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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1912 j A " -.1 SOMETIMES YOU BREAK YOUR GLASSES or the mainspring of your wateh, or a ring, and then you need our services badly. Maybe you want 1 ruth job done Bring or send it here. Tell 119 to hurry, and we will oblige you at the earliest possible moment. That is what we keep a repair shop ' for. We like to be busy and you can't very well work us too hard. v The little job that brings us cents is accepted as gladly as something with more money in it. Please remember this when you requirs the services of a jewelry fixer. We guarantee our work. BURMEISTER & ANDRESEN Oregon City Jewelers Suspension Bridge Corner OF TIE CITY Eggs are now getting down to where a fellow can have "and" with his ham. Dr. Stuart has his handsome new bungalow on Washington street well under way. Belter register. You know the old s.tory of the man who waited until the last day. Judge Beatio of the county court closed the suspension bridge from 10:30 Wednesday night until 6 Thursday morning, to make repairs on the east side approach. Judge Bealie has appointed W. W. Myres as guardian of George B. Thomas and Ithoda Thomas of Estacada. The five children of the aged couple requested the ap pointment. Gilbert L. Hedges, as attorney, has brought suit for Frank Bry ant against the Canby Canal Co. for $500 for wages due, on the ground of breach of contract. He was formerly chief engineer. You haven't got to be a Live Wire member or belong to the Commercial club to be an Oregon City booster. Just get the habit and keen it, and wo will have a Portland of our own one of these days. Oregon City is booming, any body will tell you this, but how few stop to ask why it is going ahead. The reason is that we have 250 men working for it, and when you go up against such a wall something has GOT to boom. Isn't it falling on us? A $700 000 appropriation for the locks canal , a dredging appropriation between here and Portland an ap propriation for a postofllce build ing, a state armory under way, and Andrew of the libraries hand us a building. Proposals for bids for the Elks new home will be received by the order up to Friday of next week, and plans and specifications may bo had of the committee. Friday night the lodge will have its an nual election of officers, followed by a social hour. The Gladstone city council on Tuesday night rejected bids for $20,00t bonds with which to er ect a water plant, and will again advertise. The highest offer was $96 and tie council will not ac cept bids less than par. The bonds call for 6 per cent interest. A decided novelty, and a move this paper believes will be a very popular one, is the idea of Rev. Ford to open the Methodist pulpit to our townsmen, and invite them to make addresses. Next Sunday evening Judge Campbell of the circuit court and Hon. Gilbert Hedges will deliver addresses. The publicity committee of the Commercial club, O. D. Eby, T. L. Charman, B. T. McBain, M. D.' Latourette and T. W . Sullivan, are soliciting for monthly sub scriptions this week, and in view of the splendid work the club has done in the past year, the coin should come mighty easy. Governor West has accepted an invitation of the Presbyterian Broolherhood and he will make a speech to the order on Tuesday evening, March 12. It is expect ed that he will give a talk to the high school boys the next morn ing and the Live Wires are en deavoring to get him for an ad dress at their luncheon on the 12th. IS Larsen & Company Grocers and Commission Merchants Corner Tenth and Main OREGON CITY OREGON E. Ketels of Boring was an Or egon City visitor Wednesday. A. Engle, of Molalla day. a well known residen was in the city Mon- C. W. Herman, a prominentMo lalla man, was in the city on bus iness Monday. Miss Ana Alldridge has resum ed her work with Huntley Bros. alter a inoiiui s vacation Dan Morgan of the New Era Paint and varnish Co., was in the city on a business trip Monday Misses Vera Phillips and Olga mcuiure ot t'oriianil were renew ing actiuaintances in this city Saturday. John Kelly and family have re turned to their home in Albany after visiting Oregon City rela tives lor.llie past week Oregon City never had a more promising outlook for growth and prosperity. Good things are sim ply tailing onto us this year. L.E.Kelseu, formerly wire chief the Home telephone company, out now ol Vancouver, Wash was visiting friends here Sunday. W. A. Sliewman left the first of the week for a trip through the southern part of the state, where he went to look after some timber interests. McLaughlin