V OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1915 If Your Grandfather Wrote His Letters By Hand! and 'how those weary ringers must have ached! He would have appreciat ed far more than you , do, who have known nothing different the time and labor saving typewriter. So too would he have been delighted with the light compact modern watches we are offer ing. He carried a thick heavy keywind er that cost him a small fortune annually for upkeep. A Splendid Watch for Men is the Elgin "G. M. Wheeler" made in three sizes, adjusted to temperature and position changes. Price $17.00 Other Elgin Watches 5.50 and up. Burmeister & Andresen Jewelers Oregon City, Oregon Suspension Bridne Corner COUNTY AND CITY LOCALS The home of Mr. Jinks, of High land, burned down last week, with everything in the house a total loss, except a few papers and one trunk of clothes. Mr. Jinks was away at work,and Mrs. Jinks was alone out in the garden. She rushed in and saved the above named articles, but narrowly escaped being burned to death. Her hair and clothes were on fire, when a neighbor arrived and helped her. There was scarcely any insurance. Mrs. Mary Gard, an' old pioneer, is very ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Nora Miller. But little hope is held for her recovery. James F. Richardson and wife, of Elora, Ontario, Canada, are visiting with Bob Wilson, Mr. Richardson's uncle, for a few days while en route to the California expositions. Mrs. Frank T. Barlow, of Glad stone, was awarded first prize for the best pink roses in the Portland rose show Wednesday. Mrs. Barlow en tered the pink - Cochets, and were greatly admired by many rose fan ciers. Among county seat visitors from Oak Grove recently were Louis Wick, Ed Olds, Miss Louise Warner and II. G. Randalls. Ralph Pendleton, of Colton, has been in town recently on business. N. W. Bowland and his wife, daughter and niece, left during the week for a visit at Middle - Point, Ohio, Mr. Bowland's former home. This is his first trip to his old resi dence for 35 years. Mr. and Mrs. D. McArthur, of New Era, spent the week-end with county seat friends. F. J. Spagle, of Hubbard, was a recent visitor in the county seat. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Webber, of t Vancouver, Wn., spent the fore part of the week with county seat friends. Miss Emma Kleinsmith, of Clarkes was in the county seat early in the week. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. George, of Es tacada, passed through the county seat early in the week en route for California. ' Miss Edith Waterman, who has been the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Pfingsten, has left for Califor nia, where she will visit the expo sitions. George F. Wilkins, of Kalama, was in the county seat for the week-end. Fred G. Taylor, of Boise, Idaho, spent Saturday in the county .seat vis iting friends in nearby communities. H. G. Fessenden and wife, of Seat tle, were in Oregon City Monday and Tuesday, visiting friends. William T. Brower, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was in the county seat early in the week, looking over land for sale. He is planning to locate some where in the west. Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Lewis enter tained over the week-end the Misses Sadie and Florence Wright, of Taco ma. Miss Mildred Dale, who has spent the last 10 months with her aunt, Mrs. Ellsworth, of this city, return ed to Guthrie, Oklahoma, Thursday. Robert Yoder visited his cousin, Robert Smith, in Portland Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Williamson is critically ill at her home. Mrs. John Hogan and son, Leo, left for Bigger, Sask., Canada, after a visit of ten months in Oregon City with her sister, Mrs. Nathely, of Eighth and Madison street. Elmer Farr and family, who re cently arrived in Oregon City from the east left for California the last of the week. Mrs. Lacey and daughter, Miss Janie, have taken up their residence at 10th and Taylor. Elmer King, of this city, left for California the last of the week. Walter Dungey has been very ill with la grippe the past week, and was unable to attend his class during its commencement exercises, Friday. Miss Mary Mattley, who was a graduate from Oregon City high school, 1915, will enter Reed College, Portland, in September. Miss Dolly Lettlemeir, from Carl son Washington, is visiting at the home of Miss Janie Lacey. Mr. Van Dykke, who formerly H J in this city in the