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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY; DECEMBER 18, 1903
NO 32
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'PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR.
GEO.
HOEYE
DENTIST
All work wramtd and satisfaction guarantee
Crown and Bridge work a specialty
Canfleld Building
OREGON CITY OBBGON
JJ C. STRICKLAND, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SUKGEON
Does an Up-To-Date General Practice
Bpecial attention given to surgery and dtsewiss
oi women.
Office in Garde Building, 7th and Main
OREGON CITY, OREGON
QSTEOPATHY
DR. C. D. LOVE
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
Graduate of American School of Osteopathy,
Kirksville, Mo.
Successfully treats both acute and chronlO an
eases. Call for literature. ,
Consultation and Examination Free.
I 8 to 12 A.M.
Office Hours: J 1 10 4 P- h,
lOr by appointment at any time.
Booms oyer Dr. Morris' Dental Parlors, next dwr
to CourlM Offlc.
OREGON CRY. 0BE00.
W. 8. U'RKN
0. gCHUEBXL
TJREN & SCOEBEL
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
fceiiticber aboolot
Will practice 'In all courts, make collections
nd settlements of estates, fnrnieh abstracts ol
title, lend yon money and lend your money on
first mortgage. Office in Enterprise building.
OREGON CITY OBBQOP
D, & D. 0. LATCURETTE
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Commercial, Real Estate and bate out
Specialties
Office In Commercial BankBn n
OREGON CITY
OREGON
OBERT A. MILLER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
motherhood," says the doctor. Some
times he qualifies the statement, and
says: "Impossible without an opera
tion." Yet both these "impossibles"
have been made possibles by the uso
ot Dr. lJierce's Pavonte re'
scnption. Many times the
hindrances to mother
hood are to be fouud in
womanly diseases or
weaknesses, wuicn
are perfectly and
permanent ly
cured by "fa
vorite Pre
scription."
This A "
great u v, Ki
medi- '! M,A Ji- f cine
, i ' 4 tor
f & S regularity
''I'll V JT A Jri..
debilitating
drains. It heals
inflammation and
ulceration, and
cures female weak
ness. It makes weak
women strong and sick
ii
I wish to add tnv testimony
to hundreds of others as to the
vnlne of Dr. Pierce's medicines,1
writes Mrs. Ida M. De Ford, of Latona, Hubbard
Co., Minn. "Have doctored with a great many
tihvsieians some specialists: have twice been
in a hospital for treatment. My case has been
recrnrdfd as a noneless one. and thev knew not
what the trouble was. Heart was bad ; stomach
II rait nf order: tired out : severe rains in all
parts of the body ; sinking spells, and nearly
every ailment a woman could have. I took
manv a bottle of 'patent medicines' without
effect. I beean takine Dr. Pierce's Favorite P
scription, and ten mouths aftenvard 1 gave
birth to a ten-pound boy. All physicians had
slated as a fad that I never eould bear a child.
Both the babv and myself were strong, anil I
got along splendidly thanks to your medicine.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
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The Common Sense Medical Adviser.
iro8 lare-e Daces, in paner covers, is sent
fr:r. on receiut of 21 one-cent stamps t.c
tav expense of mailing only. Addrss?
Or. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Head About to Burst From Severe. Bil
ious Attack.
"I had a severe bilioun attack and felt
like my head waB about to burst when I
eot hold of a free sample of Chamber
Real Estate bought and sold, money iona lam's btomacD ana Ldver lamew. i
liles examined anaaosirauw muuo, took a dose 01 tnem alter supper ana ine
eountv warrants. Probate ana commission.
court business and insurance.
BOOM 8, WTOHABD BTTODIN8
OREGON CITY, - - - "
OREGON
QRANT B. DIMICK
Aitobnky and Cotjnsklob at Law
Will practice In all Courts In h State, ClrcBlt
and District Courts of the United States.
Insolvent debtors taken through bankruptcy,
Offloe in Garde Building, Oregon City, ot.
COMMERCIAL BANK
jor OREGON CITY
CAPITAL $100,000
TranBaots a general banking business
Makes loans and collections, discounts WUs
fcuysand sella domestlo and foreign exchange
and recedes deposits subject to oheck.
