OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, MAY 15, 1919
NEWS OF THE COUNTY AND SUBURBS
Local and County Items of Interest to Courier Readers
EAGLE CREEK
Y Mrs. Katie Douglass was a Gresh-
am visitor last Tuesday.
Walter Douglass made a business
trip to Oregon City last Wednesday.
Mrs. Walter Douglass was the
guest of her sister, Mrs. N. L. Kir
chem, of Logan, last Wednesday.
Mrs. S. J. Eddy and son, Bruce,
and Miss Mildred Eddy, of Portland,
are guests at the home of R. B. Gib
son this week.
Mr. Beebe helped Roy Douglass to
shear his sheep last Thursday.
Fred Hocmeister sheared sheep for
Walter Douglass lust Thursday and
on Friday he sheared sheep for Will
Douglass.
Mrs. Annie Beckett was out this
way Sunday.
REDLAND
The county court was out one day
last week and told our supervisor
that a new rock-crusher was waiting
for him, to be used jointly by Red
land, Viola and Spring-water districts.
Mr. and Mrs. Hughes are casting
around for an automobile.
School began again recently after
a week's vacation owing to the "flu."
The grader crew has been over the
roads with the grader.
The Misses Eloise Barker, of Bev
erton; Francis Hart, Elizabeth Hart,
Alice Tracy, of Milwaukie, were the
week-end guests of Alice Funk.
Mr. Carlson is another victim, for
J. D, has purchased a Buick. ,
Red Wing farm has sold several
young Guernsey bulls lately.
; VIOLA
Mr. and Mrs. Will Gibb are the
proud parents of a baby girl born
May 3rd.
Lauren Tenny, of Springwater, as
road boss, and a crew of men have
been working on the H. Mattoon road,
blasting out stumps and straighten
ing out that road, which will be a
great improvement.
Harve Mattoon and Babe White
are kept busy plowing for their
neighbors, and helping to get their
gardens planted.
J. H. Sevier is building a new
chicken house and making other im
provements on his place.
Mr. Brash is talking of moving into
the parsonage soon.
Worth Randolph and his cousin,
Theron Olson, came out -from Port
land Saturday, and went back Sun
day. They were at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Randolph.
B. Tannler has a new Ford, and
Byron Randolph has a new motor
cycle. Mrs. Frank Gibb, of Portland, is at
the home of her son, Will, taking
care of the new grand daughter.
COLTON
Walter Gorbett has a crew of men
grading the Samuelson hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Bullard, of Highland,
visited with the Ernest Wallace fam
ily Sunday.
The Colton high gave their Senior
class play, "Ugliest of Seven," Fri
day night, to a packed house.
Mrs. Philip Hult and family of Mu
lino, were visited at Colton over the
week-end. .'
Alfred Danielson of Mulino, has
moved back to Colton and will occupy
his newi house, which has recently
been built.
David Lofgreen of Portland, visit
ed at the Axel Johnson home Sun
day. He took his niece, Bernice John
son, back to Portland to spend a few
weeks.
A. W. Cooper and family of Port
land, were Sunday .guests of the
Claude Winslow family.
Colton high graduating clas3 has
six members to graduate May 20
Friday night the Senior class will
give a program.
The old Colton school, with Miss
Loveall as teacher, closed a success
ful term of school last Friday.
A surprise birthday party was giv
en on Charlotte Cobb's twelfth birth
day, which was Saturday afternoon.
Those present were: Aagat Frigard,
UNIFORMITY
SERVICE
The service of the Bank of
Commerce is uniformly good
always prompt and effi
cient. You are cordially
invited to make use of it by
making this Bank your
Depositary.
Bank of Commerce
Owned, Operated and Controlcd by Clackamas County People
THOS. P. RYAN, . Dl. H. 8. MOUNT, JOHN R. HCMPHRYS,
President. Viet President. Cashier.
Esther Peterson, Isabel Anderson,
Eda and Alice Hult, Alma and Zelma
Lacerty, Helen Winslow, Evada and
Laura Hult, Martha Burglaund, and
Zona Cobb. After many games, re
freshments were served.
The county club leader was visit
ing schools in this vicinity Tuesday.
LOGAN
Three horse-accidents occurred re
cently at about the same time. Har
ry Babler's team ran away with the
road scraper and one of the "animals
got a badly cut tendon. H. W. Hag
emann's team ran away and one
horse was injured. One of George
Eaden's horses had a leg broken.
