OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, MAY 29, 1919
OREGON CITY COURIER
REVERTED TO TYPE
Ferret's Night Off an Orgy of
Slaughter.
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Why Pay More
for your clothes when you can get the same
goods from me at a saving of from
5 to 10 per cent.
JUST PRICE THE WELL KNOWN
KUPPENHEIMER SUITS
for instance that I am selling at
$35, $40, $45, $50
and you will find the same suit costs you from $5 to $10 more
in Portland. Isn't that alone enough to induce you
to buy from your home clothier?
C. W. ROBEY, Editor and Business Manager
Published Thursdays from the Courier Building, Eighth Street, and entered
in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as 2nd class mail matter.
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He was sitting in the sun on a pile
of lumber. Beside him lay the kit of
a vagrant umbrella mender and he
had just unwrapped a huge sandwich
of bread and meat which some hos
pitable woman had given him. "Good
morning," we saluted cheerfully as
we passed, for there was something
in the Bunshine that made us leel
genial. "Good morning," he respond
ed with equal cheerfulness as he cast
aside the wrapping from his sand
wich and eyed the generous slices of
bread with satisfaction.
As we sat down at the desk and
became busy with the morning's mail
we could not get the tramp umbrella
mender out of our mind. Always
there kept recurring the thought,
which is the wise man the happy-go-lucky
knight of the road or the
ohap who struggles to make some
thing of himself and keep up appear
ances ?
The first letter opened was a no
tice from the bank that a note we
had discounted two months ago had
not been paid and we were called up
on to take it up. My friend on the
lumber pile never knew the joy of
being compelled to replace money he
had earned and spent because the fel
low1 that owed him had defaulted. The
next envelope contained a bill for a
considerable sum. True, it wasn't
due, but it cited the fact that prices
. were advancing. Viciously the knife
was thrust into the next envelope.
Here was a good, vigorous kick. A
foreign advertisement in the last is
sue had not been inserted at the top
of the column as was specified in the
contract. Oh, things were breaking
lovely this beautiful morning.
We shoved aside the mail and be
gan to wonder if it paid after all to
try. Wasn't our scheme of civiliza
tion all wrong? Which was the wis
erthe tramp or the business man?
The vagrant breathes the same pure
air. He had his breakfast, minus the
grapefruit, it is true, but just as
nourishing as ours. He collected for
the job as soon as it was completed.
Soon the cool sweet summer nights
will close over him as he lies upon
some grassy bank and gazes up at
the stars, while the chorus of croak
ing frogs lulls him to sleep. The
price of gasoline has no terrors for
him. He can travel while we must
stay here and get out the paper for
an unappreciative public. If he los
es a dime he cusses and goes on his
way. He doesn't have to take a bath
unless he wants to and when he does
he plunges into a cool creek and dries
himself in the sun, while we have to
scrub out the tub. He Can just be
his own lazy independent self while
we must keep up the eternal bluff.
If we never write another line for
this sheet you may know we've chuck
ed the whole darn thing and gone out
to live as our forefathers did before
they inaugurated this wonderful sys
tem oi civilization. The Editor.
THOUGH The Bank of Ore
gon City has been in oK' ra
tion for 38 years, perhaps
you are not acquaintel with
the many kinds of facilities
and services it affords. Then
rome to hear and see what
these constat of. Also tell
lis of your operations and
plans. Thus, you will know
what we have, and we will
know what you need.
WE APPRECIATE CALLS
FROM VISITORS
AS WELL AS PATRONS
THE BANK OF
OREGON CITY
Oldest Bank in Clackamas County
ACQUAINTANCESHIP
CORRESPONDENCE
(Continued from Page 2)
A very successful surprise party
on the two Mead boys, Albert and
Ed, was originated and executed on
last Saturday night, by the Central
Point anl New Era people. The size
of the crowd made recourse to the
lawn necessary.
CHERRYVILLE
The Weather Master General ought
to have a vote of thanks.
Lane, the walking man from Gresh
am, who travels over the county, says
he never saw the prospect for a big
crop so good as this year.
