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16 OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON" CITY. OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1916 ; This is one Christmas when useful practical gifts will be appreciated- why not Furniture? Read a few bar gains below DQ YOUB CHRISTMAS SHOPPING HERE i TOYS TOYS TOYS Bring the kiddies to our store Sat urday, December 16. Santa Claus will be here and every boy and girl will receive a novelty toy from old Kris Kringle himself. We have a wonderful assortment of the most up-to-date toys that it is possible to obtain. The sidewalk in front of our display window is blocked every day by the boys and girls and grownups Avatching the wonderful mechanical toys in operation. See our assort ment before buying. We save you money. We will deliver everything sold Christmas Eve up to 10 o'clock p. m. Country orders receive special attention. This Beautiful Rocker Made of solid oak, genuine leather, auto seat and padded leather back. XMAS fcO ffC SPECIAL O Give Furniture This Christmas Are you getting all that is coming to you for your money? Oregon City is conceded to be one of the liyest commercial centers in the state of Oregon. Many new business enterprises have opened in the last year among them The Exchange Furniture Co. plays an important part, our store is on 7th street one block east of Main at the Municipal elevator. Our slogan is WALK A BLOCK AND SAVE A DOLLAR, and in justice to yourself and your pocket book, look over our assortment before buying. Library Tables make a classy gift. Our prices range for one like cut from $4.75 i ! Dresser (iSpft like cut J IT French ByP YYg Dining Table, like cut, made of solid oak, not veneered, wax goleen Tutra finish, 65 in. top 6 ft. extension. J. U11V The HIGH XMAS SPECIAL $14.25 out oimms CostOf. We carry the Charter Oak line of Stoves and Ranges. Come in and see our line. These Ranges have been satisfaction givers for the past sixty-seven years. Our prices are not as high as some stores ask for ranges, without any reputation. We take your old stove in exchange and allow all it is worth. Oregon City's Exclusive Furniture Store The Store That Saves You Money THE EXCHANGE FURNITURE CO. Phone 136 A. D. FLANNIGAN, Manager B59 Seventh Street At The Elevator Oregon City PIECES OF FURNITURE that make acceptable gifts. We are selling agents for the Ileywood Bros. & Wakefield Co. line of Eeed and Rattan furniture, in all the new finishes, including old ivory, Castii ian brown, baronial Verdi. Any piece can be made to match the fur niture you now have. See our large selection of Reed Jardiniers Reed Sewing Bas ketsReed Rockers Reed. High Chairs Reed Handing Jardiniers Reed Bassinettes Reed Jardinier , Stands Reed Tea Wagons. Four Large Covered Vans and one covered auto truck make it possible for us to deliver anything in perfect condition regardless of weather conditions. Kitchen Cabinets are a Labor Saver Mother would like one of these. We have all styles and finishes. One like cut has nicoloid top finished royal oak. XMAS SPECIAL I $12.25 BIS' 9 I BOYCOTTING CRITICISED Says Boycotting is Apt to Appeal to the Tyrannical Side Clackamas, Ore.., Rt. 1, Dec. 12, 1916 Editor Courier: ,iC....C rticu--z:yhi ill, xzfifl In looking over your articles in the editorial page I notice one on boy cotting. Now I believe under the laws of our nation that boycotting is a state prison offense. I rather think that is one of the laws that President Wilson said he would enforce to the full extent of the law. Boycotting is dangerous as it appeals to the tyran nkal side of nature and does not call for reason or thought. Boycotting appeals to the beastly side of human nature and a class, a society or as a whole it might do an unlimited amount of harm. As one jealous or unreasonable person might rule whole neighborhool where there is no thousrht or reason" given to the subject. By closely observing a lot of brutes in a barnyard you will find the low base nature and you will find one which all the other brutes have a pick at. It is just because they are low base brutes without thought or reason. "Be not like dumb, driven cattle be a hero in the strife." MRS. VIOLA BURR. Editor's note: The barnyard brute at which the other brutes pick is the dumb counterpart of the crim inal Who holds great storehouses of life's necessities until his own pock et book can grow fat upon the spoils from those who must eat. The Cour ier is strongly opposed to the ordinary boycott boycotting is a vivious practice and leads to many more crimes, ordinarily, than it pre vents or corrects. But it sometimes takes a vicious practice to correct one. Therefore, we feel that the housewife's boycott is the best way to handle the food situation. One jealous or unreasonable person such as the speculator in foodstuffs could not play his game against a boycott by the housewiie. The food specu lator is a brute dominating an entire nation without "thought or reason." The way to overthrow his domination is to boycott his wares. That doesn't mean that the housewife must parade the streets with a banner, crying: I "This shop is unfair to housewives," It means only that the housewives of the land should refuse to buy foods priced out of all reason. Automatic ally the price will drop. Notice to