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s OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON", THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1917. TRADE GROWING Dun Reports Crop Outlook Better. Wool Market Continues Slow Dun's Review, business authority. makes the following statement for : Oregon on September 1: Jobbing trade with the interior is growing in volume and retail dusi noao 19 iiannl. licht. at this time of year, gives indication of a material betterment in the early iaii monvns. Reports of crop prospects, par ticular for the cereals, nave inv proved. The decrease in wheat, as compared with last year, may not be over 20 per cent, though earlier in the season a half crop was expected. Tidewater mills are preparing for a rpmrH outnut. as it is expected the export wheat surplus will be shipped from the coast in the lorm or nour. An increase of at least 40 per cent, in the fall-sown wheat acreage is in dicated by reports from the Oregon grain districts. The shipbuilding industry is oper ating full time, with no labor troub les anticipated, and on all new work the yards will be given up to gov ernment contracts. The lumber mar ket is strong, with prospects of a steady improvement in the demand. The first orders for airplane spruce, aggregating 1,000,000 feet a month, have been placed here by federal agents, who are also representing the allied governments. The price has been fixed tentatively at $105 a thousand. A better eastern inquiry is developing for fruits, especially apples. Trading in new crop dried prunes is limited, as packers and growers are apart in their ideas as to prices. The hop market has turn ed very strong since it became assur ed the brewing industry would not be interfered with this year. New crop contracts are in demand at 35c, with few sellers. Reduced acreage and an unusually dry season, have brought the Oregon hop crop down to less than half of normal. All live stock prices are advancing and hogs are at record mark, the demand being far in excess of the supply. There is now a heavy run of Chinook salmon in the Columbia river, and canners are regaining much of the loss on the early pack caused by the spring fresh. et The wool market continues in active, with the holders of the large stocks stored here asking prices above what buyers will consider. OREGON CITY EDITORS TO TALK AT NEWPORT CITY WELCOMES TROOPS Enterprising Chamber of Commerce Sends Letter Telling Plans Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 1, 1917. To the People of Oregon :The United States government has selected Char lotte, North Carolina, as the site of one of the mobilization camps and the war department has decreed that the troops from your state will be stationed here. The Charlotte Chamber of Com merce, tne Charlotte Ministerial as sociation, and the Young Men's Chris tian association take occasion, there fore, to express their pleasure at this decision and to assure the troops and all those whose interest in them is closest and affectionate, of the wel come which awaits them. ' We wish the troops who come to us to use the offices and facilities of our organizations freely in whatever way 'may be of advantage to them. We extend the same invitation to those who visit the soldier3 in this mmn and we nledire the hosnitalitv ' c ' UIC6U" "tfi sewing " t!ZA F-'S! Advertising". izenship both to th troops and to their friends. With a splendid program outlined for their convention, the newspaper editors of the Willamette valley are to gather at Newport next week-end. There will be clam bakes, a barbecue,' trips on the bay and to scenic points around Newport A large crowd is assured by Secretary Elbert Bede. Both E. E. Brodie, editor of the En terprise, and C. W. Robey, editor of the Courier, will attend the conven tion and will be on the program. Mr. Robey will talk on "Estimating Job Printing," and Mr. Brodie's subject is , "Legal Rates." The program is as follows: "My Experience in Raising Advertising Rates" Frank Jenkins, Register, Eu gene; "Are Patents and Plates Really Readable and Worth What They: Cost?'.' C. J. Mcintosh, Press Bul letin, Oregon Agricultural college; ' "Country Newspaper Competition, and What is the Proper Balance of Pay and Other Matter in the Country Newspaper?" A. K. Mickey, Valley Progress, Junction -City; "Why We Don't Run a Job Shop in Connection with Paper" W. H. Hornibrook, Democrat, Albany; "Value of the County Unit in Organization" F. S. Minshall, Review, Philomath; "Does It Pay to Give Premiums?" J. P. Hurley, News-Times, Forest Grove; "Guaranteed Circulation" J. E. Shel ton, Guard, Eugene; "Shall We Take Out-of-Town Advertising V'J, C. Dimm, News, Springfield; "Estimat ing on Job Work" C. W. Robey, Courier, Oregon City; "Getting and Walnut Book, Orenco; "Woman's Place in the Country Newspaper Field" Edythe Tozier Weatherred, of Oregon; "Boosting Oregon My Department and the Newspapers" Orlo D. Center, Director Extension department, O. A. C; "The Newspa pers and Our Public Institutions" W. C. DePew, Criterion, Lebanon; "Vocal Music" N. R. Moore, of Cor-vallis. A Valuable Health Hint If the bowels are not working reg ularly, undigested food in the stom ach may set up a condition of auto intoxication and pollute the whole system with poisons in the blood stream. Foley Cathartic Tablets keep the bowels open and regular, the liver active and the stomach sweet. ' They cause no pain, nausea nor griping, They relieve indiges tion, sick headache, biliousness, sour stomach, bad breath or other condi tions caused by clogged bowels. Jones Drug Co. A STRANGE PEOPLE Red Heads of Asiatic Turkey Last of the Baal Worshioers.' HAVE SOME QUEER CUSTOMS. Government