park is certainly a handsome spot in its spring dress made so entirely by the Lest of care. Compare it with the city s park, which has many more nat Clarence Ford, a bartender, was arrested by Policeman Shaw Saturday last for selling liquor to an intoxicated person, una Recor der Stipp lined him $10. Best Bread in Oregon City Blue Ribbon Bread, Made clean baked clean, sold clean. Ask your dealer for it 10 cents a loaf Log Cahin Baking Co. Portland, Ore gon. Joseph Malanches and John Meller of Portland, were arrested by Policeman Shaw for drunken ness and disorderly conuuct, and Recorder Stipp lined them $30 each. Oregon City is going to have a tug building boom this year, puo- lic buildings, business places and private residences. A business man made the prediction that at least one hundred new buildings would go up in the city this year. We are going to keep after the unsightly street, fences until you get sick of it or remove them. Nothing so improves the appear ance of a street as an open lawn, cared for to the sidewalk, and any resident who lakes down his fence will never have it back. ural advantages, and note the dif ference the difference which the proper care makes. The city s nark Is simply a sight, and there should be a sign put up telling the public what it is that it may not be mistaken for a garbage dump. Evidentally the east side of it is already used for that purpose. . We have got to have it a Dub- expended on the locks around the lie wharf. With $700,000 to be falls and an appropriation for deep water dredging and yearly maintenance between here and Portland why, we will all go to the bonehead class if we do not make the most or these opportu nities. Wednesday, February 28th, Lizzie Keebe and Henry Koeller weier were united in marriage at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. G. Bluhm, in this city, Rev. F. Mau, pastor of the German Lu theran church', olllciating. The young couple will make their home in Willamette. . Mrs. Edwin Van Way was very pleasantly surprised Monday eve ning when a number of friends and neighbors gathered at her home to remind her of her birth day. Games and music were en joyed until a late hour, when re freshments were served. Mrs. Van Way received several pretty gifts. The guests wished her many happy returns. That was some check that Frank Jagger deposited in the bank of Origon City the other day, and if the Courier editor had the interest on it for about three months, he would buy himself a gasoline go cart. The check was drawn by Theodore B. Wilcox of Portland for $115,000, one half the purchase price of a lot on Washington street in Portland, purchased from the Benjamin Jagger estate. Mortgage Loans Private money to loan on good mortgage security. Have loaned money for 15 years without fore closing a mortgage on a loan made. Will loan your money. for you at 7 per cent. GRANT B. D1MICK Room 3, Andresen Bldg. Oregon City, Ore, Schuebel German Church Services Rev. H. Mau, pastor. Sunday at 10:30 a.m.; Sunday ,. school at 9:30 a. ni.; evening services at 7:30 p. in., in the English lan guage a Lenten address. Every body welcome. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTO R I A SOCIAL MATTERS. Last Friday evening the Newly weds met with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hankius, and spent a delightful evening playing whist. The prizes were won by Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Price. Refreshments were served and the following were present: Mr. and Mrs Mortimer Latourette, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Price, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Logus, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hendry, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Meissner, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hankins, Misses Helen and Bess liaulton and Mr. J. Reno. Mrs. E. Kenneth Stanton en tertained the Batchelor girls and a few other friends, Friday even ing at hwr attractive home in Gladstone. The evening was pleasantly spent in playing cards, in which the prize of a bon bon dish was won by Miss Wynne Honny. A delicious and dainty luncheon was served during the evening. Mrs. Stanton was assisted by her sister, Mrs. VV. L. Mulvey. Those present were: Misses Vara Cau tield, Nettie Kruso, Ada Frost Noll Caulleld, Beryl Long, Maud Gallogly, Edna Caufield, Elaine King, Amy Bollack, Wynne Han- ny, isieta Harding, Dollie Pratt, Kathryn Sinnott, Clara Caulleld, Myrtle marker, and Mrs. W. L. Mulvey. Dr. Ford's Pplpit an Open Forum Next Sunday, Dr. Ford, pastor of the first Methodist Church of Oregon