" Mr. Scott, the county agent, and
Miss Anthony, home agent, attended
the rerent Grange meeting and spoke
along their respentive lines of work.
Miss Anthony gave a demonstration
of the fireloss cooker and the iceless
refrigerator, one to Hooverize heat
and the other to do the same with
cold.
Jacob Minder's team took advan
tage of him while going down Clear
creek hill and ran away, throwing
him out, causing some cuts and
bruises, but fortunately no serious
damage.
The dance in honor of William Mc-
Cubbin was a well attended and en
joyable affair.
Helen and Elma Babler and their
sister, Mrs. Fostier, are here from
California. . The latter and her hus
band will live in Portland.
The federal official who controls
the department of markets, has writ
ten the secretary of Clear Creek
Creamery company a letter in which
he gives great praise to the company
and its officials. He says the Cream
ery has paid about two cents a
pound more for butter fat than any
other creamery in the state which
amounts to approximately $4000 per
year and that contrary to the gen
eral rule the books are kept system
atically in a way to show an intellig
ible record of the business. This is
high praise from one who has made
an officuu investivation of all the
creameries of the state.
Some more of the Logan boys are
back from overseas, Carl and Floyd
Kirchem and Charles Gill being the
latest arrivals.
Miss Mary Nash, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Earl Gerber,
has returned to her home at Bandon,
being called by an accident to a
young sister.
The county court advertised for
bids on the road work to be done
near Baker's bridge in all three coun
ty papers but no bidders appeared.
This seems to have been a missed
opportunity for those who believe in
that way of doing road work and of
keeping the work out of the officers'
hands.
Despite the frosts, the cold rains
and the clipper birds, the early
cherry trees are loaded.
We've had some good showers.
Now, if the weather bureau will give
us some more in the latter part of
June good crops will be assured.
Clear Creek Mutual Telephone com
pany re-elected the old board of of
ficers and voted the old assessment
of $9.00 for 1920.
TWILIGHT
Spokane now reports the capture
of a two-headed snake and Washing
ton is on the dry wagon.
A whistling man is always good
natured. This neighborhood has one
and he's no exception to the rule.
Did you know that the area of
Canada was four hundred thousand
square miles greater than that of
our United States?
Fashion is unlimited. A Twilight
young lady with a Bhapely foot con
templates going bare-foot.
When a father can say of his 35-year-old
son "that he never disobey
ed him," he has every reason for
pride in his offspring.
Judge Dimick, of Oregon City, was
to have addressed the people of this
district last Saturday evening on the
railroad land question, but through
negligence of his advertising mana
ger met with no audience. The Judge
is popular in this community and his
discomfiture is very much regretted
by those unaware of his coming.
The Montgomery bfcys visited their
mother, who is ill at the home of her
mother at Milwaukie, last Sunday.
Mrs. L. E. Bently sent her a box of
beautiful roses, carnations and lilacs
in their care.
The boy who volunteers for surv
ice the day preceding the armistice, is
entitled to as much honor as he who
wrestled with the Huns in the Ar
gonne forests. There are those who
think differently, but I give them
credit for lack of judgment. f
Recent showers benefitted gardens
and all late planted seeds. Incident
ally it added an impetus to an al
ready promising record crop of fall
sown grain.
Something has badly injured all
pitted fruit in this vicinity. This in
cludes cherres, plums and prunes.
Pears are only fair, while apples are
extremely promising.
(Edftor's note Read article head
ed "Pear and Cherry Slug Is Controll
ed by Spray," in another part of this
paper.)
We do not favor Judge Anderson's
expressed views on the consolidation
into one district, of all our present
road divisions. It would create a
tendency toward one-man power to
the detriment of outlying districts.
However, we are of the opinion that
we are now working under a system
of too many districts.
Personal items in the country are
difficult to round up, unless you re
fer to Montgomery planting corn,
Bently sawing wood, Kelland fishing,
or Mrs. Dodds washing dishes, all of
which are so common that we fear
our readers might tire of them
should we make such repetitions
weekly.
Many of our returning soldier boys
will reach home or its vicinity the
present week, and a hearty welcome
awaits them.
It appears to me that the word
"drive" is going to be over-worked,
judging from what we glean from
the daily newspapers.
