OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDaV NOV. 3, 1911.
Oregon City Courier
First Independent Paper in Oregon.
W. A. SHEWMAN, Publisher.
Published every Friday from the
Courier Building, Eighth and Main
Streets, by the
Oregon City Courier Pub. Co.
Incorporated
Telephones, Main 51;
Home, A-51.
Subscription Price 1.60 per Year.
Entered in the Postofflce In Oregon City.Ore.
lor transmission through the mails as second
class matter.
M. J. BROWN, Editor.
LAME.
Sunday's Oregouian clippped an edi
torial from a reoeut issue of the Cour
ier, which stated that if a forger
to a petition was given the same pun
nishruent as the forger of a check, the
abnse would be stopped. And the
Oregouian makes this comment:
The foregoing from the Oregon
City Oourier is illustrative of the
wide impression that all that ,is
necessary to keep one from yield
ing to temptation is to threaten
him with punishment if he does.
Under the existing law of Oregon
a man may be sent to the peniten-
tiary for two years and fined $500
for every name he forges to an 3
initiative and referendum peti- g
tiou. Only three years ago a
yonng man waa sent to priBon
from Portland for this o3ense.
We not only have the law called
for but have had an example of
its enforcement. Yet forgerv of
names to petitions continues un
abated. As a rule the perpetrator
ib safe from prosecution. The
validity of signatures is never
investigated unless some one has
a pecuniary interest in voiding
the petitions, It costs money to
investigate the genuineness of
8000 names. Forgories of names
will therefore probably continue
legardless of prohibitive statutes
until we reform our methods of
name-getting.
The fact that three years ago a man
was sent to the penitentiary for forg
ing petitions and thai it didu't stop
the orinie for all time to come, is
amusing argument. Three years ago
a young, man was sent to the .peni
tentiary from Oregon Oity for forging
a name to a oheck, but it did not
eftectaally stop check forging in Ore
gon. They keep right on sending forgers
o Salem, and while it doesn't stop it,
every time a man is puuished it no
doubt stops a hundred others from
trying it.
have laws that send men to
pi ison for stealing, and every week
we send them, yet Btealing go68 on
nnabated.
Take away the enforcement and
we'd all be tiiieves.
If "as a rule the perpetrator is safe
from prosecution," the fault is not
the law, but the enforcement,
"It costs money to investigate the
genuineness of 8000 names."
But it, is not necessary to investi
gate 8000 names. One forgery is as
good as eight hundred to put a man in
prison.
It oostH money to investigate Lori
mer and BteplieiiBon. It has cost
thousands to. investigate bribery and
oorruption in Adams county, Ohio
It is oostiug millions to prosenute the
big trusts.
forgeries ol names will continue as
long as men are not punished, and
they will be as rare as oheck forgeries
when prosecuted and sentenced.
It isn't the nitthodri that neel l
forming it is the authorities.
Our country is going to extend the
parcels post to Panama. We have it
extenduS to about everything but onr
own great oonntry. At home we must
protect our four groat companies the
express trnst.
There is uo tolling what a jury will
do. Two damnge actions were triod
in Portland last woek. Oue jury
brought in a verdict of $8000 for a
broken leg and another $3000 for a
human life. It is ohenpor to kill 'em.
The Woodburn Independent says'the
way to get a senatorial toga is for a
man to snrve the people and not the
interosts, an adds "that is the law
and the profits in Oregon." Whether
the types spoiled the wrong prophet,
or whether the newspaper was getting
deep down in sarcasm is what lias me
guessing.
Coffee is on the free list, yet it
continues to rine in price, all of
whiob goes to prove that some
times the free things are not al
ways the cheapest Engnne Reg
ister. Coffee isn't free. If the Register
would Hud our, at what price it oomos
into Now York harbor, and compare
it with the price consumers pay for
it, it would see there are other walls
than tariff walls trusts bigger and
more powerful than tariff duties.
' It was Depew who said that if this
oountry was given absolute free trade
our big business would ooruer pro
ducts before thoy got in here, and
prices would remain the same.
