OREGON CITY COURIER,. THURSDAY", SEP. U, 1913
LOGAN
The meeting of Harding Grange on
the 6th was an interesting one though
the attendance was not large, but it
was good for this time of year, 23 be
ing the reported number. The lectur
er, Mrs. L. L. Kirchem, hustled up a
good impromptu programme , which
included a discussion on grange work
and on the principal topic for the
month: "Contributing Causes of the
High Cost of Living." As usual the
cost of high living had considerable
attention, but monopolized combinat
ions in restraint of trade and control
of public utilities was given by one
speaker as the principal thing in ele
vating expenses,
Past master, Louis Funk occupied
the Master's chair and Mrs. H. S. An
derson attended to the secretary's
duties, assisted by Mrs. Gladys Sloper.
Mahala A. Gill announced that the
Juvenile Fair will be held on Sept.
20th and the use of the grange hall
was granted for the occassion.
A daughter, weighing ten pounds,
arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. F. M. Brown last week.
A. M. Kirchem, L. H. Kirchem and
Arthur L. Funk have gone on a sur
veying job.
Arthur Funk intends to attend the
0. A. C. at Corvallis this fall.
The Gerber and Anderson machines
have gone to baling and threshing
this week in Gresham-Troutdale coun
try. J. C. Kirchem and family were in
the mountains recently and returned
with 40 gallons of huckleberries.
We are pleased to hear the an
nouncement that the piers of the
census and the per capita of Oregon.
Size up your neighbors occasionally
then honestly pass judgement on their
superiority to yourself, in a great
many ways. Dno't be grouchy and at
tribute all the good qualities to your
self when really you are entitled to
none of them.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING
That's some dress you've got on, lit
tle girl it sure is. That delicate,
clinging, crinkly stuff is the prettiest
cloth on the store counters; that silk
Persian sash of many colors so grace
fully swathed about the centre section
of your anatomy would knock the
spots off Joseph's coat. You are cor
seted and tailored according to the
most extreme model in the advance
August fashion books.
But your neck is too low and your
sleeves are too short, and your skirt
is far and away tighter than skirts
ever were meant to be. And that
graceful slit exposing your dainty left
ankle shows a stocking above your
pump that is almost transparent
enough to read through. And you
haven t any more petticoat than a rab
bit, you know you haven't.
Oh, you're some swell, you are.
Have you noticed how the loafers
about the street rubber after you as
you trip demurely on your way to the
uplift lectures? And have you been,
thinking, little foolish one, that they
were rubbering out of pure admirat
ion Ask your brother about it. If
he's got any sense he'll tell you some
things that are hard on your vanity
but good for your soul. And if you've
POINTED POINTERS
Some Sayings that will Make You
Think Some
4. Ml 1 I
Logan-Barton bridge will be built this dress awlyand
Some plowing is being done and the
recent fine rains seem to have wet the
grownd clear down.
Rev. E. A. Smith held services here
last Sunday.
Many wagons have been around
with peaches of several grades and
prices, mostly above city prices.
Potatoes are said to be not a first
class crop this year.
CLARKES
Mrs. C. H. Bergman and children
went nop-picking last week.
Mrs. Berry and daughter are visit
ing the former's sister, Mrs. E. A.
Cummins and family for a short time.
G. Marquardt and daughter Elda,
were in town last week.
Adolph Haag from Idaho, visited
his father, Mr. C. Haag last week
Miss Ida Haag went to Idaho with her
brother last Saturday.
Mrs. Oscar Hoel visited her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Mary Lee and family
last week.
Rev. Alfred, from Salem, preached
in the English M. E. church last Sun-da2
David Moehnke is thrashing for J.
Tallman.
Mr. Mayfield thrashed for Mr. Mar
shall last Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Maxson went hop
picking last week.
don something that's wide enough
around the bottom tp allow room for
two petticoats and one pair of legs.
For there never was a dress de
signed, little girl, that is half so beau
tiful as a young girl's modesty. Em
poria (Kan.) Gazette.
Can't Afford to have Kidney Trouble
No man with a family to support
can afford to have kidney trouble,
nor need he fear it with such a rem
edy at hand as Foley Kidney Pills. An
honest medicine, safe and reliable,
costing little, but doing much good,
Foley Kidney Pills eliminate back
ache and the rheumatism, tone up the
system and restore normal action of
kidneys and bladder. Huntley Bros.
Co.
