OREGON CITY COURIER, JANUARY 31, 1913
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THE FARMERS SOCIETY OF EQUITY OF CLACKAMAS CO.
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4 . National Headquarters, 22f Washington St., Indianapolis, Indiana. '
J. A. EVERETT, President ; k ' '-yt, H.F. CUTTING, (Portland, Oregon) Organizer
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COUNTY OFFICERS: -
S. L.' Casto, President. Oregon City, Route 3 F. C. Buchanan. Secretary, Oregon City. ; ' E, E. Brenner. Organizer; Oregon City. Route 3
S TO M
THE GAWIETO
SOME SENSE TO FARMERS BY
A FARMER.
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Team Work Wins Games, In
dividual Plays Lose.
All food comes from the soil
and when the soil is exhausted
" man has migrated. He first builds
a fort, then comes the middle man
and from the surplus value of the
farmers crops he builds a trad
ing post, then a town and then a
city, but the farmer owns not the
city or any part of it. The laborer
has been forced to trade his
wealth for all the poverty he can
carry. We cannot migrate now,
there is no place to go. We must
organize and fight the battle of
commercial supremacy. The
Equity is calling for volunteers.
Egypt, Assyria, Greece and
Rome robbed the country of its
wealth and brains and the cities
finally fell with their own weight.
The farmer now has a large
population to feed and is absolut
ely sure of his market but unless
you organize, Brother Farmer,
you will always be poor, but or
ganize as one man and that man
can have the world for the ask
ing. You have nothing to lose but
your poverty and the wealth of
the world to gain. Co-operate.
Our large cities are constantly
within a few hours of starvation
HUM tl j 1 H I llll.l IIOIUO KI1V j uv
the situation, it is organization.
All you have to do is to trust your
brother farmer and co-operate, in
fact just attend to your business
in a modern business way. Be up
to date, control, the product of
your farm and let the other fel
low control what he creates with
his labor. He must . co-operate
with. you or starve..
Most' of the papers that reach
the farmers now days are not
printed for people who think. It
is so common for farmers to
complain about our great dailies
and even most of our agricultur
al journals, that they contain
nothing of value. Society is fac
ing a crisis; there are going to be
changes of vast importance to
humanity; the people who create
the wealth are going to retain it
and all this is equal to a social
reconstruction and not a plaus
ible remedy in alL the big remed
ies in the big papers. Just sui
cide, crime, vice and base ball. 1
wonder who edits them. The hun
gry mind feeds on such papers
as the .Courier. Give us new thots
with life in them.
How many more judges will the
people have to pull from their
benches before we get a plan to
do without .them? Who is afraid
to trust the whole people? Why,
the rogues I That's who. Had you
rather the food supply of this
country would be controlled by
Morgan and his 17 bucaneers, or
the 12,000,000 farmers, who by
the sweat of their brow produced
it? Are you going to impeach
Morgan? How? You will have to
take his case before the whole
people who are now ready "with
their decision. When rogues fur
nish the power behind the throne
the people discover a plan to do
away with the throne.
Did you farmers ever think how
much it cost you or somebody
to -keep up the great army of
salesmen going over the country
like grasshoppers? Do they do
any good? Did you ever see one
selling postage stamps? If a man
who has money and wants to buy
something you can't prevent. him
hot if you nail it down and guard
it and if he don't want to buy any
thing, why, oh yes, I guess you
would have to hire a salesman.
In (his-country the production
of food-stuffs go on without what
we call system, but When it
comes to, distribute the wealth of.
the labor of our country we have
a system with, a big S. An,d with
this system one man gets an in
come of a hundred million and
millions of other men less than
enough to live properly.
The inventors of this system
died long before slavery was abol
ished and the threads of its
fabric are .worn out. We should
cease to wear this ancient gar
ment and wear a new raiment
that has equality and the golden
rule for woof and the brotherhood
of man for warp; cut it to fit
modern conditions and trim it
with happiness, peace-and plenty.
The Farmers' Society of Equity
is weaving a net with large
meshes, mind you, and a lot of
other people are working on it
too. and some bright day we are
going to invite the merchants to
co fishing with us.- We want to
rid he commercial waters of a
few sharks that are destroying
our supply and drowning every
man and woman who dare ap
nrnaoh them with less than a
pound of flesh. -
The Farmers' Society of Equity
has a move on foot to unite
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and
Montana in a district-union as
soon as the slate organizations
are formed. This, is a move in the
right direction and r the ainer
W I f J
eat fruit unions would join us
they would cease to compete with
each other by having a national
head to prevent it. There is no use
of shipping Colorado apples here
and our apples to Colorado, and
compete with each other on both
markets.
