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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917.
NEWS OF THE COUNTY AND SUBURBS
Local and County Items of Interest to Courier Readers
CHERRYVILLE
Road work, mostly laying planks,
is in full blast.
August Beidenstein came home
sick from Bull Run lake last week
and has been under the doctor's care
since then.
The Indians, who are camped
down at the dam, say the very light
crop of hazelnuts indicate a very
mild and open winter.
Tom Galeirneau, who has been at
work on a government trail around
Clackamas lake this summer, return
ed home to his claim south of town
last week. Tom says the bears are
plentiful up there this fall. A fine
young bear which they killed up
there, he says, was the finest he ever
ate. It was very fat from eating
huckleberries.
The school here is about to install
a heating and ventilating plant in
troduced by Mr. Shoemaker, of Port
land. The prunes are good here and a
good many will be put up and dried
for winter use. The fruit is very
fine.
Archie Averill, who is employed as
a draughtsman at Pullman, Wash.,
returned home for a vacation this
week.
Mr. Darley and niece from Port
land, are now at their new home on
the Prof. Couper ranch, north of
town.
Potatoes are a light crop here, es
pecially thl early ones. The fall
rains have been very beneficial to
the late potatoes.
Evergreen blackberries are a good
crop and there is a ready market for
them at fair prices.
JENNINGS LODGE
A splendid meeting of the Parent-Teacher
association was held on
Friday afternoon, September 14 at
the school house. Twenty-two moth
ers and patrons were present. Mrs.
Edith Truscott, president, presided.
A song by the pupils and a pleasing
recitation by Leo Cook preceded the
business meeting.
Mrs. Carl Smith, the chairman of
the Red Cross committee, reported
that over $168.00 had been raised in
this district for Red Cross funds by
the teams and that we had become
an organized Red Cross unit which
meets every Tuesday at 2 p. m. at
the home of Mrs. George Ostrom to
sew, to which all are invited.
Mrs. Hugh Roberts, juvenile fair
chairman, reported that the evening
of October 5 had been set for the
local school fair, at which vegetables,
fruit, canning, sewing, poultry and
project work will be exhibited.,
Mrs. Hart spoke of the Woman's
committee of the Council of Nation
al Defense and gave details of the
conservation of food league and the
need of registration on Saturday,
September 16.
The needs of our community were
discussed, among them were better
cooperation between parents and
teachers and cooperation of all in
team-work in the community and new
side walks were our greatest needs.
The year books were given out
and each meeting has a splendid
program arranged and much credit
is due to the program committee for
its efforts.
A reception for the new teacher,
Miss White, and a welcoming back
among us of Mrs. Altman, with the
serving of wafers and tea rounded
out a full and most delightful afternoon.
EAST CLACKAMAS
A. C. Kelnhofer was a Portland
visitor last Friday.
Lewis, the youngest son of Mr, and
Mrs. Alex Daue, who has been a
very sick boy, is improving slowly.
Mrs. Kneeland has traded his
ranch for some town property and
moved to Portland last week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bryant and
two children, "Grandma" Bryant and
Mrs. Bryant's sister, were visitors at
the Kelnhofer ranch last Sunday.
Mrs. Powers, the nurse who has
been staying with Mrs. H. H. Blake,
has returned to her home at Wichita.
John Heinrich has been doing
some transfer business for his neigh
bor lately.
Mrs. Grace Gottberg and two chil
dren of Oregon City were berrying
and beaning at Cedar Springs one
day last week.
The same old trio of brave fisher
men motored to the tall pines near
Molalla and one of them said he dis
covered a lake on top of a mountain.
They came home with the usual num
ber, of fish none.
Gus and Emma Haberlach were
Oregon City visitors last Friday.
The P. & 0. C. railroad is doing a
rushing business these days with
wood and hay. " They loaded two
cars of hay last Monday at the
switch (we do not know whether it
is called Big Trees or Little Italy).
Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman and two
daughters, from near New Era, visit
ed at the Kelnhofer ranch last Sun
day. "Grandma" Heinrich, Mr. and Mrs.
W. F. Mundehenke and two children
were Portland visitors last Sunday.
DAMASCUS
School opened Monday morning
with Miss Hazel Driscoll and Gladys
Burr as teachers.
Mrs. Barbara Fensler has gone to
Fort Stevens to visit her husband,
Corporal Clark Fensler, who is in the
hospital with a broken leg.
Mr. Hall and family, and Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Thompson attended the
Gresham fair Saturday.