TWILIGHT
If our uncle Sam be extremely de
sirous of assisting his subjects in mod
erate circumstances, it should not re
quire a trip abroad, nor the time of
an extra Congress, but fifteen min
utes to devise a plan, whereby the end
couiq De successiuiiy and safely ac-complished.
J. F. Spiger, Earl Bently and Al
bert Scheer spent Sunday with relativ
es ana mends at the hop yards.
The late rains have delaved thresh,
ing in this section, Tuesday last wit
nessing the closing event with pleas,
ing results to the husbandman.
Have you ever carefully considered
the true value of the word confidence ?
If not, give it careful thought at your
leisure some day. It means so much
to all of us, and equally demands so
mucn irom us, and yet commands so
little that it would at times appear,
its true significance was being over
looked. Tom Kelland's smiles at last Mon
day night's session of the Look
Pleasant Club was responsible for his
election as their president for the
ensuing year. Its a girl, weighing
nine pounds and was presented to Tom
and his estimable wife but a few
hours before by a stork from Oregon
City. Some dissatisfaction exists over
the election by reason of the seem
ing advantage exercised by the pres
ident elect, but Tom says all's fair
in war and that the Mrs. is able to re
joice with him in his success.
Our rural route carrier, Mr. Wal
dron, was bumped last Monday. That
is a carelessly driven auto ran into
his mail wagon on the Dodd's hill, de
molishing his vehicle, while both he
and his horse narrowly avoided quite
serious consequence.
Miss Grace Snook will teach this
coming winter in the Central Point
School district.
Well directed rumors connect hith
erto well thought of residents with
complicity in recent burglaries in the
neighborhood, and this reference
thereto is to advise that it is not yet
too late to cut it ou, and sill retain a
certain amount of respect, but that
the continued persistence may mean a
free transport to Salem under the es
pionage of Sheriff Mass with a paid
up board bill for a year plus.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Weir of Atchison
Kansas, spent a couple of days with
Mr. and Mrs. A. II. Harvey the latter
part of last week. They were just
winding up a first tour of the Pacific
Coast, and expressed themselves de
lighted with what they had seen of
the Beaver State.
We hereby recall any utterances we
may have made at the decadence of
this community. Recently the stork
has made visits to the homos of Mr.
and Mrs. Curtis Dodds, L. E. Bentley,
John Bradl and Thomas Kelland.
leaving an equal number of boys and
girls, quite an increase in tho school
To Can Corn Without Cooking in the
Jars
Editor Courier:
As so many have asked for my rec
ipe for canning corn I am sending it
to the paper so others may try it, as
it is so much less work than the old
way of cooking in the iars.
Take 9 cups corn, 2 cups water,
cups sugar, s cups salt.
Put mixture in granite pan, cook
ten minutes after it begins to boil. Use
NEW rubbers and fill jar to over
flowing. Seal boiling hot, and set jars
away on tneir tops in aarK, cool place.
When wanted for use turn out in
large dish, pour on cold water, stir a
few times, drain off, repeat a couple of
times. Prepare as fresh corn. Do not
be alarmed if salt should gather
around edge of lid, if it does not leak
it will be all right, as the salt some',
times comes from the salty liquid on
the rubbers when filling. Be sure to
fill jars brim full. I have used this
recipe for four years without losing
a jar. i use tne old style "Mason" jar
with screw top.
Mrs. Eva L. Criteser.
R. D. 2. Box. 26. Canby, Ore.
To Keep Pumpkin i
To one auart of Dumnkin cooked drv
add one and a half cups sugar, one
half cup molasses, one teaspoon each
of ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
uook wen together and stir thorough
ly. Fill jelly glasses when cool and
cover with parafine. (Being sure to
use enough to seal air-tieht.)
For one pie use one glass pumpkin.
one egg, one tablespoon melted butter
and one cud of milk.
ine above is another one of my pet
recipes.
Mrs. Eva L. Criteser.
Mother of Eighteen Children
"I am them other of eighteen chil,
dren and have thep raise of doing
more work than any young woman in
my town," writes Mrs. C. J. Martin,
Boone Mill, Va ,."I suffered for five
years with stomach trouble and could
not eat as much as a biscuit without
suffering. I have taken three bottles
of Chamberlain's Tablets and am now
a well woman and weigh 168 pounds.
I can eat anything I want to, and as
much as I want and feel better than
I have at any time in tcny ears. I re
fer to anyone in Boone Mill or vicin
ity and they willv ouch for what I
say." Chamberlain's Tablets aref or
sale by Huntley Bros. Co.