interest of Eilers Music House, Portland, was in Ore gon City Monday on business. Mr. Davies, of 8th and Madisdn street, passed away Tuesday at six o clock after an illness of two years, Mrs. Mattley, of the Seventh St, Hotel, left for Corvallis Friday, where she remained until the follow ing Wednesday and attending the ex- ercises at the College, when Miss Belle Mattley received a diploma for accompanied home by Mrs. Fisher and daughters, who spent a few days visiting in Oregon City. Violet Julia Straight, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Straight, died Sunday evening, and was buried Tuesday at two o'clock in -Mountain View cemetery. Frank King, of this city, left for Wyoming the last of the week, where he will remain until High School opens in the fall. Funeral services were conducted for George Swartz from the Meyer and Brady undertaking establishment Tuesday, interment being at Moun tain View cemetery. The young man was a sufferer from tuberculosis, a hemhorrage being the immediate cause of death. Melvin Frost, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Frost, formerly of this city, had the misfortune to fall from an moving automobile, breaking his leg. The lad is resting easily under the doctor's care at the home of relatives, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Andrews, at Mt. Pleasant. Mr. and Mrs. Snover, of Salem, were called to Oregon City on account of the illness and death of Mrs. Sno ver's father, D. H. Davies, at 8th and Madison street. MORE ABOUT STOCK SHOW Correspondent Contrasts Local Me thods with Those Elsewhere Editor Courier: If I may be granted the space I want to compare the stock show and sale at Oregon City to the efforts of Philomath and Albany. Philomath is a village of about 800 people situated among the foot hills of the coast range in Benton county. On May 21 and 22 a horse show was held there. They paid first, sec ond and third prizes on horses in all classes. The prizes ranged from $2.50 to $10.00. The first and sec ond prizes for the riding contest amounted to $135.00. A fre public sale was held. I received my information from Mr. L. S. Stovall, chairman of the arrangments committee. Albany holds a public sale once a month. I will quote Mr. W. L. Fish er, chairman of the public sales day committee. "We have held five sales and they have all been successful. We secured a vacant lot 100 by 300 feet, built stock pens on one side, erected bleachers on the other and put up a stand 100 by 8 for chicken coops and other things that require such space. One either side of the stand we have vacant space to show and sell ve hicles, machinery and horses and cat tle to halter. We furnish the auc tioneer and make no charges for the privileges. Our object is to bring the seller and buyer together." "The sales are conducted for the farVners and have brought good results." "Last sale day we sold $4000.00 worth of material at auction and pri vate sale." How long would it take Oregon City and D. O. Anderson to work up a $4000.00 sale with their present methods ? Why is it that a little town like Philomath can pay out $135.00 as prizes for one contest? I doubt whether Oregon City paid out that much in prizes for the entire stock show. Why is it that Albany's live commercial club can go to consider able expense for providing quarters for a public sale and at the same time make no charges for the privi leges ? I will venture the guess that it is because Philomath and Albany are not burdened with such men as D. O. Anderson working up high priced ads to fatten the Western Stock Journal. I do not suppose that they have to pay a man five dollars for a couple of hours' work that a kid could do in putting up posters. Here I would incidentally like to direct a little sympathy in the di rection of Judge Dimick. When I asked him to help me find out what Anderson had done with our money 130 he informed me that he had been stuck to the extent of three dollars in supporting the stock sale. If a man takes three dollars out of one pocket and puts it in the other to gether with fifteen dollars of our money we should extend our sym pathy for the wrong he suffers. In conclusion we have Philomath staging a successful horse show and a free public sale. They probably paid as much in prizes for a single contest as Oregon City paid for its entire stock show. Their third prizes will average as high as Oregon City's first prizes. Albany's Commercial club conducts a monthly