OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY; JANUARY 18, 191T
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About the State
Resume of the News of the
Week from All Parts
of Oregon
Half a million dollars would annu
ally be saved to Umatilla county
farmers by dispensing with sacks
and handling their wheat in bulk, is
the statement of W. W. Harrah, Pen
dleton farmer, who recently left
with his family ' for California to
spend the winter. The bulk handling
of wheat is receiving serious atten
tion in Umatilla county. Few farm
ers have tried it; none of them have
returned to the sack system; all of
them remain enthusiastically jn favor
of the new, quick handling method.
Approximately $7000 will be spent
at Bend in the coming summer in an
enlargement of the Huffschmidt
Dugan Iron Works, according to an
announcement made by R. E. Huff
schmidt of the company. The addi
tion is made necessary by the rapid
ly growing business of the company,
which opened its plant here last sum
mer. Conditions at the Oregon state
training schol for boys, at Salem,
were denounced in a report filed at
Salem Saturday by a commission ap
pointed by the state board of control
to make a survey of the institution.
Sanitary conditions are deplorable,
the system of instruction and train
ing is inadequate, and the physical
condition of the boys in attendance
is subnormal, the report said. Nei
ther the board of control nor the sup
erintendent of the school was blamed.
"The present work of the school
seems to be a product of a sympa
thetic but empiric policy, and to this
we attribute its deficiencies," said the
report.
Another carload of Albany horses
was shipped east last week to do ser
vice eventually in the European war.
This is the first carload that has been
shipped for several months.
So keen is the rush for grazing
land on the enlarged tract recently
opened in the La Grande office district
that applicants are sleeping on the
federal building steps, to be first to
file. Some time last Wednesday sev
eral men formed a line and were
waiting for the arrival of officials.
Since the first of the month the aver
age daily applications have been 40,
and $10,000 has been deposited by ap
plicants. Approximately 160,000
acres have been applied for. Most
of the applicants file in person.
The Dollar company mill, formerly
the property of the Coquille Lumber
company at Coquille, has been leased
by E. E. Johnson from the Dollar peo-
pie and will be put into operation by
him as soon as the machinery can be
t overhauled and put in shape to run.
Ever Since the Coquille Lumber com
pany was forced to shut down the mill
about six months after it was built
in 1912 the people have looked for-
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$5.00 to $7.00 Sweater Coats $3.50
$4.00 Sweater Coat
$3.00 Sweater Coat -$2.00
Sweater Coat
$1.00 Sweater Coat -$1.50
Jersey Sweaters
Hockey Caps
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TRIANGLE 5-PLY COLLARS-2 for 25c ALWAYS j
ward to the time when it would again
be put into operation.
Members of the house and senate
unanimously accepted the invitation
of the Oregon Agricultural college to
visit that institution some time this
week A special train will be operat
ed to Corvallis and return on Satur
day. Dr. W. J. Kerr, president of the
college, was at Salem Monday to urge
the members generally to join the
party. A committee, consisting of
Representatives Eaton, Lafferty and
Anderson, has been appointed by
Speaker Stanfleld to make arrange
ments for the trip. Vonderhellen,
Hawley and Pierce are members of
the senate committee on arrange
ments.
Jackrabbits have become such a
pest in Klamath' county among the
farmers and stockmen that some time
ago a movement was started to induce
the county court to place a small
bounty of 6 to 15 cents upon the ani
mals. ' Secretary Fred Fleet, of the
Klamath Commercial club,, was re
quested to endeavor to find a market
for the pelts. He wrote several let
ters of inquiry, and received a reply
from St Louis, in which he is advised
that they can pay from 15 to 18 cents
a pound for the skins laid down in
St Louis. The freight would be
cents a pound, thus netting the hunt
er in the neighborhood of 10 to 11
cents a pound for the skins.
The annual city election at Hills
boro was held last Mpnday. The
weather was fine for the time of the
year, with a fairly representative
number of voters out, there being a
total of 424 votes cast for the office
of treasurer, this being the only of
fice where there was a contest on.
Edwin S. Sparks, regular nominee of
the Citizens' ticket, defeated I. J.
Hoar, the present treasurer, by a ma
jority of 34 vojes.
The Washington county court last
Friday ordered that the tax levy for
1917 be 16.7 mills and in districts
which have no high schools an addi
tional .6 of a mill or 17.3. The levy
is .2 of a mill higher than that of
1916, notwithstanding the heavy road
appropriations carried in the budget.