FEAR.
What stood between this oonntry
and a great panio last week?
Rockefeller and Morgan.
What brought on this dangerous
condition?
A 8lmple"annonncemont that the
government was going to prosecute
the steel trust as a criminal.
And what manner of a country is
this that an action to compel a busi
ness to run legally would start a
panio in a prosperous nation?
What kind of a foundation has a
government that a Wall Street scare
will make it crumble like an earth
quake, and only the millions dumped
in by Morgan and Rockefeller saved
the banks of a nation from bursting
like soap bubbles?
Something pretty rotten in financial
conditions when Wall Street oan start
a prosperity panio in fifteen minutes.
Something migiitv Bhy on confi
dence when a New York gambling
joint can put the hummer on a whole
country because the country forbids
it to practice highway robbery.
And one of the weakest spots, in
my judgment, is our banking system.
All the security a man gets for tne
money he deposits in a bank is a re
ceipt, aud the confidence he has in
the cashier.
The bank depends on these deposits
to run its business, and the depositors
depend on the bank to ge their
money when they need or want it.
Oue of our paper mills, for instance,
goes to the bank and borrows $1000 to
meet the pay roll.
The bank gives the oompany credit
ou'a bank book for the loan, aud it is
subject to check.
Tne company oheoks it out to work
men. The workmen pay it over to
merchants aud the merchants in turn
take the checks back to the bank for
deposit to their credit.
Not a dollar has changed Hands,
onlv in (Inures.
Now another factory goes in and
borrows $1000 and gets this name
money, or at least the same figures to
its credit, which is again paid out as
before and again comes back to the
starting place, and thus the banks'
books really show deposits of $3000 on
the oriaiual 1 1000.
Now this is all strictly legitimate
and legal business and within the fold
of the banking laws.
The bank draws eight or ten per
cent on the several deposits, ' and each
borrower gets just what he pays for;
there is no kick coming from anybody
The kick comes when someone sees
a little smoke somewhere and yells
"fire."
Then some fellow remembers how
hirf monov is turned over several
times: that it isn't only about one
thid as big as it is pictured on the
bank's hooks: that he has only a re
oeipt for same, and he reckons he will
put it under the feather tick until the
smoke blows over.
He is going to have it if he breaks
the bank and himself.
You can't stop him, nor you can't
blame him.
All lie has to show for his money
a little book with a date and a deposit
entered simply proof that he has
handed so much money iuto the
bank's cage.
The cashier has a right to loan his
money where he haply pleases, con
forming to banking regulations, and
if he should get in wrong, down Roes
the glass house, and the depositors
with it.
They tell you the government ex
aminers have supervision over these
banks.
But tliev fail just the same.
The government examiners have
supervision over postotlices and postal
banks AND ihki uojn't jaiu
The Doiut I am chasing is this:
The government should protect the
depositors who furnish the banks the
money with whioh to run a nation's
business.
Assure a depositor that the govern
nient will make his deposit good, and
you couldn't start a run with a com
pany of soldiers and a gattling gnu to
got the depositors in line.
When a man KNOWS he can have
his money any minute, he doesn't
want it.
Stop him from hoarding it and we
do a lot to stop money panics.
It s all a matter ol coniidanco.
Let some man Btate in the Commer
cial Olub that he hears the Oonrior
editor is iu shaking financial shape,
and their business on the bum, and
tomorrow some fellow who holds his
uote will come in and demand pay
ment.
He's got the fear.
if the editor tells him he can't moot
it, he'll foroe payment and wreck the
business.
If the editor could get Governor
West to endorse the note theiP.he
would have to run down the holder to
get him to aocopt payment which he
doesn't want.
Isu't this so?
Don't you think a government guar
antee of deposits aud a government
cleaning out of the Now York aud
Chicago gambling joints would utop
mouev panics?
I do, too.
DON'T RFASON, JUST BELIEVE.
Six of the Union s states now givo
women the right to vote Colorado,
Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington,
California.
