Oregon City courier. (Oregon City, Or.) 1902-1919, October 28, 1915, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextOREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1915. HERE IT IS it News of the County and Suburbs Local and County Items of Interest to Our Readers EAST CLACKAMAS Howard Getz and family, of Port land, spent Sunday with his parents. Sena Heinrich visited with her home folks Sunday and Monday. M. S. Shearer was a caller at the Cedar Springs ranch Sunday. E. S. Boyer attended a teachers' meeting at Milwaukie Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. Welch were in the metropolis last Friday. Mrs. J. W. Bennett and daughter, Lucille, attended the play at the Ba ker last Saturday. J. E. Searles was an Oregon City goer last Saturday. Supervisor Vedder visited our school last Thursday. Miss Martha Killis, of Portland, at tended the musicale given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. II. H., Blake, also participating in the same on the pi ano. J. W. McNair visited his daughters at Mrs. Searles, Sunday. Mrs. S. M. Hayworth and daughter, Arlene, were visitors at Milwaukie Friday and Saturday. Two of our local nimrods, E. R, Bennett and A. Heinrich, were chas ing game birds in the Logan country Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Shearer took dinner with A. Getz Sunday. If you do not get your name men tioned don't blame ye scribe. We cannot know everything. See? J. W. Bennett and family motored -to Molalla Thursday of last week. Mrs. Schuren, of Portland, visited her daughters, Mrs. II. H. Blake and Miss Martha Schuren, over the week end. A delightful musicale was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. II. Blake Saturday evening, October 23rd. The house was beautifully decorated with cut flowers, maidenhair fern and Ore gon grape, and each lady was present ed with a bouquet of cut flowers and the maidenhair fern. Light refresh ments were served. The hostess, who has a soprano voice of good quality, Miss Martha Schuren, an efficient pianist, who studied under well known teachers in Cologne, Germany, and Miss Martha Killies, of Portland, fur nished the following most excellent program for the evening: Crowning March, "The Prophet" piano Meyericr; Wedding Feast "Lo hengrin" -duet for piano Wagoner; Con Amore piano Young; A Dream of Paradise," by soprano Gray; Al issandro Hradella overture Flotow ; Farewell to Thee piano Beethoven; Ye Merry Birds by soprano Grem bert; Sextett Lucia de Sammermoore piano Domijotti; Tell Me Oh Birds by soprano Abt; Dance of the De mons duet, piano Myers; Tales of Hoffmann piano Effenbroch; Mu sic Box piano Nebling; The Lord is My Shepherd by soprano and alto Smart. t The evening was the first of a series of programmes which the host ess has planned to give this winter. LIBERAL The late rains made the ground wet enough to start plows on stubble land and now the farmers will be busy , complished since getting the boys and again. 1 girls interested in the cattle industry. Potatoes are nearly all housed and Following is an account of a thirteen some people complain about rot and year-old girl who won the champion black spots. ' ship of her state, and at the same Grass is growing very rapidly with , this good weather. Corn is about all housed for the winter, with a good crop fully matur ed Lots of corn-fed hogs, but the price is down and a good many are feeding longer on that account. Stock hogs are plentiful, but low priced Very few beef cattle are left in this W. E. Francis, of Portland, has been a pleasant visitor for a week at S. Wright's, and the auto has a fine coat of paint, lie surely can do the work, The basket social in Vick's hall Sat urday night, was well attended and the baskets went at good figures, as Billy Heinz knows his business as auctioneer. Everyone is pleased with tho W. V. S. through trains to Portland. Our supervisor has just finished over two miles of graveling on the county roads this summer, and that road will not be worked over next yeur, so in a few years we will have decent roads. What is sadly needed is a roller and rock crusher, then it would be complete. CANBY Mr. and Mrs. Cohvbly were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Rape one day last week. Bert Rape and family have moved into the Kendall house. Earle Brothers are clearing sonic land for Mr. Pitts. Harry Cochran and brother-in-law are dealing some land for Mr. Phil ipine. Mr. Griffin had his well drilled nine feet deeper and he has plenty of water now. Potatoes are coming into the ware houses at Canby, regardless of the low prices. Alfred Bobbins has returned home again. Joe Thomas was in Canby Satur day having repairs made on his wood saw. From the way the wind is blowing at present we will get rain enough to fill up the wells that tire nearly dry. There is nothing that is needed more than plenty of good water. Mr. Hilton and Mr. Chubb arc at present digging their potatoes. CHERRYVILLE The rain season has begun. The woods and hills have put on the appearance of autumn. Mr. Weatherford and family, of Hillsboro, have rented the old Freol j place, just east of the postofnee. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Survia died in the St.. Vincent's hospital, Portland recently, and was buried in the cemetery here on Mon day. Very few papers contain Comptrol ler John Skelton William's rebuke of the National Banks for the usurious rates of interest charged to patrons. He says they charge from 10 to, in several instances, 200 percent, and in one case to a poor widow 2400 percent, At the rate they are doing business, they will soon have the biggest ma jority of people flat broke. Then who are they going to skin? Wil liams says their methods invite self destruction. Rural credits are the only hope of the people by which the government loans direct to the people. The Courier contains an excellent article on Mr. Ford, a Methodist min inter, who has lately left Oregon City in which his character is warmly praised but writes of his clinging to the old methods and strong belief in the old theology. Many men are built that way: the impressions of their youth and the doctrines they were saturated with in their infancy cling to them in spite of advancement and progress all around them. The brightest mind the orthodox church has produced in 60 years, Prof. Henry Drummond, says in his admirable es says that "the position occupied by the orthodox church is not impreg nable. Reactionaries along all lines may hold back, but they can not block the wheels of progress. EAGLE CREEK H. S. Jones, of Portland, was the week-end guest of relatives out this way. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Gibson, of Bar ton, spent last Tuesday night with James Gibson, returning home Wer- nesday. Ernest Hoffmeister, who spent two weeks in the Good Samaritan hospital returned home last Tuesday. Mrs. John Reid, Mrs. Susie Wilcox, Theodore Reid and Mrs. Cora Udell visited with James Gibson last ThurS' day and picked some apples. R. B. Gibson was an Estacada visit or Saturday. The Douglasses, Will, Walter ,and Jesse, accompanied by their uncle, George Douglass, of Portland, went to the mountains last week on a hunt ing trip, and returned home Sunday without having killed any big game Mins Edna Kennedy and Mrs. R B. Gibson called on Mrs. Howlett Sun day afternoon. Mrs. A. D. McMillan returned home last week after some days visit with relatives in Portland. HINT FOR FARMERS Maga.ine Published in City Tells How Country Folk Should Do In the November American Maga zine Stanley Johnson continues his series of articles entitled "Youth Leads the Way." This month Mr. Johnson takes up the subject of "Pigs and Baby Beef," and shows what wonderful things have been ac- time converted her father from a poor cotton farmer to a pig raiser: "There are many instances of suc cess, but the best of all is the winning of the Grand Championship of her state by thirteen-year-old Alice Mc Coy, of Blanchard, Caddo Parish, over all the other one hundred and eighty four boy and girl competitors. Her zeal to enter a pig club was encour uged by a loan of ten dollars from the superintendent of schools to buy a 'finished Berkshire gilt.' Eleven months old, it weighed five hundred pounds. A breeder offered Miss Mc Coy IffiO for it. The significant part of her aehievnieiit is tho conversion of her father from being a poor cotton farmer to a pig raiser. Alice made more money from her one pig than bo did from his whole farm, from which he gained one bale of cotton, worth about $45. It cost her $8 to raise her pig a little more than two cents a pound. Her ten dollars brought more than his investment in two mules, farming implements, and a year's work." Deafness Cannot Be Cured by lorn I iipiilk'ntioni, na they cuniint vrach ttin (liirasi'il portion of (ho nr. There la only ono way to euro tlt'til lutsa, nnd tli-it la by constitution til rcnuillrs. lViifmpa la cnuBi'd by