OREGON CITY COURIER, THRUSDAY, JULY 3 1913
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Vol. 1
Official Representative of the Farmers Society of Equity
No 18
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ON
EQUITY
NEWS
OREGON EQUITY NEWS
Published every Friday in coniunc
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
who Farms.
discount to Any Man
ADDRESS
all communications to M. J. Lazelle,
Manager, Oregon City, Oregon. Call
on Saturdays to see Editor.
STATE OFFICERS
President Wm. 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.
Always mention "Oregon Equity
News" when addressing advertisers.
Everybody invited to our 4th.
Don't get he idea that you are not
wanted at our picnic because you
don't belong to the Equity. You are
just the fellow we want. Bring the
family.
We will try to furnish you instruc
tion entertainment and amusement.
Our County Union at Beaver Creek
July 12 and our State Union July 18th
at Portland. Last week our linotype
melted them together.
time if the cost of living goes down
a little.
If Jester Jogg had not written his
first and last letter so soon, he might
have added to his long list of woes
that the continued downpour of Ore
gon mist had spoiled his cherry crop
At present the outlook for this
year's potato crop looks good as short
crops are reported from several
states but after the severe punish
ment the farmers received during the
past season, specuations are not re
ceiving much attention.
According to reports of a commit
tee in Los Angeles $4 per day is
the lease sum a family can live on but
six thousand men in that city get
less than $2. 1 wonder if we could get
about three of these economical men
to manage Clackamas County for a
while?
CLACKAMAS COUNTY OFFICERS
Pres. S. L. Casto of Carus Local
Vice. Pres. J. H. Bowerman of Da
mascus Local.
Sec. Treas. F. G. Buchanan of Mt
Pleasant Local.
Directors: W. J. Bowerman of
Sunnyside Local; J. C. Royer of Da
mascus Local; Wm. Grisenthwaite of
Beaver Creek Local.
THINGS TO THINK OVER
(By P. W. Meredith.)
It requires money to be classed as
respectable.
People who work the hardest have
the least money and command the
least respect.
Every day's labor and every bushel
of grain that goes on the market has
a tendency to supply the demand and
lessen the price.
Oats are $32 per ton now but just
as soon as you have some to sell you
may be able to get 32 cents. Why
is all this? Who juggles the market?
Join the Equity and maybe we can
come some Wall street game and lock
up all the oats and get a big price.
If the money wasn't all locked up.
Some farmers ueiieve in contracting
their crops before they are ready
for market. Why not do the contract
ing before you plant the crop, figure
how much it costs you to produce the
crop; add a little profit clear of all
expense and plant no crop until you
can contract at these figures. That
looks like business to me but I know
little would be planted. Something
wrong!
Among our advertisers is the Jones
Cash Store. Many of our readers are
well acquainted with this tirm and
have found them to be sqaure and fair
in their dealings. They are offering
some good prices in their advertise
ment and have many more things that
you should know of, that are listed in
their catalogue.
The "Courier" recently made some
very timely remarks upon the five
acre tract fake, that showed up the
true light. Experience seems to be
all that is gained by those who are
pursuaded to believe that a good liv
ing for a family besides a surplus of
cash is possible on a five acre space.
C. C. Chapman of the Portland Com
mercial Club set a good example when
he placed his limit at forty acres.
Thousands of crates of strawberries
are rotting on the vine3 today. How
would this statement sound in a real
estate dealer's advertisemet ? Never
the less it is true. Perhaps some of
you intend to set ten acres of plants
this tall, H so you can Mt the plants
very reasonable but make application
early for the man that made one
strawberry grow this year will prob
ably make two white beans grow in
its place next year.
BIG EQUITY FOURTH
President Wilson wants cattle to
come in free but wants a duty on
dressed beef. And the meat trust put
up the prices on beef and lowered the
price on cattle in one day. Nothing
short of a famine will ever teach the
American people that farming must
pay belore a profit is paid to a trust.
When you lose the profit of a hay
crop by. weather or prices, you are
worse off than the man who let his
land go idle.
