OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1916.
TWO VARRYING LETTERS
NEWS FROM HELL
You Can Do Better for Less on Third Street"
Store Opens
8:30 A. M.
Saturdays at
9 A. M.
Pacific Phone
Marshall 5080
The Most in Value
The Best in Quality
THE MOST IN VALU1
THE BEST IN QUALITY
Store Closes
5:30 P. M.
Saturdays a.
6 P. M.
Home Phone
A 2112
HOUSEKEEPERS, ATTENTION!
Come and Profit by This Great Purchase and Sale of
amp
1
and C
Blanlkt
iorters
AT A THIRD TO A HALF BELOW REAL WORTH
Blankets in Qualities Selling Regu
larly from 75c up to $18 a Pair
Choice at 48c to $14 a Pair
Comforters in Qualities Selling Reg
ularly from $2 to $4 Each
Choice, $1.65 to $2.95
We urge an early attendance from those who wish to profit by this sale, for the quantity is limited and
there is sure to be rapid selling at the priced quoted for this sale. It i3 a manufacturer's entire sample
line of cotton and wool blankets and comforters one of each style and quality blankets in -ray, white
and in plaid styles, and comforters in a great variety of patterns and colorings. .. Of course, tuch goods
are usually more or less soiled or mussed from handling, but these are in fine shape, being only slightly
soiled on the outside fold so slight that in most.. cases to hardly be noticeable. .. None sold to deal
ers, no phone nor mail orders filled at this sale. Come here tomorrow and select from blankets rang
ing in price from 75c to $18 a pair, at 48c to $14. Comforters ranging in price from $2 to
$4 at $16.50 to $2.95.
Outing
quality.
19c
32-inch White
standard 12 c
ance Price of...
$1.75 BEDSPREADS AT
size for double beds. They
in Marseilles patterns,
values
Flannel of
At Clear-
Full
come
$1.75
25c Wash Goods 19c Yd.
Standard lines, such as Mercerized Foulards,
Fancy Poplins, Wool Finished Suitings, Challie
de Laine, Dress Crepes, etc. All
choice new goods, regularly sold at
25c a yard. Clearance Price.....
$1.25 to $2 Scrim Curtains, Pair 98c
A splendid assortment of crisp, new Scrim Cur-tains in white and cream, shown in hem
stitched and lace edge styles, lines from our regular stock, in qualities regularly sold from
$1.25 up to $2.00 a pair. Clearance Price
12!c Outing Flannel 9c Yd.
9c
$1.48
$1.48
98c
Correspondents Express Views on In
cident Related in Courier
The Courier has received the fol
lowing two letters, and prints them
without comment.
Editor, Courier; In reply to your
editorial about the two soldiers who
were thrown out of a Washington
moving picture theatre because they
stood up at salute when the "Star
Spangled Banner" was played, I
would say that in my estimation the
proprietor who had them ejected ought
to be boiled in oil and then made to
kiss the flag. The one thing above
all else that is the matter with this
country is that people do not give
enough visible demonstrations of their
! patriotism. If we took off our hats
to the flag every time we passed it
and if we stood up every time the
national air was played, we would
think more of our flag and our coun
try; and other nationalities would
think more of us. I am glad the Cour
ier printed that story about what
happened in Washington, and I think
every real American ought to cut the
story out and keep it as a reminder
of his or her duty towards the coun
try. If the United States isn't worth
being patriotic over, we ought all to
go and jump in the ocean.
VETERAN.
Editor, Courier: I noticed your re
cent effort to "wave Old Glory" so as
to get applause. This is a cheap
theatrical trick, and was invented by
George Cohan. We can be patriotic
and respectful to the flag without
standing up every time the "Star
Spangled Banner" is played, and so
shutting off the view of those behind
us. They paid to see the show just
as much as the two marines, and had
a right to see it, too. I came to Ore-
gon before the Civil War, and I think
just as much of my country as the
next man, but I don't believe in being
conspicuous just because the band is
playing a certain air. We have too
many people who are patriots only
when the band plays, and who the
rest of the time go out and hide in
the woods.
