the same date. Jessie Nelson and Chas. Bauch were married by the Congregational minister on the Bame date. Four marriage licenses were issued to nianb.mui flnnntv nurtiRR Monday last. The parties who secured the papers wnicn enaDiea mem 10 get w iuou state of sitgle blessedness and enter into the realms of connubial felicity, were Bertha Trullinger and William Hay ward, RubyDygert and W. G. Thomp- arm . Rnna WilliinB And LoUlB Toedt6 mAiAr and .Tannin Nelson and Charles F. Rauch. In the Toedtemeier-Wilkins affair the parental consent of the girl a mother was necessery to the union, the bride tteinsr under age. Toedtemeier was a widower from the Stafford neighbor hood of about 40 years old . The girl was 17. Hundreds of people from Oregon City and Clackamas county attended the State Fair at Salem last we-k. Clacka mas county had no exhibit at the fair, however several parties took prizes on private exhibitions. Georee Lazelle, of New Era, exhibited Jfour Red Polled cattle, a two year old bull in the collec tion taking a prize. C. W. Morrow had several coops of fine plymouth rock chickens on exhibition which captured prizes. Richard Scott, ot Milwaukee, took prizes on his cotswold and dorris sheep. He also exhibited a number of shorthorn cattle. Sheriff Shaver purchased three prize herefords at the fair, a bull and two heifers. Monday afternoon a man was seen on the lailroad track whose actions excited the cusDscions of onlookers as to his sanity. He waB approached by an officer and asked to give an account of himself. He Btated that his name was George B. Mfififhem. and that he was the bride groom of Jesus Christ. He was taken before Justice Stipp and an inquest of lunacy held and was adjudged a lunatic. The man carried on bis person a number of bundles of fir buds, rolled up in cylinderical proportations, five inches in le- gth and an inch in thickness. He had been subsisting on these buds for a number of days. He did not cbew them but simply put them in his mouth and Bwallowed them. When the officer asked him to go with him he was perfect ly willing but wanted to know if his go ing would interfere with his business. When iniH that, ha would not seemed mnnh relieved. The man was about SO A..a Atwa nA Viarl amwn O Ilit.P thin. the result no doubt, of his peculiar diet . The Clement Keeper Co. The date is October 1st, 2rd, and 3rd, a treat of high class drama, produced by a stand ard company. The name of the company that will appear ot Bhively's opera house October 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The Clement-Keeper which will surely please. SUch productions as "The Batcblor's Honeymoon," "Resurection." and "A Mo intain Romance," will surely merrit the patronage of the people oi this city. Frank Welch left for his mineral claim on Ogle Creek yesterday morning. He haB three men working the claim and thinks prospect are fine for taking out eome good pay dirt at an early date. There are reportB of a very rich assay that has recently been made. The keeper of a boarding house in Oregon City must be a heart-hearted, merciless wretch, to hold his own. A widow in this city, a noble, hard-working woman, was swindled by her boarders, moBtly young men, in one year out of $400. She quit the board ing house business. Members of disorganized Co,, A. O. N. G., will meet next Monday night in the office of Captain J. TJ. Campbell and will transact business relative to winding up the affairB of the company and disposing of any property which may be on band. All members of the company who are in gocd standing are requested to be present. Next Sunday will be Rally Day at the Congregational church. In connection with the rally exercises the thought of "Harvest Home" will also receive at tention. The church will be aDorODri- ately decorated and the morningi and , evening themes wm De in narmony with the season and of the year. The pastor hopes to see all in their places again. There is a welcome for strangers and plenty of room for newcomers. Miss Hilda Walden died at the home of her mother on the bluff Wednesday evening at 8:30 o'clock. Miss Walden was a verv popular young lady and leaxes many friends to mourn her death. The cause of her demise was heart trouble, which had afflicted her for more than a year, during most ot which time she