Isn't it a funny proposition, when
vod come to reason a bit, that it
would be legal for an Ameriojn wom
an to vote in California and a crime
for her to do so in Oregon ?
Doesn't that muddle you on the
ways of justioe and equality, and
doesn't it keep yon walkiug sideways
to keen ud with the constitution?
We don't have a vote to see whether
negroes can vote. We don't rail a
special election to let the peopls de
cide whether foreigners, who do not
own a foot of land or pay a cent of
taxation, shall be given the right to
vote.
But we DO make the men foreign
ers, our own illiterates, our drank
ards and toughs vote on the question
of whether women shall vote make
the men our constitution and our
highest court.
Hut woman is gaining her rights
They have been a long time coming
but certainly they are coming.
Kansas is just about to vote ou the
question and it is a good bet that
women will win, aud the next time
Oregon gives the voters a craok at the
questnn, she will join vvuHlungtou,
California and Idaho. '
SOMF DAY.
Fish. Yes, fish. Buyers pay the
fisherman 3 cents a pound for his
catch ; the buyers sell the fish to the
retailer for 10 cents a pound, and the
retailor charges the consumer 15 oents
a poJtid. Evidently the poor Usher
man and the consumer are made vio
timB of the middleman. Woodburn
Tribune.
Deposit All Your Income
at this bank and pay it out by check.
(J Thus you will make a written record of
all your money transactions, which may
be referred to months or years hence, when
nitormation is wanted, or the amount
time of a payment is questioned.
(J Mo&t of the targe deposits begau
small ones.
(J A checking account at this bank will be
your STEPPING STONE TO SUCCESS
or
as
The Bank of Oregon City
THE OLD E ST BANK IN THE COL' N T Y
Oue reform that is dead sure to
come, because there is no power on
earth that can stop publio sentiment
once aroused Is that the wedge be
tween tiie producer and consumer ii
going to be knocked out.
Instance after instance lias been
shown up lately where mayors of
cities have broken the middleman's
oinch by purchasing products direct
from producers aud selling them to
the people at cost, and Governor
Forbes of the Philippines tamed the
same trick, when he asked the war
department to buy rice and sell it to
the natives at oost
In every case prices dropped.
And what will all this come to?
Am afraid you will call me a Social
ist, but I will chance it.
Some of these warm Tuesdays we
will have oity, oounty and state off!
oial purchaing departments, who will
buy products direct from the producer
and pass them direct to consumer.
It will oomo.
When ordinary farm products cost
the consumer just about as much again
as the farmer gets for them, you can
bet the people will find a means to get
them at first oost.
And this idea will not ouly apply to
farm products, but imports, and when
the trusts sydnioate them, the govern
ment will step in and buy.
Crazy? Well, many men have beeu
called eo, and it is the crazy fellow
who do things many times.
ARGUMENT.
I read an amusing and illuminating
anti-Bingle-tax argument the other
day, where a writer to a daily paper
protested against the county option
proposition, giving as reasons for the
protest that no one county should
have a right to pass this Bingle tax
law, aa it would give it au nnfair ad
vantage. In short, that the settlers
and the factories would all go to this
county.
What stronger reasons tor trying out
the proposition thau these protests?
If it would work out this way,
what better proposition could be
offered for the settling up of Oregon?
If this would be true of a county,
why wouldn't it be true of the state?
In the fully settled states of the
East, where almost every foot of land
produces, this single tax idea might
aot work out so well, but in a state
like Oregon, olamoring for men to
settle its millions of acres, it is the
best proposition so far presented.
When a settler comes to Oregon
looking for cheap land he must get far
back from the railroads, improved
rOHfla aud the markets to find it.
lie buys a farm. The taxes are very
low, as it is unimproved laud.
He clears an acre, and it is taxed,
He builds a house, aud it is taxed.
He sots out fruit trees aud they are
taxed.
He builds a baru and it is taxed.
So it goes. Every time he puts in
a mouth's work it is taxed, while ad
joining land, held by the speculator,
doesn't pay a oent more taxes, yet
each day grows iu value as the settler
clears and improves his farm.
ir we want Oregon to settle up and
clear up, the single tax looks like the
gentleman who will do it.