"MOLALLA."
INFORMATION IS GIVEN
BISCUIT BAKING
y4iry1
is always a success if our
flour is uscd No worrying
about how the biscuits will
turn out. They are always
splendid. If you haven't
tried our flour you have been
missing a lot of baking good
ness. Order a sack today and
your baking will be better
with the first trial of its con
tents. Remember our
SNOWDRIFT FLOUR
Portland Flouring Mills
Oregon City, Ore.
MISTLETOE IS PEST
COAST TO HELP NORWAY
Trees from Northwest Used in Re
foresting Old World Nation
The satisfactory transplanting of
trees from America's Pacific Coust to
western Norway has become a matter
of intereHt to Stavangor's forestry as
sociation. This society has this month
combined with a similar society in
Bergen, und the new "West Coast
Trial Stution" has decided to send nn
expedition to America next spring
to bring buck mnro trees.
The American varieties of greatest
interest to Stavaiiger foresters are
the Douglas and Sitka pines. In 1892
several of the former were planted in
this district, and they have proved a
success. In another coast town, about
COO miles north of here, where, how
ever, the climate is similar, both va
rieties huvo thriven.
There are at present, it is staled,
but two kinds of native coniferous
trees the pine and the fir that are
seen on Norway's western coast. The
chief forester of the new association
has called attention to the fact that
there are 400 varieties of such trees,
many of which might prove suited to
this West Coast climate. It is mild in
winter and cool in summer, und there
is much rain. In many ways it re
sembles the climate of our state of
Washington, and it is to that State in
particular tha the new expedition ex
pects to go.
This section has long had a cry
ing need for more trees, and there
have been many introductions in past
years which have not proven success
ful. This, according to forestry ex
perts, is because due consideration has
not been given to the original environ
ment of the variety introduced. A
German variety of fir, which seemed
a remarkably good forest tree, was
planted here, but did not do well. The
Siberian silver fir, used to severe in
land weather, has not made good in
this locality, although it has done well
in parts of northern Norway. The
Austrian fir, from the mountains of
southern Europe, has been tried with a
similar lack of success, and the white
pine has also done poorly here, al
though it would seem to have better
soil conditions and a milder climate
than in its original habitat. The Pa
cific coast introductions are expected
to do better than those from the in
land sections mentioned.
The district of Stavanger's new tree
nursery expects, within a few years,
to send out 1,500,000 plants annually.
Here it is expected to try out some of
the new varieties from America.
Trees usually grow very slowly in
this section.
WOMAN STEALS CHILI)
In-
Barton Population Will Not He
creased by One, as Expected
Barton would have had one more
person among its inhabitants this
week if the mother of the expected
arrival hadn't stolen the new citizen
In other words, Mrs. L. B. Saxton, of
Burton, was going to adopt Marion
Bowers, five years old, and a ward of
the Multnomah county juvenile court
But Mrs. Mollie Bowers, the child's
mother, spoiled the program, kidnap
ped her own daughter, and left the
state, fco Barton's population is still
as it was, and Mrs. Saxton has no
adopted daughter.
Mrs. Saxton went to Portland Fri
day afternoon to get the Bowers child,
and while waiting in the courthouse
was told that the mother would short
ly arrive with the little girl. The
mother had been given permission to
go tthe child from the county home.
and had letters authorizing the home
to turn the girl over to her. Mrs.
Bowers went to the home and got
Marion, all right and then she dis
appeared. Later the police heard that
she had been seen going through Van
couver, Washington; and a warrant
charging her with kidnapping a ward
of the juvenile court was issued for
her.
Government Campaigning Against
Plant that Girls Often Like
In the forest regions of the North
west mistletoe is so abundant that the
damage which it does assumes at
times a serious aspect. Recent inves
tigations of the United States De
partment of Agriculture have shown,
for example, that the deterioration of
the western larch in the more open
and exposed stands of the Whitman
National Forest in the Blue Mountain
section of Oregon is due to mistletoe.
