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OREGON CITY, Ofcc.GGiJ. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1911.
No. I
29th YEAR.
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Tl TOPIC.
Something to Think Over
while You're Happy.
IT IS SOOTHING AND RESTFUL
And if It Makes You Think it has
Served Its Purpose.
There is one thing more sore than
taxes, oommon, dreaded old death.
We see it and we feel it creeping in
and we absolutely know there no
possible way to dodge it, that sooner
or later the quiet-spoken undertaker
will get to as, and then all aboard for
the cemetery.
How do yon like this line of sad
talk just at vacation time?
Makes you feel like passing up the
hammocks and vacation staff at Hunt
ley's and asking Holmau & Myers to
bIiow yoa the shrowds and embalming
goods, doesn'tit? .
But the object of this is to hitoh
yoa so you'll stand until the end of
this colanin. '
Either men do not half appreciate
the fact that death will get them, or
they appreciate it so keenly that they
simply will not consider it, and I
can't make oat which.
Every man, excepting fools and lun
atics, knows that when he has lived
out about so many years, he's got to
quit the job, knook off and furnish
entertainment at a f nneral.
This certainty is impressed on as
about the time oar brains get old
enough to ask, questions. We And
there is no way to duck or sidestep,
no hope of a Ponce de Leon spring of
eteiiial life no way of getting away
from the grim old mystery who hov.
ers over and pats ice in oar veins.
What seems to me as snch a back
ward theory or reasoning is that a
man will dig in and stay with a cer
tain line of work when he knows, his
friondg know, and his physician tells
him that he is burning bis "candle at
both ends.
There is many a man who is work
ing out his road tax to a nerve factory
bag house or oemetery who positively
knows he will get there if he doesn't
change hiB gait and he won't
change.
Worry haB him canoelled and post
marked and hard work has him
against the ropes, llien booze tobac
co and other stimulants try to bridge
him over with a false cheer.
Nine out of teu men who are in this
race will admit to you they oan't
stand the pace bat they will excuse it
by saying the race is only tor a short
time when they will knock off and
take it easy.
They all take it easy in the ceme
tery. It's quiet damp and cool.
You've got your pile and a pile of
good it does you. Life is through
with you before you are through witb
it. .
Yoa awake ' some morning and
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realize that you are playing the last
string, and that yoa won't -do much
more awakening.
Then you begin to make life pleas,
ant for the doctors and patent nitdi
cine concerns.
You beg for a rebuilt stomach, a
new bunch of nerves, a second-hand
liver, a pair of kidneys that will run
a few years yet; a heart that will quit
jumping and a few minor repairs,
new parts and bearings
And you'll hang on a tew months or
years in dread and misery and when
you finally give in your relative) will
have to rob pepper in their eves to
hide their relief and keep up funeral
etiqeuctte.
(Jot it.
Get a little oat of life while your
blood is yoang and when you can en
joy it
There is no shrivler like monotony.
Qet out of the hole. Do a few of the
things you want to do, do them if
you have to break a hiiuie.
Every person has a soft spot some
wherea weakness if yoa want to
call it so.
If it's a hobby, ride it, and if yon
don't make quite such a finish as
Sheridan, you'll have just as much
fan.
What is failure, if you had the time
of your life failing?
If yoa like travel, dig in, save your
coin and take trips occasionally. The
anticipation will make your work
light, and when you come bacu yoa
will get in the harues witli the state
ness worn off and an appetite for
work that will mean auother trip.
Don't be dead until you have to.
This is a great old world and there's
a lot of fun left in it.
IT W0rTTj)0WN.
The Hitching' Post Proposition
. Won't Lay Still.
A lady came into the Courier office
Saturday and stated her reasons, why
the trade from their farm . went to
Portland instead of Oregon Oity. U.
She said there was not sufficient
hitohing room and the latter part of
the week it was simply impossible to
find a place to hitch a team ; tnat the
places here where horses may be driv
en in have advanced the price, one
third, and that with these and. some
other matters make the Portland
proposition look good to the farmers.
The lady held that if the business
men of our oily did not aunieclate the
farmers' trade enough to at least pro
vide theui-with a place to hitch their
teams when they came in to trade,
that thev would simply take the cars
for Portland aud do their buying
there.
