OREGON CITYJCOURIER, THURSDAY, JAN. 1, 1914
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OREGON CITY COURIER
Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Eighth and Main streets, and en
tered in the Postoffice at Oregon
OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER
M. J. BROWN, A.
Subscription Price $1.50.
Official Paper for the Farmers
M. J. BROWN,
The people of the Willamette Val
ley don't know what winter is.
"Responded to the will of the
people!" Someone should send Booth
a bushel of chestnuts.
; "To run or not to run?" is the
question several Democrats would
like Governor West to answer. And
it's just horrid mean to keep them
in suspense.
' The papers give it out that Hu
erta is going to resign the presidency
and lead the army. Here's my bet he
gets his in just about the same man
ner and place Madero got his.
THIS COURIER
With this issue The Courier ex
tends its greetings to its readers and
wishes them a happy, prosperous and
peaceful New Year; and also pre
sents for their consideration a review
of the resources and business of Ore
gon City and Clackamas county that
is worth preservation. The Courier
believes that this New Year's edit
ion is representative of the normal
business of this community, that it
truly reflects the Oregon City spirit,
and that it is a good issue of this
paper to send to strangers not ac
quainted with our end of the world,
so that they may form ideas of our
activities and possibilities.
This issue is in no sense an "an
nual edition," gotten up to gouge un
reasonable profits out of merchants.
No advertising that appears in this
paper was "forced in with a club,"
and advertising rates were not rais
ed one cent for the extra large num
ber of copies of this issue that will
will be printed. The Courier's main
desire was to present a paper truly
representative of local business; a
paper that would be suitable to send
to outsiders Interested in the Farth
est West. Such a paper is of more
value as' a convincing instrument of
publicity than is a specially prepared
"annual", into which every merchant
or businessman is forced, whether he
advertise or not, and which exagger
ates the benefits to be found in a
community, inflates the normal ad
vertising market and gives no in
timation whatever of any drawbacks
that may exist.
Every peison who looks over this
issue of The Courier will realize that
there are a large number of active
and wide-awake merchants in the
community who have advertised in
FOR
WEST
City, Ore., as second class mail matter.
E. FROST, OWNERS.
Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 3-1
Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
EDITOR
its columns. If they have common
sense they will also realize that a
community that can support the
stores and enterprises advertised
herein must also support numerous
other enterprises, which for reasons
of their own have not regarded news
paper advertising as the best means
of publicity for their own ends There
are, for instance, half a dozen excel
lent blacksmiths in this community,
and though they have not advertised
int these columns, The Courier thinks
none the less of them. No effort was
made to drive them to purchasing
space in this issue such is not The
Courier's way of doing business, nor
is it the Oregon City way.
In presenting this edition, The
Courier is satisfied that it most truly
represents the best spirit of business
in this community, a spirit of live
and let live, and mental attitude that
represents the best spirit of business
recognizes the fact that any business
brought to Oregon City will benefit
either directly or indirectly every lo
cal enterprise. And so the New
Year's Courier is put into the hands
of its friends, the public, ready for
distribution anywhere, and worthy
as a representative showing of the
prosperity, advantages and resources
of "the busiest little city in the Wil
lamette Valley."
BACKING UP
Senator Bourne is again making
an appeal to the newspapers to stand
behind his proposition to abolish
payment for initiative petitions, and
the Courier has his second letter of
explanations and reasons.
He says there are two evils under
the present systeril the submission
of measures for which there is no
popular demand and the forging of
signatures.
He further says "One of the fun
damental purposes of the Oregon
system is to increase the power of
men and decrease the power of
money."
The Courier wants to treat Mr.
Bourne and his proposed reforms
fairly, but it believes that if enacted
into law they would kill the initiative
and referendum just as surely as if
they were abolished so far as the
common classes are concerned.
If solicitors forge signatures, send
them to the pen, just as forgers to
checks are sent there. It is a dead
cinch to nail them. There are the
registration books, there are the
the county clerks, there are the pro
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PARTICULARS ADDRESS:
J. NICHOLLS, Secretary
LINN (OREGON CITY P.O.)
secuting attorneys.' This reason is
no reason. As well forbid the print
ing of blank checks, because some
one might forge one. '
The reason that too many unpopu
lar measures get on the ballot is also
a weak one.
If they are unpopular the people
will not vote for them they will not
become laws.
The point we make is this:
Bourne will not get out in the
country and push petitions. He
won't circulate his own bills.
The Courier editor won't rustle
petitions, but Bourne and Brown will
pay some fellow who will to do the
work they won't do.