McMinnville warehousemen and
big shippers there and at Dayton con
template the purchase of a steam?
boat to maintain regular service be
tween Portland and McMinnville. The
car shortage situation is proving a
puzzling problem to- shippers and
they are eager to find a way out of
the present unsatisfactory shipping
situation.
At the sale of the $160,000 road
bonds of Wasco county most of the
prominent northwestern bond houses
had representatives and in addition to
the bids submitted by the represent
atives, a number of mail bids were
received. Nineteen bids were before
the county court when the clerk
opened and read them.
While most owners of poultry get
no eggs now, and expect none, one
man in Enterprise has demonstrated
that hens will lay in the coldest De-
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cember weather. This is B. F. Both
ter weather. This is B. F. Botliwell,
who came to Enterprise from the east
in the fall. He has 200 hens and is
getting about seven dozen eggs a day,
selling them at 60 cents a dozen.
This price for strictly fresh eggs has
brought down the price of storage
eggs, which had been selling for 60
cents. Mr. Bothwell says his success
with hens is "wrapped up in" two
points: first, comfort; second, an un
limited supply and variety of all the
feed they want, with a limited diet of
bone and meat
A district fair association, com
prised of stockholders from Klamath,
Lake and Crook counties in Oregon
and Siskiyou and Modoc counties in
California, has been proposed by sev
eral Klamath Falls citizens and by
ranchers of the county.
' Goldie's Nehalem 3eauty, declared
by the American Jersey Cattle club
the junior three-year-old champion,
scoring 12,367.7 pounds of milk and
760.5 pounds of fat, is owned by Clif
ford F. Reid of Portland and kept at
his farm east of McMinnville. Gold
ie has wrested the championship
from Lass 74th of Hood farm, at Low
ell, Mass., and brings the title to Ore
gon. ' The cow is in the three-year-old
class. She is a solid color golden
fawn, with black tongue and switch.
A recent citizens' mass meeting at
the Hillsboro commercial club adopt
ed a resolution, addressed to the
Southern Pacific, declaring that the
removal of the division terminal from
Hillsboro to Brooklyn was regarded
as an unfriendly act. A committee
headed by Mayor J. M. Wall and in
cluding Edward Schulmerich, J. H.
Garrett, Sam Weil, J. W. Connell and
W. G. Hare will present the resolu
tions to company officials. '
The agricultural bureau of the Eu
gene Chamber of Commerce will take
steps to obtain the retention of N. S.
Robb, county agricultural agent, ac
cording to announcement Mr. Robb
resigned several days ago because he
believed the county court had appro
priated an insufficient sum of money
properly to conduct his departtment.
The county court cut the appropria
tion for the office as approved by the
taxpayers in annual bession $500.
The First National bank has an
nounced that it would give $50 tow
ard raising the additional $500.
The Polk County Farmers' union
at its annual meeting at Dallas Wed
nesday went on record as opposed to
the bonding of the state and counties
of Oregon for the purpose of raising
road funds to meet the federal ap
propriation for building good roads
in Oregon. In place of bonding they
favor a graduated, increased license
fee, not to exceed 100 per cent, on
all motor vehicles according to horse
power and weight, and proposed oth
er items which would swell the fund
in such a manner as to meet the fed
eral fund.
The land office at Burns is doing a
rushing business on account of the
640-acre homestead act. Applicants
have to wait hours in line before they
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$2.95
- $2.25
$1.25
- $'.75
$1.15
25c
25c to $1
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can file. Attorneys and locators are
doing rushing business 'and applicants
are so excited that many of them file
on land already filed on by others.
Landseekers are rushing in on horse
back and by automobile.
223 men who are on parole from
the penitentiary earned $11,381.30 for
themselves and their families during
November, according to a report filed
late last week with Governor Withy
combe by Parole Officer Keller. Since
July, 1915, men who have been on
parole from the prison earned a to
tal of $93,721.88, the report says.
At the end of last month 363 men
were on parole. During the month
six violations were reported, and only
one of these was cancelled, and the
cancellation was revoked immediate
ly by the governor, owing to extenu
ating circumstances.
There is grave danger of the once
promising Linn-Benton Growers' as
sociation becoming a lost industry as
far as Albany is concerned. At the
annual meeting held in Albany Satur
day a resolution was introduced call
ing for the turning back the cannery
at Brownsville to the Brownsville
Canners' association.
After a period of 26 years of con
secutive use, the inter-county bridge
across the Willamette river at Salem
was closed last week. Barricades
were erected on both ends of the
bridge at that time, the watchmen
were withdrawn, and not even a
foot passenger is now allowed to
cross. On the 11th day of January,
1891, just twenty-six years ago, the
structure was first thrown open to
use. In those early days the traffic
was light, but after the auto became
popular, it was called upon to carry
a greatly increased load.