an influmcri condition of the mu ciuib llnliiK of tho lOuitiU'hlnn Tubu. When thla tube Is Intlnntt'il you huvtt a rumbling omul or imiurtVot hcnrluK. nnd when It Is fiitii'Hy I'losrtl, Uonftn'sa la tho result, and untfHS the Intltinimattoti can bo taken out nnd this ttibo restored to Its normal condi tion, hfiirliitf will bo demroyod forever; nino cnsea out, of tell nro canned by Cuinrrh, whU'h Is notliluK but nu Intluiued condition of (he mueoiiB nil r faces. V will Rlvr Ono Hundred Dollars for nny conn of iVufncHB (enused by cnturrlo thrt cm Mot be cured by Hull's Catarrh Oui'o. VehtJ for circulars, free. K J, CIIKNKY A CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by nruKKims. vfie. Taku Hull's Ka in I ly nils for const Ipatlon. A Rainy Day Need Not Be Dull Cheer up I Get to work V27 in a Fish Ukand Reflex Slicker $3.00 Strong, easy fitting. iN light, and water proof, absolutely. Reflex Edges stop water from run ning in at the front Mack. Yellow or Olive khaki. .- Protector Hat, 75 cents "OWkRS A.J. TOWER CO. HOS TON John Stark's Plan to Better Humanity Offered the Public (Explanatory note) Under the ap propriate head of "What Happened Abroad," a Courier writer gently re minds me that I promised a plan for rural credits. This calls for explana tion. In order to make a short story long I stretched it through five in stallments. After the third was pub lished I carried the fourth to the Cur ier office and deposited the some on the Editor's desk it being noon hour and the Editor absent. It seems now to have disappeared, but where and how is the mystery. It does not seem proper to put five dollar a day detectives to look the matter up at present until Oregon City has bee thoroughly "cleaned up" of booze, as these eminent persons will be needed on that job. In order not to disappoint the pa tient readers I submit the final pa per of the series. In order to under stand it fully it would require the lost copy, which I will write from mem ory later on. Owing to an understanding with the Courier management it was agreed that all other contributors have the right of way over me, con scquently when the article failed to appear I took it for granted that I was crowded out. As it ' is, the Courier readers enjoyed a much need ed rest. ' My next issue will be a reply to Laura L. Kirchem. Now all you critics hop to it! Get your kicks in early and avoid the rush. The regu lar item follows: "Safety First'' has in recent years become a motto. It stands for, and emphasizes, the old saying that self preservation is nature s greatest law, When the timid ones will venture out to look around they will find the cap italist class doing business at the old stand and the politician eating, drinking and being merry, utterly oblivious of the danger that threaten ed to dump the whole universe into the ash-barrel, which some people be lieve would happen if plundering of the producer would be interfered with. Safety first would seem to this obscure clod hopper to prompt so ciety to provide the producer with every convenience toward more ample production should remove all handi caps and restrictions upon the pro ducing class so that the fear of want shall not haunt any human being. To do so would be a turning over of the fundamentals of organized society; would be revolution. The plan I am proposing in regard to rural credits is such a scheme. Those of you farmers who think you would sudden ly become too lazy to produce your own eats if you could obtain public credit free need not sneak out between two days for this scheme will never be put over you. If it comes it will come because you desire it, not before. While I label this idea as revolu tion, it is so only so far as refers to credits You will still have . your friends, the transportation agencies, with you to relieve you of a large part of your worries; also the mercan tile agencies will still collect toll so you will not have too much worth less money to. worry over. Then there will be the price-fixing boards of trade which' will gamble over your products before you hitch onto the plow in the spring. Oh, I think you still would be far enough from econ omic freedom to calm your throbbing pulses. While absolute freedom is the only goal worth while, rural credits have been preached at us till some of us think we would like a slice. Right here is the difference between the idea so industriously pushed by the exploiter and his retainers, some of whom are the "heads" of farmer so