OfiEGQN CITY, COURIER, OJtjEG(VNt Clt.Y, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE, 15, 1.916.
OREGON CITY COURIER
C. W. RQBEY, Editor and Business Manager
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BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
ON HOME TRADE
The subject of trade-at-home has
been so thoroughly threshed out in all
parts of the country within the past
few years, and especially' in Oregon
City, where trade-at-home is a real
ity rather than a dream, that further
discussion would seem unnecessary.
Still, there are many thousands of dol
lars going outside Clackamas county
each year that the condition is appal
ling. Few of those who send their money
away from home for the goods that
can usually be bought as. cheaply
within a short distance of their own
dooryards, do not realize what their
thoughtlessness means. The essence
of the result is the upbuilding of Chi
cago and the tearing down of Clacka
mas county and the several commun
ities therein. Chicago's mastery of
trade, her huge mercantile institutions
and her great trade fields are struc
ture of thoughtlessness; they are
monuments, built .of the dollars that
home merchants are entitled to and
for which they are making a sincere
bid; they are testimonials to the dam
age done by a lack of cooperation
among the buyers of just such com
munities as are found in Clackamas
county.
Chicago sends very few dollars
back to Clackamas county. Instead,
it builds with them great factories,
great wholesale houses and the great
est mail order business systems in
the world. Chicago does not preach
co-operation. The mail order busi
ness is cooperation's greatest enemy.
The mail order business crowds out
the cross roads store, it crowds out
the village grocery and dry-godtls
merchant and it prys its wedges un
der the foundations of the business of
the larger communities.
"Don't knock the town that's feed
ing you," is a line in the parody on a
popular song. Yet that very thing is
being done by hundreds of Clacka
mas county people. Every dollar sent
outside the county for goods that
could be bought at home is a direct
knock at the town and the county that
is feeding you. Pause a moment to
consider whothcr it is better to spend
your dollars in upbuilding the source
of your own livelihood or to spend
them where they will further
strengthen the mail order houses that
are tearing down this county. Id
dividuals are the masters of the busi
ness fate of their communities. As
individuals stop patronizing mail or
der houses and spend their money at
home, just so soon will the county
and the communities therein prosper
and grow larger. All the talk of all
the trade experts and all the work on
the part of civic clubs is unavailing if
the individual refuses to cooperate
by keeping his own money at home.
gradually depreciating character of
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I raiiroaa service nas laugui, muse wuu
live there that the raiiroaa proDiem is
nearly, if not quite as important, as
the tariff. When the rest of the coun
try wakes up to the same fact, some
thing will be done.
The piratical attacks on railway
corporations by "the dear people" re
mind us of a party of joy seekers
rockinir a small boat while out of
sight of land.
Is it fair to assume that the man
who has been a life failure at what
ever business he has undertaken would
be a brilliant success of president or
.general manager of a great transpor
tation company?
Wherein is the difference between
the government compelling the rail
ways to carry the mails at an unfair
rate or a loss and the highway
man who holds up the individual at
the point of a gun and takes his
pocketbook? .
The man who honestly believes that
seven men composing the Interstate
Commerce commission are wise
enough to formulate plans for the
successful operation of all the rail
ways in the United States reminds us
of the blind man who started out with
a tallow dip to locate Diogenes.
NEW HISTORY
THE COMMISSION
The Lawyer and Banker, the name
of which designates its field in class
journalism, assumes a tone a voice a
bit out of the ordinary in stating its
opinion regarding the value of the
service rendered to the nation by the
Interstato Commerce commission. In
expressing this opinion editorially the
Lawyer and Banker says:
Whore will the railroads of the
United States be in a few years un
less they are afforded relief from a
situation which has brought one-sixth
of their mileage into the hands of re
ceivers? This is not said without the admis
sion that in isolated cases, there has
been mismanagement which has re
sulted in the wrecking of certain well
located properties but it is pertinent
to remark in this connection that
every particle of wrongdoing has been
perpetrated since the creation of the
Interstato Commerce Commission and
it might be well to ask why it was not
prevonted or at least exposed, before
it came to the point of complete de
moralization. The people have had an object les
son on the tariff and they have made
up their minds that the present one
is not beneficial to the prosperity of
the country. In certain sections, the
Historically unprecendented is the
condition of national administration
which is to be brought about at Wash'
ington next spring by the retirement
of Woodrow Wilson as president of
the United States and the temporary
elevation of Robert Lansing, secretary
of state, to that honorable position
Mr. Wilson haa nine chances of a pos
sible ten for re-election, but that
does not alter the fact that Mr. Lan
sing is to be the next president of the
nation. The means by which Mr.