Umatilla's city offices were taken
charge of last week by the women's
administration. Mrs. Laura Starcher,
mayoress, who beat her husband for
the job, took her seat in the old town
hall and immediately things began
popping. A deputy sheriff residing in
council. They are the only ones in
Umatilla was informed that he would
have to maintain order in the future.
The man city marshal was dropped.
Several . women applied for the post,
as it had been rumored Mrs. Starcher
would favor her sex and name a girl
to the place. , Instead she eliminated
it altogether, holding that it was an
unnecessary expense. The steam
roller is working overtime for two
males who were re-elected to the
council, hey are the only ones in the
the whole administration.
Twelve pounds of potatoes to the
hill, with each potato weighing near
ly a pound, is the excellent record set
by W. W. Hawley, whose farm is in
the Lorane district, 11 miles west of
Lorane proper. The potatoes are of
the desirable Burbank variety, smooth
and light brown on the outside, and
when mashed, creamy white, fllffy,
smooth and fine-flavored.
Rev. J. H. Talbot, a Salem Method
ist minister, in offering the opening
prayer at last Thursday's session of
the Oregon state senate, had proceed
ed with his supplications for six min
utes when Sergeant-at-Arms W. G.
D. Mercer slipped up to him quietly,
pulled his coat and whispered: "Yog
have gone far enough to suit these
fellows. Better call a halt" The
prayer ended in the middle of an ap
peal for divine aid for the president
of the senate.
The County Court
EXPENDITURES FOR MONTH OF
JANUARY
ROAD DISTRICT NO. 2 F. M.
Romane, $20.00; Langenburg, $35.00;
M. Roborts, $15.00; O. Welch, $20.00;
J. Umaker, $37.60; B. Lorance,
$25.00; J. Haize, $20.00; W. Finzer,
$7.50; W. Ambler, $12.50; R. John
ston, 526.76; Edward Daul, $7.50;
JohnUmaker, $21.75.
DISTRICT NO. 3 Earl Tong,
$20.00; J. W. Norton, $20.00; Joe
Papsch, $8,00; Nick Stiner, $10.00;
Curtis Young, $6.00; G. DeYoung,
$20.00; R. DeYoung, $20.00; O. E.
Haugen, $25.00; E. Fredolph, $20.00;
H. Seibert, $32.25; W. Brodio, $22.00;
A. H. Heller, $15.50; Christ Hemmer
ich, $20.00; J D. Chitwood, $15.00;
Will Donley, $8.00; J. P. Stradley,
$15.50; H. Bock, $3.60; Joe Pillster,
$2.50.
DISTRICT NO. 4 Portland Rail
way, Light & Poyer Co., $112.00; C.
,W. Schuld & Sons, $81.60; Portland
Railway, Light & Power Co., $14.00;
H. C. Heiple, $28.00; H. A. Githens,
$15.00; L. Hale, $18.00; G. T. KiKtch
ing, $14.00; G. F. Boyer, $12.00; J. A.
Kitching, $71.35; E. E. Sailing,
$16.00; C. C. Sailing, $4.00; E. E.
Erickson, $6.00; J. B. Linn, $14.00;
W. M. Wado, $12.00; R. H. Currin,
17.00; J. C. Kitching, $14.60; J. K.
lEly, $7.00; George Walters, $9.00;
J T Tl Hi.! 91 ( pn. T CI
j. sr. oteiiimttn, fii.ou; xv. o. voop,
$15.50; H. S. Jones, $13.00; G. A.
Loveall, $2.00; Dan Matson, $18.50;
Frank Younker, $5.00; L. F. Hale,
$10.00;
DISTRICT NO. 5 Portland Rail
way Light & Power Co., $84.70; The
Courier Press, $5.00; Oregon City En
terprise, $3.70; W. R. Telford, $6.80;
C. Lekberg,, $4.00; P. Stone, $2.00;
J. Meyer, $27.00; H. Naas, $4.00; J.
Modin, $4.00; G. Tacheron, $1.00; J.
Anderegg, $4.00.
DISTRICT NO. 6 The Sandy
News, $10.00.
DISTRICT NO. 7 Portland Rail
way, Light & Power Co., $48.83; Per
ret & Bickford, $7.00; John Nelson,
$4.60; Sandy Newj, $10.00; M. Thom
as, $11.25; J. Figles, $9.00; H. Ten
Eyck, $9.00; A. Phelps, $6.75; H. E.
Martin, $6.75; H. Moulton, $18.00; J.