It seems very strange that our busi
ness places and the city can't over
oome such a trifling matter as free
hitohing places This matter has re
peatedly been complained of, but
aside from a little useless talk noth
ing is done.' Until such 1 ttle matters
can be adjusted, business men haven't
much of a moan ooiniug because farm
ers go to Portland
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TALK LESS
AND
SAW MORE WOOD
Industries on Paper Don't
Employ Help.
MILL WHEELS YS HEAD WHEELS
One Gets the Business and the
Other Gets Tiresome.
Secretary Laze lie is in touch with
several different manufacturing con
cerns of the east that are looking for
coast looations.
Wheihor any of them will locate in
Oregor City remains to be seen
remains for our citizens to determine.
The secretary of a promotion office
can't locate these factories. He can
get a line on them, can look them up
and find out what they want in the
way of. help, auri what they will do in
the way of employment, hut it is up
to the members of the Commercial
Club and the business men of the city
to pull them through.
There is mie way of taking on new
indastrits. If a company wants to
locate here, take op the one proposi
tion, digest it, nail it down, dt ter
mine just what it will guarantee in
the way of employing help, jnst what
it asks as an ? inducement, - and then
settle it.
Ir it looks good.' shows' up as an in
vestment and -we want it, drop every
thing and go after it and stay' with
it until we get it. If it doesn't look
good, doesn't appear absolutely staple
and have an. assurred future, then
thresh it out, drop it, and go after
another. '
But Lazelle can't do all this He
can frame things up and the business
and publio spirited men most no the
nailing on.
Anything located here that will
give employment to men makes a but
ter city, makes more business and
makes every piece of property more
valuable.
The kev is demand, aud this key
has uulocked' many a little country
town and made it a city.
; Give men work and they will come
to Oregou City, and just as many will
oome as" are demanded.
. They make more business for oar
merohauts, because they mast eat and
dress ' '
They make more demand for houses,
for they must have houses. v
They increase thu prioe of real es
tate, for demand always regulates the
prioe -' " - v.- . '
If every property owner in Oregon
Oity would pat into a general promo
tion fond one-half of the increased
value his property or business would
derive from locating some good hbor
employing factory here, we could tie
them up as fast as they applied and
make the scheme a splendid invest
ment. -
Newspaper talk about such aud such
a factory wanting a looation doesn't
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The Willamette valley is coming
into its own during the next few
years, and it is the towns and the
men who can see things and who get
basy now that are going to win ou .
A big canning faotory and milk
condensory will be located in Clacka
mas oouuty very soon. Any man who
knows what a wonderfully rioh coun
try we have knows these factories are
coming, and that with them comes a
world of business' and trade.
It's a question ot whether they lo
cate here or somewhere else. That
question is for as to answer, and it's
a lot better to answer it while we
may than to be sorry when it's too
late.
Let os pull the cork oat of the Com
mercial Olab's ginger bottle, and get
in the game. Let us take up every
proposition that Manager Lazelle has
on the string and consider them, one
after another, go into them aud settle
them
If they look good, locate them ; if
not Ure them, bat let us come alive
aud do more business aud talk less.
BOTH HAVE RIGHTS.
The Farm Wagon and the Auto
Should not Fight.
A subscriber wrote to the Courier
the other day informing the editor
that he was getting a wrong steer ou
the good roads proposition, that while
Oregon ' unquestionably needed im
proved ronds it was the iarmer, not
the auto owner, who needed them,
and that the Courier should distin
guish between a Portland auto owner
and a Clackamas County horse owner
The Courier is alwavs glad to tet
opinions on any matter, buc this let
ter was very shy on arguments
The farmers want improved roads
and so do the auto owners, and you
can't make them for either class es
peoially. If we have Improved roads
forth) autos the farmers will use
them and vice versa. It isn't a ques
tion ot who shall use them, but a
question of good roads.
There has always been and no
doubt will be a prejudice against the
autos by those who do not or cannot
afford to own them. A farmer who
has to take the auto's dust feels a
whole lot like the Irishman did when
the lanllOrd rassed him, aud who ex
claimed, "The rich man ride in ohaises,
The poor man goes afoot, by Jazes
But there is another way to look at
this matter. The automobile owners
ot Oregon pay $75,000 a year into the
state treasury for the privilege ot rid
ing on the improved reads or any
other old roads. - They are taxed from
three to ten dollars a year, according
to the horse power of the maohine,
and they oertaiuly have a right to the
highways.