Lansing will be entitled to presidential
honors is described in an eastern ex
change. It is new in the history of
government in the United States.
Our contemporary says:
"Who will be the next president of
tho United States? Robert Lansing.
.But it isn't necessary to get excited
about it. It's a fact, but a fact that
needn't upset the campaign plans of
any candidate. The secretary of state
isn t in politics at all, and isn't likely
to be. No convention is going to nom
inate him. He isn't going to be elect
ed. Nevertheless, he'll be the next
president, and this is the way of it.
A law enacted in 1886 provides that
whenever the president and vice
president are both unable for any
reason to perform the duties of the
executive office, the secretary of
state shall act as president. Presi
dent Wilson's term expires at noon
March ,4 1917. That is Sunday. It's
contrary to precedent, although not
illegal, to hold an inauguration on
Sunday. It is planned, therefore, to
have it on Monday, March 5. And so
for one day Secretary Lansing will be
president. He will be empowered to
occupy the White House if he chooses,
issue pardons, command the army and
navy, and even to ride to the capitol
as the outgoing president in the in
auguration ceremonies. It will be
tho first time a secretary of state has
ever had such an honor, and the sec
ond time the office has ever been held
by any one except the president or
vice-president."
WASTING WATER
The city has not ordered the street
cleaning department to sprinkle Main
street at the proper hour. The work
is done after nightfall when all bene
fit from the dust-settling and the
cooling influence of the spray from the
sprinkling cart is lost. In the mean
time the throngs go forward in the
blazing sun, mopping their brows be
tween curses at tho heat waves from
the asphalt, and breathing the dust
that the breezes blow through the
air.
' There seems to be absolutely no ex
cuse for t he wasteful and foolish plan
of sprinkling streets after night. The
time for such a thing to be done is
during the morning hours or in the
Protect Your Valuable Pa
pers Without Cost
We make no rental charge for keeping
valuable papers, deeds, insurance policies,
etc., in our fire and burglar proof vault.
Our vault is the most secure of any in
Clackamas County and we invite you to
make use of the safety it offers.
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A Bank of Personal Service
early afternoon when the conditions
for which sprinkling carts were in
vented to correct exist; not at night
when the atmosphere is plenty cool
enough for those who sally forth after
dark.
Many times the sprinkling cart has
just made its rounds when the street
flushing hose is brought into use,
thereby rendering the sprinkling
valueless and causing a waste of
water that is not inconsiderable,
able.
If the city council does not care to
recognize the mistake that is being
made by the street department the
merchants who lose the benefit of the
water they pay for should remon
strate. Their store fronts and the
stocks on the inside would pre
sent a much better appearance, per
haps, if the sprinkling was done at
the proper time.
CONFIRMED
The Coquille Sentenel, which has
been a staunch advocate of the confir
mation of the appointment of Louis
D. Brandeis to the supreme court
bench, is happy in the light of sen
ate's recent approval of the presi
dent's selection for the honorable po
sition. Of the confirmation the Senti
nel says:
It is scarcely an exaggeration to
say that Brandeis has revolutionized
the spirit of our constitutional law by
his arguments before the supreme
court. Up to his day the law was a
dry, dehumanized, purely mathemati
cal science taking no account of the
vicissitudes of men, caring nothing
for the burdens of those who toiled.
Brandeis has taught the dessicated
legalists that social facts must be tak
en into account.
