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
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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
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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
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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
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port of those who have finished dig-
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returning from an outing at Alsea
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bay. 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.
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Mr. M. Vantinren, Engineer, O.
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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. The first bottle of Peruna
gave relief and while I always
keep It In the house for emerg
encies, I consider myself entirely
free from catnrrh of the Ntonineh,
the trouble from which I suf
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this remedy."
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Mold Kverywhere
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His people are French-Canadians and
Frank is a telephone operator and
interpreter as he speaks the French
language.
Geraldine Farrar, the celebrated
actress, who is now appearing in
Portland in the character of Joan of
Arc, portrays the life of that re
markable peasant girl in a very real
istic manner and gives the audience
a real treat. Some fanatics will tell
you that it is a sin to witness such
delightful - renditions of historical
facts. Fools . and fanatics are first
cousins and fellow countrymen.
A prominent citizen of Portland
went east two years ago and while
in New York City was invited to
take a joy ride over in New Jersey,
which he did, and while on the trip
their auto went wrong and the driv
er got out and got' under it to fix it.
In the meantime the passengers look
ed around and saw a Gypsy tent
nearby, which they visited and had
their fortunes told. They then ask
ed the fortune-teller when the war
would end and she instantly replied
"in December." "Are you sure of
that?" said one of the party. "Yes,
just as sure as I am that your chauf
feur is dead under your machine in
the road." They left hurriedly, went
to the machine and sure enough, the
chauffeur was dead under the ma
chine. They forgot to ask her what
year, the war would end and went
back the next day or so but could
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