Creditors Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been duly appointed administratrix of the estate of P. S. Baker, deceased, by the County Court of Clackamas County, Oregon; any and all persons having claims against the said estate must present them to the undersigned, duly ven. fied as by law required, at the office of Hammond and Hammond, Oregon City, Oregon, within six months from the date of this notice. JULIA E. BAKER. Administratrix of the Estate of F. S, Baker, deceased. First Publication, December 14, 1916. Last Publication, January 11,1917. t t . Christmas Words and Pictures Marriage License A marriage license was issued by County Clerk Iva Harrington Friday to Lois A. Thacker and Wilbert F, Sullivan, of Elkhorn, Ore. Sues for Drag Saw Suit was brought in the circuit court Saturday by Emil Itschner against Henry Hampton for the re covery of a drag: saw and outfit which is in the possession of Hampton. (JOOD game to make Christ urns all the merrier Is a contest seeing 'who can write down the long est list of words siinKPstlng or be longing to the Yule- tide season. Pass around blank cards and pencils and ullow fifteen minutes for working up the lists. Such n list will include the words holly, mistletoe, St. Nick, Christ mas carol, waits, Yule, Yulo log, gift, greeting, Christmas box, snapdragon, holidays nnd a long list of related terms. Give a prize to the player whose list proves longest. .To carry the fun a bit further on, get two pictures ns large us possible, rep resenting the Curlstunu saint. Ads. or Illustrations from back numbers of periodicals will do. Cut each picture Into six or eight pieces and hide the pieces lu odd nooks and comers around the room. When the signal Is given players hurry away lu search of the fragments. As soon as a player has found a piece he censes to search, and all those who bnve found mosaics com mence to patch them together. All those who And fragments are entitled to draw for the prize, a Christmas book. This makes a most exciting scramble game since It Is not untU both pictures are completed that the unsuccessful players give up hope. Courier and Daily Journal $4.75. CATTLE RUN LIGHT Portland Yards Receive Light Ship ments in all Classes of Livestock Monday's run of cattle was the smallest for many months, less than 600 head. The market was in gen eral firm with a large demand from butchers who bought freely. Call from packers was light; prices in the best grades are steady to 25c higher, while the large end of the run, which was of common quality, sold steadily with slow demand. The supply of good cows and hei fers was very light, with -a fairly good demand. Best cows sold at $6. 25, with a few at $6; fair to good ones brought $5.50 to $5.75, with or dinary ones at $5. Prime or best grades were "a good 10c higher, while the common grades found slower sale. A good time was made on all feed er stock Monday, prices being well in line with last week's close. Best valley feeder steers brought $5.60 to $5.75, with fair to good ones around $5. Stock cows and heifers brought $3 to $5, while choice feeding heifers and cows ranged from $5 to $5.50. Monday's hog run was a (rood deal lighter than a week ago, although it was a good sized total of 4000 head Prices were on abouUthe same basis as last week, although some sales made in the later trading looked to 10c higher. The market was not very active at the opening-but after the first few loads started through the scales buyers got busy and an active market continued throughout the day. A number of loads brought $9.70 to $9.75, with the bulk again selling at $.bU. Pigs and half-finished stock were there in large numbers bringing $ to $8.6U. CI 1 JC i ouppiy oi sneep continues verv light; the only offerings coming are irom small lots of valley sheep each day, but valley lambs made another 10c advance, bringing $9.60. No east-of-the-mountain sheep have been received to test the real strentrth of the market. Valley yearlings sold up to $8.50 with good mutton ewes at $7. A Miner's Christmas Inexplicable. Professor (to Ktmli nti - What iuh you laughing at? Not in nieV Student Oli, no, sir! rrofessorTliou wlmt else Is there In the room to luujjh my Boston Transcript. - Studies In Still Life. "I want a few colored illustrations of beets and toumtoes." "Life size?" inquired the airtlat. "Catalogue size." replied the seeds man, with a slguUlcaut smile. Louis ville Courier-Jounml. Unsounded Depths. Happiness and misery lire the nnnuw of two extremes. Ihc utmost bounds o willed we know not. -I-m ke. Olsons Divorced Judge Campbell Saturday signed a decree of divorce separating Freda and August Olson. By Samantha of Clackamas County Say, Bill, old Pard, the mine is your'n; I'm bound to hit the trail; You'll find the gold in plenty, too, Your future don't spell F-A-I-L, But all my life I've seen that word A blazm cross my sky Can't you go off a minute, Bill, An' let a feller die? . I must have slept an awful while; It seems a week ago That Bill took down his old snowshoes And started 'cross the snow To Deadwood, twenty miles away. It's queer that he ain't back; He'd only have the medicine An' light things in his pack. I wish I had a taller dip, So I could make a light To set here in' the winder A sort of" beacon light. I'm going to get to that fireplace