The Farmer's- Society of Equity
could insure their property
against loss by fire and save
thousands of dollars to Clacka
mas county and not cost over two
or three dollars per thousand
Why not appoint a committee to
investigate this and report to the
county union? The writer belong
eu to a mutual mat was some
yearswas as low as one dollar
per . thousand levied and that
paid all expenses and left a sur
plus in our treasury.
The Clackamas County Union
should prepare for a glorious
Fourth of July out in the country
where every one can go and enjoy
nature and each other's society.
City people would enjoy a Fourth
like that. The farmers can find
men and women in our own ranks
to instruct, entertain and amuse
us and if there should be a profit
arise it could be turned into the
County Union treasury, to be used
everybody.
- MEREDITH.
EDITORIALS.
We will soon witness another
farce of the political machine in
Congress, the franking through
the mails of a lot of common gar
den seeds. " (s .
A farmer said of a certain con
gressman, "His arguments won't
go down and his seeds won't come
up." There are not enough farm
ers in Congress to give it suffic
ient backbone to stop this farce
and a number of other farces
that the people are well acquaint
ed with.
Mr. Thomas, in issue of the
24th has a good letter with some
unanswerable points, and we are
with him until he has us Equity
people taken before the courts for
violating the Sherman law. And
as far as that is concerned there
seems to be no penalty if we were
convicted, except our stock
would double in value. And when
we get strong enough to have
some influence we will use it to
elevate one end of our judicial
bench and elect honest men to
take their places. And long before
that you will have discovered
that you have viewed us from the
wrong .end of your political tele
scope and you will and do realize
that we farmers are mired with a
load of life up to the hubs in pol
itical corruption,' you and men
who can see the future of co-op
eration must put your shoulder to
the wheel and blaze the trail
ahead to where swords are beat
en into pens and warships into
libraries. Come, comrades, and
lend' a hand, keep plenty of oil in
your lamp and your powder dry.
The American school system is
the one paternal institution most
beloved in the United States and
is the foundation of national pro
gress. Co-operation and mutual
interest and progress depend on
uniform non ' sectarian and nori
dissemination of truth. So called
educators have, enriched the
'system" until two-thirds of our
pupils fail: then they begin a
"system" of "elimination" and
all the time losing sight of the
fact that we have not a system"
of scholars. Thank Dame Nature
for that, we still have scholars
with- individuality, the priceless
jewel of the race, and no set of
bioligical Burbanks can ever hy
bridize them to conform to any
"system" of intellectual unity.
Recognize this individuality and
compel the "system to cultivate
it for such is evolution, the sav
ior of the race.
Why should the mills of Ore
gon City deny its workers an
eight hour day? No man should
work more than eight hours and
we need go no farther than our
common school physiology and
hygiene for all the arguments
needed. Of course they would
have to hire one-third more peo
pie and there are plenty of people
wantine a means of livelihood.
The mills may claim they parinot
afford it, but we are from Miss
ouri. I have read a good deal
about the-paper trust and believe
the mills control the price or pa
per. If that is true should that
not be enough for one corporat
ion trust to control without send-
ina men to Salem to try to con
trol our State law makers?
How many laborers went oown
to Salem to convince our law
makers that we have elected men
who did not understand the bus
iness they were authorized for?
It is an insult to the men we
elected and they would be Justi
fied in making it six hours now
and also in Dassing a law against
lnhhvinr. as it might lead to
bribing. -
Catarrh Canaot Be Cured
wits LOCAL APPLICATIONS. M IlKT easeet KM
Um mi ot tbt llMt. Caiarrk a Wood or eooru-
Almr. ami la OHtet to con It TOO BOM UM
totcraml nmrdM. Kiln Currt Cure UM -terniliT.
ud ftru directly upon ttat blood od mucous
urltee. Hall Catarrh Cure to sol a quack siedl-
emc. It M prroeiibeH or PT""
.hi. Mmln fiw VMM Uld M , MUUf DTfeCTllttiOB.