DECEMBER, OUTLOOK,
to
The niayer situation in Oregon City
seems to be well appreciated by a very
large majority of her citizens, and
is becoming a well settled' fact thu
every one desires the very test that
can be obtained. Up to the present
time the petition asking Mr. Andre
seu to permit his name to'he used
a candidate for the office of mayor i
still in oicrculation and from the best
reports that can be obtained concern
ing it it appears a large majority
the voters have signed the petition
It is generally conceded that Mr. Au
dreseu will aooentthe nomination, an
will undoubtedly be elocted, as up
the present time no other candidates
are making any effort, realizing that
in Mr. Andresen the people have
man that rills every need as a oity ex
ecotive, nud that tlere probatly
could not be selected oue in whom
the people place greater trust an
confidence.
Ihere is little heard from the the
wards as to who will run as council
men, oue to be elected in the first
ward in the place of William Andre
sen, oue in the second ward in the
place of Dr. M. C. Strickland, aud
one in the third ward in the place ot
Jacob Michaels. Harry Draper ha
beeu talked of quite freely for ronucil
man in the second ward, and recently
a boom has been started for William
Beard of Mt. Flaesaut distriot for
conucilman iu the third ward. This
about covers the auuouncements o
the aspirants, and in most cases it :
entirely through tleir frieuds, tl
principals not binding themselves iu
any manner.
iius is not a little iiop-to-it propo
sition. What the city desires iu each
ward is a man who hag some stability
some backbone, is conscientious, and
withall, in whom the citizens niav
reasonably expect fair play, due con
sideration for all, with twentieth cen
tury ideas, and one who has made
good in his own business affairs,
whether great or small.
The mayor question will probably
reach an amloable solution in proper
season, the advocates of Mr. Andresen
stand firm iu nrging their man to
make the run, aud he feeling that
many years of his time have now been
giveu to the oity as councilman and
that business demands his closer at ten
tion, rerraius trom giviug out any
definite answer, though it is generally
conceded that he will be the next
mayor of Oregon City.
COMING.
(McMinnville Register)
In scanning a dozen or more of the
state papers we Cud some mention is
made ot the victory for woman Buf
frage in California, but not one of
them has the courage to say it favors
it. bveu President Taft. who is un
derstood not to favor it. advised the
women on his visit to that state, that
since they had been entrusted with
duty, they should live up to it.
Woman suffrage is on the program
It is ooming in the near future. Five
other states, viz., Colorado. Utah
Idaho, Washington aud Wyoming,
have been granted unrestricted
suffrage. In twenty-three other
states women are permitted to vote
for school direotors, and in Kansas
thev may vote at all school and muni
clpal elections. It ia doubtful if
there has ever been advanced a con
elusive argument against the theory
of woman suffrage though there has
been said and written a great deal
about politics teing so vile that
women are contaminated by it; about
women being "above" the ballot in
morals, or below it in intelligence
aud abont various other phases of the
problem whioh only skirt the funda
mental principles involved iu the sug
gestion The man who defiautly
throws hia vote in the face of a band
of praying women, fighting for the
Bcantity of their homes, for the sobri
ety and morality of their fathers and.
husbands, their sons and brjthers,
not a good citizen in the true accep
tariou oi tne word, ll there is any
significance in the theory that the
prime purpose of all goverument is to
subserve the highest and best inter
ests of the governed. Nor is it clear
where the exercise of this prerogative
is a matter of sex or color; why
Chinamen, idiots, Indians and feloiiB
whose forfeited oitizenship has not
been restored to them, should be the
ouly ones besides women to be exclud
ed from exeroisiug such a prerogative.
WA1TINC.
What a comfort it would be if
we oould get business iuto such a
condition that the enforcement of
the law would not convulse the
market. Oregouihn.
Divorce business from gambling and
we have that condition, aud the only
way to do it is t ostop the gambling.
