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OREGON CIT.Y COURIER, WlJSidt JUNE I9l3
OREGON
UNITED WE LIVE
DIVIDED WE STARVE
PROFITABLE PRICES
FOR FARM! PRODUCTS
Vol. 1
Official Representative of the Farmers Society of Equity
No 16
EQUITY
NEWS
OREGON EQUITY NEWS
Published every Friday In conjunc
tion with the "Courier" in the interest
of the "Farmers Society of Equity."
ADVERTISING
rates given upon application.
PUBLICITY COMMITTEE
M.'J. Lazelle, Oregon City; R. C.
Brodie, Canby; E. Ochlschloeger,
Clackamas, R. No. 1.
SUBSCRIPTION
Special Low discount to Any Man
who Farms.
ADDRESS
all communications to M. J. Lazelle,
Manager, Oregon City, Oregon. Call
on Saturdays to see Editor.
STATE OFFICERS
President Wjn. Schulmerich of
Washington Co.
Vice-President Wm Grisenthwaite
of Clackamas Co.
Sec. Treas. F. G. Buchanan of
Clackamas Co.
Directors: A. R. Lyman of Mult
nomah Co; F. M. Hall of. Columbia
Co; P. H. McMahon of Yamhill Co;
J. W. Smith of Clackamas Co; E. E.
Hellyer of Washington Co. The'Pres-
ident and Vice. President are direct
ors also.
CLACKAMAS COUNTY OFFICERS
Pres. S. L. Casto of Carus Local
Vice. Pres. J. H. Bowerman ot Da
mascus Local.
Sec. Treas. F. G. Buchanan of Mt
Pleasant Local.
Directors: W. J. Bowerman of
Sunnyside Local; J. C. Rover of Da
mascus Local; Wm. Grisenthwaite of
Beaver Creek Local.
LOCAL OFFICERS OF CLACKA.
MAS CO.
Alberta Pres. Jesse Mayfield. Sec.
Ferris Mayfield, Springwater R. 1.
Beaver Creek: Pres. Fred Kamar
ath; Sec. W. W. Harris, Oregon City
R. 3.
Canby: Pres. Geo. Koehler; Sec.
R. C. Brodie, Canby R. 3.
Carus: Pres. A. J. Kelnhofer; Sec.
S. L. Casto, Oregon City R. 3.
Clackamas: Pres. J. A. Sieben;
Sec. Frank Haberlach, Clackamas
Oregon.
Clarkes: Pres. Albert Gasser; Sec.
John L. Gard, Oregon City R. 4.
Colton: Pres. J. E. Sandall; Sec
W. S. Gorbett, Colton, Oregon.
Damascus: Pres. J. C. Royer; Sec.
H. T. Burr, Clackamas R. 1.
Eagle Creek: Pres. W. G. Glover,
Sec. C. C. Longwell, Barton R. 1.
Highland Local Pres. M. E. Han
dle; Sec. S. S. Palmer.
' Laurel Ridge Local Union Pres. G.
C. Heiple; Sec. N. E. Linn, Estacada,
Rt. 1.
Logan: Pres. W. E. Cromer; Sec
P. M. Kirchem, Oregon City R. 2.
Macksburg: Pres. C. D. Keesling,
Sec. J. W. Smith, Aurora, R. 1.
Maple Lane: Pres. H. M. Robbins,
Sec. G. F. Mighells, Oregon City R. 3.
Mt. Pleasant: Pres. P. W. Mere
dith; Sec. F. G. Buchanan, Oregon
City, Oregon.
New Era: Pres. Aug. Staeheley;
Sec. C. B. Riverman, Oregon City, R.
1.
Needy: Pres. J. D. Ritter; Sec. E.
Werner, Aurora, R. 2.-
Shubel: Pres. Chas. A. Menke;
Sec. Elmer Swope, Oregon City R. 4.
Stone: Pres. T. E. . Brown; Sec.
M. J. Byers, Clackamas R. 1.
Sunnyside: Pres. R. P. Grady;
Sec. E. E. Oeslschlager, Clackamas R.
1.
West Butteville: Pres. James Par
ett; Sec. J. R. Woolworth, Newberg,
R. 2.
Wilsonville: Pres. M. C. Young;
Sec. R. B. Seely, Sherwood, R. 5.
Challenge
Know all men by these presents
that the undersigned representing
Mt. Pleasant do hereby challenge any
Local in Clackamas County for a tug-of-war
contest to be held at New
Era July Fourth.
P. W. MEREDITH
President,
T. E. McLAIN
Trainer
Mt. Pleasant Meeting
"There will be a big meeting at Mt.