The best way for the farmer to look
at this matter of better roads is the
way in which better roads are pro
duced. If the autos gets them the
farmer gets them, and auy road that
an an to oan hit twenty miles an hour
on is good enough for a farmer to
draw a pretty good sized load to mar
ket on.
Iustead ot pulling apart they should
pull together. An auto may wear out
the roads taster than a farm wagon,
but just remember the autos pay ?5,
000 a year to the state for wearing
oat the roads.
THE OTHER SIDE.
Police Appointment Creates New
. Job tor City.
In regard to the matter of polioe
protection on the hill, over which the
city oouncil and Mayor do not agree,
and over which there is considerable
discussion ia the oity, it transpires
that there is more to the matter than
appears on the surface of the coanoil
meetings, and that Councilman Ad
dreseu's resolution to put the matter
to vote of the people is perhaps the
best way to take care of it.
We are informed that there is con
siderable opposition to this appoint
ment even bv the people who are ask
ing for polioe protection on the
ground that wheu the council makes
the appointment it creates a new
office for Oregon Oity, and that the
people do not oare to have this made
a permanent part of the payroll until
they have tried out the matter, and
are satisfied that the oity needs the
protection other than temporary, as in
the present time.
With this view of the matter, the
resolution of Mr. Audresen would
seem to he the satisfactory and just
way of disposing of it Mayor Brow
nell is appointing Mr. Frost every
five days ; the residence section is thus
given a policeman until election
time, when the matter is up to the
people, and the city ccoucil is not
creating any new offloe.'
There is oue matter that the people
understand full well, that it is very
easy to make a new office, but very
hard to abolish an old o e. A prom
inent resident of the heights told the
writer that they needed protection
ab .ve the stairs, not only for the resi
dences, bat for the twenty business
nhtoes. and that the basiness plaoes
had as much a right to protection as
Main street. At the same time he
aid he would not be in favoi ot mak
ing an office that would milk the city
for 900 a year forever "We have
policemen enougn at present, dui tney
should not all be on Main street. Let
Shaw or Ureen be stationed on the
heinhti."
All in all the oouncil appears to be
at the wise end ot the matter in pass
ing Mr. Androgen's resolution to put
it up to the people to vote on rather
thau to follow the mayor's demanis
and create a new office.
A Few Days' Outing.
W. A. Hhewman and M. J. Brown
of the Courier will leave today, for
few da vi1 outmg iu the mountains,
Ogle mines and other places. Frank
Moore or tins oity win eon me uoar
ier next week.
Use the classified ads for quick re
sults at small expense.
UP TD A VOTE
OFJECIHf.
People May Decide the
EXtra Police Matter.
VOTE ON IT IN DECEMBER.
Franchise for Clackkmas South
ern will Come Easy.
Oounoilman Audresen has planned a
means through which the question of
whether the people want an extra
police officer for the residence section
of the tity will be tried oat. He in
troduced a resolution, whioh was
adopted, that the proposition be print
ed on the municipal ballot at the
election in December, and same sub
mitted to popular vote. He held that
the matter was one for the people to
decide.
The matter of police protection (oi
the residence section on the heights
oame before the oouncil again, and
the cocnoil defeated it. Mayor
Brownell Btrongly urged that this
part of the oity was entitled to and
shoald have at least one regular offi
cial, and he again nominated D. E.
Frost. The couuoil by vote defeated
the nomination Mayor Brownell
then nominated W. W. - Bradley,
whioh was also defeated.
There was considerable argument on
both sides ot the -mutter, both by
oonccil members and citizens. Mayor
Brownell held that he whs convinced
that a large majority of the people on
the heights wanted a police officer,
while others held that there was no
real need for suoh an expense.
There was but one connoilman,
Strickland, who stood with the may
or, the rest voting against the prop
osition, exoepting Uooncilraan Burke,
who retused to vote, aud wheu pressed
to take a stand he stated he could not,
as he had promised one of the oounoil
men that he would not aud he want
ed to keep his word. Some of the
visitors intimated that his promises to
the citv were of as much importance
as liis inside promises, and that any
councilman should show his colors on
matters that came to a vote.