The Ladies vote at our next elect
ion and now is the time to petition
your Hon. County Court for extra
voting precincts.
When they take the tariff off the
farmer our state and national treas
ury will soon run dry.
A report from some Washington D.
C. bureau states that the middleman
is not making big money and furnish
es the figures to prove it. The next
report may show that the poorest
people we have are millionaires be
cause they give so little to charity.
And they can furnish the figures to
prove it.
When you have Magoon strawber
ries the market wants Clark's seed
ling; when you have light hogs the
market wants heavy ones, and when
you have heavy ones the market
wants light ones. Strange how little
the producers and consumers know
about the morbid appetite of this
thing called the market.
There is no reasonable excuse for
an Oregon City lawyer to hate the
farmers. The farmers have always
shown extremo- affection for the law
yer and have given him in token of
his love, the best offices in the land
and paid him big fees while his own
family had to deny themselves many
good things. And lawyers as a rule,
iove the farmer, especially so during
the campaign year. I hnve heard of
dogs that developed a disposition to
love the man who kicked them and
hate the man who fed the .m
We all know Rcores of good fanners
in Clackamas County who own good
larms well improved and produce an
abundance of wealth and they have
to work hard to live and nav taxes,
If you would water its selling value
tnree or rour times by stock issues
then bond the whole thing and sell
Uncle Sam the bonds you would have
more money than hay., then you
could hire a manager to run the farm
while you took your family to Now-
port ior tno summer. Let your man
ager hire all the work done and you
collect good dividends on watered
stock and all, like our railroaders do.
Should a railroad stock holder havo
any more privileges than a farm
stockholder ?
The real estate men of Portland
have raised $150,000 to induce people
to come to Oregon. If they will turn
that money over to the Farmers' So
ciety of Equity we would build ware
houses warm and cold storago build
ings, refrigorative plants and get
trust prices for our produce and make
enough money to fix up these old
farms into attractive homes, and the
news would go all over the world and
the standing army could not prevent
the rush of people to our state to
share in this rural prosperity. Have
you all forgotten the opening of Ok
lahoma? You Portland schemers just
inniK wis pian over.
The Kansas City Star of the 18th,
says: "One hundred and twenty-five
carloads of good potatoes are spoiling
in the heat in the railway yards in
Kansas City. TJiey came all the way
from Montana and Washington."
These potatoes will be a total loss to
the growers. They held them for a
profitable price and then smashed the
price with a glut. Doesn't this appear
like an organization of the Equity is
needed to control shipments from a
national head? Last winter one hun
dred and twenty car loads of cabbage
were shipped from various points to
Pittsburg, and had to be dumned. In
bacramento twelve cars of onions
went the same way and 27 cars of
peaches to Kansas City went this
way.
Now, after it is all over, we farm
ers discover that the consumer paid
me same price for fruit last year as
the year before.
The Farmers' Society of Equity has
tho only plan ever devised to remedy
this deplorable condition.
We expect to sudpIv all markntq
and glut none by reporting all ship
ments to a National head and have
all cars routed from there. We have
three states with state nrsrnnizntinnu
and locals in a great many others and
um uigamsuiion is spreading like a
prairie tire. Congress has exempted
lurmers organizations from the anti
trust law so now is the time for far
mers to combine in a tight organizat
ion.
In Kansas it is a misdemeanor far
anybody except a farmer or his fam
ily to son a spoiled egg. Congress
nuw mis pin me iarmers organizat
ions where the trust law can't bother
them. This is class legislation and It
nas made tile bankers rich. Now let'
see if it won't help the fanner some.
English captalists are going to
buy up everything in Oregon that
there is any show to make a profit
on according to a rortland paper.
How long will it be until the capital
ists of some foreign nation will take
advantage of the mortgaged farmers
and buy up farms by the millions and
they can go in with Wall Street and
make a panic and get them cheap.
Dr. F. M. Rossiter in Sunday Ore
gonian of June 22 says that 80 per
cent of all sickness is preventable.
This I believe is true. Then the doc
tors themselves must be to blame for
this 80 per cent of sickness. You can
not blame the doctors, for we pay
them fees when we are sick and pay
them nothing when we are well. In
fact they live on a commission of dis
ease. We are to blame.