The constitution which seeks to
"provide for the common welfare"
cannot ignore the consequence of
over-work and long hours upon the
mothers of the race nor can it permit
the ruthless slaughter of the new
generation to coin profits for a few
millionaires. Brandeis has made the
constitution from which flows our
highest law a living spring of benefi
cent power. He found it binding the
genius of the people with iron clamps.
He has made it a living garment cloth
ing the nation as Goethe says the
Creator is clad by the infinite tissue
of His works.
After the war is over, in Europe as
in Chicago, the question will arise:
"What principle were we fighting for,
anyway?"
News item from Chicago: The task
of writing the Republican tariff plank
has been assigned to that eminent
Republican statesman, General K.
Lamity.
Since 1912 the bank deposits of
this country have increased 35 per
cent a very practical expression of
confidence in democratic banking
law and ndminist.ratinn.
ThO day following the passage of
the democratic shipping bill by the
House, the foreign shipping trust
lowered ocean rates from American
ports to all foreign markets.
her to Oregon City, where they later
took up a claim. For some year3
they resided in Oregon City, but in
the early '60's removed to Salem, re
maining there until 1870, when they
came to Portland. Mr. Moore died
17 years ago, since which time Mrs.
Moore had made her home with her
daughter and only child, Mrs. D. G.
Tomasini.
August Zindler
August Zindler, well-known resi
dent of the Clackamas Heights dis
trict, died at a Portland hospital on
Tuesday from the effects of cancer.
Mr. Zindler was born in 1877 and had
lived at Clackamas Heights for a num
ber of years. He is survived by a
brother and sister, who live at Clacka
mas Heights. Funeral services were
conducted in Oregon City on Wednes
day, interment being in Mountain
View cemetery. The Rev. William
Kraxberger officiated.
Allen Orlo Hayward
Died June 14 at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. C. W. Casto, Allen
Orlo Hayward, of hardening of the
arteries.
A. O. Hayward was born in East
Alstead, New Hampshire, Dec. 11,
1843. In 1845 his parents removed to
South Acworth. In 1869 he accom
panied the family to Oberlin, Ohio.
Here he met and in 1872 married Mat
tie L. Callahan.
In 1879 Mr. and Mrs. Hayward with
two children emigrated to 'Kansas,
settling at Rock Creek. In 1888 he
was compelled by failing health to
try another climate, and with Jus
wife and four children he came to
Oregon. He fjrst located on a farm
at Carus, later lived two and a half
years in Oregon City. In 1903 he
moved to Clackamas.
He is survived by the widow, a son,
Eugene Hayward, two daughters, Mrs.
C. W. Casto, Mrs. R. B. Holcomb and
five grandchildren.
Edward Johnson
Funeral services for Edward John
son, who was killed by a railroad train
in Washington last Wednesday, were
conducted on Friday and interment
was made in the Catholic cemetery.
Mr. Johnson, aged 74 years at the
time of the accident which took his
life, was a veteran of the civil war.
He enlisted in the union army at the
age of 19 as a private in the 88th New
York volunteer infantry, a division of
the famous "Irish Brigade." He soon
advanced in rank and when General
Meagher led his historic charge
against Walton's confederate battery
on Marye's Heights in the battle of
Fredricksburg, Sergeant Johnson was
one of the 251 of the original total
of 1315 men who were in the charge.
Mr. Johnson's funeral was attended
by many of the members of Meade
Post, G. A. R. He is survived by a
son, Edward, of Puyallup, Wash.,
where Mr. Johnson lost his life, and
by a son, Joseph, who lives in this
state.
The $240,000,000 navy voted by the
democrats leaves T. R. with only one
issue unappropriated, and that is the
recall of judicial opinions. And as
Hughes refused to express an opinion
even that issue did not count.
This is the year which will decide
whether the 4,000,000 progressives of
1912 were progressives for principle
or for loaves and fishes. What was
practicable of their principles has
been put into constructive measures
by Woodrow Wilson.