Mayor Brownell brought up the, ap
nlicatiou of Fred Metzger aud other
citizens for a stairway to the heights
at Third street, aud explained that
acoording to some airangement several
years ago w. f. mwley or t no paper
mill agreed to build this stairway at
his own expense whenever it was de
manded. Mr. Hawley stands ready to
do this when the tight of way is se
cured, and the matter was rererred to
a committee to investigate .the right
of way.'
The franchise of the Clackamas
Southern railroad came before the
city council for first reading Monday
night, and it apparently found a warm
reception in tnat body, witn an sinas
of encouragement for the promoters.
The company asks for a right to lay
track on Water street, from Four
teenth to Sixteenth streets, along
Fifteenth street to John Adams street,
thenoA following tin present grade to
the railroad around the hill and above
Ahernethy oreek to the nbrthwesterly
side of Oregon City. The road will
cross the traokB of the Southern Paoi
fio at the same grade of the latter
road. A trestle will be bulit over
Wsshingtan street. . .
The franohise will come np for final
passage at the first regular meeting in
September. ,.
A Few Lines to Business Men.
No, yonr advertisement will not get
lost iu the Courier.
As they expect their country cousins
m oAt nat in Portland, so some
merchants expect their advertise
ments unless big space is coverea
will get lOBt in the Courier.
Of course a big ad can't get lost.
A ok snvoiie who reiil I v reads a news
paper and yon wi 1 find he can tell
yon a gcod deal about big ads.
But a smaller advertiser can get a
nrnnnrt.innfl.ta ahum of HttlllltlOD if he
will INDIVIDUALIZE them, if he
will make them say something, mane
them stand out and enforce attention
make them interesting.
Readers ot newspapers HEAD
WHAT 18 INTERESTING TO THEM
SELVES in a paper that effects their
interests.
If yoa have anjthlug of this kind to
say to readers YOU COULD NOT
POSSIBLY FIND A COLUMN IN
THE CUURIER TO HIDE IT.
SERIOUS CHARGES.
Cherryvale Family Affair with
Criminal Attachments.
Cherryville, that little town in the
northern part of this county, is hav
ing sensation enough to last unt'l a
..simaii lmtlrin in. and there is but
one topio of conversation in that
neigliborliooa.
ama mntitliB ntrn tiiA wife of John
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T. Friel, Jr., a rancher of that local
ity, died, aud soon alter mr. rriei
married the nurse who took care of
her. The nurse is from Buffalo, N.
Y ooming to Cherryville from Port
land. Mr. Friel doclaies she had the
best of recommendations.
Then came nglr stories that the for
mer Mrs Friel did not die a natural
death, and reports that the children
of the dead woman were determined
to exhume the body and have it an
alyzed for oi n traoes; that there
were grave suspicions that death was
caused by poison administered, aud
not by natural causes.
Because of these report and the
thA nhilrirpn tn have
UDUIimViuua
the grave opened, John Friel came to
Mill Cltf, ana inroogn oruwiwii
Stoue, his attorneys applied for aa
oraer xoruiuuiuK me iu
Mtwl Jnriun nmnhflll granted
the order, ruling that the body shoald
not be ex ha mod an lei done so by the
Mr. Friel has been guarding the
grave ror many uigiiis jwi, w i
vent the body from being exhumed.
He declares that he is willing and
will aid any such action when done
by the proper officials and by the
court's direction, but he plainly states
that he fears that if others than the
offioials exhume the body poison will
be injected into it.
Sheriff Mass says he will investigate
the matter if sufficient circumstantial
evidence is produced to warrant the
aotion aud expense, but that he must
kuow there is something more than a
family quarrel to baok the charges
before he will go to the expense of
disinterring the body.
"Whether the matter is simply a fam
ily row and will now be dropped with
the court's order, or whether there is
really something in the oharges, and
that circumstances to bear out the
poison suspicion will be presented to
the sheriff aud distriot attorney, re
mains to be seen.
And in the meantime Cherryville
will continue to have its sensation,
and the people will line up, take sides
and wait for developments.
IT IS UNJUST.
Whole Single Tax Proposal is
. Unfair to the State.
Oregon City, August 14, 1911.
Editor Courier:
I appreciate your kind invita
tion to anyone that had anything to
say about the single tax question, to
send it to the Courier,. I think you
oould not adopt a better way of oom
ing to a general understanding of the
question.
