OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 191$
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SPECIAL
Corset Sale
We have just received an extra large ship
ment of new Corsets. These Corsets were
bought from a very large Eastern Factory
at a very low price. That is the reason for
the bargains offered on this page.
This Lot consists of a number of low and
medium low bust corsets. Lace and Em
broidery trimmed, Sizes 18 to 30- Aftm
75c Corsets for - tOC
Low and Medium
Busts
$1.00 Corsets in Low and Me
dium Busts. Long skirts. Are
made of strong Coutil. Q
Sizes 18 to 30, x C
Manufacturers'
Samples
Lot of Manufacturers' Samples
including such, well known
brands as J. C. C, Warners'
Rust Proof and the famous
T. N. Corsets. In ailQO.
styles. Val. up to $2.50 '
REGULAR
$2.00 CORSETS
In Medium and Low Busts, Lace and
Embroidery trimmed. Made of heavy
Coutil or Batiste. Cork Protected
clasps In Front and Back Lace. Also
some extra strong corsets for reavy
ladies. 'Sizes 18 to 36.
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We have a number of odds and ends in Girdles and Short Corsets,
these are extra good values. AYhile they last
CORSETS WILL BE ON SALE UNTIL SOLD
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HOFER WIDENS FIELD
Salem Rain-maker Includes Washing
ton in His Territory of Reform
A $20,000 fish ladder at Oregon
City that kills all the salmon instead
of letting them come over the falls
is an example of the state doing
doing things."
The above quotation is from Col.
E. Hofer's "Forty News Items About
Payrolls, Factories, Improvements,
Etc.,'' which is sent out weekly to all
state papers by the professional re
former who used to orate for the
"wets" during the recent state-wide
prohibition campaign. Mr. Hofer
formerly confined his "boosting" to
Oregon papers only, but now he an
nounces that he is sending his "pre
pared thoughts" to Washington pa
pers as well.
Down at the end of a lot of re
marks regarding investments, the
Colonel adds, as a further boost for
the state and its ways, the following
gem:
"Eugene Congregational church
made 250 per cent profit on 50c din
ner." Somehow it seems to us that if
we were devoted to boosting Oregon
we would not do it just the way the
Colonel is doing it. We wonder if
he ate some of that 250-percent-profit
supper at Eugene, and so got
sore?
CHANCE TO MAKE $5
Let us figure on your printing.
Courier.
Oregon City Marching Club Wants
Name That Will Show Purpose "
Oregon City's proposed marching
club, patterned after the famous
Rosarians of Portland, and similar in
scope to the Salem Cherrians or the
Eugene Radiators, has been organiz
ed; but it wants a name.
Feeling that the people of the
county and of the county seat can
probably suggest an appropriate title
the club has offered a price of five
dollars in gold to the best name sub
bitted before Monday, May 24. The
suggested name should be sent to one
of the officers of the club, and a com
mittee will pass upon all suggestions
and pick the best one.
Officers of the club, to whom
names should be sent, are: Clyde G.
Huntley, president; E. R. Brown,
vice-president; E. K. Stanton, secre
tary, and M. D. Latourette, treasurer.
Anybody may suggest a name. It
should be remembered that the club
is going to visit cities throughout the
state to boost Oregon City and Clack
amas county, and the name suggest
ed should be one that will in some
way reflect the purpose of the organ
ization and also give an inkling of
the things that make Oregon City
famous.
For instance, it has been suggest
ed that the marching club be known
as the "Chinooks," as a tribute to the
salmon that make Oregon City fa
mous. The name "Turbines" has al-
D. C. LATOURETTE, President.
F. J. MEYER, Cashier.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF OREGON CITY, OREGON
CAPITAL $50,000.00.
Transacts a General Banking Business Open From 9 A. M. to 8 P. M.