Miss Ruby Burr returned from the
hoy fields last Wednesday.
Mrs. Carlson and children return
ed home Sunday.
Mr. Royes, of Firland, was visit
ing his sons, Noah and Charley Roy
er, last week.
Mr. Elliott's family has returned
from the coast.
Mrs. DeYoung and daughter, Har
riet, have returned from the upper
valley, where they spent a few weeks
picking hops.
Mrs. Carl Wolfhagen, Mrs. Albert
Wolfhagen and Mrs.Burr .were Port
land visitors last Saturday evening.
The school children are preparing
a collection to send to the county
fair at Canby.
Miss Marguerite Kersting, who is
stopping in Portland, was visiting
the neighborhood, endeavoring to
start a music club.
Tharold Sylvester has been ap
pointed janitor of the Damascus
school.
BORING
Fritz Timmerman is dead, the
cause of his death being dropsy. He
was an old pioneer and lived on his
farm, two miles east of Boring. His
wife died last March, aged 73 years.
Mr. Timmerman will be buried Wed
nesday at Pleasant Home beside his
wife and mother-in-law.
The blessed rain has stopped for
est fires, and thanks to the rain cloud
grass is springing up, flowers are
blooming and the air is soft and
balmy.
Viola Mabel Duncan, the last child
of M. A. and J. W. Strucken, is in
the hospital, seriously ill. Her ill
ness is caussd by appendicitis, ab
scesses and a large turner. Her
three children aro staying with
"Grandma" Strucken.
J. W. Strucken is quite ill with
la grippe and plurisy. He has been
bedfast five days, but is now getting
better.
EAGLE CREEK
The boys who went from Eagle
Creek to eastern Oregon to work
during harvest, returned home the
first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Douglass, ac
companied by Mrs. R. B. Gibson,
motored to Portland last Saturday.
Dick Gibson attended the Gresham
fair on Saturday.
School commenced in district No.
50 on Monday, with J. K. Ely, of Es
tacada, at the helm. There were 13
pupils enrolled.
Joe Cahill was the guest of home
folks Sunday.
Mrs. R. B, Gibson took luncheon
CONDENSED STATEMENT OF
CONDITION
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS
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SEPT. 11, 1817
RESOURCES
Loam, Bond and Warrants $ 404,333.95
Overdrafts ...... NONE
Furniture and Fixtures Account 6,906,97
Cash and Dm From Banks - 94,658.36
Total - $ 505,899.28
LIABILITIES
Capital $ 50,000.00
Surplus and Profits .... 6,497.52
Deposits 449,401.76
Total - - $ 505.899.28
with her sister, Mrs. S. J. Eddy, of
Portland, on Saturday.
G. W. Baker, who has been quite
ill for some time, was taken to a
Portland hospital ,last week.
LEGISLATION WOULD BE
PROTECTION OF RIGHTS
Legislation to protect the civil
and property rights of soldiers, in
effect a moratorium for the duration
of the war in behalf of men who are
serving their country on the firing
line, may be placed upon the admin
istration's program for this session
of congress as a necessary element
of the raising of a citizen army.
"The soldiers' and sailors' civil
rights bill," to carry out this purpose
already has been introduced in ioth
houses, having been framed in the
office of Judge Advocate - General
Crowder. Secretary Baker, it was
learned, has under consideration
recommendations that the entire
weight of administration influence
be brought to bear to obtain early
enactment of the measure.
To save soldiers and sailors from
all kinds of legal injustices during
their abscence from home, the
measure would enjoin the carrying
out of certain civil court actions un
til after the close of the war and es
tablish as a legal excuse for failure
to carry out certain contracts the
fact that a man is in the military
service.
It is purposed that creditors' suits
against officers or men may be held
up and judgment by -default denied,
the framers of the bill recognizing
that a man in the army or navy
would have no opportunity to make
his defense in person or to arrange
for its proper hearing through coun
sel.
If such a judgment rested against
a man at the time of his enlistment,
the bill would prevent its execution
through the sale of his property dur
ing his abscence. It would set aside
the statute of limitations, so that a
debt owed to a soldier might not be
outlawed in his absence; it would pre
vent the eviction of his family while
he was away if they failed to pay
the rent; it would protect his equity
in any real estate or other purchase
contract in which he might have been
engaged at the time he went into the
army; it would protect him against
the ordinary results of defaulted
payments on business mortgages and
keep him from beingsold out in his
absence; it would insure any rights
he might have to public lands, al
though his service at the front had
prevented him from completing the
legal acquisition of the property.
