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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1915. 3 TELL 'EM ABOUT IT Write to the Folks Back East and Give Your Opinion of Oregon In an effort to boost Oregon and make it better known to Easterners who may some day "see America first" and take a jaunt out this way, the Portland Chamber of Commerce has announced that January 17 to 22 shall be "Letter Writing Week," and calls upon every loyal Oregonian to write to everybody that he or she may know in the east during that week. The let ters are supposed to contain your truthful opinion of Oregon, and are supposed to interest people in the effete East in the Beaver State. The Portland Chamber 'of Com merce is NOT furnishing stamps for these letters, but it will have on tap a number of letter-writing experts, and if you can't think of enough nice things to say regarding Oregon these experts will be glad t osend you a rough draft of a letter as a model. There will be a meeting in the Port land Chamber of Commerce on Janu ary 5 to work the plan out in detail, and anybody interested is invited to express his views. ALL SNORE TOGETHER Slumber of Marines No Longer Dis turbed by "Sawers of Wood" Because six of its eleven occupants snored and kept awake the five other sleepers not guilty of the habit, Ser geant Timothy Reardon, in charge of a squad-room in the Washington bar racks of the United States Marine Corps, has replaced the silent non snoring members with Marines from other squad-rooms who snore sonor ously and wonderfully. "So they'll keep each other awake when they saw wood and won't dis turb the rest of some person not a member of their lodge," said Sergeant Reardon by way of explanation. The new arrangement suits the eleven snorers perfectly and the five who vacated are pleased beyond meas ure. It has been said of United States Marines that they can readily adapt themselves to any and . all circum stances, under any and all conditions, and Sergeant Reardon thinks " his strategy is proof positive of this. If you were sick and have tried everything else, and have not receiv ed results, try Chiropractic treat ments and get well. Stone & Hoeye, Caufield Building, Oregon City. jQea r flrny;- Tlflay Li aoina to invite you and f&oL to take Kiev beaA's dinneA with Ihem. John and of will le there loo. We wanted lo le al home 71 ew 2eatV and have you with -as, Lxii lee'ause & had helped Tflay pick oul heA new dinina Aoom iet, ihe insisted that John and take dinner with heA and StAank. Qlways, Xou. (P.S.-Jflay ii tickled ail kindi of wayA with her new dinina Aoom Aet. She, of courAe, Lovaht it from FRANK BUSCH Leading Furniture Dealer 11th & Main Sts. Oregon City, Ore. Give Your Horse S3 Portland Flouring Mills Oregon City, Ore. , RED TAGS NEXT Auto License Numbers in 1916 Will Make Bulls Angry With a pleasing disregard for hu man safety, Secretary of State Ben Olcott has ordained that automobile tags for 1916 shall be a brilliant red almost a crimson. And considering the number of precincts in Oregon where stock is permitted to run at large, it may be surmised that before the end of the year various and sun dry automobiles and Fords will be butted by bulls and yearlings that don't like the red placards. However, this will only add to the joy of life in the Oregon country. The average auto owner will also have to look out for the other kinds of "bulls" -after the first of the year police being familiarly alluded to as "bulls" in certain circles. For the edict has gone forth that all autos not tagged promptly by January 1 with a 1916 license will be apprehend ed, and the drivers likewise. So if you would keep out of trouble hasten and get that new red tag for your benzine buggy. Nice for Woodburjj Woodburn' city levy is 13.3 mills. The school levy is 11 mills. These added to Marion's 16 mills will make a levy for Woodburn of 40.3 mills. (Woodburn Independent.) The Courier $1.00 per year. O. A. C. IIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII FARMERS' AND HOME-MAKERS' WEEK and RURAL LIFE CONFERENCES January 3 to 8, 1016 Live Information, Practical Help Tor the Home - tlie Farm, the Community. Conventions of Oregon's Greatest Industries Conferences on Oregon's Most Vital Problems LECTURES DEMONSTRATIONS EXHIBITIONS ENTERTAINMENTS Two thousand people attended last year. It is a great place to make friends with live thinkers and live thoughts, good workers, and good work. WINTER SHORT COURSE January 10 to February 4, 1916 A Practical Agricultural Course in a Nut Shell. Applied Science in Actual Work of the Farm aud Household. Courses in FRUIT RAISING, FARM CROPS, SOILS, STOCK RAISING, DAIRY WORK, POULTRY RAISING, GARDENING, COOK ING, SEWING, HOUSEHOLD ARTS, HOME NURSING, BUSINESS METHODS, ROAD BUILDING. FARM ENGINEERING, RURAL ORGANIZATIONS, MARKETING. Correspondence Courses Without Tuition. Expert Instruction in Music. Reduced railroad rates. Por program write to The College Exchange, Oregon Agricultural