W. S. U'REN, formerly of
Oregon City '
FRANK C. HESSE
Phone Main 6376
U'REN & HESSE
Attorneys at Law
DEUTSCHE ADVOKATEN
601-2-3-4 RAILWAY EX. BLDG. PORTLAND OREGON
so been suggested, this alluding to
the turbines that drive the mills and
make the county seat's payroll pos
sible. "Prosperians" has also been
suggested, the "motif" of this being
"prosperity." The club will be
thankful to anybody who can suggest
a good name, and merit alone will
rule in choosing the title under whivh
the organization will be known.
A committee consisting of Dr. L.
L. Pickens, E. R. Brown, E. E. Bro
die, H. E. Williams and Dr Clyde
Mount has been named to select un
iforms for the organization, and it
is hoped to have these delivered in
time for the club to take part in the
Rose Festival parades in Portland
in June Membership in the club is
being eagerly sought, and there is
every indication that at least a hun
dred ardent boosters . of the county
seat will be enrolled in its ranks
when the club gets down to action.
MILWAUKIE MAN HELD
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Deputy Sheriff Raids Gambling Game
In Shack and Takes Four .
Deputy Sheriff Riley, of Milwau
kie, arrested Remmie Kelly and three
boys in a shack in the outskirts of
Milwaukie this week, breaking up a
gambling game when he made the
arrest. The boys were paroled in the
custody of their parents and Kelly
was lodged in the county jail.
It is believed that Kelly and the
boys can throw light upon the recent
daylight robberies in the northern
end of the county, and officials also
believe that Kelly may know some
thing about the automobile hold-ups
that have occurred near the Friars'
Club and in the cut on the county
road leading to Portland.
HEAVING THE LEAD
SYMBOLS AS SHOP SIGNS.
How a Ship Feels Its Way Over
the Bed of the Ocean.
TAKING SOUNDINGS AT SEA
We are always adding new type
faces to our job department, & we are
equipped to give satisfaction. Try
us. Courier.
Courier and the Western Stock
Journal for $1.50 per year.
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe
nlm perfectly honorable In all bUblnesis
transactions and financially able to carry
put any obligations made by his firm.
NATIONAL, BANK OF COMMERCE.
Toledo, O.
Hall'i Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
Bent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Hall Family Pills for constipation
For Deep Water Work Machines That
Carry 300 Fathoms of Wire and
Twenty-four Pound Weight Are Used
Casting by Hand In Bad Weather.
"By the d-e-e-p, nine!"
The peculiar, long drawn out cry of
the leadsman In the chains echoes out
as tlio cruiser gathers speed and be
gins to move through the water.
"By the m-a-r-k, ten!"
We watch the man as he twirls the
lead In tuo air, and reels off the sound
ing with mathematical accuracy. He
is standing In the port "chains" a
syiall platform, perhaps four feet
square, jutting out from one end of the
cruiser's bridge. To us his position
seems rather precarious, for his perch
overhangs the dark water thirty feet
below, but the man himself a seuson
cd petty ollieer feels perfectly safe,
for he loans his body against a canvas
"apron," waist high, while his feet are
firmly placed against a wooden bar se
cured to the platform Itself.
' But let us watch him as he makes a
cast lie first sees the end of the lead
line Is properly secured and then pro
ceeds to coil It up in his right hand.
The line itself, whitened by long use,
has sundry little marks at various dis
tances along it At two fathoms
(twelve feet) from the lead are two
strips of leather, while at three fath
oms there are three. At five fathoms,
and again at fifteen, Is a piece of white
buntlug; at seven and seventeen fath
oms, a piece of rod bunting, and at ten
a piece of leather with a hole in It
At thirteen fathoms comes a rag of
blue bunting, while at twenty-three is
a small bit of line, with two knots tied
in it, spliced into the lead line itself.