It M composed el to beet ton la kaowa. combined
wltk too bolt Wood rmrloc. acini directly oa tM
bocow mrtaere. Tho portect otnWnttoo of too
two avrraduals wbat produoal Pack wandorf'd re
mits n curmi eaurrn. r t wumoottii boo.
T.I. CHENEY CO, flops. ToiooO, O.
Sols by Drottina, ones'
lata Hall's f amllf WIS M COKtUpetMa,
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FOR FARMERS
EQUITY SOCIETY TO WEED
OUT MIDDLEMEN.
Warehouse In Portland to
Care of 1913 Crops.
Take
The following article in the
Portland Journal will be interest
ing reading for the farmers ' of
Oregon. It shows-that the Equity
Society means something and
that it is going to DO something
besides organize:
11. F. Cutting, national organ
izer of the Farmers' Society of
Equity, is. organizing a Portland
clearing house for the four states
of the Pacific northwest, Oregon
Washington; Idaho and Montana,
with a view -of securing for the
farmers, better 'tirices for their
products. Mr.' Cutting says that
some 40 locals have already been
established in Oregon and about
the same number in Idaho and
Montana."
Mr. Cutting says effort will be
made-Jo-take care of the bulk of
'the 1913 Crops, including orchard,
dairy,' livestock, poultry and gen
eral; produce; in short, anything
produced on the land. He believes
it .will--be to the profit of the
farmer.' and the elimination of
middlemen, except to the extent of
the actual retail distribution.
Indianapolis, Ind., is the head
quarters of the society, . but Mr.
Cutting has been . in Portland
several years, and took up the
work here'last year, when, for the
first time ihe system was intru
duced in the northwest.
"Our plan is this," explained
Mr. Cutting: "We will establish
warehouses, canneries, driers,
preserving works, and so on to
take care of produce that appears
on the market without any waste,
and get away from the practice
of taking it to the dump to be
burned.
"The clearing house will be in
charge of a first-class produce
man, who will take it from the
farmer and get it to the market,
whether local, coastwise, or for
eign. The warehouses will take
care- of the stock on hand, and
the canneries, driers and other
establishments will take care of
the surplus,. The .canneries will
be locate as much as -possible in
Portland," but this will be worked
out as the demand will justify, as
we believe in following nature's
law creep before we walk.
"The proposition will be finan
ced by an inside stock company,
and to begin with we will prob
ably lease the necessary ware
house. "Our purpose is to benefit the
farmer. Government .reports
practically show - that under ex
isting conditions of marketing
the farmer gets about 40 per cent
of ' tho-i price that the . consumer
pays for farm products. The mid
dlemen get the balance. It is of
ten that the farm product passes
through. five different hands be
fore reaching the consumer.
"The natural inference is that
this would reduce the cost of liv
ing, but we do not like to make
any promises in that direotion,
because our object is ostensibly
to benefit the farmer. However,
we are always glad to meet the
consumer' and theliearere we can
get 'to the consumer- the better it
will naturally be for consumer
and producer.
"The great loss to the farmer
in getting his produce on the
market is the want of a brand or
label, and in addition to this, pro
duce should be properly graded.
The society will stand for an ab
splutely uniform grade.
"The ', Farmers' Society of
Equity is purely amarket system,
and seeks to bring about, through
practical community and nation
al co-operation, the ultimate suc
cess of every individual farmer
indentified -with it.1 It. is national
in scope, and strictly elective in
government.
"Much is being said and done
throuehout the length and bread
th of the land today in an effort
tohelp the producer, and, strange
as it may seem, most of this ef
fort is misfllaced tnereiore Dnng
ing' )itie or: no result. 3'he suc
cess? of tne iarmer uues nm. uo
pend upon how much he raises
per acre, dui upon now mum
mnmv he realizes upon the sale
of the crop of that acre. Money
and not large crops is tne meas
ure of success in farming. Make
it. nrofitable for the iarmer to
grow big crops of fine produce
and he will grow them and take
pride in it, and he will stay on
the farm, ana - nis uuuweu aim
his children's children will stay
on the farm and be proud of the
profession of farming, and many
who are in tne city luuay wu
cast their eyes upon the open
country and follow the line of
their gaze to take up the prof.es-sion-fif
farming, if it is made to
pay. and the 'back to the farm
will be solved. The im
provement of social and other
conditions of rural life will also
be solved."