IT..-. 1 1
iiunurcu:-! oi rarmers lrom all over
the Lounty are Coming to New Era
Tommorow is the biggest day in the
year and millions of people of this
great country will celebrate the sign
ing of the Declaration of Independ
ence but the Equity people of Clack
amas county will not only show their
patriotism but will inaugurate their
first picnic and get together meeting.
The plan is fine and is meeting with
such favor from all parts of the coun
ty that the committee in charge is be
ginning to wonder if the picnic
grounds will hold the people.
A crew of men has been working
for the past week, cleaning the groun
ds, erecting new buildings and mak
ing general preparations for the big
Fourth of July picnic. The Hotel is
now in operation and the red lemon
ade stands are all ready for business
ana even the floor of the dance hall
has been waxed, so do not fail to be
on hand early and stay late for you
may miss something. The programme
will start promptly at 10:00 A .M. and
wm contain musical numbers as we
as such prominent speakers as H. C.
Wolfson, state organizer and H. C.
Cutting, national organizer. The baby
show will be a "hummer" for all of
the best looking youngsters of the
county are comine-. The rcaes and
contests will keep you interested and
no doubt the automobile race will
make some new records for the all
ready good drivers that have entered.
The grove is ideal, the crowd will
be the very best, the amusements will
be entertaining, you will be happy all
day. Your attendance is expected.
Notice, Mt. Pleasant
Mt. Pleasant Local will meet Sat
urday evening at 8 o'clock instead of
i' riday evening on account of the bre
r ' : i t. '
cyuny riciuc.
P. W. Meredith, Pres.
F. G. Buchanon, Sec.
YOU MUST REGISTER
TV
June
Of
adaes
at
If You do
Federal assistance will be given the
Oregon Agricultural College in the
work of promoting the dairv inter
ests of the state. It has also been in-! ivViinVi rac
timated that his department will take 'before being allowed to vote."
Not, You Cannot Vote
in. Get Busy
Absolutely every man and woman
must register or thev cannot vote.
There will be no more swearing in.
After you have once registered it is
not necessary to register again unless
one fails to vote then he is required
to register again. "As long as the
citizen resides in the precinct from
which he registers he shall not be re
quired to register again unless he
shall fail to vote at any eleciton with
in the biennial period intruding a gen
eral election for stata officers, in
he shall again register
a hand in organizing he farmers
along certain lines that will be bene
ficial. This plan must certainly meet
with the approval of the Equity mem
bers, for one of the great difficulties
that the Equity has to lonfront is the
securing of the proper kind of organ
izers and completing vhe organizat
ion of the state.
TAKE NOTICE
Professor Guthrie of the Minnesota
agricultural uonege, win address a
meeting of the Farmers Society of
Equity next Saturday, July 6th, at
8 P. M. at the Carus school house.
Subject for the evening will be "Coop
erative Marketing." All parties inter
ested in this subject are invited to
attend. Hoping all members of the
Equity who are within reach, will at
tend and bring as many non-members
with them as possible.
When you register you will be re
quired to give name in full; occupa
tion; fost uitice address;
naturalized; how lone in
height; weight; color of eyes; color
of hair; name and number of pre
cinct; place of residence, which shall
include section, township and range.
If living in city, floor; room; street
and number. The political party to
which the voter belongs must be given.
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Mams Department Store
Oregon City's Brsy Store
LOCAL OFFICERS OF CLACKA
MAS CO.
whether rwm.
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vi ego 11;
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
The missionaries in India are buy
ing young girls by the thousands at
ten cents each in order to save thorn
from immoral lives in the temples,
' was the statement made in the local
Y. M. C. A. in St. Louis Sunday by
Sherwood Eddy, Y. M. C. A. secretary
for Asia. England governs India and
sends Christian missionaries to India
and also collects millions in taxes
from those people and builds large
grain elevators ana wis tnem wan
grain so the natives can starve to state to guard the timber from burn-
death in the shade of these large
buildings.