cieties, and my idea. These people propose to bond us and bondage is slavery and these bonds to become cards for gambling purposes among the same people who now gamble in tho prices of farm products. Everything seems to be ready to put it over, indeed, we of the common mold need not bibble about it, for all we need to do is to keep on working so that the interest will cme in a steady stream in thef orm of farm products. For remember this that interest is not paid in money, but in the products of labor. Money is merely the counters used in making up the tally sheet of how much they require and how little we may retain in order to exist. When this idea is once understood by the producer as it is now understood by the exploiter, the jig will be up. It is the duty of the government to protect all of its citizens, not only from foreign invasion, but also from aggression between the various indi vidual units. It must be borne in mind that it is just as wrong to over reach with a long head as with a ong arm. Simply because I am "of age"' it does not follow that it is right to "short change" me. I may still he only u child in matters of finance. Furthermore I may be in aan econom ic, helpless condition as an individual, so society must defend me against the economic strong. Since under our industrial system credit has become indispensable in carrying on production, it follows that it is to the best interest to society to so safeguard production that no re striction shall be placed upon it. So that each producer may be free to produce to full capacity. Credit is at present provided through private means and it follows that those fur nishing credit will demand all the traffic will bear. There is no use in calling the creditor bad names or to place penalties for exceeding the speed limit in taking royalty. It clearly becomes the duty of society to provide this credit at cost. This will not injure anyone and will be also effective. Take the road prob lem for an illustration. The public has taken over the monopoly of fur nishing ronds with actual cost as a fundamental. While many grievances are recorded, owing to the conflicting local and personal interest, yet on the whole the public would refuse to turn the problem over to private interests ior lurmsning us service, rrivatej ; i . THE STOCKMAN. v Pnnrlu faA ohoon tvlll nnt nrn. f M. VW. .J UHWH, ..... . - duee very good wool nor good 4 i mutton. Prepare a good shelter with a dry nest and keep the pigs in the pasture as long as possible. A stingy feeder cau never be come a successful raiser of horses. Skimp your sheep on good feed and care and they will skimp you on mutton. Works both ways. A stunted lot of fall pigs are j. not worth wintering, even In these times. i Every oue who breeds and c raises good colts will have a long f period of prosperity. L ,t. it. iti - - - -- -- - -- -- - -- -- - A J, A A. A. ... r TTTTTTT TTTTTTTTTTTTT TTTTT KEEP THE SOW THAT RAISES BIG LITTERS I well remember when bogs have been low heretofore and corn high farmers sold nearly all their hogs, In cluding their brood sows, In a desire to sell their corn, writes a correspondent of the Farm and Fireside. And these same farmers when conditions changed were scouring the country and attend ing every farm sale In an endeavor to secure brood sows at fabulous prices. They desired to re-embark in the swine Industry and secure the high prices and The Berkshire Is a very old and prepotent breed of hogs that were developed in England. When trans planted to American soil the Berk shire quickly became popular and has had no difficulty In holding his own with the American breeds. Ad mirers of the Berkshire claim that he will come more nearly making good in any part of the world than any other breed. The picture shows a pure bred Berkshire. profits they had lost and which their more fortunate neighbors were enjoy in?. That there will be a temptation the present season to fatten the brood sows after wenniug the pigs and send them to slaughter is already evident. Many farmers object to holding over their brood sows because the sows get too fat and fall to breed. But this con dition can be prevented easily by keep ing the sows apart from the hogs that are being fattened. With a good grass pasture and very little grain after the pigs are wenned the brood sow will gain In vigor and be In excellent condi tion for breeding next December, though somewhat thin in flesh. Uuder no circumstances should a brood sow be fed all