Although not so valuable as yellow
pine and Douglas fir, the larch when
free from mistletoe produces a large
saw timber. Trees attacked in early
life by the larch mistletoe, however,
seldom produce a good grade of mer
chantable timber, and all infected
trees show poor health and reduced
diameter or height.
In a professional paper of the
United States Department of Agri
culture, Bulletin No. 317, it is recom
mended that in making timber sales,
all larches affected with mistletoe be
cut, whether the trees are merchant
able or not. The effect of thinning is
to promote the development of the
parasite in the crown. It is desirable,
therefore, to cut all infected trees, so
far as this is practicable in lumber
ing operations.
EGG LEADS TO FIGHT
Details of "Better Babies" Work Easy
to Obtain, says Dr. Van Brakle
John J. Wallace, of Caldwell, Idaho,
read in the Oregon City Courier re
cently that Dr. J. A. Van Brakle, of
the county seat, had been asked by the
Oregon Mothers Congress to partici
pate in a "Better Babies" judging test
at Portland, and being interested in
bettering the human stock, wrote to
Dr. Van Brakle telling him of his de
sire to learn more of the movement.
Mr. Wallace appears to think that he
can further the "Better Babies" move
ment in Idaho, and asked for infor
mation. Many other people want to know
the basis on which thee ampaign for
better children is founded, so Dr. Van
Brakle's reply to Mr. Wallace is re
printed here for the information it
contains. In his reply letter the doc
tor said :
"Your communication regarding
'Better Babies' was a very pleasant
one to receive. The information you
desire can best be secured by writ
ing to the Better Babies Bureau of
the Woman's Home Companion, 381
Fourth Ave., New York City. Ask
them for a copy of the Better Babies
Standard Score Card and 'Suggestions
to Physicians Who Use the Better
Babies Standard Score Card.'
"While the actual scoring of babies
is a technical matter, you will find
much of interest and information in
these two leaflets which are furnish
ed free. March 6-11, 1916, will be
'Better Babies Week' throughout the
United States, and a widespread effort
will be made at this time to secure a
greater interest in this very import
ant subject."
Rev. J. K. Hawkins Gives Latest Ac
count of Place of Torment
- Sunday the Rev. J. K. Hawkins,
pastor of the First Methodist church,
in the county seat, preached his ser
mon entitled "Is there a Hell." The
church edifice was well filled by
people seeking information on the
subject. '
Dr. Hawkins was of the opinion
that there was a very certain Hell.
He told bis auditors, however, that it
wasn't the sort of a Hell that they had
heard about elsewhere. The Hawkins
brand of Hell has no fire and brim
stone in it -it is much worse. It is
a place of inconceivable torment and
suffering, and thence go the ungodly
and the wicked. So unpleasant is- the
Hawkins Hell that even the local
pastor was at a loss for words with
which to describe it in detail; and he
mentioned it merely in horrible gen
eralities. Last week, in mentioning the fact
that Dr. Hawkins was going to de
scribe Hell, the Courier ventured the
hope that in dealing with the sub
ject Mr. Hawkins would get away
from the stereotyped version of Hell
with which many church congrega
tions are familiar. It appears that
he did. He got about as far away
from it as he could.'
Other speakers whom the Courier
has heard discourse on the general
subject of Hell have agreed with Dr.
Hawkins that there was no fire and
brimstone in the place of torment.
They have remarked that the great
and surpassing love of God forbade
the existence of such a terrible place;
and have added that about all the Hell
the wicked were apt to meet existed
in their own consciences. This is, Hell
enough for most people. And most
speakers on the subject seem to think
they are throwing a sufficient "scare"
into their auditors when they impress
this fact upon them. In fact the ul
timate goodness of God, and His abil
ity to forgive even the most depraved
sinner, usually makes a greater ap
peal to the sinful than the other sort
of an argument.
But Dr. Hawkins was original, and
he painted a good, old-fashioned, out-of-date
and orthodox Hell. And that
is something to accomplish, in this
year of grace and advancement, 1916.
