OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, OCTOBER 10, 1918 NEWS OF THE COUNTY AND SUBURBS Local and County Items of Interest to Courier Readers COLTON Mrs. A, Dahlstrom went to Port: land last Saturday to spend a week with her daughter, Mrs. L. E. Tay lor. A farewell surprise party was giv en Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Branland last Sunday at the home of the latter's sister, Mrs. P. Johnson. A large crowd was there. : Rev. Renhard spent a day last week with his family here. He has charge of a congregation in Spokane, Wash. ' Mrs. Carl Dahlstrom spent Satur day and Sunday at her home in Port land. Several people of this community attended the patriotic meeting held in Oregon City last Thursday. Cliff Peterson was taken ill quite suddenly with appendicitis, so was taken to Portland to the Emanuel hospital to be operated on. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Swanson, of Portland, visited with their parents over Saturday and Sunday. CARUS Allen Minor is attending the Ore gon City high school. R. F. Davis has finished with prune picking. Charles Wilbanks 'was out on a visit at the McCarthy farm last Sun day. C. E. Stewart is having a new house built. Ora Martin, of Beaver Creek, was working for David L. Jones. She went home Sunday. Alfred Jagger has purrhased a new Oldsmobile. . Carus will ' celebrate Columbus day Saturday night at the M. E. church. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cassiday were Beaver Creek visitors Sunday. Paula Fisher is working for Er nest Sturges. Erich Fisher, Bill Christner, Lew is McCarthy and 'George Stewart were home last Sunday. Otto Berthold was home on a visit Sunday. He is stationed at Camp Lewis. Walter Fisher was helping E. C. Brown dry prunes and finished Tues day. BREEZE HILL The Hoi comb Loyalty League meets at the school house the first and third Saturday of each month. We have some splendid meetings and all are welcome. Mr. Calavan gave a patriotic talk October 5th. Each Extra Cost or Quality? .Mo, bin " You'll likely find it costs you even less to chew Gravely. It goes further. You only need a small chew of this class of tobacco, and it holds its good, sat isfying taste a long, long time. . . - 'It goes further that's why you can get the good taste of this class of tobac co without extra cost. PEYTON BRAND Real Gravely Chewing Plug 10$ a pouch-sncf worth it member should hear these speeches. We have had a splendid riin and everybody is feeling better and work ing hard. Mr. Watchman has moved on his new place and is doing some needed improving. Dan Watts is clearing land and bombarding stumps between times. There will be a dance at the hall October 12th. Proceeds are to go to the Red Cross. A large crowd is ex pected and a good time assured. Josie Wheeler is' visiting the home folks for a few days. Ralph Warren visited the school Friday afternoon. Martin Landeen spent one even ing with the Watts family last week. D. H. Watts just received word that Orval had arrived safely in Si beria. As this is our first attempt to send in news we will close for fear of the waste basket, but we are a wide awake little community so we may come again some time. CANBY Harry Gilmore has been putting a new roof on William Porter's house. Harry Cochran went to Vancouver to work a few days ago. He is work ing for the government. John Wells and Oliver Bailey were in Canby last Saturday. , Mr. Chubb hauled a load of wheat to Canby on Saturday. Mr. Griffin raised some fine corn this year. Harry Smith is moving his family to Newburg. Mr. Hilton has been helping Al fred Robins dig potatoes. Charley Wallace is working' with the bridge gang. Eli Hartel is still hauling wood into Canby. Henry Kummer, of Macksburg, was in Canby trading Saturday. The rain was much appreciated, as it cleared away the smoke and dust. Mr. Winsler, who lives near the Goods bridge, has a nice lot of on ions on his place. William Draper and family have moved to Roseburg. Jasper Likes, who lives at Oswego, has gone back to visit his old home in Illinois. Mr. Likes used to live at New Era. George Mitts has finished hauling wood for Mr. Hart and William Porter. Alfred Robins is staviner at mes- ent on his brother's place near the Adkins saw mill site. Mrs. William Porter and her PROTECT THEM YOU KNOW the fate of the children of Belgium and Northern France. Protect your own children from a like fate. Our soldiers are ready to fight for them - -to die for them - - to make the world a fit place for children to live in. If you can't fight, support those who can. Buy Fourth Liberty Bonds Any Bank Will Help You XKia untnnnii coxtkibutss naovu tn VAWOTIO CO-OPS1ATIOS or STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) grandson went to Portland one day last week to visit her son. . Mr. Snell has dried a lot of prun es in his dryer this fall and they are of a good quality. - Roscoe Mack and Morley Mack are working in Oregon City. LOWER HIGHLAND Steven Fellows called on Dave Rutherford Thursday evening. Mrs. Dave Rutherford and Miss J. Lingleboch made a trip to New Era Saturday and returned Sunday. Eli Fellows and Carl Albright made a trip to Oregon City Saturday and returned Sunday. Stephen f ellows made a trip to Beaver Creek Saturday. Ruth Carlisle and Nellie Ulover visited at the Staub place Sunday. Mr3. B. Olmstead has been quite ill for the past few days. - Mrs. Smith is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Staub. ' Vera Holmes called on Ruth Car lisle Sunday evening. Mrs. E. S. Holmes is spending this week in Portland with relatives. Joe Fellows spent Sunday after noon as the guest of his brother, Dan Fellows. Mr. and Mrs. Newell and daughter, Harriet, spent Sunday at the E. S. Holmes' place. Mrs. E. E. Washburn was an Ore gon City visitor last Tuesday. Several farmers in this neighbor hood are busy digging potatoes. There is a fairly good crop this year. We were all glad to see the rain, only there was not enough of it, is the general complaint. Miss Helen Sovinskt is picking ap ples at Hood River. EAGLE CREEK Mrs. R. B. Gibson was an Oregon City visitor last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Douglass motor ed to Logan on Sunday. The Loyalty League met at the school house Saturday and elected new officers. The officers elected were: president, E. Naylor; vice- president, Mrs. Roy Douglass; sec retary, Mrs. R. B. Gibson; treasurer, H. . S. Gibson. Mr. Brown, of Eagle Creek, was present and made a splen did address. Mrs. Annie Beckett and daughtr Miss Mabel Beckett, of Portland, were Eagle Creek visitors recently. Mr. and Mrs. Will Douglass and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Douglass were the dinner guests of Mrs. Viola Douglass on Sunday. Elder J. 0. Staats, of Portland, was out to district No. 50 on Sun day and held services in the school house Sunday morning. He left with an appointment for Sunday,- October 27th. Mr.' and Mrs. 