the corn she can eat, and It is a great mistake to bring her to the time of breeding loaded with fat. When a brood sow raises from six to ten vigorous and healthy pigs, proving herself a good milker and a careful mother, she should by all means be kept on the farm. In giving birth to her young. If it becomes necessary she can be handled by her owner much easier than a young sow. If perchance there should be in the herd brood sows that are cross and ill mi tu red. that are poor milkers and have reared but two or three pigs they may well be fattened nnd sold. But to sacrifice a sow that has reared a good litter of pigs, with conditions that will make the demand for bog products for years to come the greatest ever known, Is simply to throw away one of the greatest opportunities ever afforded the farmers of the corn grow ing states to make hog raising tho most remunerative of all farm work. Too much importance cannot be at tached to the subject of cleanliness in the rearing of hogs, nnd if every farm er who rears hogs should feed clean, wholesome food no moldy, sour, de cayed food to be given and an abun dance of pure clcau water at all times, In my Judgment the ravages of swine plague and hog cholera would be ma terially lessened and in time entirely eradicated. Mule Versus Horse. Mules are said by some to be hardier than horses. Because of the mule's disposition It is probably true that he is Inclined to take care of his own Inter est somewhat better than the average horse. Ho probably exerts less energy In i'rettllig than does the horse. As to whether or not ho 'can stand more ac tual work than n horse of similar type, weight and condition Is still a ques tion. Mules are said to be less subject to accidents and Injury. Insignificant blemishes on mules affect their value less thfiu the same blemish on horses. Because of the mule's ability to care for himself he shows somewhat less tendency to get Into trouble when In pasture or in accidents of various sorts. Feeding Floor For Hogs. Concrete feeding floors answer a good purpose, as the hogs are kept upon the floor but a short time during meals, but a plank floor three feet above the ground has some advantages, especial ly in winter during heavy snowfalls. The wood floor can be cleaned of snow without building a wall around it, as Is the case with a cement floor ou the sur face of the ground. credit is inadequate in quantity and too expensive. Public credit is limit ed only by its needs. Private credit has perhaps given us as cheap service as could be expected, and as the credit by the public has not been developed we were forced to use pri vate credit. The need for credit has however, outgrown private service, so there is nothing left for us to do but to make use of our governmental ma chine t furnish us this credit, and at cost of administration. Now all you timid ones, get a good, V ' lU 7 , J El In The New Home People who are building new homes should see that their houses are properly wired for Electric Domestic Appliances, not forgetting the Electric Range, which has arrived to stay. In Homes Already Built Those already established in new modern homes or those built years ago, will find it com paratively easy and inexpensive to extend the wiring so that an Electric Range may be con nected. The Electric Way is the Modern Way For years inventors have worked on the prob lem of Electric Cooking Ranges. It is only re centlf that comparative perfection has been reached by the invention of a new metallic , combination. So that now manufacturers are ready to Guarantee their products. It is now that this Company confidently presents Electric Cookery as practical. Portland Railway Light d& Power Company firm hold onto something for I am about to pull up this whole world and it into a sewer by proposing that this government shall furnish the credit (money) to the farmers at approxi mate cost of administration. I be lieve that one half of one percent would easily be sufficient, but suppose we say one percent. Just think of getting, let us say, an average loan per farm of $500.00 for five dollars. The mind cannot conjure up the im proved condition of our farms in one year's time. It would be of more ser vice than all the farm experts would be in a life time. Then this money would go in circulation for many things like farm implements, barns, houses, fences and articles of personal use. The rusting wheels of industry would burnish up immediately. If the farm mortgages total