College. Corvalils. (lw-ij-l to f-l) a Christmas Feast made up of our superior feed. It will not cost you any more than you now pay, so why not give your faithful friend a real treat? Why not every day, in fact? You'll get your reward in better service and better condition. Com mence on Christmas anyway. Our feed will soon show its improving power. Remember our SNOWDRIFT FLOUR A DINNER IN JAPAN Troubles of a Hungry Man Nut to the Manner Born. SQUATTING AT THE TABLE. It Tried the Patience and the Muscles of the Stranger In a Strange Land, but From an Epicurean Standpoint the Worst Wa Yet to Come. Describing un amusing experience III Japan, Homer Cruy in Leslie's Weekly tells how, after arriving by tniiu In an Interior towu, In his efforts to liml u hotel, be tried tu ureal; Into u hunk. Realizing bis mistake, be tlnully, by use of the sign language, was directed to a real hotel, where. 11 Iter removing his shoes, he entered. Then: Whut interested me most was some thing to eat, aud opening my mouth to its fullest I pointed in. They motioned me to follow upstairs, but I held back, showing that I wanted the dining ' room, not the bedroom. Seeing a door, which I thought must be the dining room, I pushed it open, but It was the kitchen; so, thinking that they knew more about things than 1 did, 1 let them lead me upstairs. When the girl pushed back the sliding doors my heart crawled down unotber step, for there was only one piece of furniture in the room, a seat that looked like a two legged milk stool covered with carpet. There wasn't a single chair in the room and no' place to bang my bat or coat, nothing except a bare room with a heavy matting on the floor and one of my toes brazenly peeping through my stocking. 1 started to sit- down on the milk stool, but It squirted out from under me, while the servant girl mndo no effort to hide her laughter. Dropping down on the floor, she showed me how to use the milk stool by sitting on the floor and leaning one arm on it, like a picture before Pompeii. She took my bat and coat, and I won dered where she was going to hong them, for there wasn't a single nail or hook in the room. Carrying them over to the wall, she pushed hack a small sliding door and placed them on a shelf and brought me back a klmouo. She motioned for mo to get Into It and started down the hall. I got out of my clothes and was just slipping into the kimono when I beard her coming. I called to her to stop, but she did not understand, so 1 wrapped the kimono around me the best way 1 could and tried to keep tt together, for there were no buttons on it On the floor she placed a table and on it a pot of tea. The table was Just barely a foot high, and there was no milk or sugar for the tea, for these things spoil tea to a Japanese Then she cume with a plate of fish, -a bowl of rice and a little square box with a bamboo tube In It and a bowl.' In" the bowl was a glow of charcoal. Soon 1 puzzled out that this wns for lighting' cigarettes and the bamboo for dropping the butts Into. The first thing a Japa nese thinks of Is tea, and the next is cigarettes. I started to draw up to the table, but 1 could not find a place for my knees They wouldn't let me get near enough the table to carry out my designs on the fish. Seeing my trouble, the girl dropped down to show me how. She turned her feet back, with ber toes pointing straight behind her, and sat down, her face in one direction and her toes in another. It looked easy, but it brought me up with a short breath. No European can sit in such an attitude. Putting one leg under the table, with one bare knee glistening on the side, I bent over the table to proceed with the eating, but here I ran up against a snag. All 1 bad to eat with was chop sticks. Weaving them through my lingers, I tried to break off a piece from the slab of fish, but it wouldn't break. I turned It over, hoping to spring it, but with my wabbling sticks I could only grease the plate. Openly the girl laughed. It was better than a picture show to her. She showed me how it should be done by lifting the whole fish with the sticks and taking bites as If it were a piece of bread. The next dish wrs something that puzzled me. In a round wooden dlsb about the size of the bowl that used to come in a package of oatmeal were white squares of meat in hot water. I worked out a piece and ate It and asked her through signs what It was. She threw out enough for a paragraph, but that did not bring me light 1 asked her again, and away she went and came back with a book and, com ing up close, pointed to the picture of a horse! I had been e'ltlug horse meat. Something in me began to sink, leaving me weak and limp. Although she brought me two or three more things to eat, I waved them aside. My appp tlte for the time had been appeased John Muir"s Great Wealth. John Muir, who has left a rich leg acy to his countrymen, like so many thousands of 'writers and American idealists, was poor. lie was a close friend of Mr. E. H. Harrlman, the