Now it is hard for me to under
stand how any man that has a fair
and just mind, and a sound and well
balanced mind, oan advocate the sin
gle tax measrre, the way they seem
to be framing it up at the present
time. To be sore, it may be my mind
that is crooked and unbalanced, in
stead of the other fellow's. You
know it is generally the oaae that the
more a fellow thinks he - knows, the
lesa he reall does know, but whether
I am it fault or not, I am sincere in
what I say.
Now, it seems to me that the whole
principle of the single tax move is
unjust I cannot see one honest or
just feature about it. Their whole
hobby seems to be to impose an un
reasonable and unjust tax on wild,
unimproved laud, so as to make these
land speculators let go for little or
nothing, in order to get rid of paving
the tax. Do they suppose or expeot
an assessor, or the assessors to go
around all over the county and state
and assess ' laud indisoriminntely at
from f!0 to 50 per acre, without any
regard to its value? Or if you could
get the assessors to do snch a fool
thing, do yoa suppose yoa oould get a
Board .or equalization to, sustain snch
an unj st pieoe of work ?
Havent you got just the same ohanoe
to BBBess land at its real . valne now
under the present law, that yoa
would have then? Or do you expeot
to pass this law aud then put i'l a lot
of assessors and every board of equal
ization in every oounty In the state
that are all in sympathy with this
unjust system of taxation?
They olaim that it will out the
value of land in . two. Suppose it
would. It would not out the county
and state expenses in two, and if you
out your assessed valuation of yonr
property in two, you will have to
doable your levy aud if yoa go to
work and exempt all personal proper
ty, all improvements, all rash, notes
and accounts, and all business of ev
ery kind with all its machinery and
wealth, and then cat the value of the
land in two, what kind of a levy
would yoa have to put on the little
valuation you had left to meet the ex
penses of the state and county? And
what fool man would want to sink a
dollar of money into an aore of wild
land in the state of Oregon with the
hope of trying to make a home of it,
aud take care ot his family and have
such a oondition of things as that
staring him in the face?
I think the most of our real estate
men won Id have to go oat of business
with such a law as that. What Is the
use of trying ot dodge your just share
of the burden of the oounty and state
expenses? Lay your shoulder to the
wheel and do your part like a man;
use your best efforts to get taws
passed that will bring oat a fair and
just assessment of all property in the
oouuty aud state ; use your initiative
privilege to accomplish this iu plane
of using it in such wild unjust
schemes as this single tax sohonie, and
then oar taxes will not be burden
some, and it will be an honor and
strength to our Initiative system, and
penpe of other states will not shun
us aud go to some other state to hont
a home where all will help to pay the
taxes. '.
GEORGE HICINBOTHAM.
NOTHING TO IT.
Sheriff Mass Says Man's Story
is Simply a Pipe.
The Hill murder mystery is having
another revival by a fairy story told
by a man who says his name is Har
vey Smith and who was arrested in
Marshtield on a charge of stealing a
horse, buggy and harneas at Rose
burg. After his arrest with the bug
gy and harness in his possession
Smith told a story to the sheriff and
others which indicates that he knows
who committed the Hill murder.
He says that a friend of his killed
the Hill family aud the story has been
trausmitted to the Portia id police.
A notebook found in the pocket of
the prisoner leads the Marshfleld offi
cials to the belief that their prisoner
is named Higge iustead of Smith.
The notebook, which the Marshfleld
police think contains valuable details,
has been forwarded to the Portland
police. Smith after being arrested
appeared to be greatly worried.
Sheriff Mass doesn't go runoh on the
Hill connection of the story, but says
the fellow evidently Is getting off this
pipe dream to detract from the horse
stealing. He thinks Smith is unques
tionably the man who stole three
horses from J. H. Smith of Jennings
Lodge last mouth, and he has hopes
that he may be connected with the
killing of the eight horses near Sandy
a few weeks ago.
LOCK
DUES
TO
SETTLED
East Side is Selected by
Engineers
COMMERCIAL BODIES ACTIVE
Work of Securing Right of Way
Looked for at Once.
The people of the Willamette valley
will rejoice at the news just received
from Washington to the effect that
the secretary of war will soon approve
the report of the army engineers rec
ommending the constr ucution of the
new canal aud locks on the east side
of the river at Oregon City, at an es
timated ooBt of $754,000, and immedi
ate steps will be taken by Che govern
ment to acquire the necessary right of
way. It is estinnted that four years
will be required to build the canal
after the right of way is obtained.