Open from Km. to i p. m.
F,
next day felt like a new man and have
been feelinR happy ever since," says
Mr. J. W. Smith, of Juliff, Texas. For
biliousneBa, stomach taoubles and con
stipation theBe Tablets have no equal.
Price 25 cents. For sale by Geo. A.
Harding.
D, C. liATOnBKTTK,
President
, J. Meyib
Cashie
t N. GREENMAN
THE PIONEER EXPRESSMAN
(Established 1866)
vmmnt rlpllverv to all parts of the elty
ii n--rw mTV REGON
CANBY PACKING
- - COMPANY - -
CANBY, OREGON.
Headquarters for Fresh Meats.
Highest prices paid for butcher
tock.
R.P. Blazier & Co., Props
Fair Dealing
Is Our Motto
And we live up to it
Our store is headquarters for
Fancy and Staple Groceries,
Our stock is new. Our goods
fresh. Uur prices
are
are
'RIGHT."
We aie not selling below cost
but are giving our customers
groceries as cheap as they can
hp hrvucrht anvwhere else in
0
Oregon City. Orders promp'
lv filled. Goods delivered
anywhere in city limits.
We solicit your taade.
Horton & Jackt
th St., Opp. Opera tiousc
Ph.-ue No. 1964.
The Railroads eet three timas as
much revenue from freight as from
passenger receipts.
The New York papers are diccussing
whether to send a faBhion expert or a
musical ciitic to report the grand opera.
The Panama treaty Iibb been sent to
the Senate. That body will consider it
little longer than did the Panama jun
ta. .
John Bull is the only one who refuses
to speak to Panama. He will recognize
toe new government wneu H agrees to
share Colombia's debt.
"To stand Blill means to go back,"
says President in epeaking of the Navy.
This is a strenuous argument lor increas
ing a strength of (he fleet.
Republican Do-Nlhingism is well il-
lustiatedby thdextia session of Con
gress which ended without h single act,
not even a resolution to adjourn.
It is said that Senator Manna believes
the Piesident made a political mlstakn
in publishing the Bristow report. No
doubt Perry S. Heath agrees with the
beuator.
Despite the accusations made againBt
him in the Bristow report, it is now
praciically certain that Peiry S. Heath
will remain secretary of the Republican
National Committee.
TheTexas chapter of the Daughoers
of the Confedetacv adopted a resolution
of thanks to the Pf-eiuenl tor indorsing
tt e principle of eecesaion in his recent
action toward the Panama revolution.
William Randolph Hearst has been
made a memberof the Hou e Commit
tee on Labor. Mr. Hearst declares that
Democracy is Labor's natural ally. The
labor leaders are pleased that he is on
the Committee.
Senator Hunna's friendship for Perry
8. Heath, who is involved in the postal
pcandaia, is as great as the President's
friendship for Congressman Littauer,
who is involved in the glove contract
scandal. '
The President tells Congrees that the
integrity of our currency is beyond
question and the next sentence recom
mends that the Decretory ol tne treas
ury be allowed todeposit customs receipts
la the banks the same as be ddpostts re
ceipts frm other sources.
Accordidg to the President's message
The Government of the United States
would have been guilty of folly and
weakness, amounting in their sum to a
crime against the Nation, had it acted
otherwise than it did when the revolu
tion of November 3 last took place in
Panama "
The Tumors of gigantic hnd frauds
were declared by the Republican press
to be exaggerations. The President
says in his message to Congress; "By
various frauds and by forgeries and per
juries thousands of acres of the public
domain, embracing lands of different
character and extending through various
sections of the country, have been aii-
honestly acquired."
Chief Landvoight. whose resignation
from postoffice department was requested
because his son was employed in a firm
which furnished supplies to the depart
ment over which his father presided,
declares that the Bon of Assistant Poat-
master General Bristow spetit his vaca
tions drawing a salary from the post of
office where he did nothing Out read
detective stories. Mr Bristow refused
to be interviewed on the subject.
the post office they would be far more
convenient than the present system of
mony orders. These are expensive end
cause inconvenience to the sender and
the receiver . Postal checks would also
P'event the present excessive ue of
etamps as money. Where Brrall offices
sell many stamps for this purpose the
salary of the postmaster.hasto be rained,
and the large quantity -of stamps whicti
has to be kept constantly on hand in
creases the number of robberies in small
Post offices. In each case it is a loss to
the Department.