three and one-half billion dollars, as some people inform us, the amount of money would be doubled. Of course, not all of this would be put into circulation at once, as the loans would perhaps require several years in being effect ed. In the mean time some loans would be cancelled. Perhaps one half that sum would be high water mark. Now, Mr. Farmer, this government can, and will, do that for us if we but ask it in the right way. There will not be any need of a change in party labels, either. The republican or democrats will gladly do it for us, even the twenty-four-quarters could be induced to become practical enough to push for this idea. But and here is the nubb of the whole question you must not expect the politician to do it for you. He is too busy with the tariff on prunes and our national honor, and our unpreparedness, to give attention to such simple affairs of everyday life in the limited time which is not taken up chasing the elusive $ around the chawtalk circuit. You must go to these conventions with your hob-nailed shoes on, and if one refuses to give you an iron-clad prom ise, then the other will surely meet your demands. Leave the lawyers at home. Let no great "ishshu" bewil der you. The question is for you to take these conventions and run them. Will you do it, or will you throw, your hat in the air over cheap guff about affairs that don't concern you at all, and then throw your bal lot into their waste basket? After your ballot is in, you are out! What do you think of my plan? Have you a better one ? Bring it out. Don't let the politicians solve this problem for you, for he will solve it for himself. Let's hear from you! JOHN P. STARK. GAME FOLLOWS FLAG Baseball Almost as much of a Pacifier As Krag Bullets Does baseball one step in rear of the constitution, follow the flag? United States Marine Corps rep resentatives say that it does, and old B. B. is the greatest single factor m capitivity for the perpetuation of peace, according to their views. The bat, ball and glove form part of a Marine's expeditionary equip ment, and it has been said that he carries baseball paraphernalia in his knapsack side by side with implements of a more serious nature. The Ma rine has been sent to all parts of the ec tr icity Simplifies Housekeeping jQear flmy;- Have you ever had the aniieLfaiecL 'oy of a 'oiiy viiit ifioiled Ly aoina io Jee Aome Aiend urhoie husLand ii Aieh enouafi io jfur niih his home handiomef, Lui eitheA too slinax or ioo eaAeleii o do it? Vhen one of my fAiendi comes io see me indeed, of have a Ieauii fully fuAniihed Aoom foA her. of ihink ii wouicl be a shame not io, clon'i you, flmy? , dlvjayi your fAiend, jCom. (P.S.-aJhere'i no excuse foA noi fixina u f youA home elegantly when you can act inch iyi iih, Aetialle fuAnituAe for so iiie money fAom FRANK BUSCH Leading Furniture Dealer 11th & Main Sts. Oregon City, Ore. world on errands of duty, and every where he has carried the irresistable game with him. But, unlike other missionaries carrying the good work into dark places, he hasn't gotten himself into trouble through it, and he rates the glorious old pastime as 100 per cent efficient in the cause of peace. A grizzled old "soldier of the sea," who has played the game in every clime, gave expression yesterday to the following when interviewed at the Brooklyn Marine Barracks: "Canned Caruso or the Symphony in F may have charms to soothe the savage breast, but when it comes to 'piping down' a hostile 'hombre' in his native lair, show him a man on third in the ninth inning with two down, and the score a tie. We've done it in China, Guam, the Philippines, Alaska and everywhere that a man may go, and it has always made for peace. Give The Electric Store Phones Home A-229 Pacific Main 115 Beaver Bldg. Main St. your Uncle Samuel a few thousand more marines with plenty of good baseball players to fill the ranks, and the warring nations of the world will be cemented closer together with the bonds of true sportsmanship." R. L. Holman and T. P. Randall, Leading Undertakers, Fifth and Main St.; Telephones: Pacific 415-J; Home B-18. Some Sisters Don't Speak The Manufacturers' & Land Pro ducts Show has designated Tuesday, Oct. 26 as "Sister Cities Day." The Sister Cities being, Oregon City, Van couver, Linnton, Estacada, Gresham and Oswego. (Estacada Progress.) The Courier has a full line of Legal Blanks for sale. If you are in need of Legal Blanks you will find that it will pay you to come to the Courier.