OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1917.
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UNRECEPTIVE MARKETS
The Courier is indebted to A. H.
Harvey, who not only has a capable
mind but an active pen, for again
calling Oregon City's attention to
the need of better local marketing
conditions for farm products. It
seems hardly proper that we should
, bolster up our fair community from
the fruits of rural toil without, in
turn, doing some concrete, profitable
thing for those hard working coun
try folk who make prosperity pos
sible. When Mr. Harvey came to Ore
gon City recently and exchanged 35
pounds of grapes for a few bars of
soap he was cheated, no matter how
honest and upright the merchant
may have been who got the long end
of the deal. We are personally ac-.
quainted with a number of Califor
nia vineyard owners who are weal
thy from the sale of their grapes,
and we maintain, with all apprecia
tion for the southern product, that
we can raise just as good grapes.
When Mr. Harvey, and any one
of several hundred other farmers,
brings a hog to Oregon City he los
es money, considering the Portland
price, if he is able at all to sell the
animal. But you may bet your
sweet life the same farmers pay
the top price for the bacon they take
home with them.
We are getting into a sorry state
of affairs when our farmers cannot
sell their extra grapes at home for
the price of a real good shave. It
is high time, as Mr. Harvey reminds
us, to improve local market condi
tions. The Live Wires have been
beseeched repeatedly to do some
thing definite in this regard and in
the meantime we are waiting pa
tiently for that stock yard to be
built within our favored environs.
The Courier would like to hear from
Clackamas county farmers on this
subject; we have room for construc
tive communications on any sub
ject A SPOTTED REPORT
Clackamas county has no reason
to b proud of the notoriety it has
received at the hands of the state
food conservation campaign mana
gers who have given wide publicity
to the fact that returns from this
county were "spotted." It has been
noticed in more quarters than that
of the campaign management, how
ever, that the county did not return
the report that it should.
True, the signature a hotnekeeper
attaches to a ood conservation card
is of no great consequence in the
sense of its being an obligation, for,
as a matter of fact, there are very
few homes in the county or in the
, nation, that are not conserving food
as religiously as possible. The sig
nature, whatever obligation it ' may
entail, does morally bind the house
wife to a patriotic support of her
country a nation for whose very
preservation sons and brothers are
giving their life-blood.
The Courier is shamed to record
the fact that many persons in this
county have absolutely refused to
sign food pledges. We admit they
are conserving every bite of food
that is not actually needed for their
own bodily needs, and we might be
induced to admit that signing a
pledge card is a mere formality.
Still, when a housewife tells us that
she is "against all things American"
and another adds to that statement
by saying that "I hope the kaiser
wins the war," it is time to investi
gate officially.
Cluckamas county has too valu
able a history in connection with
patriotic moves to have it blackened
by a few seditious men and women.
We would like to have a passport
to hand such people and the power
to aid them in finding a port of exit
within as brief a time as possible.
The memory of oversubscriptions
on both issues of the Liberty loan,
the splendid response the county
has mude in' giving its sons to war
and the county's uid of Red Cross
and other patriotic activities must
n it ft
T flyJKUDLI llllllill
IJS CONSISTENTLY as continuously-The
J Bank of Oregon City lias served the every
practical need of the majority of bank dep6sitors
in this community for 36 years. Individual
accounts and our deposits have grown together.
Your account here gains the bene
fit of our experience as well as the
use of our facilities.
Resources More Than
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THE BANK Of OREGON CITY
and Business Manager
Building, Eighth Street, and entered
Ore., as 2nd class mail matter.
Telephones: Pacific 51; Home A-51.
be upheld by continued proof of pa
triotism.