Wants Help The U. S. Civil Service commis sion announces that an examination for stenographer and typewriter for men and women and for typewriter only, for men and women, will be held in 45 differet cities in the northwest on September 15, 1917. The usual entrance salaries are from $900 to $1200 per annum. All qualified sten ographers and typewriters are urged to apply for and take the coming examination. Very sincerely, CHARLOTTE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Bert R. Greer, Tidings. Asland: "Legal Rates" E. E. Brodie, Enter prise, Oregon City; "Should the Gov ernment Pay for Liberty Loan Adver tising?" G. J. Taylor, Pioneer, Mo lalla; "Space Wasters" H. V. Meade, Butson Will Probated The will of John E. Butson of Wil sonville has been filed for probate in the county court. The will covers an estate valued at $3,999, comprising real estate, implements and stock. 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W.ar Red Caps and Around Their Throats Red Knotted Cordiand Allow Their Wivea to Boat Them All Babiei Are Salted When Born. Strange people are the Red Heads of j Asiatic Turkey. They are the last ot the Baal worshipers. The nieu wear red caps; hence their name Red Heads. They also wear red kuotted cords around their necks. The cord la put on during babyhood and is never re moved. It Is Interred with the body after death. They shave their heads except for a patch on the top, and here they allow the hnlr to grow long and plait it Into pigtulls, which bang about their ears. They are tall, wiry fellows, with enormous appetites for both food and drink. The women, who do not veil them selves and who dress simply in loose fitting garments, are thin and spare, but wonderfully strong. In their homes they wear breeches as well as skirts. There Is no wife beating among the Bed Heads, but plenty of husband beating. The busbands tuke their fre quent chastisements meekly and pa tiently. They employ themselves, both the women and the men, In agriculture and theft. They produce a couple of crops, tobacco and durra. The rest of their time Is given up to looting the Turks' crops and cattle. In the center of every village there Is a small circle railed off, and In this space there Is planted the special reli gious emblem, an evergreen oak. No one except the father priest of the vil lage enters the Inclosed ground, which Is decorated with small flags, strings of coins and bright colored beuds. Around and about the circle the Ued Heads celebrate the only religious feS' tival known to them, "the gathering of the new moon," which takes place eV' ery month. Directly a new moon makes its appearance the people are called together by a lay priest beating a bar rel shaped drum stuck end up on the ground. Fires are lit, the cooking utensils placed thereon and the sheep killed by the priest, who sprinkles a little of the animals' blood on the oak, and the carcasses flayed and cut up Into Joints and the latter cooked over the fires, before which millet and wheat cakes are by this time baking on huge flags. In the meantime tables on trestles are set up and laid with wooden plates, born spoons and steel knives and forks, and soon the feasting begins. The women wait on the men, 'who gorge steadily for about an hour nnd then, while their wives and daughters are clearing up the little they have left, In dulge In dancing, drinking and general merriment. No religious formality marks tbe feast, no blessing or benediction or grace. Indeed, not at birth or burial or marriage do these survivors of the ancient Baal worshipers employ any formula or observe anything in the na ture of a religious ceremony. They have no Bible, no prayer book, no lit urgy, no place of worship. Their one and only sanctuary is tbe sacred tree lnclosure, tbelr only religious symbol the evergreen oak. When a baby Is born It Is warmly clothed, placed on a large wooden plat ter and taken to the priest, who, In front of the sacred tree, strips it and salts it Probably this accounts for the few Red Heads that now survive, it be ing said that their numbers have dwin dled to a mere seven or eight thousand. For the service the priest is always given a shoulder from the sheep which it is usual to kill on such occasions and which forms the principal Item In the birth feast. Other duties that the priest has to carry out are the cutting of three horizontal cuts with a dagger Just above the level of the eyebrows on the forehead of the dead and the set tling of all disputes. When a couple becomes engaged the woman spends most of her time cook ing dainty nnd tasty dishes and trot ting round with them to her lover's home, followed by her father with wine and spirits. Breach of promise is al most unknown, for the youth who Jilts has his throat cut. An erring husband is hanged on some remote tree by the red cord he wears round his neck, and the body Is left as a warning to others. An erring wife mysteriously disappears, and no questions are asked. A man who deserts his wife also Is. hanged, while the woman who deserts her hus band is compelled to return to him. There is a secret ceremony of initia tion which every Red Head Is compelled to undergo on attaining his seventeenth birthday. It involves seclusion for sev en days and going without food and drink for three days. At the termina tion of this preliminary test the youth is taught certain passwords and grips by which he may recognize his breth ren, and a red circle Is tattooed on his breast The strange people live on terms of friendship with the whole of their neighbors, with the exception of the Turks, whom they hate and treat accordingly. J. C. 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