NEW DISTRICT NAMED
NEW EMERGENCY PLAN
During 1915, timber to the amount
of 122,108,000 board feet, valued at
;4U,(K)0 was given under free use
to settlers residing in and near the
national forests. In Oregon this free
use timber amounts to 12,122,000
board feet, valued at $13,342., and in
Washington to 2,371,000 board feet,
valued at $2,933.
European War Has Echo in County
Over Alleged High Cost of Living
Ambrose Gestra is an Italian, and
Mrs. Gestra is of German extraction.
They live outside of Oregon City, but
read tlie war news daily, and often
comment on it sometimes without
that perfect harmony that should exist
between man and wife.
Friday, in the course of her dav's
duties, Mrs. Gestra placed a hard
boiled egg in her nine-year-old daugh
ter's lunchbox when the child left for
school. Mr. Gestra, not feeling in the
best of spirits, reproved her, saying
that eggs were altogether too valu
able to bo wasted in school lunches;
and also calling to his wife's attention
that her German parentage should
make her particularly mindful of the
value of conserving all nourishing food
just as was being done in Berlin.
Words followed, and according to
Mrs. Gestra, the affair didn't stop at
words; for later in the day she appear
ed in the county seat and swore to a
complaint charging her husband with
having beaten her with his fists and
with having threatened to take her
life. Constable Jack Frost, who is
neutral in European matters, went.
out to the Gestra farm and made the
husband a prisoner.
Treated River Water May Be Used in
County Seat if Pipeline Fails
It has been suggested to the water
board in Oregon City that ample pro
vision for an emergency water supply
may be made by connecting the old
pumping station direct with the hypo-
chloride of lime tanks used in the old
filtration plant, and then pumping the
treated water directly into the mains.
Salem drinks water thusly treated,
without further filraion; and he use
of tho plan in Oregon City would pro
vide an economical method of safe
guarding the city in case of trouble
with the pipe line.
After the severe tests that the pipe
line has had in the storms and upper
river floods of the present winter, it is
not expected that any trouble will de
velop; but nevertheless plans for an
emergency supply have to be consider
ed, as the city must have some means
of getting water continuously. It is
for this reason that the old pumping
plant is being retained at the south
ern end of Main street.
Another plan being considered is
the extension of a main to Milwaukie,
there to connect wth the Bull Run
system of Portland. This is more
generally favored, as it would provide
revenue through the sale of water to
the towns between the county seat and
the southern end of the Bull Run system.
Maple Lane to Have New Schoolhouse,
Following Board's Decision
After considering the matter for
over a year, the district boundary
board has decided to make a second
school district at Maple Lane district.
The old school building at Maple Lane
is situated in' one corner of the large
district served, and efforts to have the
school site moved to a more centrally
located point have repeatedly failed
To accommodate children who now
have to travel a long distance to their
classes, the new district has been
created.
The old Maple Lane school is one
of the largest in the county, being at
present much overcrowded with pupils
in all the grades. Inability of the
school patrons to agree on a new lo
cation has kept the directors from
rebuilding the school, which is in
poor repair.
The establishment of a new district
will remove some of the pupils from
the present school, and may ultimate
ly result in a new school being built
at another point in the old district.
"BUY IT IN OREGON CITY"
C1?p Jfftaat JfaiUmal Sfenk
OREGON CITY
Member ot
Federal Reserve Bank
I .- iT - J"-il-.:..v U-rt! 131! !' J J I
(Established 188 9)
Under GOVERNMENT Supervision
United States Depository
for Postal Savings Funds
Interest Paid on SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
and TIME CERTIFICATES
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE BOUGHT AND SOLD.
TRAVELERS' CHECKS AND LETTERS CREDIT ISSUED.
CHECK ACCOUNTS AND DEMAND CERTIFICATES ISSUED.
GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS DONE.
OPEN SATURDAYS FROM 9 A. M. TO 1 P. M.
YOUR BANKING BUSINESS SOLICITED.
D.