multimillionaire railroad king One day Mr. Muir surprised his wealthy friend by saying, "Harrlman, you know I am a richer man than you are?" "Yes?" said Harrlman, with a ques tion in his tone. "Because," continued Muir, "I have all the money I want, and you haven't" From "American Ideals," by Clayton Sedgwick Cooper. Remember you must die. Let this not startle you, but. let it soften yon while there Is yet time to do some good In the world. Citrolax Best thing for constipation, sour stomach, lazy liver and sluggish bow els. Stops a sick headache almost at once. Gives a most thorough and satisfactory flushing no pain, no nausea. Keep your system cleansed, sweet and wholesome. R. H. , Wei hecht, Salt Lake City, Utah, writes: "I find Citrolaz the best laxative I ever used. Does not gripe no un pleasant after-effects." Jones Drug Co. "Printing with a punch" at the Courier. A Deathbed Promise By F. A. M1TCHEL "1 had hoped, my cblld." said At kinson, "to find paying dirt for you before pegging out, but It Is denied me. If I could have left you rich I would not now mind handing In my chips. But remember this, my little girl. If there's any such thing as the dead helping the living I'll help you." These were the last words spoken by Tom Atkinson to his daughter, Ellen, lie passed Into unconsciousness and died the same night. Ellen had been with him in the gold fields for years and had suffered with him one disap pointment after another till to her they were no longer disappointments, but expected happenings. But till the very last be bad expected to strike it rich and when he was taken down with bis last illness believed that he would get well enough to dig a little lower In a bole he was sinking and would strike the continuation of a lend that was paying handsomely but a hundred feet away. When death came he had not reached the goal and left his child with but a small bag of dust, not worth $50. However, Ellen possessed something she valued more than gold the heart of an honest, enesgetlc young man, who was clerking In a store not far from the property on which her father had done his last digging and where he had built the cabin In which he and his daughter lived. Mark Hosmer married Ellen a few days after her fa ther had been laid to rest, and they lived together in the abode the bride had occupied ever since her father had been seized with bis last Infatua tion. Hosmer was willing to work, but the district was not producing the gold that bad been expected, and sales In the store were running down. His sal ary had beeu reduced and had reached a point where they found It difficult to make ends meet. One night when Mark came home from work he told bis wife that he feared his. employer was about to discharge him and do all the work himself, since the business would not warrant an assistant. At 2 o'clock the next morning Ellen awakened her husband and asked him if he heard anything unusual. After listening he said that he did not and asked her why she had asked the question. She replied that every now and again she had heard a sound like earth thrown from a shovel. "Go to sleep, my dear," he replied. "You lived so many years in the sound of dirt thrown out of holes In the ground that it has got on your nerves." The next night Ellen fancied she heard the same sound, but, since Mark had not heard it and thinking she would trouble him by calling his atten tion to what he seemed to consider a crick in her brain, she did not wake him. But she listened herself. She would hear the sound, apparently not far from the house, of a shovelful of earth thrown on the ground. Then all was silent. In a few minutes she would "bear another shovelful tossed, It seemed to her, from below, as tfiougb some one were digging In a trench. Once or twice she thought she heard a pick strike a stone, but of this she was not sure. She could not lo cute the sounds, but it seemed to her that they came from a corner of the lot in rear of the cabin. She was tempted the next morning to tell her husband that she had heard the sounds repeated, but refrained, realizing that be would think some thing had gone wrong with her. As soon as he had departed for the store she went out to the rear of what was a four acre lot, half expecting to find that some claim Jumper had been dig ging for gold. No sign of earth thrown up appeared. There was a thick undergrowth sep arating her from where she had seem ed to hear the sounds, and passing through It she came to the extreme corner of the lot The ground was just as it had always been. The sur face was uneven, and a ledge of red stone a few feet high furnished a con venient seat. She sat down on it and Idly picked up a loose piece of the stone. Examining it, she noticed that it presented a ruther singular appear ance. Her father had often shown her such pieces of ore, which, be said, were very rich in gold. Ellen took the fragment to the cabin and put it in ber bureau drawer; tlien, taking her father's pick and