A person carrying a card certify
ing membership in the gospel peddlers
union was convicted by a jury in Port
land on a charge of "mashing," but
no penalty was imposed. Now his
friends seek to expunge the court re
cord of the case. The recording angel
will please take notice and do likewise.
The claim is made that the good
man did not mean any harm, but was
only "indiscreet." Perhaps he wants to
go to Congress or at least has heard
of Lafferty's re-election. At worst, it
seems that he only violated the El
eventh Commandment: Thou shalt not
be found out.
You no doubt are aware that the
government thru the Secretary of the
Treasury, has distributed fifty mil
lion for the benefit of the farmers"
and of course you got yours. No?
Well that's strange indeed, for 1 am
sure that is what the papers said.
Perhaps you will say that it was giy
en to the banks and the banks.oh they
want to loan it out to the mossbacks
on good security and a nice rate of in
terest. Then it would come to an un
informed man like me, it was all for
the good of the banks. You see it pays
to have a friend at court. Altho there
are less than 8,000 national banks in
the country, they have more influence
with governmental policies than the
millions of farmers, yet the fanners
will throw their ragged hats in the
air if they hear Congress will put a
new tariff on prunes. Not so with the
bankers. They go after the goods and
get them.
Now mark my guess that this De
mocrat administration is going to put
one over on the Kepubiicans in the
biggest swindle since the "Credit-
Strengthening Act" after the rebell
ion. All this bamboozling of the far
mers is simply the seed-time; the har
vest will come in good season. Of
York. It seems he got away with
campaign funds, and now his wife
comes forward to claim the guilt.
Sulzer, it would seem, did not tote
fair, and then some of the gang
squealed, and then we are getting a
repetition of what is going on every
where following a fall-out among a
useless gang of politicians.
What do you expect the fruit of an
evil tree to be like? Would you or I
remain honest when surrounded by
the temptations which belong to the
game? No matter who the nerson is.
.nor what promises or pretenses are
made tne snortest road to achievement
is via graft. It is not in vain the car
penter said: "Lead us not into tempta
tion." If we require honesty from
public servants, we must furnish an
honest economic system and not one
that rewards the idler as was so
plainly stated in the advertisement re
cently referred to
Marion County
, Organization work is going on rap
idly in Marion Co., under the direction
of Organizer Wolfsen. Locals have
been formed in that county at the fol
Perhaps you will say. vou would lowing points: Aurora. Butteville, Sil-
remain honest under any condition. I verton, Pratum, Brooks, North Salem,
If that is your idea, vou have had land Woodburn. St. Paul is to be or-
very uttie chance to go wrong and , ganized in the near future and a meet-
Work Going Forward
A new Local was organized at the
orescent school house last Saturday,
Sixteen members were present. Mr. N,
J. W. Eichner, township organizer for
that district, has been at work for
some time there among the farmers
and it is due largely to his efforts
that the local was brought about.
State Secretary F. G. Buchanon, and
Mr. L. Vierhus were present at the
meeting and assisted with the organ,
ization. They found a very enthusias-
iastic and progressive gathering of
tarmers. it is certain that this will
be one of the active societies of this
county.
it is likely you will never eet anv
worth while.
John F. Stark.
Resolution of Condolence
Whereas, The Great Master has
taken from our midst our beloved sis
ter Rose Mautz, be it,
Resolved, That in the death ofJSis
ter Mautz, Maple Lane Gran"ge'has
lost a faithful Chaplain, a worthy and
honorable member, and the husband
and children a loving wife and mother,
and the community an ever helping
hand, be it.
Resolved, That a copy of this res
olution be sent to the bereaved hus
band, a copy to the County paper and
Grange Bulletin and a copy spread on
the minutes of Maple Lane Grange.
Anna G. Lewis.
W. S. E. Lewellen.
Olive A. Swallow.
Committee.
ing will be held at Woodbur soon, to
organize a county union, and that city
win probably be the county head,
quarters f ,orthe organization.
Caught a Bad Cold
"Last winter my son caught a very
bad cold and the way he coughed was
something, dreadful," writes Mrs.
Sarah E .Duncan, of Tipton, Iowa,
"We thought sure hew as going into
I consumption. We bought just one bot
tle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
and that one bottle stopped hisc ough
andc ured his cold completely." For
sale by Huntley Bros. Co.
When in town call at the Courier
office and let us tell you what it will
cost to have the name of your farm
printed on your letterheads and en
velopes. A little advertising will pay
you big interest on the money invested.