C. LATOURETTE, President
M. D. LATOURETTE, Vice President
F. J. MEYER, Cashier
PIG CLUBS WILL PAY
Country Boys and Girls Urged to Take
Interest in "Mortgage Lifters"
Pig clubs, are being organized
among the boys and girls of Oregon
by the Extension Service of the Ore
gon Agricultural College in co-operation
with the Bureau of Animal In
dustry, U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, the county school
superintendents, teachers and parents
CUPID ON THE WIRE
Loving Couple Come to Grief on High
land Farmers' Phone Line
This is a little story without names.
It appears that on division Number 9
of the Highland telephone service
there are residing two hearts that al
most beat as one. Being unable to
see each other with the frequency
which they desire, the people contain
ing these two fond hearts have taken
to calling each other up and so that
The Corn club members are raising there shall be no mistake they always
profitable yields of corn where it was ring the bell six times when they want
FOREST SERVICE NEWS
What Government Has Done Told in
Brief Paragraphs of Report
A considerable amount of the land
within National Forest boundaries is
in private ownership, title having
passed into private ownership through
the patenting of claims. , Of these,
360 were homesteads, 2 timber and
stone, 501 mineral, 17 coal, and 1 mis
cellaneous. .
In Oregon and Washington there
are, outside of the National forests,
about 3,000,000 acres of logged-off
land much of it agricultural in char
acter, now lying idle.
Of the total area of approximately
9,700 acres planted with young trees
by the Forest Service during the fiscal
year 1915, nearly 3,000 acres was
planted in Oregon and Washington.
Of the total area sowed with tree seed,
5,876 acres, approximately 500 acres
were sowed in Oregon.
.Additional...
...Locals...
thought impossible to graw it a few
years ago, and it is hoped the import
ance of feeding crops to live stock on
the farm may be emphasized in this
pig club work.
It would be well if all members of
Corn clubs would enroll in the pork
production work and thus lend a hand
in the endeavor to improve the quality
of swine in Oregon, and at the same
time learn how to make more rapid
and economical gains in hog feeding.
There will be two distinct divisions
of the Pig club project. Division I,
to commune with each other verbally.
Unfortunately for the "six" signal,
there is no subscriber on division 9 at
Highland that has six rings for a call;
and so when the good people who are
patrons of the line heard the six rings
repeated day after day, they got cur
ious and sad to say some of them
listened. In this way the secret of
the romance got out just as lots of
other secrets get out on rural tele
phone lines.
Well, one day recently the six rings
had rung, and there was billing and
the care and management of a brood cooing going on bv wire when an iras
sow and litter of pigs. Division II, ' cible old farmer wanted to use the
the feeding and care of one or more phone. He broke in rudely on the
This Is Tough
Patrolman George Woodward, of
the night police force, has told us
one of the saddest stories we have
heard this winter. Quoth George:
"Say, do you know that times must
be pretty hard outside of Oregon
City? We get anywhere from six to
a couple of dozen hoboes in jail every
night now, and they all seem glad t
get there. And we've been frisking
them lately, too and the wealthiest
guy we've found had twentv cents.
Times must be pretty hard where
Let u send you a sample of the those 'boes came from if they only
Classiest Letter Heads you ever saw. rbought twenty cents with them."
VAN AUK ENS ARE DIVORCED
Son of Councilman Permits Decree to
Be Won by Default
Earl Van Auken, son of Council
man "Jit" VanAuken, was this week
divorced by his wife, a decree being
granted in the circuit court. Mr. Van
Auken permitted his wife to gain her
freedom by defaulting his appearance
in court, though his attorneys did file
an answer to her charges.
Mrs. VanAuken charged that her
husband had treated her cruelly and
inhumanly, and that he had subjected
her to various indignities.
Chiropractic removes the cause of
Diabetes. Hoe? & Stone, Chiroprac
tors, Cauneld Bldg.
Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Eby, of the
county seat, have been entertaining
during the week Mrs. Edna Swift, of
Portland.
R. A. Schuebel, of Mulino, was in
the county seat during the week.
The Hon. G. B. Dimick spent the
past week end in McMinnville, return
ing to the county seat Monday even
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cameron, who
have been visiting in Gervais for the
past several weeks, have returned to
their home in the county seat.