If I crawl on the floor; An' when I've built a rousin' fire I'll open wide the door. An' if the lad has lost his way He'll surely see the light.. It 8 hard to keep these mountain trails On such a bad, dark night. Why Bill, good Pard, can this be you? I thought that you wuz lost f or oia Jonn s saKe it broke my heart. Not bein' worth the cost. It wuz the light that guided you? You found me on the floor Half covered by the driftin' snow A freezin' by the door? You've brought me some good medi cine, An' what? No, that can't be. I haint got no lovin' friends to think At Christmas time of me! These gloves you say is from a man I rescued in the snow? Oh Lord, I had forgotten that, Twas seven years ago! An' this silk 'kerchief why old Pard, It makes me young again! It's from an old prospector, too A Chinaman, Yun Yen. 'Tis little that I did fer him Jest nursed him through smallpox When he was left alone to die What's in that purty box? Some candy! Well I'll eat my hat! How came it to be sent? Why yes, now I do recollect I paid a feller's rent- Sick family, man plumb out o' work An' couldn't get back pay. I didn't need the money An' it had to go some way. A letter! that's the best of all! ; Haint had one in ten years: It's from Bill Williams; read it, Pard; Don t mind these foolish tears. He's prosperin', writes he's livin' straight An' wanted me to know I'd helped him he was purty tough A year or two ago. Kow do I feel now? Fine as silk! Haint got an ache or pain. j Queer how it heartens up a man To hear from friends again. The Christmas story seemed a fake, But now I know its true; An' God must love us since he makes Fo.lks like these friends an' you. afternoon on "State Highways." located in Portland and that each Ex-Governor Oswald West, who r county pay a pro rata tax for the in- tt "Mixed Pickles" Both skillful and amusing Is the Christmas game of "mixed pickles." Ev ery one knows how difficult It Is to get one's favorite piece of pickle out of the pickle jar, and it was this fact wblcb suggested the game to Its Inventor. The players are provided with a couple of "pickle forks," which very mucb re semble knitting needles. Armed with these, the competitors take their seats around the table, in the center of which is the pickle Jar. In front of each player a little heap of "pickles' Is placed, the said "pickles" consisting of plecus of smooth wood or Ivory of various suapes and sizes. It Is ex ceedlngly difficult to pick up these with the "forks" and convey them into the jar, and be or she who first succeeds in so disposing of their particular heap of "pickles ' Is the winner, J "Lord of Misrule"! There is a delightfully laughable Christmas gn me called "the lord of mis. rule." Here some one, usually oue of the larger boys or girls n( (list. Is given a spray of holly. haiever (lie person holding the holly does, other players must Imitate exactly. No antics In which the uolty-tendcr Indulges must stump his followers. They follow him be crawls under furniture. Jumps over stools una benches or waltzes round the room The.v even Imitate his grimaces. When Hie Invention of one holly lender lias given out some other member of the company will vol unteer for the position Any one who would like to lead the company a mer ry dniice around the room should be allowed to have a turn at 't. COUNTY JUDGES MEET Local Court Attends Session at Port land. Talk Unification County Judge H. S. Anderson and Commissioner Adam Knight have been attending the meeting at Port land this week of the Oregon Associ ation of County Judges and Commis sioners, where they took part in the discussion of the proposal to unify all county poor farms under one man agement. They also discussed the fixing of responsibility for juvenile delinquents and the revision of the widow's pension law to make it more effective. Practically the entire day Wednesday was given over to a dis cussion of road building matters. Governor Withycombe spoke in the ment of the County Farms and the Care of the Indigent Poor," urged the unification of all county farms under state administration. In so doing he said he thought that $20 per in mate could be saved the taxpayer per month, Mr. West said that it cost Mult nomah county approximately $35 an inmate to maintain the Multnomah county poor farm. He said that the state of Oregon maintained its two mates sent from that county. ' Judge T. T. Cleeton of Multnomah county asserted that the widows' pen sion law would fall into disfavor, if not into disuse, if not amended. He said that as the law stands it contains clauses that discriminate in Javor of those widows who have property that does not bring them an income. "The pensions are all givin at the present time," said Judge Cleeton, "without taking into consideration the insane hospitals at a rate per inmate value of properties or equities of the of $14.75 for the Salem hospital and widow. In some cases it is found that less than $20 for the Pendleton hos- a widow applying for a pension has Pital. property valued up to $10,000. Since Should the state take over the ad- it bears her no income she is entitled ministration: of all poor farms, he under the law to the same relief as suggested that such an institution be is the absolutely destitute widow. 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