City, will open a series of platform meetings in his church for discussion of Christ ianity from various points of view Gentlemen of prominence in professional and business life in our community have been sele cted to speak in these open forum meetings. Judge Campbell, of the Circuit Court, and Gilbert L. Hedges will deliver the addresses next Sunday evening, on the sub ject of "Christianity From the Standpoint of a Lawyer. this plan is being commended by the business men of the city as progressive, and tending to pro mote a better understanding and closer relations between men in terested in the Common welfare Much interest is being manifested in this new movement, and doubt less the church will bo crowded anxious to hear what these re presentative men have to say on this great question. Judge Camp bell is one of the foremost jurists and Mr. Hedges is Known as one of the leading men of the Oregon City bar. These meetings are open to the public. Special music will be pro vided, and every convenience for the public. Dr. Ford will preach Sunday morning at 10:45. NEWS OF THE WEEK. i. F. Re'rford of Cottage Grove ha? just paid his taxes for the fifty-first consecutive time in Lane county. JameB W. Miller, a well known Ore gon pioneer and an active figure in the upbuilding of his part of the state for many years, died at his home In Shelburn, aged 77. Marlon county R. F. D. carriers met in convention at Gervais. The princi pal business transacted was the pas sage of a resolution asking for state aid in good road building. Word has been received from Tuc son, Ariz., of the death of Ed C. Her ren of Woodburn, Oregon, a pioneer hop dealer of this state. Mr. Herren was born in Salem in 1S61. More than 200,000 acres of produc tive farm land now held by William Hanley of Burns will be thrown open to settlement at prices that will at tract bomebteaders from other parts of the country. " Portland Railway, Light & Power company officials have accepted the proposals of the government, and the Oregon City locks will soon pass into possession of the government at the price of $375,000. Senator Chamberlain has received requests from Portland labor unions to have delayed mails on the Harri- man lines investigated and the laws enforced regarding defective railway equipment on their lines. With "Oregon First" as a slogan special trains of Beaver state citizens will Invade San Francisco March 14. On that day the sites ot the state buildings for the Panama Pacific Ex position, 1915, will be selected. The Interior department has grant ed to Will Q. Steel a 20 year hotel concession in the Crater Lake nation al park. This gives Steel the right to erect and maintain a hotel and he has organized a company for the purpose. James H. Graham, a prominent eastern Oregon Democrat, who op posed Congressman Ellis in 190C as Representative from eastern Oregon to congress, has announced his candi dacy for the Democratic nomination thtB year. The disappearance of R. C. Gass from Klamatb Falls, where he had re sided for several months, is causing his friends much uneasiness. Gass was connected with the Klamath De velopment company as architect and civil engineer. To secure the construction of a fine permanent highway along the Colum bia river, S. Benson has sent to Gov ernor West a check for $10,000, which he will give to aid in the construction of a road near Shell Rock, about six miles from Hood River. The secretary of the interior has received a report from the board ap pointed to investigate the West Uma tilla project. The reoort is favorable Look Here 9 ROOM HOUSE and Urge Lot. 66x 106; Wen end Oty Water fat Front Home k newly paper and nice: Only $8S0. CLYDE ft SURfUS ana strongly recommends the exteii sion of the project, which will irrigate more than 30,000 acres of land. The house committee on publio lands has agreed to report favorably Congressman Hawley's bill authoriz ing substitution ot odd numbered sec tlons of land in Pauline national for est, belonging to private parties, for other lands in southern Klamath county. Double-tracking, eliminating the curves and reducing the grades on the main line of the O.-W.