The Viewpoint
The pitiful pig in the sty
May suppose that the patch of the sky
Which it seems as it looks from the
place
Wherein is narrowlv Dent.
Comprises the sky's whole ex
tent.
The man who has never strayed far
From where his poor interests are,
May think the small spot where he
strains,
With nnvpp n tlwill nnA a ewiila
Is the world's widest realm and"
contains
All that may be counted worth
wnuo.
Get your letterheads and envelopes
printed with the name of your farm
on thorn. The Courier will make them
cheap for you.
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Oregon Equity News
I will enforce the law. Sheriff
Mass of Clackamas County.
The law be damned. Sheriff Gage
of Coos County.
Co-operative banks of Europe pay
4 per cent and loan 4 and a half per
cent. In America the banks pay 2 per
per cent for money and loan-it for ?
Well, you know what you have to
pay. Co-operation is to take the
place of interest, rent and profit of
a few individuals and distribute it
among the masses.
The profits we have paid bankers
and food dealers the last few years
would build thousands of cooperative
stores.
Co-operation will prevent all the
blessinsrs of industry going to a few
Human hogs.
In 1844 at Rochdale, England, 28
weavers started a co-operative sys
tem. Now there are 20,000 societies
that sell seven hundred million dol
lars' worth every year. They own two
of the lareest wholesale houses
the world and have seven million
members.
course it may be necessary to keep
you excited about Mexico, but they
are after your hide and tallow. These
sleek fellows you have1 been bellowing
ior, wm nana it to you alright.
It is reported that the superintend
ent of schools of Portland has been in
dicted for some petty grafting. Prom
all parts of the country similar char
ges are brought against public offic
ials. Or to put it in other words, the
government is in the hands of dis
honest persons, that is to say. is cor
rupt. One of the most noteworthy
persons under lire at present is Sul
zer, the reform Democrat of New
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kidneys allow uric acid poisons to re
main in the blood and rheumatic
pains swollen and aching joints fol
low. Take Foley Kidney Pills to ease
you of the pain and torment. They
will positively and permanently build
up the kidneys, restore their normal
action and keep the uric acid crystals
out of the blood and the body. Try
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Administratrix' Notice of Final Set
tlement.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has filed her final account
as administratrix of the estate of
Carl G. Hodes, deceased, in the County
Court of Clackamas County, Oregon,
and said court has set Monday, Octo
ber, Cth, 1913, at the hour of 10
o'clock A. M. as the time for hearing
said account and the objections there
to, and for making a settlement of
said estate. All persons having ob
jections to said account or the dis
charge of said administratrix, are
hereby notified to present the same
to said court on or before said time.
Margaret Hodes
Administratrix of the estate of
Carl G. Hodes, deceased.
Paul C. Fischer,
Attorney for Administratrix.
Foley Kidney Pills cure obstinate
cases of kidney and bladder trouble,
rheumatism and lumbago, because
they remove the cause. You cannot
We want representatives t oact for I tms honest curative medicine into
u in Clackamas County. Write for ( yurs ystem without getting the right
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Do you want to sell your
property for cash or part cash
and trade for City property?
We have a large list of trades.
List your property with
the Realty Men who do things.
DILLMAN &
HOWLAND
Opposite Court House
Oregon City, Oregon
George Keen, Editor of "The Cana
dian Cooperator," says capitalistic
production and competitive distribut-
ion are the weeds ot industry and or
commerce. He is correct, for when
man works in a mill or factory he re-
ceives in wages only part of what he
earns and when he buys his tood pro-
ducts he pays about double what the
farmer receives. The remedy is co
operation. There is one great differ
ence between a trust and a cooperat
ive and that is a trust takes the profit
and gives it to as few as possible and
cooperative takes the profit and
gives it to as many as possible. We
must cooperate in other business as
we do with our schools and our post
oltice and distribute the profits among
ourselves.
The cost of livine is too hisrh.
The wealthy are too few and too
wealthy.
l he poor are too many and too poor
lhe power ot money is too great.
The Nation itself is in dancer.
The consumer pays too much and
tne larmer receives too little that a
few might amass money who in turn
Duy virtue, honesty and patriotism
and undermine our nation.
The way it is now the middleman
holds the key to the front and back
door ot our market system.
The farmer is the first to try to
get possession of the key to the front
door by his own cooperative stores
and warehouses and this will soon
force the city consumer to try to get
possession of the key to the back
door with his cooperative institutions,
Dr. Hector Macpherson, professor
of Economics, School of Commerce.