The lead line is twenty-five fathoms
long, while the lead secured to its end
Is about fourteen pounds In weight
The bottom of it is hollowed out to re
ceive the "arming" of tallow or soap,
and this allows the nature of the bot
tom to be ascertained, for the sticky
substance will come to the surface
with particles of mud or sand, etc., ad-
uering to it
--weaving tue lead" looks easy
enougu, and anybody who Is accus-
totned to doing it will say that It is
quite simple; but it takes a long time
Uelore a man becomes a proficient
leadsman. A novice is apt to be fright
ened at the whirling fourteen pound
weight on the end of its line, and if he
loses heart and omits to give it that
peculiar little jerk which brings it fly
ing round iu a circle it may full per
pendicularly In close proximity to his
head.
Heaving the lead may be nil right
enough In good weather, but In the
winter, when it Is blowing hard, rain
ing or snowing, it Is anything but pleas
ant The driving rain and snow search
out every portion of the leadsman's
anatomy, even though he may be wear
ing oilskins, while his hands get numb
with cold until there is no feeling left
in tucm.
The deep sea lend line, which was in
variably used for deep water work be
fore the introduction of patent sound
ing machines and would still be used
if they'v broke down, consists of 100
fathoms of line and a twenty-eight
pouud lead. It is marked up to twenty
fathoms in the same way as the hand
lend line, and then at twenty-five, thirty-five,
forty-five, etc., fathoms with
one knot, and at thirty, forty, fifty,
etc., with three, four or Ave knots, and
so on, to the greatest depth of the line.
The ship la usually stopped when
using the deep sea lino, for it takes a
considerable time for the lead to reach
the bottom..
The patent sounding machine con
sists of 300 fathoms of thin piuno wire
wound on a drum, and to the end of
the wire Is secured a twenty-four
pound lead, with, just above it a per
forated brass sheath fitted with a cap.
Before sounding takes place a glass
tube open at one end and coated on
the Inside with a red eueinicul com
pound, is placed in the brass sheath.
The wire is then allowed to run out
until the lead is on the bottom, and
as it descends the pressure forces the
water up the glass tube and turns the
red chemical into a milky white color
for a certain distance up.
The lead Is then hauled in by hand,
or by a motor, and the depth Is as
certained by comparing the line of
demarcation between the two colors
in the glass tube with a wooden scale
marked in fathoms.
With these simple but extremely re
liable muchines soundings can bo ob
tained at greater, depths, and with the
ship traveling at n far greater speed,
than with the hand lead and Hue,
though, as already stute(l, the older
method is always held In reserve.
London Answers.
Fantastic Fling.
"I understand your husband la learn
ing to dance?"
"No." replied Mrs. Glumsbv. "That
report was started by some neighbors
who happened to be looking through
our basement window Just after he
had dropped a hot cinder on his foot"
Washington Star.
Still a Nomad.
'Why did your wife leave you?"
'Force of habit 1 guess. She was a
cook before 1 married her." Detroit
Free Press.
The great secret of making the labor
of life easy is to do each duty every
flay. Marsden.
RIVER LIXE PLANNED
The Courier and the Western
Stock Journal both for $1.50 a year.
Steamers May Soon Run From Port
land to Yamhill Towns
As an echo of the recent opening
of the canal at Oregon City for the
free passage of river craft, it is an
nounced that a fine of boats to carry
passengers and freight will be put
on between Portland, Dayton and Mc-
Minnville, and on the Yamhill River.
A small job of dredging wll make
that river easily navigable for light
draft steamers.
A Legacy From the Old Days When
but Few Persons Could Read.
The man on the street, and especially
the man on the street In Manhattan,
docs not realize that he Is every day
perpetuating In the signs that he uses
the customs of a people who could not
read. In the old days It was useless to
put up the sign "apothecary," because
few could read It So the apothecary
decorated his shop front with a mortar
and pestle as a sign of his trade.
We can read now, most of us, but we
cling to signs of this sort still. The
symbol lingers.
Here and there a barber tries to
throw off Its yoke by painting a sign
that rends "tonsorlal parlor," but the
normal barber shop proudly sets up Its
totem pole, which retains as a tradi
tion the silent but eloquent testimony
of the former practice on the part of
the barber of blood letting.