A TAMMANY VICTORY
Discussing "The New York Elec
tion," The Spectator, Portland, says
Under some circumstances, there
would be cause and opportunity to
bemoan the fate of New York in the
overthrow of Mayor Mitchel and
the election of the Tammanyite,
John H. Hylan. But when we re
member what New York escaped in
the defeat of the impudently disloy
al candidate, Socialist Hillquit, we
have reason to be thankful that the
looting of the metropolis will be
accomplished by our own citizens
The election of Hillquit would have
been an invitation to Germany to
come over and pillage the country,
The election of John Hylan was
practically assured a couple of
weeks ago. He was the Tammany
candidate, but Tammany did not
elect him. He had the support of a
very large class of patriotic Amen,
cans who hate Tammany exceeding.
ly, but who hate socialism and sedi
tion more. These Americans very
deliberately considered the chances
of the candidates, reached the con
clusion that Hillquit was a most
dangerous aspirant, figured that
Hylan was more likely than Mitchel
to beat the Socialist, and embraced
Tammany with all its vice and in
famy rather than incur the risk of
the election of the pro-German.
Under Judge Hylan, we may be
quite certain that Tammany will
pursue its old practice of pillage.
New York has suffered this before,
and is probably inured to it. And
the country will patiently endure it,
in the satisfying knowledge that if
the unspeakable Hillquit had won
the election the Germans would have
accepted it as an invitation to come
over and share his triumph when
ever they were so minded.
Help your boy at the front. Use
less wheat and meat, send more
to him.
Regarding ' migratory birds. Have
you noticed the exodus of hoboes
this fall?
"New York is Prohibition Target"
say the newspapers. And the prohi
bition aim has hit the bull's eye a
great many times.
Do not mistake Hooverism for
hunger strike. Hoover wants you
to eat your fill of the things that
are just as good but not transpor-
able.
You who have given to the
Y. M. C. A. war fund have helped
our uniformed sons and brothers to
keep away from wine, woman and
cards.
Spring war gardens are wither
ed and gone. The real war garden
today is plowed with 16-inch shells,
fertilized with the bodies of men
and the harvest is sorrow.
Small comfort for the host at
a Thanksgiving feast in the apology
of merchants who say that high
priced feed has forced the festive
turkey to 35 cents a pound.
General Diaz is the new head of
the Italian army. If he has the
stuff in him that made his name
sake in Mexico famous we have high
hopes for the success of Italy's
forces.
Convicts will continue to receive
the treatment accorded a million
aire in our best hotels until a few
more Harry. Traceys escope from
the honor gang. And still we be
lieve in honoring those who deserve.
Tulsa, Okla., citizens applied the
old tar and feather remedy to 17
I. W. W. loafers, "in the name of
the outraged women and children of
Belgium. " The vigilance commit
tee was paid for its efforts by the
sight of the frightened scrambling
of the assasins to get out of town.
"Oldest, Largest and Strongest Bank
In Clackamas County."
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1881 -- 1917
PERFORMANCE
One Million Dollars
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A. I. HUGHES DESCRIBES
GUERNSEYS COMING HERE
Oregon City, Nov. 13, 1917.
To the Courier:
On September 3, the Clackamas
County Guernsey Cattle club held
a meeting at the Commercial club
rooms and October 16, another meet
ing at the Bank of Commerce. At
the first meeting the advisability of
purchasing a number of pure bred
females was discussed and it was
decided that this was a good move
in a business way, as well as an ad
vancement for the breed to get more
pure bred Guernseys into the coun
ty and more breeders raising Guern
seys as there was no place on the
Pacific coast where Guernseys could
be purchased in any number.
Prof. E. L. Westover then told us
something of how other centers had
been built up and the advantages
they had derived in organizing on
a community plan, and emphasized
the fact that we must not sacrifice
the quality in order to get started
cheap, but had better pay more and
get good producers and good type;
that these good foundation animals
would be an advertisement to us
and would bring us buyers that were
looking for good stuff.
Mr. Humphrys of the Bank of
Commerce then stated the terms
which the bank ' would finance this
buy on, which were very liberal and
satisfactory to the members. The
members then stated how many
cattle they wanted each, which
was enough to warrant a car load.
Prof. E. L. Westover was the
unanimous choice of the meeting to
make this selection and do the buy
ing, later the club was requested by
the 0. A. C. to send one of our mem
bers with Prof. Westover to assist
him in this buy.