Harsh physics weaken the bow
aiG lead to chronic constipa
tion. Doan's Regulets operate
CLEARING
HUMS
easily. 25c a box at all stores.
SIX VOCATIONS.
And
How an Equity Farmer
Classifies Them.
The farmer AVell, about the
worst you can say of him is that
he is industrious and poor and he
does not-knock about the "sys
tem."
Mr. Lawyer Well, he is a well
dressed fellow and charges us
more for bad advice than wo do
him , for good grub guaranteed
under act of June 30.
The M. D. He is O. K. He can
look wise, belongs to his union
and charge's more for turning us
over to the undertaker than we
charge him for keeping him alive.
' The Merchant He deals in
breakfast foods and not opinions.
He is not interested in prices. He
stands with his hand on the scal
es and sings "I got mine, boyS."
The Banker He can swell up
with pride or view with alarm
the results of 'his own making.
He is a friend to interest and se
curity and deals in oil that repre
sents the fat of the land and lu
bricates the wheels of co.mmerce,
makes the best grafting wax and
is too often used as .a substitute'
for virtue,- honesty, freedom,
peace and the golden rule. He
stands between the people and
their treasury and shares all
warrants as often as possible and
is the most respected of all mid
dlemen. ' . : ' "i
The Editor No one knows his
origin or destiny, he is a specie
all by himself. Editors are not
made they are just born. They
are the best white washers and
good at coloring. They know
everything and everybody except
Dunn and Bradstreet. They live
on space and die on the town
because they collect nothing but
news, and distribute their bills.
They believe in a free press but
it is always mortgaged.. They
tell us of the prosperity of the
world and try to keep their own
poverty a secret. They are relig
ions but always use tho devil.
They are intelligent but go hun
gry in the midst of . pie. They
love humanity and their subscrib
ers; they love to see everybody
well clothed and when they think
of their own families it causes a
big lump to come up into their
throat and during hard times they
live on that.
STATE UNION NEXT.
District Union of Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho, are Next. .
Editor Courier:
The President' of the County
Union informs us that he has a
copy of the by-laws of the Union
Sales Co., as amended by the com
mittee appointed to apply for in
corporation papers, these by
laws will bo discussed at our next
meeting of the Co. Union, and
will also be thoroughly gone over
at the organization of a State Un
ion to be created in the very near
future. The Union Sales Co. will
be the clearing house for a dis
trict union of the Farmers Soc
iety of Equity. This district will
probably include Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and western Mon
tana. It is located at Portland,Ore.
The Farmers' Society of Equity
has established an oflice at Room
1, Chamber of Commerce block
Portland, Oregon. AIL further co
mmunications should be address
ed as above.
Locals Should Make Reports.
Editor Courier:
Our County organizer, Mr.
Brenner, has been confined to his
home with a very painful sore
upon his left heel. He came in
Sat. night, January 18, but being
so energetic and enthusiastic ov
er this movement we could not
keep him down on last Saturday,
and with tho aid of a horse he
found his way over to Twilight
and held a joint meeting with the
Twilight Community Club. Altho
there was a large audience so
many of them were not of the
class who naturally were inter
ested in this subject. However he
found a number of men wlio ex
pressed their interest in the
movement. Mr. Brenner will try
to hold a special meeting at this
place sometime in the near fut
ure and as the farmers of Twi
light are boosters, we are sure of
a local there.
Mr. Brenner will probably be
obliged to lay. over for another
week as yet.
Now I think it would be a good
plan for each local to report in
this space the proceeding of each
of its meetings. I think it will be
productive of great good and I
sincerely urge each secretary to
make such a report.
S. L. CASTO.
Carus Meeting Feb. 1st.
Cams Local No. 6882 will hold
its regular monthly meeting at
Carus scnooi nouse on jeD. i
at. 7:30 P. M. .
At our ast meeting we had the
priviledge of hearing a report
from one of our members who
was a representative at the meet
ing held in jroruanu io aevise
plans to present to the State Un
11 II. III A wuic uunc iu un taiu
lished there. The proceedings of
this meeting were very interest
ing and productive of great good.
At our meeting of Saturday
night we will go over the by-laws
of this incorporation.