England builds the world's largest
navy to defend the trade of million
aires and we copy the ways of the
mother country.
So much has been said about our
State Universities and Agricultural
Colleges that more seems superfluous.
At any rate the dish washers union
of SanFrancisco has 700 members and
100 aro college graduates. A mail-order
education must be cheaper and
more practical or the market for eH.
ucation has gone down with potat-
vc.-i umu sirawuerries.
, A great ninny things are scientif
ically correct but commercially
wrong, and a great many things are
commercially correct but sriontlfi,..
ally wrong. Our Agricultural Colleges
n-ni-ii us now 10 prosper by raising
more stuff and that may be scientific
but in order to sell it we have to burn
up our cotton after it is baled: let
our apples rot on tho ground; throw
onions bv the car loads in tho ..,
Jaquin river in California or let
them nt urlwifn Vi, ..... : t.. '
.... ....... v n.vji khjvy an in In
diana and this is commercially cor
rect. It would be comnmrrinll-j on-
rect for all farmers and laboring
people to quit work until prices went
P 10 sun us line tho recent nine
day quit in Belgium.
The best way would be to organize
with a system like the Farmers So
ciety of Equity and under just laws
regulate the supply by the demand
at profitable prices. Did you ever hear
of shoes being destroyed to raise the
price? A few men raise tho price on
your stuff without destroying any of
it. Why can't you if you organize? If
J"" 1 nuiKe enough money on
your farm why don't you let your
Undo Sam take It back like the S. P."
does and you could file a homestead
claim 011 it ntiH nnt h.i o,, !;.,.. ...
forq 7 years, then get a job from the
Labor Problem
The labor problem i-j one of the
many discouragements that confront
the farmer. It is almost impossible to
employ dependable farm hands and
those that are employed want to
make more wages than the farmer
does.
Many of the elder farmers are dis
posing of their farms at a sacrifice
on account of the inability to hire
help.
Farm Hand Wanted at Once Milk
er preferred. Phone Farmer 22x1. La
zelle Dairy Co.
Suprising Cure of Stomach Trouble
wnen you nave trouble with youri
stomach or chronic constipation, don t
imagine that your case is beyound
help just because your doctor fails to
give you relief. Mrs. G. Stengle,
riainsiield, N. J., writes: For over a
month past I have been troubled with
my stomach. Everything I ate unset it
terribly, une of Chamberlain's adver
tising booklets came to me. After
reading a few of the letters from
people who had been cured by Cham
berlain s I ablets, I decided to try
them. I have taken nearly three
fourths of a package of them and can
now eat almost everything that I
want." For sale by Huntley Bros. Co.
Causes of Stomach Trouble
Sedentary habits, lack of outdoor
exercise, insufficient mastication of
food, constipation, a torpid liver, wor
ry and anxety, overeating, partaking
of food and drink not suited to your
age and occupatiop. Correct your hab
its and take Chamberlain's Tablets
and you will soon be well again. For
sale by Huntley Bros. Co.
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. Eoyer; 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,
bee. J. w. Smith, Aurora, R. 1.
Maple Lane: Pres. H. M. Robbins,
bee. G. b 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.
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.
EQUITY PICNIC AT NEW ERA TO
MORROW The County Roll Call will be an
important feature. You must answer.
I Let Jones Save You Money
IF you don t know about Jones Money Saving prices and a.bout the sound, sturdy hon
esty and quality of every article Jones Cash Store carries You are actually losing
money every day. NOW is the time to ACT, Start saving Today. When you
buy of us you buy direct. Very often you can buy cheaper than your local dealer,
and wenvill prove it. Our Buyers Guide is the test There, in black and white, you
have a description of almost every article you ever have to buy and the Price is Al
ways Printed Plainly. Then one trial order will convince you that the Price is Right
and that quality is absolutely the best and exactly as represented to you.
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YEARS OF SQUARE DEALING."
Hear the Testimony of Oregon City
People and Decide the Case
Doan's Kidney Pills are on trial
are being tried every day for weak
kidneys for exhausting kidney back
aches. What is the verdict ? Read Ore
gonC ity testimony personal exper
iences of Oregon City witnesses.