Accordingly a meeting was call
ed for October 16, to send one of
the members east also, and John T.
Whalley, one of the directors of the
club and president of the Oregon
Guernsey Cattle club, was chosen to
accompany Prof. Westover.
At its last meeting the club de
cided it was a safe policy to have
all its herds tuberculin tested be
fore taking in valuable stock, and a
petition was sent to Dr. W. H. Lytle
signed by members that would pur
chase new stock, asking him to de
tail men for this.
Dr. Foster, government veterinar
ian, has been testing the herds that
were 50 per cent pure bred or more,
and Dr. Gardiner, assistant state
veterinarian, has been testing herds
that are less thn 50 per cent pure
bred. The latter has almost com
pleted his tests in the county and
has found the herds free from dis
ease. '
The government and state do
this work free of eharo-e in tho
breeders, but their force is so small
compared to the work to be done,
that they can hardly get around to
all the herds that apply for tests.
Cattle that are shown or cattle to
be shipped across he state line must
be tuberculin tested.
The cattle now bought and on
their way to Oregon represent some
of the best breeding in the United
States, and are out of the Lang
water blood. The Langwater cat
tle owned by F. Lothrop Ames have
been bred for years for both type
are production, until he succeeded in
having an outstanding herd. Public
opinion backed up his judgment
when he sold 75 head at public sale
October 10, 1916, for an average
price of $1075 per head. The high
est priced bull sold that day for
$3000 and the highest price cow,
Langwater Dairy Maid, sold for
$6150 the highest price to date
ever brought by a Guernsey female.
Sires from the Langwater farm are
heading many of the leading herds
in the United States. There are
other families of Guernseys that are
very prominent and have many ad
mirers and strong backing, but as
the 23 heifers bought are all of
Langwater breeding, we will not go
into other leading strains.
The eight heifers purchased at
Whitewater, Wisconsin, were pur
chased of Ralph Tratt and are sir
ed by Langwater Hambro and are
bred to Bob Rilma's Monogram, a
grandson of May Rilma, that held
the world's .record for the breed for
butterfat.
The 15 heifers purchased in Mas
sachusetts are from the Mixter
farms, where thev
hundred head of Guernseys. They
are sired by Langwater Derffonstrat
or, a bull with a number nf Ad
vanced Registry daughters, and are
au Dred to leomen's King of the
way, wno now has 10 A. R. daugh
ters. He is sired by Imp. Yeomen,
a bull that has won many prizes in
the show ring, his dam is Florham
Daisy, who has two advanced regis
try records, her last record was com
menced at 5 years, 10 months. She
produced 14.876.60 Dnunrla milk
and 747.80 pounds fat, average test
o.uk: per cent.
This stock with the stock already
in Clackamas county and the fact
that the advanced registry cows in
this club now lead the state in fi
classes out of seven as mentioned
in last week's issue, will be a strong
recommendation to hovers
a start in pure breds.
As a breeder who has been in the
pure bred business ever sinco ha u
a boy, said "You had better start
witn a lew really good ones, than
a number that are just ordinary."
A table entitled "Prices Brought
by Pure Bred Livestock at 1916
Auction Sales, will give the portion
of the table that refers tr tho
breeds.
No. of
Breed Animals Av. Highest Prices
Isold 1'rices Male Female
Guernsey 948 $356.30 $3,000 $6,150
Holstein 1754 341.80 21. Finn snnn
Jersey 3584 214.42 1,725 siooo
At the present time the numlw nf
Guernsevs is limited, nnrf nil inri:.
tions show that the supply will not
eaten up with the ever-increasing de
mand for years, if at all.
A. I. HUGHES,
Secretary.
TWILIGHT
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Meindl and
children of Sellwood, are temporar
ily making their home in the new
Lazelle cottage.
Miss Ruth Kelland lunched with
Mrs. A. H. Harvey Sunday.
The escaped negroes from Salem,
who have been reported in hiding
just adjacent to this community,
have had the effect of confining we
simple country folk to our domiciles
after darkness sets in each night.