Seasonable showers and a general
atmosphere are making all kinds of
vegetation boom.
Fred Beechil and H. Emily will
start a new tie camp next week above
Brightwood across the Sandy river,
They will haul the ties down to the
flume at Mikelsons mill.
A pioneer family near Marmot
have raised eleven strong, sturdy
children, most of them grown, and
all of them steady, industrious and
respectable. Three of the girls are
teachers and three more are getting
an education. The boys are always
busy and those grown have already
got a good start in life. Two of
them were in the army but are now
home. The parents early insisted on
habits of industry, realizing that
Satan finds mischief for idle hands to
do. Parents with idle children
a town are taking big chances.
Archie Averill landed at Camp
Mills, L. I., N. Y., on the 21st. and
after staying a week will probably
maice the homeward trip this week
ana arrive at Camp Lewis next
week. He came across on the Sierra,
a comparatively Bmall ship, and said
the passage was rough and the ship
pitched and rolled in great shape,
making many of them sick.
A force of U. S. Marines, 1100 in
number, preserves order in the Is
land of Haiti under the command of
Col. Williams, who is the advisor of
the president, a mulatto of some in
telligence and education. The last
president was torn to pieces by a
sayage mob and practical anarchy
reigned then. Under our care good
order prevails and if they were in-
clined to work a little bit could be
prosperous.
The German -poor, it is said, no
longer go to church, as a matter of
fact very little ecort is made in any
country to get the poor into church-
oo. j. no writer took notes lor a
newspaper at one of Billy Sunday's
meeting and not a one of his num
erous workers ever said a word to
me. home poor went forward but
they were not urged. A man has to
have money to get anywhere in this
world.
The Old Guard of the Republican
rarty is completely m power at
wasnington and the Progressive
members are not in it. It is too
late in the day to hark back to the
good (?) old days of high protection
for special industries and organized
plunder of the struggling masses.
The people will not stand for it, and
when they fight the idea of a League
of Nations they are making a fright
ful mistake.
The Great Powers have command
ed the Poles that they must not kill
the Jews in their country. England
and this country, as well as others,
allowed the Turks to kill a million
Armenians and had to pay the pen
alty in a great war which killed
many a bright young man. "Thomas
Jefferson once said, when he looked
at human slaves, "I tremble for mv
country when I remember God is
just. The Civil war followed later.
Obituaries
Mrs. Jennie Lewis
Funeral services over the remains
of Mrs. Jennie Lewis, of Red Lodge,
Montana, who died m this c tv Mav
21, were held in this citv at 2:110
Tuesday afternoon, from the Hol
man & Tikb undertaking parlors.
Rev. Griffiths, of Portland, ofliciated.
Deceased was the wife of T. J. Lewis
of Red Lodge, Mont., and was born
at Pont Gins, North Wales. She wns
the daughter of the late Robert and
Hannah Williams. She is survived
by her husband and one son, John
Kenneth, who accompanied her to
this city some time aero. Defeased
also leaves a- stepdaughter, Mrs
David L. Jones, of Cnrus.
MISS LINTON AWARDED
JUDGMENT IN SUM OF $85
Elva Linton secured a judgment in
the circuit court here against O. W.
Eastham, attorney, formerly of this
city, but now of Portland. The judg
ment was in the sum of $85, alleg
ed due on back salary to Misj Lin
ton for services as a stenographer
for the defendant. Plaintiff alleged
in her complaint that after working
for Mr. Eastham for some time, he
refused to pay her, and the court al
lowed her $85 and interest at 6
from April 22, 1916.
Little Killer Left Thick Trail of Dead
Which He Had Destroyed for the
Pure Joy of Slaying, and
Went Home.
His mother was a ferret, lean, yel
low and pink eyed and a she devil
to boot, says a writer In London An
swers. His father was worse, a wild pole
.cat of the mountains, and a worse
devil than ever. '
But he, the cherub, was so soft and
furry and fat and creamy, and, though
he had got pink eyes, there seemed
to be nothing else of his mother and
father about him. He never bit, he
never spat, and he never used bad lun
guage, and he lived upon bread and
milk, like a gentleman.