Another element of protection the
bill would accord to the fighting man
would be as to his life insurance,
which could not lapse through fail
ure to make any payment. His prop
erty also would be protected from
sale for taxes, and in every other
way which the legal experts of the
war department have been able to
devise, all civil rights and interests
of the men in the military service
would be safeguarded.
Will be Repaid for Their Work
Women everywhere suffer from
kidney trouble backache, rheumatic
pains, swollen and tender muscles,
Stiff joints and it is to help those
who suffer as she did that Mrs. C. J.
Ellis, 608 Av., Sioux Falls, S. D.,
writes: "I feel sure if any one bother
ed as I was will give Foley Kidney
Pills- a fair trial they will be repaid
for their work. It seems foolish to
neglect an ailment when there is such
a remedy to be had." They correct
bladder disturbances, too. Jones
Drug Co.
TOMMY GOES TO CHURCH;
WORKERS SAVE ENGLAND
One of the most interesting dis
cussions of the war and its effect on
Europe that the Courier has read,
comes direct from the front from an
Oregon doctor who is with the Bri
tish medical corps in England. In
part the doctor's letter says:
"Sunday is a curious day in camp.
It is a holiday, save for the church
parade, which is a rather strange in
stitution. There are two services
the Roman Catholic and the Protes
tant. You must attend one or the
other unless you' are a Jew. Offi
cially th .re are no atheists or New
Thoughtists or Christian Scientists in
the army. Compulsory religion is
poor thing, and I must say the effect
of compulsory church parade is to
make the men curse and swear more
than on week days.
One of the most interesting studies
in connection with the war is its ef
fect on the religious attitude of the
men. Of course, most of the men
here have not been to the front and
have not been facing the supreme is
sue. There is no doubt in my mind
that camp life makes for irreligion.
The men around me are average men,
and I can not bjlieve in civil life
they are so indifferent to the higher
things.
"A bad thing is that the chaplains
hold the rank of captain, and nat
urally they can never get to know
the men, for one of the first prin
ciples of discipline is that officers and
men are different beings and do not
mix except in moments of conde
scension on the part of the officers.
In fact, the boys here look upon the
chaplain's as one of the 'cushy' jobs.
'Cushy' is a new word of the war
it means a soft, safe job.
"The war will bring many changes,
and I miss my guess if the church,
as at present constituted, does not re
ceive a severe jolt. The Church of
England has always appealed to me
as a picturesque, venerable institu
tion, albeit out of touch with the
times and antiquated. I fear age and
antiquity won't protect it in the fu
ture. People are asking why bishops
'are getting 5000 and 10,000 a year,
and what do they do for it. The
church will have to reform its ways,
and if the reformation does not come
from the inside, it will come from the
outside. . i
"My mind is full of hazy, ill-defined
impressions. Two stand out
rather .distinctly: ,The first is a pro
found admiration of the common
people. How foolish of Roosevelt
and his ilk to be constantly preach
ing that peace softens the fiber of a
nation. There never was a more
peaceful country than England be
fore 1914. The small professional
army was sufficient to take care of
the wars of the last hundred years,
so the bulk of the people had a hun
dred years of peace to weaken the
fiber. The professional army is no
more it ' is dead, crippled or
prisoner. But this amateur, citizen
army has faced hell for over two
years. I have not been in France,
but since coming to England I have
formed a clearer idea of what trench
warfare is. What is more, the
amateur of the weakened fiber is
beating the devil at his own game.
You may say why limit the admira
tion to the common people? I don't,
for the officers, if they have no other
qualities, know how to die. I em
phasize the cornmon people especially
for the private soldier gets all the
dirt. Little of the honor and the
glory comes his way and his pay is
practically nothing. He is suffering
and enduring, but he is 'carrying on'
till the job is finished. I take my hat
off to him.
"Then you are going to hear from
him. And that is my second impres
sion. The war is going to lead to a
complete social readjustment. The
common people have found them
selves. They have had their power
brought home to them, and I think
you have seen the last of 10-hour
days and poor education and insan
itary houses and unfair division of
profit. Frankly, in all of this I am
with the common people. Unless
capital recognizes the new era and
meets the men half way, it is going
to be made to swallow a bitter pill.
Without some scheme of profit-sharing,
the future of industry is a
troubled sea. We have to revise our
ideas.