sale free after going to considerable expense to provide suit able accommodations. Oregon City with a slogan of power, payroll and prosperity to gether with a "Fallsarian" marching club, tries annually to hold a stock show without providing suitable ac commodations. It strains itself "to the extent of paying a lot of three dollar first prizes. It puts such men as D. O. Anderson in charge of a stock sale to make it an absolute failure. I also wonder if the difference be tween the Albany commercial club and Oregon City's commercial club does not account for the difference between Main street and the miles of first class paving in Albany. W. W. HARRIS. THERE IS NO PEACE And There Never Can Be Any Peace Under Capitalism "Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said: This is my own my native land." But suppose a man does not own a foot of land in his own land! Then he cannot afford to have a soul A man who has to depend for a liv ing on hunting a job, is better with out a soul. Suppose such a man stands on the side walk or street in Portland. A policeman may come along and order him to move on. If he does not obey he may be clubbed into insensibility for resisting an officer. If he does move on the next police man can arrest him for a vagrant, A vagrant is an unidentified animal, like a leopard that changes its spots by moving from one spot to another. If such a man runs to escape the policeman, then he is a fugitive from justice, and the policeman may take a shot at him, and if an innocent by stander should stop the bullet, that would be bad for the bystander. Jus tice must not be obstructed. Now we see that it is illegal for a man out of a job to stand still; it is illegal for him to walk, and it is dangerously illegal to run. If he stands still, he is obstructing traffic; if he walks, he is a vagrant, and if he runs, he is a desperado. Indeed it is almost illegal for him to breathe, and if he commences talk ing to himself and saying that this is his own, his native land, they are likely to pull him for a lunatic, and I guess they would have a case against him all right. So we see there is no rest for the weary nor the wicked. The terms of peace are as severe as those of war. Indeed capitalism constantly makes war upon the working pepols through its machinery of law. That is what the law is for. There are more people slain in times of peace by accidents that might be prevented, and by diseases due to ignorance and over work and unsanitary conditions, than are slain on battlefields in times of war. In deed, our present industrialism is a constant battle for bread, in which the workers war against one another. And this war is waged against wo men and children, and the aged and infirm, as well as against the strong. Now that they have got Billy Bry- and and the Prince of Peace squeezed out of the cabinet, the war party is in the saddle. Whether they will ride the country to the devil or be bucked off, is an issue that trembles in the balance. Which way the wolf or the tiger will jump, time will soon tell. I don't have to. It doesn't matter. We are at war anyhow. Let them do their worst, and, like Juda slscar- iot, let them do it quickly and have it over with. The pieces of silver are now, as ever, the deciding ele ments. There is no such thing as national honor, for there is no na tion that treats it own citizens hon estly or justly. So let them turn loose their dogs. But personally I would be willing to sacrifice all the millionaires in the United States in the interest of peace, provided we could have a real peace with honor, but the peace we now' have is only the Pax Romana. Make a note of the name Pax Romana I'll tell you about it later on. J. L. JONES. 4 MORE FROM HOFER Salem "Rainmaker" Adds to Know ledge of the World as to Taxes The Courier is indebted to Col. E. Hofer, the former Salem rainmaker, and now the self-appointed guardian of the state, for the follwing infor mation about Union county, taxes and other matters. We reproduce it without comment. Every' week we like to print something from Col. Ho fer, just to encourage him. "Union county is organizing a tax payer's league on the right lines of securing tax reductions. In that county in nine years state taxes in creased 141 per cent; school taxes in creased 300 per cent; city taxes 650 per cent, and county taxes only 31 per cent. Three county commission ers on $4.00 a day for a few days each month manage the county busi ness. This