There can only be one verdict a
chorus of approval.
William McLarty, 1521 Washing
ton St., Oregon City, Ore., says: "I
suffered from backache and pains thru
my loins, and I could not sleep well
as no positiaon I assumed was com
fortable. My strength and energy
left me, and I was miserable, when I
learned of Doan's Kidney Pills. De
cideing to try them.I procurred a box
at the Huntley Bros.: Drug Co., and
by the time I had taken the contents
I felt so much better in every wav
that I did not consider it necessary
to continue their use. I have been con
vinced that Doan's Kidney Pills are a
reliable kidney medicine."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50c.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New
York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no other.
Cheap. Try it Out
The real, ripe, swell program of the
year is on the full Oregon season that
has fickle spring in the siding for a
long wait.
There's nothing like the summer
days to get to the person who has a
little bit of his forefather's blood in
his veins, and a tramp over the hills
and thru the woods will do you more
real good than a month at a summer
resort.
Take it from me and take it alone.
Hike out on the hills all by yourself.
Sit down among the insects and the
squirrels and just let go of yourself.
You'll think thoughts that you did
n't know were in you, and it will do
you good.
You'll meet your wife with a smile
when you get home and your kids will
look good to yu.
Cheap. Try it.
A Good Investment
W. D. Magli, a well known mer
chant of Whitemound, Wis., bought a
stock of Chamberlain's medicine so as
to be able to supply them to his cus
tomers. After receiving them he him
self was taken sick and says that one
small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was
worth more to him than the cost of
his entire stock of these medicines.
For sale by Huntley Bros. Co.
When baby suffers with croup, ap
ply and give Dr. Thomas' Eclectic
Oil at once. Safe for children. A little
goes a long way. 25c and 50c. At all
drug stores.
inir on my own land liWo wn,...
I ' MMIVHUU.ICI
vo., hiiu your wile could cruise for
Clackamas County while the kids
mum jju oiung una chock up your
wife's reports and I think then you
could pull through until hop picking
' 100 IBS, 1
MIT 1
$4.70 I
No matter how
high the market
goes, our price
remains the same
for the month If
tho market goes
below our price,
we give you the benefit.
Dry Granulated, 100 lbs... $1.70
MASON
FRUIT JARS
rims
1 rer Do. 50c
Gross 5.75
Quarts
Doi. 60c, Cross 6.?5
Half Gal.
Doz 85c, Cross 9.S0
GROCERIES
Canned Tomatoes, per Doz 98c
Canned Corn, per Doz 93c
Canned Salmon, 1-lb. cans
per Dozen 88c
Bayo Bt'ans, per lb 05c
Pink Beans, 25 lbs. for.... 1.35
25 lbs. good rice for 1.25
Dried Peaches, per lb 08c
Jones Leader Soap, 36 cakes
1.00
Arm & Hammer'Soda, pkg .05e
Soda Crackers, per box 58
Cold Dust, large pkg 19
Karo Syrup, 10 lb, tin 58c
Carnation milk, per rase.. 3.75
Aster milk, per case,. .. .3.60
3 lbs. ground chocolate 73c
10 lbs. Macaroni 56c
These are just a few' samples
of our prices,.
FENCING
All grades, patterns and sizes, 22c
per rod and up You save 20 to
40 per centi.
POULTRY
JOMESi SHELLS
pOULTRyfl A fine mixture
fl pontaiininir over 94
5 HE LIS fl Per cent calcium
caroonate.
100 IDS. 9 Per hundred poun
ds 63c
CRYSTAL GRIT
per 100 pounds 93c
Ground Bone, 100 pounds .$2.30
I lie Bcs t LiSlit
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other places needing light, Electric
ity can be used in any quantity, large
or small, thereby furnishing any re
quired amount of light. Furthermore
electric lamps can be located in any
place, thus affording any desired dis
tribution of light.
No other lamps possess these qual
ifications, therefore it is not surprising
that electric lamps are rapidly replac
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ments. Po tland Railway, Light &
Power Company
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