Pleasant next Friday evening and
among the important features will be
our addresses by A. R. Lyman, Sec
retary of the Equity Warehouse Co.,
and Mr. Lyman will explain in detail
the plans of the new company.
At this meeting delegates will be
elected to the County Convention at
Beaver Creek in July.
Notice
Members of the Mt Plesant and
Maple Lane Business Committee and
any other locals that wish to be rep
resented, will please meet at the Pet
it Jury Room in the Court House
Saturday at 2 P. M.
P. W. MEREDITH
Chairmn.
F. G. BUCHANON
Secretary
T. E. McLain who has charge of the
Mt Pleasant track team, has them in
training for the athletic events at
New 'Era on the Fourth and we will
report his progress in this line.
All members are requested to be
present
"Send for free 'Dairy Hand Book'
and descriptive matter."
EQUITY PROGRESS
Progress 4of Warehouse Work State
Meeting to be Held July 18
The Board of Directors of the Ore
eon State Union of the Farmers So
ciety of Equity met Tuesday June 10,
at the office of the Equity Warehouse
Co., in Portland and appointed a com
mittee to arrange for a suitable pro
gram for the next state convention to
be held in the city of Portland Fri
day July 18th at the Multnomah Co,
Courthouse, 4th and Salmon St.
Them atter of appointing a State
Organizer and his compensation, was
taken up, and Mr. H. C. Wolfson who
has already made a good record in
organizing local unions and who has
had experience in this line of work
before, was recommended for the pos
ition.
The members of the board of direc
tors of the Equity Warehouse Co.,
also being present the two boards in
joint session proceeded to discuss the
warehouse situation and agreed that
the proper policy was to continue the
present office in Portland during the
present month at least, to push the
sale of the balance of the balance of
the Capital Stock of which there is
$600.00 yet unsold, to have the Sec
retary visit as many locals as pos
sible in the meantime and explain as
fully as possible the plans of the
Company.
The campaign conducted since the
20th of May has resulted in the sale
of over $400.00 worth of the capital
stock making a total now sold of
$1900.00; $85,000 worth of produce
has been promised to the Warehouse
Co. from 12 locals and there are over
40 yet to be heard from.
This is the third meeting of the
Warehouse' Board since their election
on April 26th by the Stockholders.
They have planned as rapidly as pos
sible to carry out the specified in
structions of the stockholders as ex
pressed by resolution at the first
meeting, and while they have as yet
found it impractical to set up the
business of handling produce on ac
count of a lack of sufficient capital
and data regarding the amount of
produce that will be furnished still
they are endeavoring to supply both
deficiencies as rapidly as possible.
Some have failed to make a dis
tinction between the work done by
the promoters of the Warehouse Co.
as directed first by a large body of
Equity men who placed the matter in
the hands of a committee and later
accepted and taken over under the
management of a state board elected
March 1st This board accepted the
warehouse company at a meeting held
March 11, 1913, and directing the
further continuance of the work al
ready begun, and the present board
which came into existence April 26th
at the first meeting of the stock
holders and since that time has acted
absolutely in accordance with the ex
pressed wishes of the stockholders
present at that meeting. What they
have done is set forth at the begin
ing of this aricle and their purpose in
the future is set forth not only here
but in a long letter sent to the of
ficers of each local union under date
of May 19, 1913, of the Equity Ware
house Co.
Dated June 11, 1913.
EQUITY WAREHOUSE CO.
Care of A. R. Lyman,
Short Cuti
Fifty six locas in Oregon.
Do what you please now but on the
4th attend the Equity picnic. -
All the local secretaries in the coun
ty have received picnic posters. Have
you posted yours yet?
Make hay while the sun shines and
have it in the barn before the 4th so
you can enjoy yourself at the picnic.
Locals must see that their alot-
ment of posters are' posted.
Equity Fourth posters may be ob
tained at the Courier office.
The Mt. Pleasant Local has sev
eral members who report much sat
isfaction with their dealings with
the Jones Cash Store of Portland.
Mr. Kelnhofer reDorts that he will
have a good programme for the 4th
and urges all members as well as
others to attend.
Some of the Twilight berry grow
ers are selling their crop at Clacka
mas to the Pacific Fruit & Produce
Company. A car is loaded every day.
William Grisenthwaite, a prominent
Equity member and a director of the
Equity Warehouse Company, was a
caller at the Courier office Saturday,
and stated that the people of Beaver
Creek were taking a great interest
in the Equity Fourth of July Picnic
at New Era, and promised that a
goodly number would be in attend
ance. .
THE EQUITY PICNIC
New Era the place, July 4 the Date,
and Everybody Invited
The Fourth of July picnic is an ex
periment and it is to be hoped that it
will prove successful. While the pic
nic may not attract large crowds
from over the county or some distance
away, the executive board of the
County Union expect the Equity
members to attend. Why should they
not attend? It is their picnic, desig
ned especially for farmers. There will
be plenty of new members present to
see how the Equity does things, so
by all means every Equity member
in the county should be present.