Carus Local is contemplating
the purchase of a car-load of
corn from some of the corn grow
ing states. We believe by buying
through some of our Equity
clearing houses in those states
that we will be able to secure corn
much cheaper than through our
local merchant. Any other Local
wisiiuiK io join us in uus unaer
laking are perfectly welcome. We
nave a good live program for our
next meeting.
. - S. L. CASTO.
THIS IS BUSINESS.
A Writer Shows What the Farm
ers are and Can Do. '
As the Courier with a largo let-
tur-uL'uu, nas 'voluntarily se
asiue a portion ot its paper for
ine discussion of the - different
phases of this society of eouitv.
it stands us in hand to make use
of it as a medium of interchange
ui yiJiiuua aiw io carry on a cam
paign of agitation and education
of the general public in this co-
upurauve meinoa. '. ;
The possibilities of an organ!
zauon lor co-operation are vast
and there never was a t.im in his '
tory when the great masses of the
people were more ready to join
luguuiei- ior ineir common. good
in providing, practical methods
witn sound business principles,
can be established with wooer
uiaiiuseineiH.
. All great reforms and progress
lve movement have neen produc-
eu uy me common people hut not
until some capable leader took it
upon hismself to give his time
and money n educatng the masses
to a realization of their power
and influence and realize that in
co-operative unions we can create
a power that politicians and cor
porations will respect. ' The
grange is a power' which, by its
united body and influences has
secured many beneficial laws and
reforms, which only as a united
uouy uiey couiu nave done.
IhlS KiiP.ipIv if K.rmilv Uiliila
it is organized nsnnciallv hr rmn
object, yet it will bo in a position
iu uecome a greater power when
every school district becomes a
local union, and everv snhnnl
house a social center to meet to-
geinor ana discuss the political
issues of the day, and united, they
will be in a position to compel any
of their demands to be recognized.
While this society is in its in
fancy in the northwest, it is no
untried wildcat proposition. It
has been n operation and made a
success of iu the middlo west,
where there is not a shipping
point of any consequence, and
where the farmers do not own
their own elevators and many
places have their own stores and
oanks. In large cities they are
establishing a system of distri
bution of their produce to tho
consumer, more direst, so that
Uiey are getting llieni at less cost
and at the same timo benefitting
the producer.
Since this society has organiz
ed it has demonstrated that by
unting they can benefit each oth
er. -At (jiesham several unions
have joined together, bought an
auto truck to gather the farmers'
produce, and arranged with par
ties to sell their produce, bought
their supplies at reduced rates,
and took a load back, and in con
sequence the electric lines cut
freight from 10c por 100 to 8c
per Hundred. The merchants and
nankers are becoming alarmed.
Ihey have all agreed to make
Thursday of each week a bargain
day for farmers. The food barns
agreed to give reduced rales for
that day two weeks ago, and tho
bankers invited the farmers to a
luncheon where 179 gathered and
were given a free lunch.
Maple Lane and Mount Pleas
ant have been buying alfalfa, hay,
snorts, flour, and other feed, to
gether,, and on purchases of $75
made. as aving of $75.
These are a few-viustances to
begin with but the greatest prob
lem before us is to got tho pro
ducer and consumer closer to
gether, so that the consumer may
get a part o Hiio tuo on every
dollars worth which is consumed
by our present distributing sys
tem, leaving the producer only
40 cents on the dollar.
There is no reason why each
shipping point, where there are
suliicient unions tributary to that
point, should not have a lyoal
agent io act as purchsaing agent
and selling agent', and there is no
point in the Willamette valley
outside of Portland whero tho
producer and consumer could' not
lorni a co-operative union, mere
is hot another town . outsido of
Portland that has a larger payroll
and thoro is no reason why tho
consumer cannot bo supplied
more direct than by the present
method.
Ihe Mutualist bociety now has
two stores in Portland and are
opening up others. The co-operative
store at Albina, whose mein
oers are all wago earners, are
paying a monthly dividend. Mon
tavilla district 'is now organizing
to open one.
I should ask every member of
all the unions tributary to Oregon
City to consider this matter oi es
tablishing a local agent there to
get together. Let every member
come, have a meeting and take in
to consideration tne plans auu
methods of doing our own busi
ness. Mr. Farmer, look into this fact.
From whom are the bankers and
merchants making their enor
mous profit? Who pays the loan
HhnrknV Could not the farmers
make some of this immense profit
themselves Y iMignsn larmers
have made a great success of this
f.rifinerat.iva scheme, and now
have their own dbiik. is n uui
Di.ssible for us to do the same?