We have a number of newly-made
widowers, and report has it they all
desire companionship. If only France
was less distant, how we could fur
ther assist in relieving their feminine
surplus.
Mr. Meyer and family, who have
been operating the Lazelle farm for
F. J. Meindl, leaves this week to be
succeeded by a stranger.
Our towns and cities are chronic on
the "Trade at home" theory, yet Can
adian potatoes are shipped into Port
land while home grown spuds are
lnding a market in California.
There will be a meeting at the
hall May 24th at 8 p. m. sharp, of
all those interested in the soldier
welcome entertainment. Let every
one come and bring an idea with you.
Be prompt order of chairman..
Both George Jenison and Paul El
lings will erect additions to their cot
tages this coming summer.
A recent letter from Albert Scheer,
one of our soldier boys, locates him
at Camp Dix, N. J. He is expected
qome in the next few weeks.
Our public school terminates Fri
day of this week. The teacher, Miss
Gwendolyn Evans, gave a party to
the students at the home of Mrs. A,
H. Harvey an evening of last week,
serving refreshments and other en
tertainment The kiddies seem much
attached to their teacher, and their
enjoyment was unlimited. A very
successful term of school has just
ended.
A Mistake Made by Many
Don't wait for rheumatism to
aicate diseased kidneys. When you
suffer pains and aches by day and
sleep disturbing bladder weakness by
night, feel tirod, nervous and run
down, the kidneys and bladder should
be restored to healthy, strong and
regular action. It is a mistake to
postpone treatment. Foley , Kidney
Pills put the kidneys in sound heal
thy condition and keep them active
and strong. Begin taking today
Good results follow the first dose.
Sold Everywhere.
CHERRYVILLE
Plenty of rain and it did lots of
good.
Sunshine and warmer nights would
start everything booming.
Dr. Botkin has started a patch of
alfalfa. He first sowed a lot of
lime on the soil to correct the acid
ity and then inocuiated the seed
with bacteria. The seedsman said he
would guarantee a good and lasting
crop if this plan was followed. Al
falfa sold here in the winter and
spring for $35.00 a ton and every
rancher said he would much prefer it
to twice that amount of almost any
other kind of fodder. With Alfalfa
a success it would boom the stock
business in this country amazingly.
Prominent ministers and priests, it
is said, are seriously investigating
spritualism with a view of demon
strating to a certainty the existence
of life after death. Eminent scien
tists and writers like Sir Oliver
Lodge and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
have already declared their belief
after many years' research of the
fact clearly demonstrated continued
existence thereafter and the survival
of the personality of each person.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, a brilliant
Writer, said that through all this web
of mystery and folly there runs the
golden thread of truth.
The writer recently received a
package of dehydrated vegetables,
comprising six varieties. This col
lection was as dry as chips and
would keep for years, but makes de
licious soup. This preparation was
used extensively in the. army and is
now being manufactured extensively.
Here is a good way to preserve our
great potato crops as the water is
all removed and the real worth very
much reduced in bulk.
The German delegates are loth to
sign the peace terms but will be
obliged to as they depend on the Al
lies for raw material for the trade
and manufacture and food. When
they took over Alsace and Lorraine
in 1870 they demanded all people to
take allegiance to Germany or leave
the country. Over 20,000 left their
homes rather than take the oath to
the kaiser. The French republic is
making no such demands of the
people in those provinces, being more
lenient than the Gernums were when
they were victorious! It makes some
difference whose ox is gored.
Three dollars a box for strawber
ries and even higher is already of
fered and one acre of strawberries in
fine shape will probably produce
more than 300 crates. This beats
working in lumber camps, and thou
sands of acres of as good strawberry
land as, ever was known is ' all
around us.
Professional theologians tell us all
we need is faith and Luther denounc
ed the Book of James "in the New
Testament which said, "Faith with
out works is dead." Luther said
this book should never have been ad
mitted to the canon. His doctrine
was justification by faith. Theolog
ians want to keep people in the kin
dergarten class so they can control
them easily.
Cherries and all fruits have set
unusually full and promise a great
crop. Grain also, looks fine as well
as grass. Too cool for gardens.
Work on the flume will be finished
this week and the Sandy Lumber
company will hereafter flume their
ties and lumber down to the mouth
of Alder creek. At the chop-off in
to the river the flume is nearly 30
feet high. This flume being such a
success other flumes will probably be
built in this vicinity.