REVERSE THINGS
Trusts now Own Nation Nation
Should Own Trusts
Courier:
The Telegram of June 12 accuses
the Multnomah County Court of mis
management of county funds. Sample
recall petitions can be seen at the
Courier office either blanks or com
plete with 79 signatures. The same
paper says that secretary of treas
ury Mr. McAdoo, would issue five
five hundred million emergency cur
rency should the banks need it.
Now if the writer understands the
law the government does not Issue
this money at all; they simply print
it and a bank to issue it must have a
capitol and surplus of five million
dollars, which means about five
banks ahd they belong to the money
trust. They would get their money at
one per cent and loan to other banks
at???
And the other banks would loan to
other banks ??? and by the time
it reached the people it would cost
them hard time prices and our mort
gage must be paid in god not in
emergency coin. ,
I read in the same paper that the
affairs of the Frisco Railroad are to
be investigated by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. It seems the
road has gone into voluntary bank
ruptcy and the courts have appointed
its president the receiver.
I may not understand the move but
if they can't pay dividends on their
watered stock or interest on fraudu
lent bonds they could sell the bonds
to the big banks and the big banks
could turn them over to the United
States of America to issue them em
ergency currency on, then the coia-ls
would rule that we must pay the high
freight rates in order' to secure our
government. This is a fine system for
the money trust.
In the same paper I read where the
Chamber of Commerce of Washington
City, has recommended to Congress
that they stop the killing of calves on
the high price of beef. You see they
want to compel the farmer to keep
and care for every bovine animal un
it is three to six years old just to fur
nish cheap beef for our glorious mil
lionaire rulers. Take our pay in em
ergency slips and pay in standard
gold nine-tenths fine.
I read in this same ssue of June
12 that the sugar trust got Senator
Lodge to frank through the mails
320,000 copies of their objections to
free sugar and the postage alone
saved by the trust amounted to $16,
000. And when we buy sugar we pay
it.
Now, Brother Farmer, this is just
the news of one paper for one day
and discloses enough to keep you and
your children and grandchildren in
poverty. The trusts own our nation
the way to change it is to turn it
around.
P. W. MEREDITH
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rid J. F. Wallich, Bartlett, Nebr., of
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would run up to the back of my head,
and I had spells of dizziness. I took
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work and I am now entirely rid of
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OREGON WELL REPRESENTED IN THE PERMANENT
ST. PAUL AGRICULTURAL DISPLAY FROM
"ZONE OF PLENTY."
Oregon will no doubt derive great and
lasting benefits from the permanent dis
play of grains and grasses in the exhi
bition room of the Northwest Develop
ment League in St. Paul. Splendid
samples of wheat, oats, flax, rye and
barley were part of the state's mag
nificent agricultural exhibit at the recent
Minneapolis and Chicago land shows and
were brought East for display purposes
by the Great Northern Railway. Com
mercial organizations, the railroads and
the Development League are carrying on
an extensive publicity campaign to at
YOU SHOULD WORRY
Timber Cruising Payments Now $28,
389 and Growing Fast
When the county court's timber
cruising was snapped onto an unsus
pecting county this paper told the
taxpayers they would find it some
contract before they paid it off.
This month bills for $5,519.25 came
in to the county court for audit on
top of $22,870 which had previously
been paid, .making a total of $28,389
to date and the end is far away.
These $5,000 chunks will continue
to come in monthly until the taxpay
ers will realize that it is a white ele
phant bigger than Jumbo.
With public notice being given this
contract could have been let for about
an eighth of what it will cost, and
let to men of Clackamas county who
would have done it honestly and well.
Before Clackamas county is thru
with this timber cruising it will have
paid mighty high for experience.
The Usual Exaggeration
. Mrs. W. A-. Thurston of the Barlow
road district, through her attorneys,
has given the County Court of Clack
amas county notice that a damage
suit for $4,000 will be filed against
the county if her claim for that am
ount is not paid. She claims that her
horse she was riding stepped into a
post-hole on the county road on May
10, throwing her to the ground, break
ing a rib and injuring her neck and
back, and confining her to her bed for
several weeks. The Oregon City En
terprise says ex-Road Supervisor Og
lesby neglected to fill up the post
holes, and is thus responsible for in
jury to Mrs. Thurston. Mr. Oglesby
declares the fence was not removed
for several months after his term ex
pired, hence there were no post-holes
in the road during his term. Aurora
Observer.