Cockelreas, $12.38; E. Ten Eyck, $6.
75; S. T. Shew, $5.62; Wm. Odell,
$11.25; W. H. Montwomery, $13.50;
G. Ten Eyck, $9.00; Wm. Winters,
$13.50; L. Wilson, $11.25; E. Wilson,
$13.50; R. H. Shumway, $14.62; J. A.
Martindale, $11.25; D. W. Douglas,
Adams
I BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS
SPECIAL REDUCED PRICES ON S
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Adams Dept.
$30.00; C. F. Allen, $129.45; J. J. Eis
ner, $41.00; Harry Rand, $20.80;
Homer Hand, $21.35; Curtis Woods,
$5.62; Clyde Carder, $9.00; T. Palum
bo, $11.25; A. Palumbo, $13.50; C.
W. Eisner, $20.25; A. L. Martin, $22.
60: Dan Woods, $14.10; J. Yandell,
$10.65; Tony Cindary, $15.18; T. Day,
$1.12.
DISTRICT NO. 8 Cedar Creek
Lumber Company, $54.20; W. O.
Rough, $2.00.
DISTRICT NO. 9 Fred Luis, $12.-
60; Carl Lins, $10.00; C. Guber, $2.00;
Henry Klinker, $2.00; H. C. Stephens,
$6.00.
DISTRICT NO. 12 Timm Pahl,
$35.62; Carl Kirchem, $4.00; John
Mustol, $4.00; B. Rriedrich, $4.00;
Fred Gerber, $3.00; Edwin C. Gerber,
$9.00.
DISTRICT NO. 130. L. SteinKe,
$2.00; Gottlieb Amacher, $10.00; J. T.
Fullam, $7.50.
DISTRICT NO. 16 Chase & Lin
ton, $14.40; D. Rutherford, $12.00; H.
Engel, $7.50; E. Gelbrich, $2.00.
DISTRICT NO. 17 The uanoy
Herald, $11.30; Geo. Koehler, $8.00;
Roy Chubb, $4.00; H. C. Gilmore,
$2.00; Harry Cochran, $2.00; C. L.
England, $4.00; P. R. Pierce, $4.00;
Eaul Bany, $4.00; Wm. Beeson, $2.00;
F. B. Needham, $3.00; E. Courand,
$3.00.
DISTRICT NO. 18 Peter Huber,
$30.00; Otto Moehnke, $20.00.
DISTRICT NO. 19 W. Waldorf,
$5.40; J. C. Harison, $8.00; R. Schue
bel, $20.65; J. D. French, $3.50; Sam
Holsten. $2.00: Fred Churchill, $2.00;
W. A. Woodside, $4.00; Joe Daniels,
$2.00; Albert Erickson, $2.00; Edwin
Faust, $11.00; Glen Larkins, $1.00;
Julius Schiewe. $12.00; F. Mueller,
$12.00; Henry Mueller, $2.00; Fred
Udiger. $10.00; Ed Udiger, ifia.uu;
Harold Udiger, $10.00; J. A. Coulter,
$6.00; H. Schuebel, $2.00; G. Ashby,
$3.00; Chas. J. Honeyman, $2.20.
DISTRICT NO. 21 Nelson Nor
quist, $25.00; Axel Johnson, $25.00;
Claud Winslow, $18.75; Geo. Wil
liams, $5.00; W. S. Gorbett, $30.50;
Frank Dughee, $12.50; Geo. Dughee,
$12.50; Leonard Orem, $9.75; Ted
Cooper, $10.50; Walford Johnson,
$18.50; J. A. Johnson, $14.50; August
Johnson, $18.50; Oliver Johnson,
$18.50; Lewis Pendleton, $14.00; P. E.
Bonney, $14.50; Crawford, $37.60;
Herman Fisher, $34.12; A. M. Cooper,
$8.00; A. Nelson, $14.69; Theo. Fel
lows, $4.00; G. A. Gottberg, $7.00; W.
E. Bonney, $6.00; H. A. Freeman,
$8.00; Arch Bonney, $10.00; Charlie
England, $6.00; Ernest Wallace, $12.
50; Eric Trigg, $4.00; Jack Norris,
$8.00; Nels Lunmark, $2.00; J. J.
Jones, $15.00; Matt Peterson, $2.00;
J. D. Crawford, $20.00; Victor Brock
man, $20.00.
DISTRICT NO. 22 Robbing Bros.,
$14.85; J. W. Standinger, $7.00; I. L.