The government has regulated
the price of wheat, meat, beans and
potatoes, the principal output of the
farmer, but as yet no embargo has
been placed on dry goods, boots and
shoes, farm tools and machinery
which he is compelled to buy. We
make mention of this fact, -not as
a complaint, but with an agonizing
desire to fill up our space.
Potatoes have been largely gar
nered in, in this vicinity. Both
yield and quality excell general ex
pectations. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Bullard of
Oak Grove, called at the Kelland
home Sunday afternoon.
Cad Swick has rented the L. E.
Bentley farm for the coming season.
Mrs. William McCord entertained
a number of Portland friends one
day last week.
A number striking mill men as
sisted in the potato harvest last
week.
Recently we marketed 35 pounds
of grapes at the merchant's price,
2 cents, receiving in payment
eight bars of soap, and we have
been thinking over the transaction
ever since. The merchant made
two profits on the deal, while we
incurred an excuse for visiting Ore
gon City and get enough soap to
cleanse our fingers while excavating
tubers.
The Weisenbeck family motored
to Portland for their Sunday dinner.
Mrs. Tom Kelland entertained
Mrs. Clint Black and children of
Oregon City, Tuesday.
Why don't the Live Wires create
a market in Oregon City for farm
products? Just now you can't dis
pose of a cow or a hog to any of
their meat barons and make delivery
under 10 days or two weeks and then
only after frequent importunity.
TRIO FINDS WEATHER
. AND ROADS EXCELLENT
Sacramento, Cal. Nov. 6, 1917.
To The Courier:
On October 30, three of us left
Oregon City for Sacramento in an
Overland automobile and at three
o'clock, November 5, we reached
Sacramento with our register show
ing 668 miles for the trip. The
w,eather has been fine except for
one hard shower on November 4
We had most all gravel roads in
Oregon and the dirt road we struck
was in fine shape.
Crossing the Siskiou mountains
was a joke. The roads are in fine
shape and they are being improved
right along. The first night out
we stayed with a farmer a few
miles south of Albany. His hospi
tality was the most sincere and
hospitable I ever saw. I wonder if
our mutual friend, C. E. Spence
knows him? The second night we
pitched a tent south of Roseburg
and spent a pleasant night. Our
little Overland car has stood the
trip without one accident and at
times it has run 24 hours steady
with three stops of a few minutes
each and some of the road was
awful.
My mother and father t.onk tho
train at Sissons, Cal., and I drove
tne automobile from there to Red
ding by three o'clock the next morn
ing over the worst road I ever saw
a car go over. Mud axle-deep, steep
mountain roads and lots of fog. I
made 11 miles that nie-ht in semnH
gear without a change.
At Redding we struck paved road
and they sav it is naved rlpar
through to "Los Angeles. We leave
tor nakerstield in the morning and
will pray for good weather.
A. O. HELVEY,
Los Angeles, Cal.
CITIZENS ASKED TO AID
IN SOLICITING WAR FUND
The drive for the Y. M. C. A.
war work fund is on in Clarkamas
county, where a committee is charg
ed with raising a $4000 quota of a
total fund of s.'is.nno.nnn. nnrw th
direction of A. C. Howland and a
committee of assistants. In the
eastern section of the county, with
headquarters at Estacada. tho funrl
raising is done under a separate
committee, headed by Senator Ste
phens. On Monday Mr. Howland
appointed the following persons to
assist in direct soliciting for the
fund:
Dr. C. H. Meissner, Dr. M. C.
Strickland, Dr. L. A. Morris, Dr.
Clyde Mount, F. W. Parker, R. C.
Parker, A. A. Price, H. E. Cross, M.
D. Latourette, F. B. Schoenborn,
Judge H. S. Anderson, Grant B.
Dimick, William Andresen, George
Hankins, Dr. W. Ross Eaton, W. A.