Oregon Agricultural College, was one
oi the commission that went to Eu
rope to study rural credits. He says
cooperation has spread over EuroDe
and raised its rural districts from
starvation to prosperity. It has raised
the standard or living and stopped
tne high rate ot interest. We are an
xious for the final report.
Farmers of . Clackamas county
don't you think for a minute that
your efforts for cooperation are not
valuable. The farmers of the East
have read of our efforts. Cooperative
societies are watching us; Director
Cummings of the Association of Min
neapolis is coming to the Pacific coast
to study our efforts. Just keep on with
the good work. Uncle Sam is helping
ail ne can.
A. F. Woods, Dean of Agriculture,
at University Farm, St. Paul, savs
that every possible saving must be
accomplished in the cost of produc
tion and marketing, consequently the
larmers are organizing their own co
operative warehouses, elevator sys
terns and trading facilities and are
demanding legislation to control rail
road rates, grading, weighing, etc,
Who are to be our Oregon Equity Le-
gismuve committee;
Boiled water has a flat taste, on ac
count of loss of air. Let it stand in
shallow pans for 24 hours away from
ines and dirt and it will regain its
air and have its original taste restor
ed.
Name your farm and have your
butter wrappers printed with your
farm name on them. Advertising will
pay you just tne same as the merchant.
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133 V, First St, Portland, Oregon
(Opposite Oregon City Car Station.)
The farmer contends with floods
and drouths, insect enemies, olant and
animal diseases, lie has to work year
in ana year out in cold and rain, snow
and the blistering heat to prepare the
earth, plant, tend and harvest the
crops on which life depends and has
to take the price offered by agents of
organized profit takers and when he
buys his necessaries he has to pav
the price set by the same iransr. This
kind of a system has made a slave of
the American farmer for others and
who in all the big business would de-
fend him? Nobody. He must depend
on his own efforts with his neighbors
in cooperation and the Eauitv Society
has the plan to Dut the farmer in the
lead.
"Art is the limit of the man. Ort in
toto is the limit of the age. Art can
not be taught it must be felt. It is
born of those impulses that are nro-
geny of experiences. It must inhere in
the individual. You cannot analyze
a dream, neither can you analyze art,
wnicn is tne product of a dream. Life
is a current of dreams, yet all dreams
are real. The dreamer is an idealist.
poet. His consciousness reaches the
outer limits of things real. He has a
soul. His soul is a shark with cosmic
energy. It is a flame with the current
of the infinite. It understands."
This was written by Dr. B. K. Leach
of Bandon. A mob with a flag deport
ed him.
Business is the warp and politics
is the wool and graft the gorgeous
hues that decorate our financial lords,
who are worshiped by the weavers of
this covering to our body politic, like
putty and paint cover a multitude of
sins, in which the Door are substitut
ed for the real criminal.
Few editors today have the cour
age to buckle on the armor and fight
the dividend takers, the interest
grabbers and the couDon cliDDers.
These men have the money and they
do not hesitate to put up a fight and
use the best ammunition that money
can buy. They work in politics the
bench and the church.
Few men like M. J. Brown, who
know what the battle is have the
courage and ability to ccpe with or
ganized business and politics and to
.stand any show whatever to come out
victorious. The Farmers Society of
Equity will know long before the
new era of cooperation is inaugurated
that there has been a fight. A battle
where steel cuts steel and the hearts
and souls of men and women are con
trabands of war. Farmer, prepare for
the struggle.
. A new local was formed at the
Jones school house last week .They
have had no help in this matter and
are struggling along and will soon be
well drilled body of men, a part of a
big machine that grinds like the mills
of the Gods slow but sure. Let the
good work go on.
Last year was a big crop year and
produce was so cheap that it almost
pauperized the potato and berry grow
ers with others. This year the awful
drouth- and floods have made meat
and other food stuffs so scarce that
farmers have but little to sell. When
the people cooperate we will not de
stroy food one year and go hungry
the next.
We organized farmers must build
our cooperative canning factories and
can the surplus in a big crop year.
Meats can be preserved the same way.
We should put no more on the market
at one time than the market wants.
We should put our produce in shape
to sell direct to the consumer. We are
paying for this work now. -'
The farmer is not getting returns
for his investment in land and his tax
es are as much or more than the rent
neither does the farmer realize wag
es for his labor compared to skilled
labor in other trades. Now the farmer
does not care which way his dollars
come so he gets them, but the wage
earner would much rather see the far
mers' land remain with non-income in
vestments and profits of the farm
come as good wages for the farmers'
labor, because others might want to
buy land to use and not for an invest
ment to reap a fortune in rent from
the labor of others. It is better for the
Nation to have owners than tenants.