Straw votes are not giveu a great
deal of wheight iu this country, for
a general thing thev are not im
partial expressions. But the Portland
Journal's ballot does show something
of the way the wind is blowing, when
President laft only got 60 out of 61)3
Republican and 12(1 Independent
votos only 50 out of 711) votes, or 60
votes for Taft against 8S3 tor Lafol
lette, and Kit! for Koosevelt. Those
(inures are bound to be uoteil as ex
pressing how Mr. Taft stauda iu Ore
gon f'at be is far from popular
oioe.
The Portland Labor Press savs in
Clackamas county exemption of im
povements from taxation would in
crease the taxes collected on laud val
ues about 60 per oeut, assuming pres
ent assessments to be continued. If
the water power aud franchise values
were to be assessed at the same ratio
to actual soiling value as the farmed
lauds are now there would be no in
crease of taxes on the laud, thereby
leaving the farmer aud user with
uouuug to pay Dut what he now pays
ou his laud, excluding all that he
pays on his improvements anil person
al property. This is oleary Bhown by
the assessor's returns.
Some weeks ago, one Golonol Ilofer
of Salem oame to Oregon City, "in
vestigated" the east Bide locks survey
(in oompany with west side advocat
es), found "powerful influences"
fighting the sale of the old locks to
the government, aud then went home
aud gave it ont in his newspaper that
HE proposed to probe the matter to
the bottom, and show up to the scorn
of Oregou these erst side advocates
who are "delaying aud involving this
improvement for the purpose or ac
complishing its defeat."
This was .weeks ago, and ail anxious
publio still waits.
Show us up, Colonel, please,
A HANDY MAN GONE.
Years ago a Chicago judge, Landis
tlned.the Standard Oil Co. $211,000,000,
and the story goes that John D. Rock
efeller's private physician warned
John that it was daugerous to laugh
so hard.
The cause of the laugh came later,
when Judge Grosscup did entirely
away with that Hue.
And now public opinion has done
away with the handy judge he has
resigned because he tired of publio
oontempt.
If the people bad had the recall thoy
could have gotten to him a whole lot
quicker.
EXPLAINED.
Bore's oue from the Albany Herald,
right to the point, dead true," and oue
that will tread on Oreiion City's toes
a little: "The idea that any city
should give away individual fran
chises without price or demand of any
concession to be hocked about by un
scrupulous promoters, is absurd.
Notwithstanding this fact it has beeu
done by nearly every city of auy eiae
throughout the country. It has been
done iu Albany. But the custom
should be abolished. Ouly recentlv a
gas frauobise was granted in much
the same way as such privileges are
given out elsewhere. Hut should it
not be utilized in the time specified
the council should call a halt in the
promiscuous granting of publio ser
vice frauchlse. "
President Taft made a very bad
break iu Chicago the other night,
when in his speech he admitted that
thiugB looked gloomy for Republican
success next year. But the Oregouian
fixed it all up for the presideut laud
excused the admission this way:
The president, was tired at Chi
cago and anxious to get liome,
just like any man would be. That
was all. A fat man cannot he
pessimistic
A scare may be worked to ways,
evidently. Hose burg merchauts re
fused to sell to strike breakers, be
cause the union labor would boycott
them. Then there started a story that
the Southern Pacific would move its
shops and the division point else
where, and (he merchants changed
their minds aud the strikebreakers'
money. There is both the detil and
the deep lift at Koseburg.
WHERE THE PRESIDENT SCORED
President Taft spoiled a nioe little
put up job in Pittsturg TnoKilny. Hud
the Amiriean people will give Inm
full cn (lit for I, is defiance.
A trust bunch hud anauged a ban
quet for him, and had arranged to
make trust sneechos unti 1 the last min
ute sn the president could not re ly
and the affair be quoted aa having Ms
sh notion.
But the president slipped oue over.
Ho had ouly 19 minutes to do it, but
it was as good as hu hour.
When Martin Littleton had finish, d
his demand for the repeal of the Si-er-man
law the president jnniued to his
feet and poo red info that big business
crowd iu a way that made them sick.