FARM LABOR SHORTAGE
LESS SEVERE IN COUNTRY
Improvement in the farm labor sit
uation this year over 1918 is report
ed by the Bureau of Crop Estimates,
United States Department of Agri
culture, after investigation in all ag
ricultural counties of the United
States. By improvement is meant net
increase of supply and consequently
more labor for planting, cultivating,
and harvesting in relation to the
work to be done. Wage rates were
not included in the investigation.
Stated in percentage of a normal
labor supply as related to a normal
demand for labor, the actual supply
of 1918 was 72 per cent and of 1919
it is 83 per cent still inadequate
without greater than normal depend
ence on machinery and animal, trac
tor, and motor power, and without
more than usual labor by farmers and
their families. However, the im
provement over 1918 is considerable.'
In both years the groups of states
that were and are provided with
labor in relation of supply to de
mand, less than, or at the most equal
to, the average for the United States,
are the North Atlantic, the South At
lantic, and the South Central. .
Among these three groups of
states, the greatest improvement is
in the North Atlantic, and these ex
tremes of high and low improve'
ment are not equaled by the North
Central and Western states, in each
of which the average improvement is
almost the same as that of the entire
country. The improvement is even
ly distributed throughout all state
groups, except the North Atlantic
states, where the gain is twice
great as in each of the other groups
of states.
Apart from the tendency toward
relief from labor scarcity from 1918
to 1919, the situation this year is
less favorable on the Atlantic coast,
from New England to the South At
lantic states as a group, than in the
states west of the Appalachian moun.
tains as groups, and in this long
strip of coast the situation is worse
in the South Atlantic group of states.
FOR SALE
OR
TRADE
31 acres of garden land
for grazing .
or logged off land
Rents for $475.00 cash per
year; joins station on main
line between The Dalles and
Hood River.
H. C. FINSTER
Adams, Oregon
WOOD
WANTED
Until May 25th, 1919, The
Oregon City Library Asso
ciation will receive sealed
bids for furnishing thirty
cords of four foot wood de
livered at the library build
ing in Oregon City as need
ed. Bids must state age
and grade of wood, and be
addressed to Oregon City
Library Association, Oregon
City.
PERCY CAUFIELD,
Secretary
Royal Contains No Alum
Leaves No Bitter Taste
EAR AND CHERRY SLUG
IS CONTROLLED BY SPRAY
"Two years ago," says a prominent
orchardist of Salem, "my pear trees
were attacked by slugs. I did not
not realize that the pest would do
serious injury. The result was that
my trees were completely defoliate
and so devitalized that they have not
produced a crop since. This injury
and loss could easily have.been avoid
ed had I only known the nature of
the pest at the time."
This grower is now on the lookout
for the slug and his orchard will not
suffer from this preventable injury
again.
The pear and cherry slugs appear
on the leaves as greenish brown lar
vae .explains F. H. Lathrop, assist
ant entomologist at O. A. C. lhese
slimy creatures are from one-eighth
to one-half inch in length and close'
ly resemble small slugs.
This pest is easily controlled .by
the proper spray, but is serious if ne.
elected. Dust sprays are ideal al
though the liquid sprays are very ef
fective. For a few trees about the
home, dust the foliage when the pest
appears with air slaked lime, wood
dust, or any other fine powder. The
commercial orchardist controls the
slug by the addition of arsenate of
lead to the "ten-day spray." He us
es two -pounds of the powdered ar
senate of lead (four pounds of the
paste) to 100 gallons of the spray.
If the trees are allowed to go un
sprayed the slugs will continue to
feed on the foliage. The leaves are
skeletonized, become dry and brown
and often drop from the treee. In a
short time the entire tree is defoliat
ed.
The slugs then drop to the ground
to pupate, and a second brood of the
pests emerges to attack the trees in
late July and August.
They spend the winter as pupae in
the soil. The short, blunt, black
wasp-like adults emerge in the spring
to produce the slugs which so serious
ly injure the foliage n May and June,
SERIOUS MEAT SHORTAGE
NOT NOW IN PR0SPEC
"In my opinion we are not in any
way facing a meat shortage," says
E, L. Potter, professor of animal hus
bandry at O. A. C.