Dimick, V. Harris, Peter D. Forbes,
John R. Busch, Linn E. Jones, John
R. Humphrys, J. J. Cooke, O. D.
Eby, T. A. Burke, G. L Hedges, C
Schuebel, E. E. Brodie, J. W. Mof
fatt, Dr. L. L. Pickens, Dr. A. L.
Beatie, N. W. Bowland, W. P. Haw
ley, Sr., Dr. Roy A. Prudden, Livy
Stipp, Bert Roake, C. W. Risley, D.
F. Skene, S. O. Dillman, Dr. C. A.
Stuart, George C. Brownell, John
N. Sievers, Theodore Osmund, E. A.
Chapman, George H. Tracy, C. I.
Stafford, L. N. Ray, A. B. Buckles,
E. L. Johnson, H. W. Streibig, W.
A. Long, W. B. Eddy, Charles A.
Miller, H. M. Templeton, C. Schram,
J. J. Tobin. J. E. Morgan, R. L.
Holman, F. W. Greenman, F. J.
Meyer, George Randall, Rev. W. T.
Milliken, Rev. E. E. Gilbert, Rev. H.
L. Chandler, Rev. Seeman, W. P.
Hawley, Jr., F. A. Burdon, A. R.
Jacobs, J. E. Calavan, E. C. Hack
ett, "Jack" Frost, William Ham
mond, W. A. Huntley, J. E. Hedges.
Dr. H. S. Mount, Dr. O. A. Welsh,
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II Dowfden Potato Digger-
DIGS YOUR POTATOES CLEAN
Gets Them ALL--
LIGHT DRAFT because high wheeled
PERFECT SEPERATION because of larger
and wider elevators than others of like size
LONG LASTING because all parts are made of
the most enduring material
Investigate the operation of
the Dowden and you will
buy no other
ilium.
OREGON CITY, OREGON
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A. L. Obst, J. E. Jack, George V.
Ely, E. T. Beverlin, Clarence Farr,
0. A Pace, R. Petzold.
THIRTY TEACHERS GET
INCREASED SALARIES
Thirty of the 38 teachers in Ore
gon City schools benefit by the in
creaseed salary scale adopted by the
city school board at a meeting
Thursday night to take effect on the
next pay day, November 16, and
continue throughout the present
year at least. The advance in gen
eral amounts to $5 a month for the
school year, adding about $1200 for
the year to the school board's bill
of expenses.
This action' was contemplated by
the school board before the teach
ers took it upon themselves to sub
mit a petition through Superinten
dent F. J. Tooze asking a new sal
ary scale. The petition caused a
bit of strife in the board and it
was denied flatly in view of the ar
rangement under consideration. Un
der .the scale adopted Thursday the
teachers continue to receive pay
for the school year only, rather than
for 12 months, as they had asked,
and the increase is not as much as
they had asked.
Seven new teachers on the city
staffs do not benefit by the increas
ed wage scale and Superintendent
Tooze's salary remains the same
The fact that seven teachers are
left out of the plan is accounted for
by the board when it says that they
were paid higher salaries at the be
ginning than the other teachers be
cause of the difficulty that was ex
perienced in getting good teach
ers. Miss Beatrice Kirkup, in
structor in music on two days
each week, will receive 50
cents more a day and Gustav Flecht
ner will get $10 a month as leader
of the high school orchestra.
The board granted a 75 days'
leave of absence to Miss Bertha Dal
linger, grade school teacher.
ALL TIRED OUT t
Hundreds More in Oregon City in
the Same Plight
Tired all the time;
Weary and worn out night and
day;
Back aches; head aches,
Your kidneys are probably weak
ened.
You should help them at their
work.
Let one who knows tell you how.
Mrs. A. Reddaway, 116 S. Center
street, Oregon City, says: "My back
ached most all the time. It was so
weak and sore that when I got
down to do anything it was all I
could do to straighten up. Sharp
catches shot through my kidneys
and for a minute I could hardly
move, they were so severe. My kid
neys also acted too freely. I felt
tired all the time and could hardly
drag myself around. After I had
been taking Doan's Kidney Pills
awhile my back felt stronger and
my kidneys acted more regularly. I
have taken Doan's off and on since
and they have done fine work."