is opening the eyes of the people to the fact that high salaried city commissioners and city managers are no protection to the taxpayer. "'In Marion county the commission ers handle the county business and keep taxes down on a salary not to exceed $300 a year. It is the uni form rule that cities taking up public ownership have highest tax rates." The Gullota Trio r v ! S m'- ir-A:-; "A- I If": ': : ' . AW IN professional circles the Gullota Trio stand liisli as Individual nrtlsta and as a perfectly balanced organization. Tliuy will come here under the auspices of the seveh day gathering known us a Chautauqua. Au ultrac tion expected at a large Chautauqua nt Sycamore, 111., canceled Its en gagement unexpectedly. At the last moment (iullotn and bis trio were sent to entertain them In place of the splendid company they expected to get. Go ing before a tired, waiting audience at 3 o'clock In the afternoon on a hot summer day, Gullota, with his charming group, began a program which simply overwhelmed those people with its beauty and richness. ChautauquaGhdstone July 6-18 WED ON HORSEBACK Molalla Pair Emulate "Wild West' Days When Knot Is Tied Miss Bessie Leightweis and Lionel J. Wilkinson, railroad agent at Mo lalla, galloped sixteen miles in to the county seat Monday of this week, and riding up to the Rev. Dr. Milli ken's house, requested that some body hurry up and marry them. Dr. Milliken being away, the Rev. S. P. Davis read the marriage service, standing between the steeds upon which the contracting parties were sitting. Mrs. Milliken and H. D. Olson were witnesses. During the ceremony a local photo grapher stood nearby and endeavored not to scare the horses with his cam era as he took a picture of the hap py event. After- the ceremony the couple' rode home. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson will go on a 5,000 mile jaunt for their honeymoon, visiting the California expositions, Denver and Wichita, Kan., before their re turn to Molalla. CANOE BRINGS DEATH Portland Youth Drowned While Enjoying Outing on River W. B. Schaefer, of Portland, who was camping with his mother and friends at Cedar Island Park, near Jennings Lodge, was drowned Mon day when he attempted to "ride the waves'' in the wake of a river steam er while out canoeing. A companion who was in the frail boat with Scha fer at the time was thrown .into the river when the canoe was upset, but. was rescued by deckhands of the ves sel. People on the river steamer at the time saw the efforts of the young ca noeist, who , evidently did not know how to man'age his craft; and won dered at the careless manner in which he took the waves in the wake. A moment later they saw the boat cap size; and though a lifeboat was lower ed at once from the steamer, the youth had sunk for the last time be fore the rescuers could get to him. MISS LOVELL WEDS Oregon City Girl Becomes Bride of Roy B. Robertson Miss Alice R. Lovell, of Oregon City, and lately a teacher in the Boring school, was married on June 8 to Roy B. Robertson, of Portland. The ceremony was performed at the home of the groom's sister, in Port- and, the Rev. Dr. Bowersox officiat ing. Immediately after the cere mony the couple left for a honey moon at Newport. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson will reside in the county seat. Mr. Robertson is an engineer in the employ of the ma rine division of the Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation company. Both the young people are popular in Oregon City, and a host of friends join in wishing them happiness. Hint for the Farmers Farmers who are getting the larg est possible cash returns for money and labor expended in their farming operations may do wonders for the development their country by attend ing Farmers' Institutes and telling their neighbours how they do it," says R. D. Hetzel, Extension director of the Oregon Agricultural College. If their returns are unsatisfactory it will pay them to invest two days in attending and presenting their problems for discussion or taking them up personally with members of the Extension staff conducting the institute. The domestic science talks and demonstrations mean as much to the women as the agricultural work means to the men.'' Elks Enjoy Day More than a hundred members of the county seat lodge of Elks enjoy ed a picnic at Wright's Springs Sun day, where an out-door program was held. Many of the antlered tribe went to the picnic grounds on the Willamette