Although the farms of the United
States are valued at $40,000,000,000
and produce $10,000,000,000 of annual
wealth, they have had to pay an in
terest rate of from 6 per cent to 10
percent. A democratic congress and
administration passes a rural credits
act which will reduce this rate to 4
percent to 6 per cent. Will the 6,000-
000 farmers of the United States en
dorse this act with their votes in No
vember ?
Obituaries
Calvin Shepherd
Calvin Shepherd, father of Mrs. J.
M. Volkmnr of this, city, died sud
denly of apoplexy at his home at Fair
view, Ore., on Saturday evening. He
was born June 2fi, 1849 at Michanics
burg, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Volk
mar and daughter, Miss Mabel Volk
mar, loft Sunday for Fairview, where
they attended the funeral services held
from the family residence on Tues
day.
x Mrs. Henry Koehler
Mrs. Louise M. Koehler, wife of
Henry Koehler of Oswego, passed
away at the family home on Monday
night after an extended illness
Death was hastened by an attack of
meningitis. Mrs. Koehler had been
confined by the most recent attack for
a week.
Mrs. Louise M. Koehler was born
in Belgium on February 4, 1889 and
had been a resident of Oregon for a
number of years, where her husband
has been prominent in politics. She
is survived by her husband, who is at
present city recorder and deputy as
sessor at Oswego; a son, Willie, aged
11, and Constance, a daughter, aged
3. Mrs. Koehler's father, Joseph J
Van Duyse, lives at Oswego, and a
brother, P. J. Van Duyse, is in Portland.
Funeral services will probably be
conducted from the residence at Os
wego on Sunday. The body is at the
Myers & Brady parlors.
James Gibson
Te death of James Gibson at the
family home about two miles from
I this city on Friday morning, saddened
j the wide circle of friends he had mnde
in Clackamas county during the 18
yoars of his residence here.
Mr. Gibson was born in Canada and
was 59 years old at the time of his
death, which was caused by paraly
sis. He is survived by Mrs. Gibson,
four children and a stepdaughter,
Miss Elizabeth Smith, of Oregon City.
The children are William C. Gibson
of Philadelphia, Pa., Mrs. Grace
Seipes of Michigan and the Misses
Isla and Ida Gibson of Oregon City.
Mrs. Margaret Moore
Funeral services for Mrs. Marga
ret Moore, pioneer of Oregon, who
died at the home of her son-in-law,
D. G. Tomasini, at Portland, on Sat
urday night, were held from the Fin
ley chapel yesterday at 1 o'clock, with
interment in Columbia cemetery.
Mrs. Moore was born in Blandford,
Mass., on April 13, 1824. and at the
time of her death was 92 years of
age.
In 1853 she came to Oregon via
the Isthmus of Panama route, and
joined her husband, who has preceded
Mrs. W. C. Wilson
Mrs. W. C. Wilson died at her home
in Gladstone this morning as a result
of severe burns received on Monday
when she threw a lighted match upon
a can of benzine, which exploded and
set fire to her clothing. The accident
together with the illness brought
about by cancer, caused Mrs. Wilson's
sudden and very sad death.
Burns from the benzine flames
spread from the elderly lady's knees
to her neck and her screams for help
perhaps are responsible for saving her
from instant death at the time of the
accident. She had been in the wood
shed with a lighted match and when
she dropped the match, thinking its
flame extinguished, it fell upon the
benzine. Neighbors attracted by the
screams of the injured woman, put the
flames out, but their effect claimed
toll this morning. Funeral arrange
ments will be made later.
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with center hinge on head. This means
direct draft and no chance for head to
spring.
Adjusting Lever Adjusting the
teeth further under the rake head for heavy
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ing position under all conditions.
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Richard Dundas
The death of Richard Dundas at
the family home at Mount Pleasant on
Wednesday was a sudden shock to the
many friends of the elderly gentle
man, who had lived Mi Clackamas
county for a number of years.
Mr. Dundas was born in Belfast,
Ireland, September 10, 1846, and
moved with his parents to Canada
two years after his birth. He had
been a resident of Oregon since 1875.