"For example the government had
to speed up the output of munitions
and men and women willingly went
to work for 11 and 12 hours a day.
Then some scientists had to be called
in to explain the disappointing out
put. Absolute, exact experiments
proved the same work people pro
duced a greater output in eight hours.
We have all talked about the length
of hours, but this is the first time,
to my knowledge, that the hour con
troversy has been placed on an exact,
scientific basis. Further when Lever,
of Sunlight soap he has the most
wonderful factories and garden in
the world announces that he is
making plans to give his workmen
a six-hour day, it is time to sit up
and take notice. Lever goes on the
profit-sharing plan and he told his
employes they would make more
money as share-holders on a six-hour
day than on the present eight-hour
basis.
"I consider the working people of
England have saved liberty and
freedom and decency. France and
Belgium are different anybody
will fight to defend hearth and
home. The average Britisher to this
day has very little conception of
European affairs. The sinking of
the Lusitania, the murder of Edith
Cavell and the invasion of Belgium
cannot be much more to him than
the guaranteed neutrality of Bel
gium or the Bagdad railway. The
invasion of England and a similar
devastation as in Belgium are too
fantastic to be even talked about.
So I maintain put it down to his
ignorance of what would ultimately
have happened to England if she
had not allied herself with France at
the outbreak of the war that the
average Englishman is really in this
war for the defense of decency and
public right. In any event, he has
saved the day, and no reward is too
good for him. And what is most
admirable about him is that, in spite
of great injustice and extreme hard
ship, he is 'carrying on' lest the
end be endangered or delayed. Who
ever else has failed in this war
and the failure among the higher ups
in all countries have been legion
the common people have practi-
"Cured!"
Mrs. Gus Griffith, of
Everton, Mo., writes: "I
suffered for three years
with various female
troubles. My life was a
misery. I was not able
to do anything . . . bear
ing down pains in my
back and limbs, and head
ache . . . weak and nerv
ous. Dr. recom
mended Cardul to me."
TAKE
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CarHH
The Woman's Tonic
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"When I was on the
Sixth bottle", she contin
ues, "1 began feeling like
a new woman . . .1 am
now a well woman . . .
I know my cure is per
manent for it has been
three years since I took
Cardui." Thousands of
women, now strong and
healthy, who once suf
fered from women's ail
ments, give Card-u-i the
credit lor their good
health. Try it, for your
troubles.
All Druggists
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ADAMS DEPARTMENT STORE
Ottit Bisiiess
Has Surpassed Every Precedent!
Without an equal and standing forth as the greatest sale in the history of Oregon
City, the great Adams Department Store's closing out sale is now on the third week
of savage selling with a firm determination to clear the store of every vestige of
merchandise in the shortest time possible.. HERE IS A MATCHLESS OPPOR
TUNITY. Our great stock of dry goods, clothing, shoes, furnishing goods, furni
ture, carpets, rugs, linoleum, draperies,' stoves, ranges, trunks, bags, graniteware,
and all useful wearing apparel and household necessities is acknowledged by every
one as the largest most complete, and up-to-date store in Oregon City and Clacka
mas County. . In fact one of the largest stores between Portland and San Francisco.
SO THINK WHAT THIS SALE MEANS TO YOU. When other stores are reap
ing their harvest of profits and compelled to sell you merchandise at war prices, we
announce this sensational sale of merchandise you need right now at prices to defy
any competition or sale ever advertised and which means a saving no person or
family can afford to miss. Remember the good things were not for any one day
only, but each and every day of this mighty sale you will find new and attractive
bargains, so come expecting to save money and you will not be disappointed.
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH of NEW FALL MER
CHANDISE TO BE SOLD AT A GREAT SACRIFICE.,
Adams Dept. Store
OREGON CITY'S LARGEST STORE
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS
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RURAL CREDIT
GET OUT OF DEBT
UR Twenty Year RURAL CREDIT plan of loaning money to
farmers encourages saving and helps the borrower to get out of
debt. Twenty yearly payments, made in any month which the
borrower may select and each payment just a little larger than
ordinary interest, wipes out the loan and frees the farm from
debt. You can make these payments at your local bank if you
so desire. You can pay this loan in full at any time, or you can make partial
payments at any time at a definite figure stated in advance and interest stops
on the amount paid- Under our plan, however, you can forget the principal
and use your surplus funds in making desired improvements which will
enable you to live easier and better; or you can buy additional livestock
which will increase your income and the fertility of your land at the same
time or you can buy an adjoining farm owned by someone who is not so
fortunate as to have one of our loans. With our form of loan you have no
renewals; hence no worry, no expense and no danger of foreclosure and you
will live happier and longer. We will be glad to furnish you with full
details on request, i
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cally a clean record. Cabinet min
isters and generals have blundered
everywhere. The common soldier
who, I want to emphasize, is now, or,
rather was, the average working
man, has never failed to 'do his
bit.' He has never turned tail, and
when the higher ups failed to sup
ply him with shell and shot, why
he held the line with blood and flesh
and the bayonet.