"We shall not have the abundance
of cheap meats We had 15 years ago,
but that is all right as they were too
cheap and we were eating more than
was good for us."
Prices are high, thinks Professor
Potter, because the livestock is con
suming all available foods, excessive
even considering the high price
livestock.
Not more livestock but better util
ization of feed through better breed
ing, feeding and management, and
production of more cheap feeds, es
pecially grass, is Oregon's problem,
according to Professor Potter. As
long as feed is high meat animals
will be high, when feed' goes down
stock prices will drop.
The livestock industry of Oregon is
in fine shape, both for the present
and future. The extension . problem
of the college is to answer stock
men's questions on feeding, breeding,
purchase and distribution of better
stock, in doing which it adds mater
ially to the interests of producer of
livestock and consumer of meat.
FOR SALE BY OWNER
Fifty acres at a bargain; mostly in
cultivation, all in fall grain. Good
location on good gravel road 9 miles
from Oregon City, mile from
school; three miles from Beaver
Creek store and electric power plant.
Oood house, big barn, and other good
outbuildings; fine orchard and two
good wells and spring that never
goes dry. Cause for gelling have
two iarms. rnce, ?15U per acre,
easy terms. J. R. Carr, Route 2,
Box 162, Oregon City. Home phone
Kedland 74. .
Courier and Farmer, both for f 1.15
Eigne
Put a little alum on the end of your
tongue and you will have the reason
why alum baking powder should
not be used in food.
England and France forbid the sale
of baking powder containing alum.
You can tell whether baking powder
contains alum by reading the label.
Absolutely Pure
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
The Ford Motor - Company have in
structed us to sell the genuine Ford Parts,
to any and every reliable Garage who
will pledge their use in the repair of
Ford cars. The genuine Ford Parts are
absolutely necessary to the owner of .
Ford cars that he may get full service
from his car. We carry them and so, we
: hope, in a short time will every reliable
Garage. We solicit your service busi
ness because Ave have the Ford Methods,
the Ford Parts, the Ford Mechanics and;
the Ford prices. Incidentally would be
glad to get your order for one or more
Ford cars. ...
Pacific Highway Garage, inc.
Wallace B. Cauficld
President
COUNTY COURT ARRESTED
FOR SPEEDING LAST FRIDAY
"We're the County Court," claimed
one of an auto party Friday near Mo
lalla, when Special Officer Snyder, of
that place, halted the machine for
exceeding the speed limit. "Makes
no difference to me," replied Snyder,
"you can't exceed the speed limit in
this territory."
It all came about when the entire
county court of this county, acconv
panied by Deputy District Attorney
Butler, started back after spending
the day looking over the roads in
Clackamas county. Commissioner
-MASTER STRENGTH JUILDER1
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Sturdy Men and Healthy
Beautiful Wwnenfof Today
"To make strong, Veen, red-blooded Am erf
Inns then Is nothing In my experience which,
3 have found eo valuable M organic lron
Xuxated Iron" says Dr. Jiunei frauds Sulll
an, formerly Physician of liellevue Hospital
(Outdoor Dept.), Mew York and the WesU
hheiter County Hospital.. Nuxuted Iron by
enriching the blood and creating new blood
neue eirengtuen the nerves, rebuilds
the weakened tissues and help to Instill
Renewed energy and endurance Into the
Whole system. It often Increases the
trength of weak, delicate people in!
two weeks' time. It 1 estimated that
a-rer 8,000,000 people Be Nuxated Iron
Mnually a tonic, ejid blood-builder.
rTTk MAKE THIS
And Find Out
oee now long you can worit or now hi: you u
without becoming tired; next take two five-grain, tablet of
Nuxated iron three
weeks. Then test
much you have
down people
endurance
form.
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Charle H. CaafieU
Vke-PraiJent
Harris was driving the machine, and
when he hit the pavement near Mo
lalla, "opened her up" and was halt
ed by the officer, The party arrived
here at a very moderate rate of
speed last Thursday, and are aware
of the fact that the officer is on the
job at that point. ,
Married
A pretty wedding took place Tues
day in the pastor's parlors of the
Methodist church, when Miss Amy
Elorna Shaw and George V. Chester
were united in marriage by Rev. E.
E. Gilbert. The couple are from Mo
lalla, and will make their future
home at that place. ,,
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who were ailing an we wnue wavo
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