He was married to Miss Bessie Norton
in 1S84 and is survived by the widow
in addition to the following children:
Mrs. Charlotte Blanchard, Mrs. Maudb
Inalis, of this county; Mrs. Lelah Nor
ton, Stockton, Cal., Mrs. Mamie Mc
Farland, Oak Point, Wash., Mrs. Mat
tie Engle, Miss Zelma Dundas and
Miss Violet Dundas, who reside on
the home farm at Mount Pleasant.
Funeral services will be conducted
on Friday morning at 11 o'clock from
the Central Point church and inter
ment will be in Mountain View.
Clean water, clean food, 4 clean
houses make clean healthy American
citizens.
The Courier $1.00 per year.
WOMAN AVOIDS
OPERATION
Medicine Which Made Sur
geon's Work Unnecessary.
Astoria, N. Y. "For two years I
was feeling ill and took all kinds of
tonics. I was get
ing worse every day.
1 had chills, my nead
would ache, I was
always tired. I could
not walk 'straight
because of the pain
in my back and I had
pains in my stom
ach. I went to a
doctor and he said I
must go under an
operation, but J. did
not go. I read in
the oaDer about
Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Com
pound and told my husband about it. I
said ' I know nothing will help me but I
will try this.' I found myself improv
ing from the very first bottle, and in two
weeks time. I was able to sit down and
eat a hearty breakfast with my hus
band, which 1 had not done for two years.
I am now in the best of health and
did not have the operation. " Mrs.
John A. Koenig, 502 Flushing Avenue,
Astoria, N. Y.
Every one dreads the surgeon' knife
and the operating table. Sometimes
nothing else will do ; but many times
doctors say they are necessary when
they are not Letter after letter comes
to the Pinkham Laboratory, telling how
operations were advised and were not
performed; or, if performed, did no good,
but Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound was used and good health followed.
If you wan-advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
(confidential), Lynn, Mass.
MAIN STREET DEAL MADE
Butcher Takes Title to Valuable Busi
ness Property
An important real estate deal was
completed by Dillman & Howland of
Oregon City, whereby Richard Pet
zold becomes owner of the valuable
Main street property between Eighth
and Seventh, heretofore owned by
Gustav Freiwald. Mr. Petzold oper
ates a butcher shop near Seventy
street on Main. V
The consideration which Mr. Frei
wald receives for his property in
cludes $22,500 in cash and 160 acres
of Lane county land valued at $8000.
The property involved in the pur
chase is 66 by 210 and runs from
Main street to the railroad tracks on
the East. It is covered with a frame
building and several houses, which
may be replaced with a modern
brick building by the new owner.
"BUY IT IN OREGON CITY"
OREGON CITY
Member ot
Federal Reserve Bank
ft aSW!ft4?a. .IMIMmSiF i
(Established 1889)
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
LOCKS TO BE CLOSED
Office phones: Main 50, A50; Res. phones, M. 2524,1715
Home B251, D251
WILLIAMS BROS. TRANSFER & STORAGE
Office 612 Main Street
Safe, Piano, and Furniture Moving a Specialty
. Sand, Gravel, Cement, Uime, Plaster, Common
Brick. Face Brick, Fire Brick
Second
Cofferdam Is To Be Put
in Place in Canal
locks will be
The Oregon City
closed to navigation June
July 2.
Owing to the construction of the
second cofferdam for the new wall be
ing placed in the canal the waterway
must be dry on those two Sundays.
j Official notice is" Wng given all , arranged for some time, the date was
navigation companies and others in-1 postponed.
an terested by the U. S. Engineer corps, j
The canal was to have been emptied i
June 18, but owing to the annual pic-,
nic and run to Butteville of the Port-)
land Motor Boat club, which had been j
The canal is to be closed between
the hours of 7 a. m. and 4:30 p. m.
Vessels reaching the locks before
7 o'clock will be accommodated.
The Courier $1.00 per year.