Another article on co-operation
will apear at an early isue.
Maple Lane Equity Meeting. -
Tho Maple Lane local of the
V S. of E. will hold a special
ineetinif in the Maple Lane
riP!nor hall Wednesday evening,
February 5, 1913. All membors
are exnected to bo present as
there will be questions of import
niK'p lie Cure the meeting.
We expect delegations from
several other locals to be with
us a t this meetintr. and farmers
of this community not belonging
to the Farmers Society of Equity
will, bv attending this meeting,
learn something to their advan
tage. ,
G. F. Mighells,
secy.
Hints for Housekeepers.
Kppn Fnlev's Honev and Tar
Compound always on hand, and
you can quickly head off a cold by
its nromnt use. It contains no
nniatPA. hpals and soothes the
inflamed air passages, Btops the
coucrh, and may ave nig mm
tor"5s bill. In the yellow pack
age. Huntley Bros. Co.
ALCO ffflt. 1 DTD rx,JL:h
AVcgelabkPreparalionrorAs
similaliitStiicFoodanJRegiiia IlngUic Stomachs aumowclsi
Promotes DigcsHonJCkrfU
ness and RcstContalns neither
Opiiau.Marphine norMiacral.
Not Narcotic.
fimfJtai Sad'
Jfi jMx.Stmm
Mrhelte Salts
jtiisrSmf ityperminf--llilarmiukMa
u. linmSttd
Anprfert Rpmedv forfonsftoa-
lion . Sour Stomach.Dlarrltoca
Wnrms .Convulsions .Feverish-
ness andLoss of Sleep.,
'JacSimtte Signature of
NEW YORK.
Officers of Local Unions.
Alberta Pres. Josso Mayfiold,
Sec, Ferris Mayfield.
lieaver Creek-r-Pres. , Fred
Kamerath, Sec. W. W. Harris. '
Canby Pres., Geo. Koehler,
Sec. It. C. Brodie.
Carus Pres. A. J. Kelnhofer,
Sec. S. L. Castro.
Clackamas Pres. J. A. Sieben,
Sec. Frank Ilaberlach.
Clarkes Pres. Albert Gasser,
Sec. John L. Gard.
Logan, Pres. W. E. Cromer,
Sec, P M. Kirchem. .
New Era Pres. Aug. Staehol-
y, Sec. C, B. Revernian.
Macksburg Pres. C. D. Kees-
ing, Sec. J. V. Smith.
Maple Lane Pros. H. N. Rob-
bins, Sec. G. F. Mighells.
Mt. PleasanU Pres. P. W.
Meredith, Sec. F. G. Buchanan.
Shubel Pres. Chas. A. Menke,
Sec. Elmer Swope.
Sunnyside Pres. 11. P. Grady,
Sec. E. Ouhlschlaeger.
Stone Pres. T. E. Brown. Sec.
M. J. Byers. '
THE MARKET REPORTS
Oregon City Prices for theVarlous
products or tne harm.
Diiriiiur.lho nast week there has
con ah advance in flour, and this
s due to tho advance nrico of
wheaU Flour that has been selling
for $4.60 per barrel is now sell-
ins: at 14.80. and that of $5.50,
$5.70., . .
There has boen a docroaso in
the price of sugar.
Hie hop market is steadily
ainina- in strensrth. Additional
orders received from tho East in.
icate tho entry of new firms in
the market. Grocers are almost a
nit in refusing to considor the
prices bid. There aro a largo
number of Eastorn browers in
need of oarly shipped hops. Many
f tho growors will holu their
ropai until tho prices advance to
dial they want.
Tun markets aro well supplied
with .vegetables, although the
gardners in and near tho city,
linve sud'ered from tho recent
snow, but much of the vegetable
truck was unharmed.
innKS Hmvinurl : Green hides
Gc to 7c; salters 7c:dry hidesl2o
to 14c; shop pens auo ipoao ea u.
EUGS-rUregun rancn, zo.
FEED (selling). Shorts $27;
ran25: process barley $38 per
ton.
FLOUll $4.80 to $5.70.
UAV fhnvinorl. Clover at $0
and $10; oat hay, best, $11 and
Vi; mixed $iu anu qic, auaua,
15 to $10.50: Idaho timothy $20;
whole corn $40.