Boyer, $2.00; Herman Berhendt,
$2.00; G. E. Feyrer, $3.00; Peter
GereB, $4.00; Clyde Pendleton, $2.00;
E. Hunter, $3.00; C. Zoranson, $3.00;
B. C. Palmer,$3.00; Clay Engle, $3.00;
Jack Feyrer, $5.00; Carl Feyrer,
$2.00.
DISTRICT NO. 23 R. W. Zimmer
man, $20.25; C. F. Ziegler, $18.00.
DISTRICT NO. 24 D. D. Hostet
ter, $62.06; J. S. Fisher, $6.C2; A. L.
Yoder, $6.90; Clarence Johnson, $2.00;
Gordy Frederickson, $11.00; H. Fred
erickson, $5.75; A. Ellefson, $9.60;
Clean-up Sale
Munsingwear
It's the most satisfactory under
wear we ever sold. It fits well,
washes well and wears well. Our
customers who have wornMun
sing Union Suits will huy no
other kind. They are made
right, and priced right, too. We
recommend them asthe best
popular priced knit underwear
you can buy.
ALL STYLES FOR ALL AGES
Oregon City's Busy Store
I. Ellefson, $5.00; Ernest Thiel, $9.
50; Will Leach, $11.50; Hiram Jack
son, $2.00; Will Jackson, $7.00; Ben
Jackson, $3.00; L. P. Spagle, $36.37;
Geo. Dozier, $2.00; Carl Sether, $2.00;
John Gahler, $19.50; Ray Fish, $2.60;
Solon Kinzer, $2.50.
DISTRICT NO. 25 Canby Con
crete Works, $4.25; C. H. Lorenz,
$26.25; Ed Graves, $9.00; John
Graves, $10.75; John Gelbrich, $3.75;
George Graves, $2.75; A. Blaske,
$2.00; Francis Brush, $1.00; John
Kraxberger, $2.00; Fred Stier, $1.00;
Ed Moris, $5.00; B. Albecker, $4.00;
John Heinz, $2.00; Clarence Collins,
DISTRICT NO. 26 W. O. Vaugh-
an, $11.60; Sim Lindsey, $4.00; Carl
Ramsby, $2.00; Hugh Cutting, $2.00;
Reuben Wright, Jr., $2.00.
DISTRICT NO. 27 Wm. Hensche,
$1.90; Olof Olson, $6.00; Orvil Jack
son, $6.00; I. D. Larkins, $5.00; Ed
Hobart, $2.00; Chas. Birchet, $4.00;
H. Jacobson, $4.00; Otto Blair, $1.00.
DISTRICT NO. 28 H. Bigelow,
Tirst national Bank
Capital Stock
Surplus '
Member FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
Member OREGON STATE BANKERS ASSOCIATION
Member AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION
Under Government Supervision
IT. S. Depository for Postal Savings Funds
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT
INTEREST PAID on Savings Accounts or Time Certificates
We Solicit Your
Banking Business
Our Banking Room hag been remodeled to meet the
requirements of our patrons
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Store
$16.08; J. I.Case T. M. Co., $0.52; Zeb
Bowman, $10.00; A. D. Sherman, $11.
25; John Helvey, $6.00; Edwin Rus
sel, $16.00; L. D. Shank, $14.00; Earl
Bird, $10.00; W. M. Bird, $8.50; O. N.
Opsund, $5.00; L. B. Thomas, $4.00;
Frank Kokle, $6.00; Luther Nichol
son, $2.00; James Nicholson, $2.00;
A. D. Mazingo, $9.00; Frank Gray,
$4.00; Frank Ferlan, $5.00; W. L.
Freeman, $3.00; Omer Williams,
$2.00; L. L. Shank, $35.25.
DISTRICT NO. '29 Canby Con
crete Works, $1.20; W. S. Maple, $2.
50; G. H.Gray, $35.00; Lewis Keil,
$14.00; Wesley Long, $1.60.
DISTRICT NO. 30 Fred Morey,
a$201.17; W. Z. Wimmons, $1.26; J.
Bickner & Sons, $3.30; Chas. Livesay,
$10.15; Howard-Cooper Corporation,
$21.60; W. B. Baker, $47.00; Hugh
Baker, $26.00; A. E. Helms, $24.00;
Anton Neilson, $28.00; Ed Wanker,
$33.25; I. Johnson, $8.00; James
Headrick, $3.00; John Haines, $5.00;
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GITY
$50,000.00,
' $25,000.00
Have installed a MODERN and up-to-date
VAULT which is mob and
burgular proof.
OFFICERS
M. D. LATOURETTE, Vice-Pres.
1. 1. MEYEK, Cashier
OPEN 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.