shovel, she went back to the spot from which she had taken the stone and began to dig- Since the place was concealed by undergrowth. Mark did not notice the excavation. Ellen, who bad had a long experience In the appearance of ore, dug on till she came to something that looked worth examination. Taking specimens, the aextdoy. Instead of dig glug, she carried them to an assayer. , One evening when Mark came home from work looking distressed on ac count of the dullness of trade, which foreboded his discharge Ellen threw her arms around bis neck, exclaiming: "Mark, we are rich!" "What do you mean?" "Come and see." She took him to the hol she had dug and, picking up a piece of ore. told him that she had had a specimen from the place nssayeil and It bad shown $000 to the ton. "How came you." he nsked. "to dig here?" Bowing her head reverently, she told him that her father had guided her, and when he asked how she reminded him of the'"d"lng promise and the sounds die had beard at night. NOT ENOUGH CHILDREN ever receive the proper balance of food to sufficiently nourish both body and brain during the growing period when nature's demands are greater than in mature life. This is shown in so many pale faces, lean bodies, frequent colds, and lack of ambition. For all such children we say with unmistakable earnestness: They need Scott's Emulsion, and need it now. It possesses in concentrated form the very iood elements to enrich their blood. It changes weakness to strength; it makes them sturdy and strong. Mo alcohol. 6cott & Bowne, Bloomeld, N. J. Hard Rains Play Havoe The Christmas trade of this section has been given a hard jolt by the heavy rains of the past several days, which have prevented people from getting out of the house. While we did not buy elaborately of holiday goods yet we find ourselves with more goods than we desire to have on hand at this time of the Christmas season and cer tainly do not wish to carry them over if a low price will move them. Therefore we will for the BALANCE OF THIS WEEK Cut the very life out of Holiday Goods from Regular Price on All Holiday Goodst Toilet Sets in Ivory, Sterling, Ebony, Plate Regular (MCE $2.50 now 4 .OJ fl$8.00 all Manicuring Sets ZZo1 with Regular $1.50 now $1 Regular $3 now IU!!i!f!l!l!llll!il!ll!Iil!!!iim . Smoking Sets, Shaving Sets, Collar and Cuff Boxes, All Leather Goods, Parisian Ivory in Sets and Single Pieces-All .One-Third Off Everything marked in plain figures; come in and take your One-Third off and make your selection. Jones Drug Company COUNTY SEAT DIFFERENT Oregon City Isn't a Bit Biblical in Some Itcspects "The poor we always have with us," or some such remark, is generally credited to the Good Book, and as such is declared to be true. Maybe it is but it isn't true in Oregon City, U. S. A. . That is, Mayor Linn E. Jones says it isn't. Mayor Jones thinks the city whose destinies he presides over is unique, and he believes it is the only city in the United States to make the record. What record? Not having any de pendent poor who must be cared for by the city this Christmas. Mayor Jones says he knows of no family within the city limits which will require municipal aid to tide it over the holidays. There ure some families .who are pretty close to hav ing a bare cupboard, but the church es and other charitable organizations will take care of them. At last ac counts nobody in Oregon City was des titute, or, was looking forward to a Christmas that would be devoid of Santa Claus. And the mayor says this is a record of which to be proud. "During the week before Christ mas," said His Honor, "I have had just two appeals for help, and both of these came from people who were not residents of the county seat. In both cases people were "passing through," and in one case we got the man some aid. In the other case the fellow ask ing help was a little too glib in his story, and he was told when the next car left for Portland. Among our own people we have not had a single call for municipal help, and I think this is something of which the city should be proud. "Everybody in the city is either working or has enough saved up to last them until more money comes in. When it is considered that usually at Christmas time the mayor has half a dozen appeals for assistance from local people, I think conditions show better than anything else that there is a firm prosperity in the city, and we should all feel happier and better satisfied on that account." OeMii clo Made Strong By Our Vinol Fayetteville.N.C "My little daugh ter was in poor health, delicate and so weak it made us very uneasy. I heard about Vinol and decided to try it and the results were marvelous,, her appetite improved, she gained in weight, and is now one of the healthiest children in town. Mothers of delicate children should try Vinol."