-R. & N. company between The Dulles and De schutes, a distance of 44 miles, work which was started nearly two years ago and which involves an expend! ture of $3,100,000, will be completed before May 1. A new corporation known as the Lake Packing company, has been or ganized at Astoria with a capital of $50,000. The company is authorized to conduct the business of packing fish and all kinds of vegetables ami food products In Oregon and Alaska and also to own and operate steamers and other water craft. With a complete confession at hand from one who participated In the rob bery of the steamer Humboldt, plying from Alaska in September, 1910, Gov ernor West declares he has unearthed the secret of the gold bullion theft which caused national comment at the time, when $57,000 worth of gold was taken from the stenmship. Announcing the appointment of a committee of five members represent ing prominent business, horticultural, and agricultural Interests as well as other industries of the state as a good roads committee to have free rein in passing on the merits and demerits of the various good roads bills which have been subject of discussion, Gov ernor West has talten steps toward reconciling differences which have arisen. One of the most sweeping decisions rendered by the Oregon supreme court in years wag that ot the case of the Corvallis & Eastern railroad vs. the . Slate Land board. Only 45-100 acre of tide land was involved, but the fleclsion gives over to the railroad company the entire stretch of tide lands along the shores of Lincoln county. George G. . Brown, clerk of the state land board, declares the de cision one of the greatest calamities that could befall the people of Lincoln county. On the other hand, Justice Burnett says the finding may be un popular, butit is based on law. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Austrians Freed on Charge of Rioting. The Dalles. The 38 Austrians charged with rioting at Ortley and who were held In the county Jail here were discharged by the justice of the peace after he had heard the evidence for the state. While the Austrians had been somewhat boisterous in their demonstrations during an at tempted adjustment of accounts be tween them and the Hood River Or chard Land company, it was not shown that they were dangerous. Work On Natron Cut-off To Cease. Klamath Falls. The announcement that Erickson & Potterson, contract ors who finished the Natron cut-off of the Southern Pacific railroad north of here to the Williamson river, are packing preparatory to moving all of their construction equipment away, gives rise to the belief here that the work on this end of the cut-off will not be pushed this year. ROAD LAW IS EFFECTIVE Amendment to Let Counties Vote on Issuing Bonds Sufficient. Salem. That amended section 10 of Article II of the state constitution as passed by the people of the state at the last general election in 1910, is sufficient in Itself to allow counties to vote on the question of bonding for good roads and that the only place that Jackson county failed In bonding for $1,600,000 was the form of proce dure, rather than from the necessity of further legislation, are some discov eries that have been made In connec tion with the opinion of the supreme The Hub Grocery LET US SHOW YOU BLUE RIBBON BREAD The 10 cent loaf in a sanitary wrapper, and fresh every morning from the ovens of the Log Cabin Bakery You win come back for more Another shipment of fine Navel Oranges 20c a Dozen We have a bargain for you in APPLES Large assortment of Garden Seeds la HUB Grocery Seventh and Center Street court in the" famous'Andrews" vsTNe'if case. Tacked at the end of Justice Bur nett's extensive opinion in that case were three very brief specially con curring opinions from Justices Bean and McBride and Chief Justice Eakin, or the majority of the court. In these specially concurring opin ions they express tho opinion that the county can, by a local law submitted at a regular election, provide for cre ating an Indebtedness and the Issu ance of bonds for the purpose of building permanent roads. Men Injured in Collapse of Bridge. Lafayette. Fred Landess and New ton Livingstone, workmen employed on a county bridge in course of con struction, were dangerously and prob ably fatallly Injured when the one bent of an old bridge, which the new one is to replace fell, the heavy beams striking down the two men. County Official Seized. Pendleton. ArreBted in this city by Sheriff Taylor upon notificatloii from Pasco authorities, Commissioner Geo. Roe, of Franklin county, Washington, was taken back to Pasco to face charges of bribery and perjury fol lowing his indictment on three counts. TRACT TO BE OPENED Oregon & Western Colonization Com pany's Holdings Purchased. Portland. Control of 800,000 acres of agricultural and timber land in the heart of central Oregon now held by the Oregon & Western Colonization Company, a $12,000,000' corporation, of Portland and St. Paul, has passed into the hands of Louis W. Hill, pres ident of the Great Northern railway, who proposes to throw it open for immediate