A parcels post office would be conver.
ient, especially o those who do not live
near large cities. In Germany, for in
stance, it is possible to order almos'
anything by post and to have it sen
collect on delivery. Moat of tbe Euro
pean countries have a parcels post, bit'
in America the opposition of the privat
express companies have prevented it
adoption United States Senator Piatt i
President of one of the largest of ther
compames, and their influence in Uon
gross haa been great enough to prevent
a parcels post. The entire post offio
department is now under public ecrutin)
and this is the time to advocate these
useful reforms which are prevented only
by the selfishness of private corpora
tions. UBEBAXk
"Inside each pound package of
Vwill be found a FREE game.
160 different games. All new.
At Your Grocer!.
If the present scandals in the post of
fice department aroue public attention
to the general abuses and possible ire
forms in our postal Bervice, the evil
doers in the department will have
unintentionally performed a Bervice to
their country.
Much has been done toward curing
the tecond class mail abuseB. All al
leged periodicals which are really booka
or simply advertising mediums, or have
a free circulation, or aouse tne sampi
copv privilege, have been
Farmers are all busy plowing. A few
are still sowing.
The frosty nights have prevented the
grass from growing and the cattle are
going to the st:aw stacks in good shape.
The fruit treeeB seem to be very bad
with some kind of dieease. The bark i
turning black. Several of the farmers
are going to spray with concentrated
lye and see if that will kill the pests.
Our Bcbool teacher, Miss Cora Rubs,
was visiting friends in Portland Saturd y
and Sunday. Well, Effle, youjhad to
batch. That is all ngut, Some day
perhaps you won't.
Roy Graves is visiting the Dibble fam
ily at Molalla this week.
Dee Wright is working for S. Wriaht
this week. He is is afraid of the girls,
and has to be nearer the phone.
We are going to have a peculiar wad
ding here soon.. It is the latest and up
to-date. There's nothing like keeping
up the advancement ot tuts civilized
age.
Our merchant is selling lanterns since
the basket social at Lone Piae school
house. Several lost their lanterns from
this side of the river Saturday night
Dee, Silas and Lydia Wright were in
Oregon City Monday on a business trip
William Morey, our horBe jockey
"got it in the neck" last week. He
traded for a Percheron mare and he has
to put br on the wash rack and give he
a cleaning beiore n can ao anytnmg
with her. Star tobacco wid sutler now
Tbe more you have the more trouble
follows. '
Gib, there are no more mooidteht
nights to plow. ,tNine houra is enough
for one to plow.
John Rhodes is pushing bis addition
to his house as fast as possible whie
the good weather lasts.
Born, to the wife of Lewis Wilson
Dec. 0, a daughter. Mother and child
doing well. Lewis wears a broad Bmile
and may he be proud of a fine daughter.
The young man that tried to hyno
tize hie sweetheart failed,, and he got a
1 good lick in th face. That's right,siiiaBh
bun again, some of those men wtio
have legs the Bhape of hames gener
ally gels them straightened sooner or
later.
' Sylvia.
Be Quick.
Not a minute should be loft when a
child shows symptoms of croup.
Chamberlain's (lough Remedy given as
soon as the child becomes hoarse, or
even after the croupy cough appears,
will prevent the attack, It never fails,
and is pleasant and safe to take. For
ale by (ieo. Harding.
The Finest Fruit
The very fintst fruits of the shoe
manufactories have been selected to
complete our stock. The swellest styles
in all the varieties of lasts, tops, toes
and trimmings. Every pair a beauty,
with solid, substantial wear to back
them and make them sensible bargains
will be found at
KRAUSE BROS.
Oregon City Shoe House
Baari the
Signature
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niu aiiiu vuu na.'rj Always Boiypi
Foley's Honey and Tor
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The only First-Class Second-hand
dealer in
Furniture
STOVES and UTENSILS
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mmmJB raw
It is worth your time to come and examine the stock.