Similarly the pawnbroker hangs up
his trinity of golden balls because the
original pawnbroklng business was
started by a Medici, whose coat of
arms was charged with three golden
balls on a field of silver.
The wooden Indian signifies a to
bacco store because it was from the
Indians that the Idea of smoking orig
inally came. The noble red man has
thus been debased and doomed to hold
forth in effigy a bunch of cigars to both
the willing and the unwilling.
A boot that swings as a sign says
plainly to every man, "This Is a shoe
shop." The shoes Within will wear
themselves out in the service of those
who buy them. A large wooden watch
can mean only one thing, and that Is
that the sign- owner is a horologlst
New York Mail.
A Dry Land Boat Race.
A dry land boat roce took place at
some sports In the north of England
last year and caused much merriment
The "crews" sit astride a pole and run
backward round a course, steered by a
cox," who faces in the right direction.
Tumbles, needless to say, are very fre
quent, and when the leader happens
to lose his footing he generally "ship
wrecks" the whole crew, to the vast
enjoyment of their rivals and the spec
tators. Wide World Magazine,
YOU MAY VISIT
the
California Expositions
on your way to or from the east
Summer Excursion Tickets
On sale May 15 daily to September
30 permitting Btop-overs en route.
Ten days' stop allowed on one-way
tickets at San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
Low Round Trip Fares ..to . San
San Francisco and San Diego dur
ing the Exposition period
Visit the Southern Paccifio building at the Panama
Pacifiic Exposition. Rest room, moving pictures,
Travel Lectures, Ticket and Validating Office and
Information Bureau. ,
How Rusty Kettles Were Cleaned.
An old fashioned reclne for clennlnir
the Inside of a rusty kettle consisted In
filling It to the brim with hav. As
much water as it will hold should then
be poured over the top, the kettle
placed on the fire and boiled for sev
eral hours, more water being added
wnen required.
The Razor Quartet.
"Haydn once exclaimed when shav
ing, 'I will give my best quartet for a
razor,'"' remarked Sir Alexander C.
Mackenzie in an address before the
Royal institution, "and n man offering
him a couple secured the manuscript
of what is now called the 'Razor' quartet"
Gave Him a Hint.
Caller A physician snys cold feet are
a sign of tight shoes. Maiden Lady
Well, lan' sakes, next time you come
to see me, wear a pair that's comfort
able. Buffalo Express.
Full Information from Nearest Agent of
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
J. M Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland Oregon
Office phones: Main 50, A50; Res. phones, M. 2524,1715
Home B251, D251
WILLIAMS BROS. TRANSFER & STORAGE
Office 612 Main Street
Safe, Piano, and Furniture Moving a Specialty
Sand, Gravel, Cement, Lime, Plaster, Common
Brick; Face Brick, Fire Brick
Oregon City Wood Fuel Company
Wood, Coal and Feed Yard
F. M. BLUHM, Prop.
Horses bought and sold. Farms and wagons for hire by the day, week
or month. Your patronage solicited, call and see us when in town.
Home Phone S ,116. Pacific Phone 137-J.
Worry kills more People thnn work.
because more go up against it
The Courier for Job Printing!
Booster Day Special
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we will irffesem: to any
Person Baying Merchandise to the Value
of $5.00 the Choice of
Any g2 Soft, Stiff or
Straw fiat in the House!
With Purchase of $10 or over, the unre
stricted Choice of
Any If at in the House
Values to $4.00
FOR SATURDAY ONLY
MEN'S FLANNEL SHIRTS QCA MEN'S FLORSCHEIM CO PC
$1.50 Grade OJU SHOES, $5, $6 Grades $0.03
BOYS' SUITS, $5 Grade CO Ot MEN'S MESH UNION AC
For Saturday Only $J.Uj SUITS, 75c Grade 40C
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