The army engineers have agreed with
the opinion expressed some time ago
by Major Mcludoe that it is better
and olieaper to build a canal on the
east side of the river than to acquire
the existing west side canal,
By the adoption of this plan the
Willamette will be kept open to con
tinuous navigation daring the time
the canal and locks ure nnder con
struction, whereas navigation would
have to be suspended for from 18
mouth to three years if the west side
caual should be rebuilt.
Tlie engineers propose to construct
a canal with looks 45 feet wide and
300 feet long, with a navigable depth
of bix feot.
While the oust of the proposed new
oanal aud locks is 154,000 greater
than the amount originally thought
necessary, the engineers are of the '
opinion that work should be under
taken in the interest of free naviga
tion. Oregon has appropriated fISOO,
000, aud congress has appropriated a
like amount. Therefore , it will re
quite an additional appropriation by
congress of $15i),000 before the oanal
can be completed, but with $(500,000
immediately available, no further ap
propriation by congress will be neces
sary before 1815, in the view of the
engineers, who are of the opinion that
Oregon, having appropriated. $300,000,
has borne its fair share of the cost,
and they reoommend that congress, at
the proper time, appropriate the
neoesBary remainder,
The Orogon City Cotumeroial Club,
through its seoretary, M. D. Latoa
urette, as well as the Willamette
Open River and Freight Hate Associ
ation, W, A. Shewmuu, secretary, are
nrgiug ever? : istauce tlirough Ore
gon's senators aud congressmen at
Washington,
UP AND AT IT.
Oregon City has Started East
Side State Highway. .
When there is a pie to out and there
are not pieces enough to go around,
the one who does the cutting doesn't
usually go hnugry, for he gets his
piece at the cutting. Then there's
the early bird proverb, the waiter
story, and others that might be ap
plied. Governor West told the convention
at Salem that the way to locate the
state highway was to go to building
it, and Orogon City is going to road
making oging at it at once and it is
a certainty that there will be a state
boulevard from Portland to Salem on
the east side of the Willamette.
This onrne out at the meeting called
for the Commercial Club Wednesday
night, when a permanent organization
was formed aud money raised to start
the preliminary work.
But the honor is not all Oregon
Oity's. Sellwood was there with the
boost; the .Oak Urove Posh Club was
down with enthusiasm and coin, Jen
nings Lodge had her commercial olub
in on the start; our cousin Gladstone
was at the pie counter; Monnt Pleas
ant wanted to help nut the niellou
and Cauby was there, as she always
is wheu there 1b anything doing for
Claokamas county. All these pianos
had the ooin to help start the work,
to get the surveying started. About
(Q00 was raised to start the work,
v A permanent ' organization ' was
effected at this meeting. J. F. Kert
chem of Sellwood was elected chair
man; M. D. Latonrette of Oregou
Oity, Beoretary, and Chas. Rlslny of
Oak Grove, treasurer.
There was considerable discussion
as to the best route to be laid out be
tween Portland and Oregon City, and
the matter will be settled by the com
mittees later on. Short talks were
made by A. N. Willis of Sellwood,
Philip Strieb of Milwaukio. Charles
Risloy of Oak Grove, C. P. Morse of
Jennings Lodge; J. M. Waruook of
Mount Pleasant, George M. Lazello
of New Era, M. J. Lee of Oanby, Dr.
A. L. Beatie of Oregou Oity, J. B.
Garter of Gladstone, L. B. Gorhain of
Oanby. -.
The organixatoin earnestly asks all
those interested in the east side route
too aid in every way to get the work
started.
A Bet we Are Overlooking.
If we had a creamery or oondensery
in Oregon City the dairying business
would boom in western Claokamas as
nothing else could boom it.
Enough cream could and would be
supplied in this locality to operate a
big creamery here, and there is no
branch of farming that pays better, is
more reliable or keeps more money iu
circulation than dairying.
A oreamory does not cost a fortune
to install, and all that Is needed is to
interest the right parties in the mat
ter and get it going.
It shoald be located in Oregon City,
if we are wise guineas, bat one will
be located in this section before long.
THRESHERMEN'S handy account
books, at the Courier office. ,
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