P. W. Meredith
Oregon City, Ore.
Sept. 6, 1913.
Editor Courier:
The Warehouse Co. reports a daily
increase of business. This is very en
couraging considering the time of the
year. A vast majority of farmers have
been busy harvesting and have had
but little marketing to do.
Such a start should be sufficient to
induce every farmer who has failed
to join the organization to do so at
once. Now is the time when the most
good can be accompanied bv ioinine
There may be some who think
that the organization should he
strengthened. But let the entire mem
bership boost by doine as much bus
iness as possible through the com
pany and there is no doubt that we
shall carry the undertaking through.
At the same time we will be creat
ing a magnet that will attract more
members than an army of ore-anizers
could do should we let the undertaking
fail. Should it fail through lack of
support by the present membership,
the failure would mean the suicide of
the F. S. E. in this state. Where
could we turn to find farmers willing
to join an organization that could not
stand back of its own business?
It makes no difference whether we
are working in exact accord with the
equity plan or not so long as we have
a plan that will succeed under the par
ticular conditions that we have here.
The Mountaindale local has the
spirit that means success. All things
considered, there is left but one suc
cessful plan and that is support the
warehouse company to the very limit.
Let it fail and we lose the comoanv as
well as knocking the props out from
under the society in this state.
W. W. H.
Directors Meeting
The "directors of the Orecnn Stat
Union of the Farmers Society nf
Equity held an all day cession in the
office of the Equity Warehouse Co.
on last Saturday. Much important bus
iness was transacted. Plans were made
for the State Convention on Oct. 18th,
and it was resolved to push the organ
ization work by giving better terms to
the organizers and by putting more
organizers in the field as rapidly as
men equipped for the work could be
secured.
STATE AND COUNTY OFFICERS
Publicity Committee
P. W. Meredith. Oreeon Citv. R 1
John F. Stark, Oregon City, R. 3; W.
yv. narns, uregon uity K. 3.
State Otlicers
Pres. Wm. Grisenthwaite. flwirnn
City, Rt. 3; Sec. Treas., F. G. Bu
canan; Directors: A. R. Lyman,
Gresham, Ore; F. M. Hall, Clatskan
le, Ore: E. L. Hellver. Beavert
2; P. H. McMahon, Newberg ,R. 2:
J. W. Smith, Aurora, R. 1.
uacKamas Co. Union Officers
Pres. S. L. Casto. Oreo-on C.u.v P
3; Vice Pres. J. H. Bowermnn. r.iapW.
amas, R. 1; Sec. Treas. F. G. Buchan-
nan, uregon City. Directors: W. J.
Bowerman, Clackamas, R. 1; J. C.
Royer, Clackamas. R. 1; Wm. r.ri.
enthwaite, Oregon City R. 3.
wacKamas u. Local Officers
Alberta Pres. Jesse MavfielH. Son
Ferris Mayfield, Springwater, R.' 1.
Beaver Creek Pres. Fred Kamerath;
Sec. W. W. Harris. Oreo-nn r.itv P .
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. W. S. nBvwif
Clackamas, Oregon ; Clarkes Pres.
Albert Gasser; Sec. John L. Gard, Or
egon City, R. 4; Colton Pres. J. E.
Sandall; Sec. W. S. Corbett, Colton,
Oregon; Currinsville Pres G. C. He
lple; Sec. N. E. Linn, Estacada, R. 1:
Damascus Pres. J. C. Royer; Sec. C.
C. Longwell, Barton R. 1; Highland
Pres. M. E. Kandle: Sec P M vi.
chem, Oregon ity, R. 2; Macksb'urg
Pres. C. D. Keesling; Sec. J. W
Smith, Aurora, R. 1; Maple Lane
Pres. H. M. Robbins; Sec. G. F. Mig
hells, Oregon City, R. 8; Molalla
Pres. J. W. Thomas; Sec. I. M. Toliver,
Molalla, Ore; Mt. Pleasan Pres. P.
W. Meredith: Sec. P. n !,.,,,
Oregon City, Ore; New Era Pres. a!
Staeheley; Sec. C. .B Beverman, Ore
gon 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. Gradv: Sec. r. P a.
Springwater, Ore; Viola Pres. James
Parett: Sec. J. R. Woolwnrtv.
berg, R. 2; Wilsonville Pres. M. C
C. Young; Sec. R. B. Seely, Sherwood!
K. 6 .