- M rs. Gordon J essup. Vinol is a delicious cod liver and iron tonic without oil, a constitutional rem edy which creates an appetite, aids di gestion and makes pure healthy blood. All children love to take it HUNTLEY BROS. CO., Oregon City Druggists Oregon Regular CO QE $5 now j)O,0 J (TO Regular $4.50 now JOHN MILLIKEN IS DEAD Veteran Newspaperman Passes Away in Portland after Illness John Milliken is dead. To many this announcement will bring no acute sorrow, and no spec ially sad thoughts. But' there are may people who" will be shocked at the news, and who will see in the four words above the final scene in a trag edy that fortunately has only a few counterparts in Oregon history. John Milliken was a newspaperman who knew the game. He was in ear lier days a valued reporter on the Oregonian, .and in the course of his daily duties he met many men whom today are high in the affairs of this state. A little over seven years ago Mr. Milliken fell under the displeas-, ure of a certain newspaper czar in this state, was removed from his po sition, and subsequently was unable to escure other work in his calling. John Milliken was "barred," put on the "black list," banished, made a pa riahand all through the enmity of one man. Newspapermen at large were his friends to the last, and cheered him as best they could from time to time. Repeated efforts were made to secure work for him in channels where the baleful influence of his high enemy would not reach, but these efforts fail ed. Now it is all over with John, now it is easier sailing for him; and now the enmity of the man who pursued him and drove him down can do him no further injury. John Milliken is at peace. - Before coming to Portland Mr. Mil liken was in newspaperwork in Cali fornia, and was regarded as one of the keenest writers of the time. He was 62 years old when he died, and is sur vived by a widow and two daughters. FINE PAPER RECEIVED Birthday Edition of The Dalles Chronicle Is Interesting Celebrating its 25th anniversary, The Dalles Chronicle last week print ed a special edition that had many points of attractiveness and merit about it. Perhaps the most interest ing feature was a reproduction of the four pages of the first paper the first regular issue of a newspaper printed between the Missouri and Co lumbia rivers. Aside from a mass of interesting information about The 'Dalles and some superb views of the Columbia Highway and the Celilo canal. s The paper is well gotten up, typo graphically, has enough advertising patronage to show that it stands well in the community; and is altogether one of the best examples of small city journalism that has come to the Cour ier in a long time. Regular frC ff $7.50 now J.UU 1 - 3 off One-third Off! Q Reg. $6 Jl Regular frf ) J now $9 now 4)0 HOW ABOUT OREGON? Are People Leaving State, and if so, in What Proportion? Last week's Benton County Courier contained a front page article by Edi tor M. J. Brown in which the declara-. tion was made that for every man who came into Oregon with a carload of household goods to settle and estab lish a home, seven men left with their families. The Courier would like to know where Brother M. J. Brown gets his statistics. We are rather inclined at this writing to doubt the "correctness of the ratio. We are inclined to be lieve that there is a misprint some where, and that Brer Brown meant to say that for every man who came into the state another one went out, This would make the population - nearly stationary, except for the normal in crease from births, and would seem reasonable. But the idea of seven going out to one coming in well, that seems a lit tle bit strong for even Oregon. We admit that incoming settlers are not often treated with such courtesy as would cause them to be glad they. 1 came; but we really don't think they are being driven out by groups of seven. If Brother M. J. is right on his figures, and will tell us where he gets them, this paper will also have a few words to say for if people are leaving Oregon six times as fast as they are coming in, there is surely chunce for newspapers to get busy and seek a remedy. NO STORAGE ALLOWED District Attorneys Rule that Prohi Law Prohibits Hiding Beer If you want beer to drink after the firBt of the year you will have to keep it in your own cellar, or in the wood shed, or you'll have to get along with the 24 quarts every four weeks that the law allows you to get from a mail-order booze house. Such is the decision of district attorneys of the state, who met in Salem last week to consider the provisions of the pro hibition law that becomes effective January 1. The embargo on storing large quan tities of beer for future delivery is delivered mainly at cold storage, plants. While it may be that beer so kept will be only for the use of the owner, and that it has all been paid for before the end of this year; the law says that the finding of large quantities of the forbidden drink in any place shall be primae facie evi dence that it is there to be sold, and the storage house containing it may be abated as a public nuisance. Hence it is deemed to be against the law for cold storage houses to hold beer for customers.