bad been an invalid. A mother and sister remain to mourn her loss. Arrangements have not been made for the funeral as we go to press, but it will probably be held sometime today. G. B. Dimick has brought suit in tne Circuit Court againat George Keenes for title to real estate in Clackamas county. The complainant alleges that he is owner of a tract of land and that defendant claims an interest in the land ; that the claim of the defendant is unlawful and by reason of it the plaintiff ia embar assed by it in the disposition of the prop erty and asks that the court compel his defendant to set forth bis claims and to enjoin and forever debar him from as serting any tiv:e or ciaim 10 rue prem ises. Tnat nna wnnlr from VBflterdav. Octo. kar 1 TflOS. tlm clnnad season for native pheasantB,grouse,China pheasants, quail hnhwhiti And A and nartridtre. and the slaughter of these gamy birds will begin ana continue upon a large scaie tor sev eral weeks to come. Already the sports men have begun to clean up and oil their field pieces, dreaming tbe while of the fragrant stubble fields and tbe big bags of beautiful and luscious birds, which they will bring back with them as a re sult of a successful day's hunt behind a brace of good dogs. The law of 1901, which limits the hunter's bag to ten birds for a single day's hunt is still in fnrca ami offvpt. Numerons renorts of open and flagrant violations of the game laws have already Deen maae, out iu viniatinna pnntinnB without an v appar ent effort to stop them on the parts of the game wardens ana tneir iorce oi uepu- ties. j School Books ' Or LSS (X! jvj Ifftl. '-As to our general stock of school books and (J Ml school supplies it is necessary to say but a word : TJ You doubtless know how complete our line is. Our store is the acknowledged headquarters for everything in school supplies in Clackamas X) county. We know what kind of books your JAJ t$ school uses and are prepared to help the children 0 every way in making their purchases, besides t) this with our enormous stock we are rarely out M SJ coast. ' 9 $ Second-Hand books &j jjj JAi une-nau trice m S3 bj5 books and can supply nearly every book needed p j&j by the children in second-hand books at to p the regular price. . This means a great saving in fvi many cases. m , m QX for Scholars For Schools AJ rfl Tablets icto 5c fesS Leid Pencils iocdz kU Slate Pencils 5cdz Qj Penholders iocto20cdz Cj Pens iocdz U Ink, per bottle 5c Hi Slates 5c School Dictloneries 20c fyt Ed HUNTLEY BROTHERS $ C3J Black Board Crayon, perdz $1-50 Black Board Erasers, " " .60 (jS Ink, best quality, per qt 50, vSs Pens, per gross ,5o J blatt Pencils, per hundred i-oois iap raper, x rm... .50 j Legal Cap Paper " ... .50 6-in O lobes 25 .00 y 5 8 LAI DRUGGISTS , AND BOOKSELLERS First Church of Christ (Scientists) Garde building, Cor. Seventh and Main St. Services will be held Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. The subject of the sermon is "Unreality." Onildren's Sunday school meets at 12 o'clock. Testimonial meeting Wednesday evenings at 8 o'c ock. Reading room open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week, from 2 to 4 p. m. Frank Welch and Clyde Smith re turned last Saturday from a week in the mountains about Ogle Creek. They brought out some fine specimens of gold bearing ore from their mines. They re port the prospects in the mountains in that section as still holding up well, and say that tbe Wall Street mine grows better all the time. While out In the mountains they bad an exciting adven ture with a bear. Another party left foi Ogle Creek Monday morning for a weel or two of prospecting. If yon will consult your own intend you ill have your wire take a look si the fine display of millinery at Hamil ton's store known as the Red Frovt They have the very best and their pricet will tickle their fancy. Itedland. W. H. Bonny has purchased tin standing timber of Wm. Stone andjt moving his mill ther?on. SCHOOL BOOro Books for all Schools and all Grades At PortlandPrices We furnished the Oregon City School District with supplies. Why?, Because we sell cheaper and were awarded the contract. fOurJmotto is : "Trade with us and we will save you money" CHARMAft & CO. CutPrice Druggists andBook Sellers Phone 13, OregonCity, Ore. Prescriptions a Specialty