OATS $27 at $28; wheat $1.00
bushl. oil meal selling about $55;
Shay Brook Dairy feed $1.30 per
hundred pounds.
Live 8tock Meat
Beef (live wt.) Steers 6 and
vyj i cows o una u uunoi i-..
. P 1 K J (1 . In i I I a A 1
MUTTON Sheep three to live
cents. ,
Chickens 12c.
Dr.rk l 2 f.nnt.s
VEAL Calves 12c to 13c; dres.
ied, according to grado.
iwh: i. 'rY fhuvintr). Honsllc
ini'intfs I2c: rosters 8c. ducks. 14,
gene 12c; turkeys luc.
MOI1A1H 330 10 JOO
Fruits
Apples 70o to $1.00.
DRIED FRUITS (buying) Or
gon prunes on basis be to 8C.
vegetaoies . .
. Butter
iRnvini Ordinary country
butter 300 to 35c; fancy dairy 80c
per roll.
Take tho "direct road" to health
and strength by using Foley Kid
ney I'ills for backache, rheuma
tism, weak sore kidneys and blad
der irregularities. Each ingred
ient is chosen for its positive
healing and curative qualities.
Foley Kidney Pills are mo nest
niciiicine von can buv for kidney
and bladder troubles. Mrs. J. M.
Kindley, Lyons, tia says: I took
Foley KiKdney Pills and they en
tirely cured me." Huntley Bros.
Co.
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GARLANDS OF GARDENS.
You must hav lovely cities,
said Ruskin. Crystallized, not
coagulated, into form. Limited
in size and not casting out the
scum and scurf of them Into
an encircling eruption of shame,
but girded each with its sacred T
pornoenum and with garlands of
gardens, full of blossoming trees
and softly guided streams.
W-H"H-I"I"I"l"I"I"I"I"H-l"l"l"I"I"l"l"I-
SCORES MAIL ORDER HOUSES.
Merchants' Federation Head 8ays
They Sell Convict Made Goods.
At tjie convention of the Nationnl
Federation of Retail Merchants In St
Louis tlio president, Martin J. Mn
loney, declared tlio mail order houses
were responsible In 'large measure for
the sale and distribution of couvlct
mnde goods, thereby entering Into un
fair competitlou with retail merchants
aud union labor.
lie also asserted that the mall order
bouses were not satisfied with the
zone system of parcel post, which Is
looked on as a menace to the retail
trade, and will not halt In their efforts
to have the system extended until a
general parcel post is enacted. He
urged the federutlon to oppose sucll
legislation.
PUBLICITY AIDS CITIES.
Russell Sage Foundation Has a New
Plan Foi Municipal Reform.
a now nirt'iicv which alius at the
betterment of municipal government In
American dlles has been established
in New York. It takes the form of a
neMlepiirtmeiit of surveys aud exhib
its of the liusNcll Puko foundation.
Cities all over the country have begun
to realize the commercial anu auver
Using Value of good city government
and have asked outside help In study-
Ilia their local problems anil prescno-
Inir remedies To meet this demand
the Sage foundation has organized this
dejiartnii'iit. which will assist commu
nities In iituilvlng scientific methods
and effective publicity toward city bet
terment.
For years J. S. 'Donahue. So.
Haven, Mich., a civil war cap
tain, as a lighthousekcepor avert
ed awful wrecks, but a queor fact
is, no migiit nave neon a wreck
himself, if Electric Bitters had
not prevented, t hey cured mo of
kidney troublo and chills," he
writes, "after I had taken other
so called cures for years without
benefit, ami they also improved
my sight, flow at seventy, 1 am
feeling fino." For dyspepsia, in
digestion, all stomach, liver and
kidney troubles, they're without
equal. Try them. Only 50o at
Huntley Bros.
Oregon Fire Relief
Association
of McKlinnvllle
GEO. W. H. MILLER, AGENT
214, Seventh St.
Also Health, Accident, Income and
Automobile Insurance
PAUL C. FISCHER
Lawyer
Deutscher Advokat
J
Room 8 Beaver Building
Main St. ' Oregon City
Dillman & Howl and
Real Estate
And Insurance
Wemhard BIdg.
Main Street Oregon CJty
Ja
the v
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Wfi Use
Y For Over
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: Thirty Years