School Board Selects Teachers
There was no contest and but little
interest in the school election Mon
day, there being but 32 ballots cast,
all of which were for W. A. Huntley
for re-election.
After the election, the board of ed
ucation held its annual meeting in the
court house,- when O. D. Eby was
made chairman for the coming year,
and the following teachers were elec
ted: Miss Mildred Burley was re-elected
as drawing instructor; Mrs. Leona
Covert, formerly of Gresham, super
visor of music; Miss Myrtle Gibson,
of Rhinelander, Wis., seventh grade;
Miss Agnes Johnson of Corvallis, in
structor of domestic science and Miss
Carlotta. Crowley, of .Monmouth, Ore.,
Miss Hilma E. Anderson of Colton,
Ore., Mrs.Eva Scott, of Portland, and
Miss Anna D. Wood, of Monmouth,
were elected grade teachers.
E. E. Brodie was re-elected clerk.
The city schools will open September
22.
Second Water Well Started
The city council has ordered a sec-1
ond test well to be drilled, this one
north of the city on the Englebreck
place, just outside the city limits. The
Well will be sunk 150 feet.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORI A
tract the attention of visitors in the
Twin City to the display of the products
of the soil of the American Northwest
and it is likely thousands of people will
view the exhibit annually.
One of the features of the Oregon
exhibit is a sample of fall rye seven feet
high. Varieties of oats include Mam
moth Cluster, Storm King and Silver
Mine. White Bonanza is also shown in
the display. Crail Fife, Big Club, Blue
Stem and Red Club varieties of wheat
are well featured in the Oregon grain
exhibit. Excellent flax samples and six
row barley form a part of the dinplay.
Shelled grains in glass jars eompMe the
grain exhibit. Crass samples include
Special J
Sale
31 dams Department Store
Oregon City's Brsy Store
THE MUSINGS OF MILTON.
Where peace
Anil rest can never dwell hope
never comes
That comes to nil.
Awuke, arise or be forever
fallen.
Our torments also may In length
of time
Become our elements.
A grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still
pays, at once
Indebted and discharged.
Be lowly wise.
Think only what concerns thee
and thy being.
Accuse not Nature.
done her part.
Do thon but thine.
She hath
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long, back on Itself re
coils. Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
C ASTO R I A
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timothy, red clover, alsike, alfalfa, bunch
graBS, blue joint and brome.
In the Oregon exhibit are a large num
ber of jars containing line samples of
processed fruits of different varieties.
The forests have provided an exhibit of
woods of several kinds. The exhibition
room is well supplied with Oregon liter
ature descriptive of the state in general
and by communities. The. exhibit Is open
morning, afternoon and evening and rep
resentatives of the League give informa
tion about the states of Oregon, Minne
sota, Montana, Washington, Idaho and
the Dakotas, the seven states which the
Development League is seeking to td-
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Write for free "Dairy Hand Book" an!
UMMER VACATIONS
Sea Shore or Mountains
VIA
Season Tickets on Sule
Daily Until Sept. 30
I ) SU N SET JS
I fOGDENtSHASTAl I
I I ROUTES I I
TO
Tillamook and Newport Beaches
Season fares from tho principal stations to Newport or.Tilumook
Douches are as follows:
FROM TO FARE
Portland Newport $0.25
Oregon City " 6.25
Sulem " 5.15
Albany " 4.00
Corvallis " 3.75
Eugene " 5.80
Roseburg " 8.75
Medford " 12.00
Ashland " 12.00
Corresponding low fares from other points. Week end tickets on sale
from various points.
SUNDAY EXCURSION TRAIN ON THE C. &. E. R. R.
Leaves Albany at 7:20 a. m., Corvallis 7:50 a. m. and connects with
the S. I', trains 16 and 14 Northbound and No. 13 Southbound.
EXCURSION FAR.ES EAST
Tickets will be sold from all main and branch line points in Ore
gon to Eastern destination one way through California or via Port
land. Stop-overs within limit. , '
Tickets on Sale Daily to September 30th
Final Return Limit Oct. 31st '
For beautifully illustrated booklet "Vacation Days," and booklet
describing Tilamook County Beaches, Newport and other points, as
well as information about Eastern Fares, routes, stop-overs, etc., call
on nearest agents or write to
JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon.
The Courier, "It's
has the circulation
" ' '
The World's Stan
dard. Have Stood the
test of Time
NOW Sold in Or
egon City.
Full Stock of Ex
tra Parts
LAZELLE
DAIRY CO.
8th and Main Streets
printed matter describing DeLavals
THE
3-Day Tickets on Sale
Saturday and Sunday
TO
Tillamook Beaches
FARE
$4.00
4.70
6.00
7.30
7.10
9.00
12.00
17.Z0
17.75
Different," and it
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