You will find a full line of new and Second-Hand furniture
Stoves, 'Crockery, Hardware, Etc.
Highest Cash Price Paid for
Second Hand Goods.
I. T0LP0IAR, i door north Commercial Baijk
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Climatic Cures.
Thousands say that
McCLURE'S
MAGAZINE
is the best published at any price. Yet it is only JO cents
a copy, $1.00 a year.
In tverf numbtr 0 mcClurt's tbtrt art
Articles
interest on
the greatest
portance.
of. intense
subjects of
national im-
Six good short stories,
humorous stories, stories of
life and action and always
good.
Id 1904
McQure's will be more interesting, important ana
entertaining than ever. "Every yearLbetter than the
last or it would not be McQure's."
Subscribe now for McClure's for 1904, and get. the
IT W t- November and December nuabers of ioo4 free.
The S.S.NlcClure Company, 623 Lexington Bldg., New York.N.Y.
third class. News agents have been de
nied the privilege of returning unsold
matter at the Dound rate.
The consolidation of thi'd and fourth
clasB matter into a single class at the
rate of 1 cent for every two ounceB has
been proposed. In order to distinguish
between printed matter and merchan
dise which form the two classes it is
now necessary to ask annoying ques
tions of these who send the printed
matter.
A bill has been introduced in Congress
providing for one cent postage and if the
correction of second class aouses is
thorough, a one cent postage would be
possible without great, or even any, losa
to the department. 8uch a reform
would benefit tbe people, wHle tbe ex
cessive privileges in second class matter
benefit chleny the advertiser or puu-lisher.
PoHtal checks have also been proposed.
For Bending small sumt of money through
The influence ot climatic conditions In
the cure of consumption is very much
ove drawn. The poor patient, and tbe
sfch patient, too, can do much better at
home by proper atteniion to food diges
tion, and a regular use of German 8vrup
nlacedinthe ree expectoration in the morning
r . . ma. .An,,, n K.. J
made certain by Uerman eyrup, so -is a
good night's rest and the absence of that
weakening coughing and debilitating
! night sweat. Restless night and the ex
I haustion due to coughing, the greatest
danger and dread of the consumptive,
lean be prevented or stopped by taking
1 German Hyrnp liberally and regularly.
Should you be able to go to a warmer
I clime, you will find that of the thousands
of consumptives there, the few who are
benefited and regain strength are those
who nae Germgn Syrup. Trial bottles,
25c : regular size, 76o. At Obarman &
Co.
Boy's Lire Saved fromMembranous Croup
"My little boy had a severe attack of
membraneous croup, and only got relief
after taking Foley's Honey and Tar,"
eaysC. W. Lynch, a prominent citizen,
of Winchester, Ind. "He got relief af
ter one dose and I feel that it saved the
life of my boy." Charman & Co.
Brunswick House and Restaurant
Newly Furnished Rooms,
Meals at All Hours Open Day and Night
Prices Reasonable.
eeeOnly Fir st-CIass 'Restaurant in the City....
Opposite Suspension Bridge, Oregon City, Ore.
Elk Horn Livery Feed: Sale Stable
HORSES BOUGHT AND SOLD
FineRigstoLct at' ReasonablePriccs
D. R. DIMICK, Manager, ftTrft-V
oBOonsr city, obegon
Time ."the
of bmincyv
and the
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1 timekeeper
( Etery Elgin Watch is fully pirmteed. All jewden hive Ejifl WltttaVl
Timemaken and Timekeepers," an iUuitrated history ot th wtkh, ttal I
free upon request to
The Best Laundry is the Cheapest
The Troy Steam Laundry is the Best
Does not wear out or destroy your linen.
Our Waeon will call for your soiled liflen each week and
deliver your laundried goods to your home. Perfect satisfac
tion assured. . . i
E. L. JOHNSON, Tne uarDer, ABem.
. n " jtiuuuutjim mm ii miuw
Oregon City Planing Mills
All kinds of Building Material, Sash,
Doors and Moulding.
F.S. BAKER Proprietor,
OrcgnJGty, Oregon
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