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills tho jama
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Have this effective remedy at hand
for croupy children, 1 It's thankful
relief. Pleasant to take. Mildly laxative.
g!wld by all druggists
for Coughs s Colds
Constipation Cauiei Sickness
Don't permit yourself to become
constipated, as your system immediate
ly begins to absorb poison from the
backed-up waste matter. Use Dr.
King's New Life Pills and keep well.
There is no better safeguard against
illness.Try it tonight, 2Sc.All druggists
that Mrs. Reddaway had. Foster
Millburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
WOUNDED "TOMMY" HERE
Y. M. C. A. Committee Meets.
Erwin and Rarick Speak
Private O. E. Erwin, wounded
Canadian trooper, who told f graph
is story of the war, was one of the
speakers at the Y. M. C. A. war
work fund meeting at the Commer
cial club Saturday afternoon. Er
win was wounded in France shortly
after he went into action in 1914.
Recuperated, he returned to the
trenches in 1916, and is said to have
been permanently disabled for ser
vice by recent wounds. C. C. Ra
rick, of Portland, was the chief
speaker on the program for the
meeting. Friday Mr. Howland and
the members of his committee start
ed active solicitation of funds for
Clackamas county's $4000 quota of
the $35,000,000 war work fund ask?
ed by the Y. M. C. A., and have
promises of several large donations
in the city. The subject . was pre
sented to church congregations Sun
day by pastors and laymen and the
motion picture screens are being us
ed for advertising this week dur
ing the campaign.
Obituaries
Raymond Keiser
Raymond, the three months' old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Keiser of
West Linn, died at the Oregon City
hospital, on Thursday evening. Fu
neral services were held from the
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Holman parlors Saturday afternoon
with Dr. W. T. Milliken of the Bap
tist church officiating. Interment
was in the Mountain View ceme
tery. The father of the child is en
listed in the United States army.
Selma Friedrich
Selma Friedrich, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Barney Friedrich, was bur
ied at the Zion cemetery Monday af
ternoon. She had lived in Molalla
nearly all her life and had received
her education in the local schools.
She died at San Jose, Cal., to which
place she had been taken for her
health. The pallbearers were her
school friends. She is survived by
her parents, two sisters, Mrs. Olive
Mendall, of Oregon City, and Mrs.
Kate Davidson, of Molalla and three
brothers, Otto, Frank and Grover, all
of Molalla.
Mrs C. N. Greenman
Mrs. Isaphene Greenman, widow
of C. N. Greenman, and one of a
well-known pioneer family, died at
her home in this city Thursday from
heart trouble. She is survived by
two sons and two brothers. Her
only daughter and Mr. Greenman
have been dead several years. Fu
neral services were held from the
Congregational church, of which
Mrs. Greenman was a member, Sat
urday morning, and interment was
in Mountain View. Rev. H. N.
Smith, of Jennings Lodge, conduct
ed the services.
Pallbearers, all close friends to
the Greenman family, were C. H.
Dye, E. G. Caufield, J. W. Gray, H.
E. Cross, James Wilkinson and R.
D. Wilson. Mrs. James Roake and
Mrs. John Crawford were assisted
in musical numbers by a chorus.
The Little Ones and Old Ones
James Edwards, 298 Harriet St.,
Montgomery, Ala., writes: "I sleep
all night and cough but little. I
feel like a new man now from us
ing Foley's Honey and Tar. My
whole family is using it now the
little ones and the old ones. It has
cured our coughs and broken our
colds." Foley's Honey and Tar
clears stopped air passages, remov
es phlegm, heals raw inflamed mem
branes, soothes sore chest, makes
difficult breathing easy, and reliev
es those deep-seated, racking coughs.
Jones Drug Co.
Poor printing won't just exactly
keep a company or an individual
from getting along, but it will have
a good deal to do toward clogging up
the lubrication of the engine. Da
vis & Warde.
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