Mrs. M. E. Clancey, of West Linn,
is reported ill with the grippe.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Weston, of
Camas, were visiting friends in the
county seat -early in the week.
Mrs. L. M. Haworth, who spent the
past week visiting her daughter in
Milwaukie, returned to her home at
Clackamas early this week.
Misses Hazel and Reba Henderson,
of Portland, who formerly lived east
of Clackamas ,were visiting friends in
the county over the w,eek end.
Miss Eva L. Moulton received a
telegram from Minnesota Tuesday an
nouncing the death of her brother, T.
E. Moulton, at Warren. He had been
ill with pneumonia. Charles R. Moul
ton, his son, an attorney of the . coun
ty seat, was with him when the end
came. The younger Mr. Moulton left
Oregon City nearly a month ago to
be with his father.
pigs from weaning time for a period
pf at least four months.
Objects of the Work
The object of forming Pig clubs
among the boys and girls may be
briefly stated as follows:
1. To stimulate an interest in
swine production and to teach the boys
and girls how to raise better and
cheaper hogs by the use of improved
blood and the growing of forage
crops.
2. To increase the number of hogs
raised on the farm in order that the
meat for the home and that required
to feed the extra farm labor may be
produced instead of being bought.
3. To complement the work of the
boys' and girls' Corn Clubs by show
ing them how they can profitably sell
their corn through hogs.
4. To encourage the home curing of
meats on the farm.
5. To teach the boys how to judge
hogs and to select them for breeding
or market purposes.
6. To encourage the growing of for
age crops nnd discourage the use of
high-priced feeds.
7. To instruct the boys and girls
in a practical way in the manage
ment, feeding, sanitation, and pre
vention of diseases of swine, all of
which information proves valuable
with respect to other forms of live
stock work.
To give the boys and girls 1 means
of earning some money for themselves
while at home.
9. To instill in the boys and girls
while young a love of animals which
will result in their taking more inter
est in farm life, and to furnish them
at the same time some work which
will, in a practical way, give an in
sight into the business side of farm
life and incite in them a desire to
struggle for and attain success.
Each member must, whenever pos
sible, show their pig at the local and
county exhibit, and the winners of the
county exhibit must show their pigs
at the State Fair.
Boys and girls who wish to enter
the Pig club work but are unable to
obtain brood sows or pigs will be as
sisted in securing suitable stock from
reliable breeders in their county.
L. J. ALLEN,
State Pig Club Agent, Oregon Agri
cultural College, Corvallis, Oregon.
line, expressed his general opinion of
lovesick folk who had to talk to each
other over the telephone, and tempor
arily at least put skids under the ro
mance. And now other people on the line of
division nine miss the six rings, miss
the love terms to which they had been
ilstening, and generally find life pro
saic and dull. People on division nine
at Highland that is all of them ex
cept the irascible farmer found the
romantic conversations as good as go
ing to the theatre to see and hear a
show like "Rosemary" or "Sappho,"
and they wish the angry patron hadn't
stopped the fun.
REAL ESTATE
MONEY LOANED ON IMPROVED
FARMS
Mrs. Delia Etchison John Edwards
401 E. 50th. St N. Sherwood, Ore.
Phone Tabor 5805. Phone Sherwood.
The commercial sales of timber on
the national forests of Oregon for the
past fiscal year amounted to 544,673,
000 board feet, valued at $1,629,000;
and on the national forests of Wash
ington to 27,854,000 board feet, valu
ed at $34,867.
The Courier $1.00 per year.
New System
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at Reasonable Prices All
Work Guaranteed
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ASSISTANT
We Speak German
ROOMS 9-10-11-12
ANDRESEN BLDG.
Phones Pic. 10; Home A-200
Geo. C. Brownell
LAWYER
Oregon City
Caufield Bldg.
Oregon
MONEY TO LOAN
W e have several sums of money to
loan on good real estate, from $100 00
to $1,000.00.
HAMMOND & HAMMOND
ATTORNEYS
Beaver Bldg., Oregon City Ore.