"No great punshment is accorded
the higher-ups. In the event of
egregious blunders, which cannot be
hid, there is retirement which is, of
course, real punishment, but this is
exceptional. On the other hand, Mr.
Tommy Atkins is promptly 'C. B'd'
(confined to barracks) or 'clinked'
(put in prison) for the most trivial
offenses many of them due to ig
norance, for ignorance is no excuse
in the army. Don't forget in spite
of it all, Tommy is 'carrying on.'
He is right on top, and if Uncle
Sam does not hurry up Tommy is
going to finish the war himself."
MRS. COOPER CHARGES
A VIOLATION OF TRUST
Take Notice
The continued, call for piano tun
ing has induced us to establish a
school for piano tuning. It is a
trade which brings large returns for
the money invested. It is a business
which affords travel, as pianos are
to be found in almost every home,
and must be tuned from time to time.
NO MUSICAL EDUCATION EE
QUIRED, as piano tuning is strictly
a mechanical training. This school
is conducted by experts of long exper
ience. Call or write to Theroux Mu
sic House, 619 Main street, Oregon
City. Phone 423. .
Charging that A. King Wilson,
mayor of Oswego, and the city coun
cilmen, gave a contract for the im
provement of a county road in that
town when they had no jurisdiction
in the matter, Mrs. Julia Cooper,
wife of V. F. Cooper, Monday brought
suit against Mr. Wilson, the council
men and the city of Oswego. She
asks the court to restrain the exe
cution of the contract.
According to the complaint the
council some time ago received an
initiative petition signed by more
than the required number of voters
asking that certain other streets be
improved before Front street was
considered. In violation of the will
of this petition the council neglect
ed the other streets and passed an
ordinance covering the improvement
of Front street, which is a county
road and for the improvement of
which the county should pay, Mrs.
Cooper says. She alleges that the
ordinance looking to the improve
ment of Front street was illegally
and maliciously passed to make the
petition of the people inoperative.
of that city. The young couple will
reside at The Dalles, where Mr.
Lesher will be associated in business
with the father of the bride.
Lesher-Silcox Wedding
Frank Lesher, popular young Ore
gon City man, married at The Dalles
on Wednesday Miss Grace Silcox, of
that city, a frequent visitor here
where she has friends and relatives.
Miss Silcox is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Silcox, of The Dalles, for
many years residents of Oregon City.
Mr. Lesher was formerly a resident
The Oregon City Courier and the
Oregon Farmer both for $1.00 for one
year.
The Oregon
Agricultural College
Where trained epeeiallits with modern lab
oratories and adequate equipment fire in
struction leading to collegiate degreei 1b tbo
tallowing school! :
AGRICULTURE, with 15 departmental
COMMERCE, with 4 departments;
ENGINEERING, with a departments, In
cluding Oiril, Ilectricsl, Highway, Industrial
Arts, Irrigation, and Meohsnical Engineering;
FORESTS?, including Logging Engineer
ing :
HOME ECONOMICS, with 4 major depart
mints, including training in the Practice
House ;
MINING, with three departments. Includ
ing Chemical Engineering;
PHARMACY.
THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC, offers initrue
tton in Us principal departments of vocal '
and inatrnmeatal music
THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT, enrolls
1085 csdets In 118-17, and won rscemmea
dstion for O. A. O. from ths Western Depart
ment of ths D. 8. War Department as ono of
the fifteen "distinguished Institutions" of
higher learning. 'All csdets will bo furnished
scmplsto anlforms by ths U. S. Government
and the junior and aenlor csdets, onrcllsd in
the R. O. T. O., will bo given commatstion for
subsistence, as wsll as all transportation and
inhslstenco at the six wseks' Summer samp.
REGISTRATION BEGINS OCTOBER t,
1917. Information on request. . Address,
Registrar, Oregon Agricultural Collage,
Corvalli, Oregon.