'Will Markwood and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Byrd and son, Leonard, of Portland, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hoffmeister recently. Walter Douglass bought some sheep of Mr. Frazier, of Logan, last we,ek. STAFFORD The recent little rain did quite a bit of good, settled the dust, cooled the ground so early potatoes could be dug, and cleared the atmosphere of smoke, which has hung over the country like a pall for so many days, Mrs. Rabic was reported on Sun day to be not quite so well. Her father can now walk about some. The Loyalty League will meet Sat urday evening at the school house. The Oswego Grange fair, which meets annually the second Saturday in October, will prevent many from helping to get up a suitable enter tainment in the neighborhood, but some have intended to help celebrate at other places. A lady who has travled extensively in the east, will give a lecture on the Holy land and exhibit relics collected in her travels, on the evening of Sun day the 13th at the chapel in Staf ford, and we bespeak for her a full house. Lyle leideman was home again from the Benson Polytechnic School on last Friday. The Oldham boys, who drive one of their father's trucks, brought some grdvel for the lane that leads to their garage, preparing for the winter rains. Mrs. Gage and Mrs. Hattan went to Oregon City Wednesday to inter view the bank about the Liberty bonds subscribed for. The Red Cross met at their hall last Friday and finished black satine dresses for the Belgian children, and everyone came loaded with bundles, which Mr. Weddle took to the Moose hall to be packed the ' next day. There were also a number of pairs of socks sent down. EAST PARADISE Henry Kraus accidentally cut his font, wit.h fin qv wMTa fiVinnnitlcr uinnd " " " r i' " n wvv. The doctor found it necessary to take several stitches, Privntn WnHor Roll frnm thn Van. couver barracks, was a caller at the Charles Oglesby place Sunday. Grover Goetz was a'n Oregon City caller one day last week. . The air here is being shot full of holes by city sportsmen. Thrpp nf mil Tcoalr Waltnn HiapinlAQ leave this week for a week's outing on the bandy river. put their bean thresher in the shed. They have threshed several tons of beans in this vicinitv and over near Hubbard. Silo cuttine is on in full blast here aa there was n hiw mm rrnn and most of our farmers have a silo. George Oglesby. our phone man, was inspecting several chone lines the past week and some repairs will be made on the lines in a few days. A larpe nrrpnera nf wheat will be sown here this fall for hay. Tha Vl'uM it nntnfnaa tinea fa MW disappointing as there is not half the i 1 . .. i 1 1 general yieia, according vs me re port of those who have finished dig- King. 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They report a good time. The rain is a welcome visitor and our farmers will put in a large amount of fall wheat in the next few days. It is rumored here that a move is on foot by several prominent farm ers of Clackamas county to start a weekly newspaper at some point . in the county, and that a subscription list of at least two thousand sub scribers, all farmers, will' make it a success from the start. EAST CLACKAMAS J. E. Welch and wife were Oregon City goers last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Klinke and family were visiting at the Enghouse ranch last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. 0. Boyer, of Ore gon City, were visitors at Cedar springs rancn Sunday evening and Monday. " E; R. Boyer, wife and daughtei and E. 0. Boyer and wife, of Ore gon City, were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Swank, of Upper Highland. Mrs. W. S. Daywalt left for the Oregon City hospital last Tuesday, to be operated on for appendicitis. Since the good old rain has fallen the ranchers are getting busy pre paring for their fall seeding. N. Wicklund has moved on' to the Lone Oak ranch. The Red Cross met at the school house last Saturday and distributed work among the members present. Monday afternoon we had the pleasure of seeing part of a bull fight on the west side. We did not learn how it came out but we hardly thij there were any deaths to report. "He laughs best who laughs last." Some of our wise ones who seemed to think, when they were .laughing at the Liberty Loan solicitors, that they did not have to come across even with a Thrift stamp have had some wisdom injected into them since then, for we have on good authority that some have got busy with some Liberty bonds and here's hoping they get what is coming to them. Maybe they will become so docile that they will eat out of good old Uncle Sam's hand. It seems very strange that some people have such flimsy excus es, such as "That it was not explain ed to them." They would come to none of the Loyalty League or Lib erty loan meetings but even then they were furnished with literature published by the government. Some more "made-in-Germany" products, eht CHERRYVILLE The showers we had last week were fine. No one seems to be kicking about rain this fall. Who says that the sun never shin es in Oregon? It shone for six months this year. Pete Stone and John Splawn shot a bear, or rather a cub, near the shingle mill south of town, last Sunday. Frank Servis, whose 'picture was in Monday's Journal, was a member of the 166th Artillery and now in France, formerly lived here, as his folks have a claim south of town. The First DED IT M A of r Liivu i-ra Bottle Gave Relief .so b2i Wri,es Mr. M. Vantinren, Engineer, O. B. & I, Hy.. 17 Highland St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Entirely Free from Catarrh of the Stomach "Peruna has positively done for me what many durtum failed lu do. I have been time and uguln compelled to take to my bed for days. 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