Valley Southern, while others journeyed out and back in automobiles. Monday the Elks cel ebrated Flag Day in their lodgerooins with a simple program. Always Makes Good III 5 & ! SHADOWS ON THE SAND Coming Events Cast Warnings Ahead If Old Saying Is True Here's a bet that George C. Brow nell, when he bursts into the white glare of politics in 1916 and goes after the United States senatorship, will run on a platform of prohibition, hurrah for the flag and the rights of man. Mr. Brownell has already an nounced that he is the only original prohibition candidate, and this week he gave an inkling of the rest of it. Thusly did it occur. Tuesday night there appeared at Seventh and Main street an earnest individual, who told the crowd that gathered that good Americans were being thrown out of jobs and for eign wops were being given their places at less pay, and that the wages of the "furriners" were sent back to the old countiy at the rate of $150,000,000 a year, or thereabouts. He wanted his hearers to help him or ganize a voters' league that would put the Indian sign on foreign labor while Americans were looking for jobs, and that would also endorse W. S. U'Ren and pound "big business." The dope that the earnest individual handed out was perfectly good, but this article is not about that. While the stranger within our gates was handing out advice our George, the prohi candidate for the toga, sat like a plebian on the ucrb stone and lent an attentive ear. At intervals, when the speaker made a good point, Bro. George nodded his head sagely. And after the speaker got through, George rose and in his intimate manner told the boys what a fine thing it would be if Americans owned these United States, what a pest the "furriners" were, and how his heart went out to the poor un employed. Then he saw a reporter heave into the offing, and he told a funny story and faded away into the night. When George C. Brownell will sit on a cold curbstone at night for an hour and listen to a street orator, you can bet George has his ear to the ground and is getting points. So we say that it's a safe bet that when he blooms forth as a candidate, he will extend the glad hand to the common people and offer to be their champion. Jonathan Bourne did that, and look at him now! SUGGESTION IS OFFERED "Stand-pat" Paper Gives Sheriff Un expected "Support" on Page One Tuesday's Enterprise, which is supposedly a stand-pat republican paper, devoted to upholding the pol icies and men of the grand old party, contained the following witticism on its first page: Wilson had better make every resident of the county a deputy sheriff. Then maybe a stop could be put to the daily rob bery in the county. The Courier, at times, has had its little fun with the sheriff, but it never asked him to invite crooks into his official family. However, we re call that during the last Taft cam paign the Enterprise printed six col umns devoted to praise of Mr. Roose velt, so if it occassionally "slams" the republican sheriff we ought not to be surprised. GOES TO "OAKS": DIES George Schwartz, of Beaver Creek, Stricken After Outing George Schwartz, who was born in Beaver Creek in 1894. went to the Oaks, an amusement resort near Portland, Saturday, and died Sunday morning at his home, the result of a hemorrhage brought on by the ex citement of his visit to the attrac tions at the river resort. The youth had been a sufferer from tuberculo sis for some years, but was improv ing steadily until his unfortunate trip to the Oaks. The funeral was held Tuesday af ternoon. His mother, three brothers and two sisters survive him and mourn his loss. Courier and the Western Slock 1' 1 I Journal J1.C0 per year. OPERETTA IS GIVEN McLoughlin Institute Pupils Have Unique Graduation Program An address by the Right Reverend Archbishop Christie, and the presen tation by the pupils of the operetta "The Miracle of the Roses,'' were features of the graduation exercises of McLoughlin Institute, held in the county seat Tuesday evening. Fif teen pupils received diplomas. Arch bishop Christie was closely followed by his auditors, and his address was praised highly by all who heard him. He is a forceful and telling speaker, and endears himself to the hearts of those whom he meets. The cast of the operetta, which was excellently rendered, was as follows: Mistress of the school: Pearl Long; Mignon (after Elizabeth), Minnie Justin; Lady Clare (afterward Land grace of Thuringia), Anna McMillan; pupils: Tillie Michels, Genevieve Mc Garrity, Lucy Budorich; Frances Gawlista, Margaret Brady, Valita Reily and Josephine Hodes; Gaziella (a dumb girl), Irene Hastings; Made line (an orphan), Adelia Kozeiz; milk maid, Hilda Myers; poor people of Thuringia, F. Gawlista, Lucy Budor ich, T. Michels and G. McGarrity; at tendants, Anne Storey, Eldona Val liere and Catherine Long. The graduates are: Eva R. Mc Anulty, Leonard M. Thompson, Rose B. Muench, Clothilde Rypczynski, Daniel P. Brady, Joseph A. Miller, Helen Yunker, Ellen Soreghan, George Klemsen .Ralph Edmonds, Veronica McMillan, Ursula Schuld, Naideen Blanchard, Andrew Naterlin, Elizabeth Nemec. Wedding Anniversary Celebrated Mr. and Mrs. F. Wievesiek and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cook celebrated their respective wedding anniversar ies June 15th at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cook, whose home adjoins that of Rev. Wievesiek and family on 8th and Madison St. A few friends and relatives were invited in to spend the evening. Delicious ice cream and cake were served to the guests. A beautiful bouquet of choice roses "a rose for each year of wedded life" was presented to each bride by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cook, brother and sis ter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cook. The crowning event of the even ing was the christening of Ruth Ma rie, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cook, by Rev. F. Wievesiek. How are you fixed for letter heads' and envelopes? Courier. RESOLVED THAT IF YOU WANT To HAVE A GOOD TIME BUY OUR -SPORTING GOODS AND CUT Loo-SE whether you want to play base ball tennis or go fijhing,c0me in and let u.s equip you for the sport. we have only -standard linej--spal-ding 5 baj ball good-s, wright and dit jon -5 tenni-s goods, leading brands of fijhing tackle-the kind recommended by those who know and which will give you genuine -sati-sfaction. take along a kodak and take your own pictures we have them. StSSi For the boy, 11k; irl or the; grown-up who wants a Miinplu Jillle outfit get it No. 0 Itrownic, price $1.2.", the little camera, that does big tilings. Uses Kodak film cartridges of 8 exposures size of pictures, iVsk2'!' inches. So clear and sharp arc the pic tures made with this little camera, that enlargements can be made to the post card size, or larger, if desired. We have all models of Kodaks in stock at $6 to $60.00 Ask for complete catalog it's free. We develop roll film, all sizes, 10c; Film Packs, all sizes, L'Hc; Film left before (i P. 31. ready next morning. Huntley Brothers' Co. The 3ga2Jl Storm Swedish Service Swedish services will be held in the Methodist Church W Oregon City next Sunday, June 20, at 3 p. m. All Scandinavians are most cordially in vited to attend. John Ovall, Swedish, minister. Mrs. Ruby Nash was called east on account of her daughter's death last Monday. She expects to make Denver, Colo., her future home, and will give up her lease on the Flecht ner place in Nob Hill. GOULD NOT STAND ON FEET Mrs. Baker So Weak Could Not Do Her Work Found Relief In Novel Way. Adrian, Mich. "I suffered terribly with female weakness and backache and got so weak that I could hardly do my work. When I washed my dishes I had to sit down and when I would sweep the floor I would get so weak that I would . have to get a drink every few minutes, and before I did my dusting I would have to lie down. I got so poorly that my folks thought I was going into consumption. One day I found a piece of paper blowing around the yard and I picked it up and read it It said 'Saved from the Grave,' and told what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound has done for women. I showed it to my husband and he said, Why don't you try it?' So I did, and after I had taken two bottles I felt better and I said to my husband, 'I don't need any more,' and he said 'You had better take it a little longer anyway. ' So I took it for three months and got well and strong. "--Mrs. Alonzo E. Baker, 9 Tecumseh St., Adrian, Mich. Not Well Enough to Work. In these words iB hidden the tragedy of many a woman, housekeeper or wage earner who supports herself and is often helping to support a family, on meagre wages. Whether in house, office, fac tory, shop, store or kitchen, woman should remember that there is one tried and true remedy for the ills to which all women are prone, and that is Lydia E. 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