So he was till the spring broke.
It was their own fault, the ferret
ers. They took him out rabbiting, as
usual. They put a collar with a bell
on round his neck, as usual, and a
long, long string on the collar, as
usual, and they turned him Into a
rabbit warren, as usual. And he
sneezed three times, as usual, and h
walked docilely down the first rabbit
hole he came to, as usual, to turn out
the rabbits from their burrows, as
usual that the sportsmen outside
might shoot them as they bolted.
So far, until he got Into the middle
of the mazes of tunnels, the inky dark
nesses, and the stuffy heat, full of
the smell of castor oil don't know
why, by the way and he could hear
the drumming of rabbits' feet fleeing
before his ghostly, terrible self, every
thing happened as usual. Then nothing
did.
He was polled tip with a jerk that
nearly choked him. He tried going for
ward, but it was all no good. He
had only a yard of play either way.
His line was entangled in a root.
The hours passed, and the ferreters,
after trying every device known to
man to get him out, gave It up and
went home. The cherub did not give
it up. He worried slowly, and he
chafed, he pulled, and tugged, he
backed, and he sweated, and he
sneezed, and finally his collar came
undone or broke.
The cherub sneezed three times, and
walked three yards. Then he realized
he was free. It was the first time in
all his life he had been free, and it
acted upon him. In that second his
mother, plus his father, got to work
in his own body, and he began.
It was really very clean killing. Fif
teen rabbits done to death, each with a
single, clean fang stroke behind the
ears was not so bad for one small
ferret. But he improved, for he slew
20 In the next hour leaving every
carcass untouched where It lay and,
getting thirsty, came above ground for
water. The water he did not find, but
discovered fowls In a fowlhouse 'In
stead, and, as I said, being thirsty,
drank blood. There were no live
fowls in that hen roost when he left.
He visited the hutches of the Belgian
hares, which he slew, and the pigeon
cote, where he got more blood.
After that he returned a mile across
country, killing three partridges on
the way; drank at the dog's trough
biting the dog badly In the process
walked Into his own hutch and was
found curled up, calmly asleep, among
the hay next morning.
Rabbit Meat for Wartime Food.
Wartime conservation of beef and
pork has enabled a Kansan to develop
a rather extraordinary business In the
marketing of wild rabbits, both jacks
and cottontails. A rabblt-packlng plant
has been established and is now ship
ping frozen bunnies by the tens of
thousands. '
' A recent contract called for 480,000
pounds of jnckrabblt meat. The jacks
average four pounds each when
dressed. This means that approximate
ly 120,000 rabbits were required to fill
the order.
The fur Is disposed of at a hnndsome
profit. It Is used in the manufacture
of high-grade felt, such as enters into
the making of men's hats.
All waste products are converted
Into fertilizer. The Industry also rids
the country of a crop-destroying pest.
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Teaching the Boys to Sing.
A distinguished young musician re
cently joined the English army for the
purpose of teaching the boys to sing.
Attached to the royal air force, he has
been commissioned to train the men at
the various centers In choral singing,
thus dispensing with the necessity for
bands. The effect upon the spirits, the
morale and the discipline of the men
has been excellent. They have devel
oped a keen Interest In singing, and
many of them have been found, to
their own surprise, to possess excel
lent voices. In view of the success of
the movement, It will probnbly be ex
tended to other branches of the army,
especially where the formation of a
band Is out of the question.
Improves Revolver.
By providing the ordinary revolver
with a circular cartridge frame or clip,
Joseph II. Wesson of Springfield,
Muss., lins given the older weapon all
the convenient features of the newer
automatic weapon ; that Is, the rnplillty
of fire and quick relond. His clip,
holding five or six catrldges In position,
serves to push thern Into place in the
revolver barrel at one operation, In
stead of Individual loading, as is usu
ally the case.