He told them the law must be en
forced, that stifling competition niUBt
cease; that only thoe guilty need fear
and that unless the priue-tlirettlina
was effectually stopped we would have
a socialistic repubbo iu our country
WATCH THEM HIT BACK.
The scrap rf the government against
the king of trusts, the steel combina
tion, is on, and it will be on a year
from the time you road this, job, two
years, three years.
The next oongrpps can nut a short
stop to such dissolution suits by re
pealing a Sherman law, which can be
stretched to suit the case at issDe, and
euactiug in its stead au anti-trogt law
that has no two wuys to it, a. law that
reads and means oue way and a law
under which there can be no bucIi
giant combinations.
And while the weary months drag
on, watch Big Business put the clean
er on little busmtss watch Morgaii,
Parkins. Carnegie, Schwab, Rockefel
ler and that bunch try to make the
country sorry it ever went np against
the iiig Uanie.
AWFUL, IF TRUE.
;f Secretary of the Navy Von
Meyer ia reported to be very
much displeased with tlm book
keeping methods of the United
States navy yard at Washington.
Apparent discrepancies involving
about t3.000.OO0 have been discov
ered and Mr. Meyer is said to be
contemplating the trausfor of offi
cers responsible for this condition
of affairs, to new fields of daty.
Eugene Guard.
This reminds me of the story of
New xork Central conductor who
was caught "knocking down" and
who confessed to stealing thousands of
dollars during his years of service.
But the companv refused to discharge
or prosecute. The superntendent said
the man had stolen a homo and would
do lainv nonesi inereaiter. wnne a
new man would have to steal another
residence.
And just think of punishing govern
ment oflioials with a receipt tor their
millions and a deed to new nastuies.
It's too awful.
The Eugene Register says the Peo
ple b rower league in tins state, an
organization whioh is backed by
U'Keu and some'of his followers, has
decided that the Oregon recall is not
what it should be and are framing an
amendment to be submitted at the
next general election which makes
some radical changes in the present
siauie. it win provide tnat when a
candidate is to be reculled he cannot
become a caudidate for re-election.
it is also stipulated that a niaioritv
vote oe required to recall an officer.
President Taft says it is wrong to
assail legitimate prosperity.
Kignt, dead right. But what he
might have added, but which he
idu't add, is that it is wroun NOT to
assail criminal prosperity.
When our oougress will make over
that Sherman law until it means
something, and under its provisions
the criminal trust may be soparated
from the legitimate business, tlmn the
business of our country won t bane ou
uncertainty, aud the honest man
won't be afraid he will get it when
the crowd makes a run for the thief.
Clackamas county farmers want
good roads from the market places to
their homes. And that's riulit.
Falls City JNews.
m from
Absolutely Pure
HAKES I'OmE DAKIiiQ EASY
Light Biscuit
Delicious Cake
Dainty Pastries
Fine Puddings
Flaky Crusts
only Baking Powder made
Royal Grape Cream ol Tartar
I
New York, Nov. 1 The big fi
nancial interests advanced the
stock market to sensat'oual figures
by sheer force today. Associat
ed Press.
There you have it again. Inflated
price by right of might, by fotce of
money and combination. How do you
like this condition?
Isn't it pleasant to think that every
time a patron of the Paoifio Telephone
Co pays his monthly assessment the
money may be used to hire trust law
yers to defeat Oregon's reform laws?
But don't think, don't kick, don't tell
the company to take out its 'phoue
uutil it oan stand by Oregon. Just
pay and help to knock your own statu.
JUVENILEJPRODiGIES.
Master Betty at the Age of Twelve
Played Richard III.
Of nil Juvenile prodigies Was there
ever one to compare with Master Bet
ty, the infunt Hoscius? The press of
the day voted him "a very extraordi
nary phenomenon, playing
marbles in a morning uud Richard
III. in the evening; nu in
spired being of exquisite
judgment and sensibility. the
energy of whose delivery was such as
to leave nil description ut a distance.