Forbid us to pay men to do this
work and we give big business a
"handicap and cinch."
The railroads, express companies,
timber -interests, wholesalers and the
like can initiate bills through their
organized forces of sales agents and
employees, and the workmen and far
mers can watch them slip them over.
Initiating bills by volunteer rust
ling won't initiate.
It has been tried repeatedly and
it has failed. Never a state wide
bill has been so initiated. TheGrange
has tried it and failed, so have many
others. '
And what's it all about, anyway 1
Getting the required number of sig
natures doesn t make a bill a law.
it simply Drings it up wnere tne
people can pass on it, and it doesn't
make a bit of difference to the voters
whether the solicitor of the bill got
paid for his work, or whether it was
done by sweet charity or beautiful
patriotism.
Bourne's bill won't pass in Ore
gon. The people now have the power
to rule, and they won't be fools
enough to cripple that power,
Bourne helped to give it to them,
and would now take it away,
THE GAME
The commissioners of Portland
granted the Carver road a franchise
in that city without a dissenting vote.
Now "the people" (place to laugh)
are out with referendum petitions to
hold it up until 1915.
"The people" have just about as
much to do with it as they had in
"persuading" Robert Booth to be a
candidate for United States senator.
Big business stood Booth up and
big business is trying to pull Carver
down.
The P. R. L. & P. Co., doesn't want
any competition between Oregon City
and Portland.
They have had things about as they
wanted them for the past years,
and they want to continue the cinch.
With a parallel road getting a part
of the big traffic between this city
and Portland, the company might
have to grant this city the same rat
es it does to other points where it has
competition. '
It might have to run a faster ser
vice if another road got to taking
some of its patronage.
It might have to double track to
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meet competition.
The P. R. L. & P. Co is pretty well
satisfied with its present route of
jerking passengers around four miles
of curves to take them eleven straight
miles in one hour, and they want to
be let alone.
And they know the means through
which to BE let alone.
Oregon City won't set itself back
very far in giving competing lines a
chance between here and Portland.
The P. R. L. & P. Co, and the S. P.
have had a pretty tight cinch on this
city and this county for many a long
year.
Just recall how mighty quick the
little Clackamas Southern forced the
big octopus to build a line to Molalla
when it saw it could not stop that
railroad from building.
And remember that competition
between here and Portland will force
things to the advantage of this city.
The people of this city realize this,
They want the road.
CUT OUT MILITIA
Logan Writer thinks $243,689.82
is
Too Much Pay for Results
A Portland paper reports that Ad-
miral Dewey is saying: I see. no
signs of future war." Then why was it
necessary for our grand (7) 1913
legislature to appropriate $243,689.82
of the taxDavers' mnnev for mainten-
ance, deficiencies, etc of our National
Guard and Naval Militia? Would it
not have been more serviceable for
better roads and highways instead for,
torn foolishness?
It is about time that the people
take a hand in this deal, abandon the
naval militia altogether and cut the
approprition for Ntional Guard down
to $50,000 or less.
Say, Mr. Farmer, when you take a
load of pork or other produce to town,
you ask the dealer how much he will
pay you. He sets his price, saying 10c
for pork, etc. But if you buy from him
the dealer, does he ask you how much
you are willing to pay? Oh no! this is
another question all together. His
price is so much. You take it for that
or go without it. Why don't we pro
ducers do the same ? By so operating
with the consumer and selling to him
direct wo could do it.
Harding Grange will install new
officers Saturday next. '
"Pomona" will meet at Harding
Grange Hall, Logan, the second Wed
nesday in January,
Morris Ward of Eastern Oregon,
has leased the W. P. Kirchem farm
for the coming season.
Moser Bros, have started sawing
lumber again after an' idleness of
several months.
Mrs. Nellie Howard of San Fran
cisco, is visiting at the home of her
parents, M. N. Riebhoff.
The appointment of Wm. Grisenth-
wnite as sealer of weights and meas
ures by our County Court, gives gen
eistl satisfaction. A ' better selection
coi Id not be made.
Miss Wilhelmina Henricn who is
attending college at Albany, and Miss
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West Side Improvement Club
Genevieve Mumpower of Corvallis,
are spending their vacations, at their
r.'Kjie tive tion.es.
Grant Mumpower surely has bad
luck. Sometime ago he cut his finder
with an axe and on Christmas eve.,
while returning from Oregon City in
an auto he slipped at the approach of
Baker's bridge and broke part of his
nose. '
Lone Pine Lodge No. 53 A. F. &
A. M. of Logan installed in Saint
John's day the following newly el
ected officers: W. M. R. R. Kerr;
S. W. J. Hindle; J. W. S. S Wilson;
Sec F. P. Wilson; Treas. Henry
Babler; S. D. T.mm Pahl; J. S. D.