settlement. Mr. Hill's retirement from the pres idency of the Great Northern and his succession by Carl R. Gray, president of the North Bank road and the Hill lines In Oregon, are expected as an early consequence of this transaction. Associated with Mr. Hill In his new colonization enterprise is W. P. Dav idson, a St. Paul capitalist, who has been actively connected with the Ore gon & Western Colcnlzation Company since its organization. Flower Fiesta Planned. Florence. A meeting of citizens was held for preliminary steps for the fourth annual Rhododendron Carnival here. The carnival will be held dur ing the latter part of May and it is planned to make it a greater success than any preceding carnival. Acccused Shooter Gone. Baker. Escaping from smallpox quarantine In his home at Halfway, R. Alexander, who is wanted as a wit ness in a shooting scrape with hie on-ln-law, William Anderson, in the main street, has disappeared. It Is believed he went to Florida. City May Purify Sewage. Pendleton. Sewape of this city Is to. be purified by a system ot septic tanks or some similar process before it Is allowed to flow into the Umatilla river, If a movement just started here Is successful. Trouble In 8tore For Him. There Is u rough time In store for the llttlo boy whore antics have led his distracted parents to thus appeal for assistance through an advertise ment Id nn English paper: ' "Nurse. Wanted, a robust, (rod feiir Inp Scotch nurse, who ciui tench the shorter catechism and bun a working knowledge of the IiukIiiphh hUw of u Upper, to take chaw of a four yen r old hoy who has a double dime of original sin." CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Blgnature of Paid your taxes? Notice W 'E WISH TO ANNOUNCE to that we are immediately adjoining our present location on Jthe North, in which we will carry a complete line of HARDWARE, and in cur present location will carry the most complete line of IMPLEMENTS ever carried in the city. With our 22 years of business experience in Oregon City, and with the as sistance of our many customers we have been enabled to fit up a location that is worthy of notice. We expect to continue our rnethocPof doing business in the future as in the past, aid to give to the trade value for their money, and to make good every article as recommended. We would therefore invite you to call and examine our well fitted stores, and and convince yourselves that we are here with the goods, and that OUK PRICES ARE RIGHT. Wilson & Cooke ORECON CITY, ORE. PMNG The man who, apparently, sowed lettuce and reaped sun-flowers did not do his trading at OUR store. We apply the same principal to the sale of our seeds as you do to your sowing what ever we sow. that we also wish to reap. For on the reaping depends your future confidence in us. All our seeds are clean and carefully selected from the finest stocks in the country. You can absolutely rely on their exceptionally fine quality. We carry a great, variety, but if we have not what you want,, we will get it for you. Come and inspect our stock today. J. E. SEE LEY OREGON CITY GF.OCER ORECON Tho 'Child's Welfare" move ment has challenged tho attention of thoughtful people everwhere. and will find in Foley's Honey and Tar Compound a most valuable aid. Coughs and colds that un checked lead to croup, hronchitis and pneumonia yield quickly to the healing and coothing qualities of Foley's Honny and Tar Com pound. Jones Drug Co. To Mothers And Others' You can u.so Bucklin's Arnica Salvelo euro children of eczema, rash, teller, dialings, scaly and crusty humors as well as their ac- BACK TO THE FARM is now the slogan, a ad the low Colonists Fares From the Middle and Eastern portions of the United States To Oregon and The NORTHWEST Prevailing Daily March 1 to April 15, 1912 OVER THE is the best means of carrying it out Fares from , CHICAGO - ST, LOUIS OMAHA KANSAS CITY ST. PAUL - From other cities correspondingly low JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent PORTLAND, ORECON to Our Patrons now occupying the Brick Store Building s E. L. Stuwe of Aurora was town on business Wednesday. m cidenUl injuries cuts, burns, bruises, etc., with perfect safely For boils, ulcers, old running or fever sores or piles it has no equal. 25 cents at Huntley Bros. Company. You judge a man not by what he promises to do. but by what ho has done. That is the only true test. Chamberlain's Cough Re medy judged by its standard has no superior. People everywhero speak of it in the highest terms of praise. For sale by all dealers. - $33.00 33.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 our many patrons