The Intelligence of manner,
the eloquence of the eye when speech
was denied, the rapid yet Judicious
transitions from prostrate atllictiou to
dignified resentment, ure qualities
which a Gurrick might display." The
Edinburgh manager was In fear that
the young actor's voice would not fill
the house. "My denr sir," said the
twelve-yenr-old genius. "1 beg you will
be under uo apprehensions upon that
score, for if my voice does not fill
your bouse my playing will."
Writing for the stage seems always
to have attracted the prodigy. Doug
Ibs Jerrold wrote his successful farce,
"More frightened Than Hurt," before
he was flfteeu, and Lope de' Vega, the
famous Spaniard, was not fourteen
when his first play was produced.
And William Ireland produced his
SliaUcspeure forgeries, which were
good enough to deceive the learned,
when he was about fifteeu. London
Chronicle.
MOLALLA
The two Mrs. Crosses were iu au
auto wreck in South.Portland last Kri;
day. Their oar cattle into collision
with a street car.. No one was hurt
Damage to the auto amounted to one
or two hnudred dollars.
J. L. Tubb had one lamp clipped off
his auto bv a horse aud buggy crossing
his path at an angle of about forty
five degrees at the end of Seventh
street. Oregon Oity. James' starting
orank also assumued same angle of the
horse's direotiou and had to be bent
back before the maohiue would
"crank." No one was badly hurt.
Claude Maish has returued home
from eastern Washington with a new
guard grown on his upper lip.
John Stubbs, mail clerk No. 2. will
move into the Tom Dibble residence
as Boon as his new daughter gets a
little stronger.
Mr. Kastall, who died . iu Portland
Monday, was buried in the Adams
cemetery.
H. A. Kayler has sold his "com
mercial orchard" including 40 acres
of land, for f 145 au acre.
Four miles of this end of the Clack
amas Southern are about ready for the
ties.
The Powell tamily are quittiug the
hotel bnsinees for awhile.
Mrs. Everman Bobbins aud sou have
returned to Molalla muoli improved
in health.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Everhart re
turned home last Saturday looking as
natural as ever.
Mrs. Lillie Austin and Ray are vis
iting relatives in Tygh Valley.
Yes, Brother Liberal Soribe, you
are right in saying Molalla has no use
for the saloon. We want no more
saloon prosperity. We have had our
fill of that when farmers passed over
the wet counter, when our institu
tions were slobbered over, oar good
Citizens much burnt out internally be
cause the vile stuff was too hundy.
Home duties were neglected for same
cause. Our young men were deprived
of their best intellect and literally cut
up. Mothers, wives aud children
were dishonored and disgraced. Let
him that must oontinue in the fixed
wet course take to some selected hol
lo w tree aud disgrace his owu person
al liberty. The saloon business is
going out of date with us aud gtod
homes taking its place.
Get your Butter Wrappers at this office
fro
fro
ft
7T
fx
No. 3. (Watch for No. 4)
Friday Bargains at
The Holmes Bargain
ClHA Every Friday you will be more
vl v than gratified by looking over
the many bargains in every desirable line at
the Holmes Bargain Store. We will continue
this practice and are satisfied it means a great
saving to you. . You cannot secure the same
goods for double 1 the price elsewhere. We
mention just a few, though similar bargains
may be found in every depaitment:
1000 yards new Ribbons up
to 6 inches wide just the
thing for Christmas presents
Lot ), size No. 22, assort- Qft
ed colors and kinds, yd..
Lot 2, size No. 40, ass'tf 4
colors and kinds, yd ... j
Lot 3, size No. 40 and CO, as
sorted colors and kinds, i Qft
per yard I 0C
Lot 4, No. 60 to 6 inches, as
sorted colors and kindsl "f
per yard f
Ladies' Stiff Embroidered Collars
Sizes 12.14 to 14, regular values
15c to go on Friday at! O W
A lot of Ladies' Fine Embroid 4 M
ered Handkerchiefs, - regultr 1 Up
25c values, Friday only. I UO
A few of those Dutch Collars f
left. Bargain Friday price MP
Worth double Jj
The Holmes Bargain Store