S. G. Kirchem; S, S. J. W Dowty;
J S. L. H. Kirchem; Tyler A. M.
Kirchem; Trustees: H. W. Hagemann,
Geo. A. Kohl, T White.
HALF CENTURY'S SUCCESS
IS PLANT'S FINE RECORD
Oregon City Manufacturing Com
pany First Began Operating
Here in 1864
Founded during the closing days
of the Civil War, and increasing stea
dily since then in the size and output
of its plant, the Oregon City Manu
facturing Compnay is today one of
the leading industrial concerns of the
Willamette Valley, and gives employ
ment to some 350 men and women
residents of Oregon City. The greati
plant lies along the river front south
of Third street, and aside from the
main factory building includes stor
age and shipping sheds and other ac
cessory departments.
Known popularly as the Oregon
City "Woolen Mills", the concern
manufactures close to a million dol
lar's worth of products every year,
thus putting into the hands of the
buying public between 1,500,000 and
2,000,000 pounds of wool the major
portion of the wool clip annually in
the Northwest.
The products of the great factory
are varied in the extreme, and in
clude all grades of blankets, "Macki
naw" clothing, shirts, bathrobes,
shawls, Indian robes, and woolen
yarns and cloth. The entire output
of the concern is sold directly to the
retail trade through a special sales
organization maintained by the com
pany. Modern machinery aids the nimble
workers in the great mill in turning
out the various finished products, and
complicated weaving machines oper
ating at high speed turn long shreds
of yarn into beautiful and warm
cloth, which later finds its way into
the homes of Americans far and
near, there to materially add to their
bodily comfort. "Nothing but thdl
best" is the motto of the Oregon
City Manufacturing Company; and
as a result the goods made at the
big plant have won an enviable rep
utation during the 49 years that the
trade has been supplied.
Doing the huge business that is an
nually handled, and employing the
regiment of employees that it does,
the Oregon City Manufacturing Com
pany probably adds as much to the
prosperity of the county seat as any
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other single concern. Not only is its
payroll the means of keeping many
families, but the financial details of
the business, handled through the
local offices, do much to swell the
cash transactions of the city as a
mercantile center.
"MOVIE HOUSE" UP-TO-DATE
Grand Theatre performances are
Equal of , Any of Big
Portland Film Shows
Manager Charles Schram, of the
Grand Theatre, believes that any
thing worth doing at all is worth
doing well And in that belief, and its
practice lies the success of his theatre,
which is generally conceded to be the
most popular straight moving picture
house in Oregon City. The four
pictures offered daily at the Grand
are selected by Mr. . Schram at the
film exchanges in Portland, and every
photoplay shown is what is known
as a "first run picture".
Not only is this the rule, but Mr.
Schram has further adopted metro
politan ideas by opening his theatre
every morning at eleven, and run
ning pictures continuously until the
close of the evening period. No other
moving picture house in Clackamas
county does this, nor does any other
film theatre change its program
daily. In short, patrons of the Grand
are accorded the same features as
ere to be found in the largest of the
Portland moving picture theatres.
, Among the standing attractions of
the Grand is the running of the favor
ite Pathe Weekly twice each weekJ
Oregon Engineering
& Construction Co
All Kinds of General
Contract Work 1
SAND, GRAVEL, CEMENT
and CRUSHED ROCK
Municipal Street
A Specialty
J. W.
C. T.
MASONIC BLK.
showing scenes and events from all
parts of the world. The interest in
this "photographic newspaper" , is
constant, and the Grand has among
its patrons many who visit the theatre
every Tuesday and Friday to see these
pictures of the important events of
the world. "Aside from this feature
of the program, the Grand offers the
biggest feature films immediately
upon their release by the manufac
turing companies.
Strict supervision of t he house
throughout each performance by
watchful ushers assures patrons not
only comfort, but freedom for any
annoyance. Music to accompany the
chief feature films is provided by a
skilled pianist, and everything is done
to make those who visit the Grand
feel that the chief aim of the manage
ment is to give everybody just what
they want in the line of entertainment.-
Straight & Salisbury
Agents fop tha celebrated
LEADER Water Systems
and
STOVER GASOLINE ENGINES.
We also carry
A full line of MYERS pumps and
Spray Pumps.
We make a specialty of installing
. .' Water Systems and Plumb- . .
ing in the country
20 Main 8t. Phone 2682
Work
Moffatt
Patfcer
OREGON CITY, ORE.