Better Bread Than Mother Made
With nil the scientific knowledge
and care of expert bukemcn, Holsum
Bread comes to you a perfect loaf.
Every ingredient is tested in a lab
oratory to insure its quality and
purity. Scarcely touched by hand
froln the time it is mixed until it
comes to you fwrnpped and sealed,
you are sure of its purity and good
ness.
License to wed was granted two
Oregon City young people Tuesday
at Vancouver, Ralph Bobenett, 22,
and Elta Vervil'le, 21.
I CAN SAVE YOU MONEY
Silk Shirts, $5 to $10
A lot of new silk shirts in pure silk and fibre have just arrived.
The patterns include the most popular of the summer fashions
and are beautiful.
Light weight Summer Underwear, $1.50 suit
. I CAN SAVE YOU MONEY
Straws & Panamas
$2.50 to $7.50
No need for you to pay more for
a new hat when you can get just
what you want here at my low-rent-overhead
prices.
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JOE SWARTZ
IF MEN WEAR IT, WE HAVE IT
COUNTY AND
CITY LOCALS
Curtis K. Selby, for the past 18
months stationed in France with the
U. S. forces, arrived home Monday,
and will leave the last of the week
for Walla Walla, where he has prop
erty interests. His brother, Homer,
will aocompany him to Washington,
where he has secured a position.
West Linn C. W. Inn will buy your
pig and pay cash. Call on Mr. Bar
low when next in town.
Miss Amy Montgomery, for the
past several years operator for the
Home telephone company, has been
transferred to the Pacific switchboard
and will take up her duties today,
You feel different the minute you
take it a gentle soothing warmth
fills the system. It's a pleasure to
take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea.
Helps purifythe blood, drives out the
germs of Winter, gets you hustling,
bustling, full of life and energy. 35c.
Tea or Tablets. Huntley Drug Co.
The entertainment given last Tues
day by the little folks, assisted by
local talent, was a decided success
and a packed house witnessed the
performance. The proceeds wil go
toward the returning soldiers and
sailors fund of this county. Mrs. W.
S. Bennett trained the little folks,
and received many compliments on
her work.
Delias Armstrong, who recently re.
turned to Oregon City from a two
years service in England, has re
sumed his position with the Miller-
Parker company.
Miss Erma Calavan has returned
to this city from Salem, where she
has been visiting friends.
Fred Curl has returned to Oregon
City from overseas duty, and is now
visiting his sisters, Mrs. Bert Green
man, Mrs. Guy Roddick and Miss
Verno Curl.
If you have any good apples, po
tatoes, beef or other farm produce
for sale see F. T. Barlow at C. W.
Inn, West Linn, and he will pay you
cash on delivery. Phone 608.
Mrs. Charles Tooze has gone to
Parkdale, Oregon, near Hood River,
where she is at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. John Cooper, nee
Hilda Tooze.
Attorney Frank J. Streibig, of
Portland, was an Oregon City visitor
Monday.
David L. Jones, of Carus, was in
Oregon City Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Anton Naterlin, of
this city, returned here Sunday
evening from Eugene. While at Eu
gene they were guests of their son,
Andrew, a student at the University.
Mr. and Mrs. James Kiser, of West
Linn, have received word that their
son, Earl Kiser, has arrived in New
York from over-seas service. At one
time the young man was reported
to be missing.
You can get the best 50c meal In
Clackamas county every day, includ
ing Sunday, at West Linn C. W. Inn,1
across the bridge from Oregon City,
G:.'!0 to 8 a. m., 12:00 to 1:00, and
5:30 to 6:30 p. b. Haircut 35c.
Shave 20c. Same place.
HORSES FOR SALE
One bay mare 5 years old, weight
1000, sound nnd true; one stallion, 8
years old, 1400; set of heavy har
ness and 3-inch wheel Sludebaker
wagon.
OLSON'S LIVERY BARN
Pac. Phone 348-W. Oregon City
I CAN SAVE YOU MONEY
Crossert Oxfords
$8.50
You will certainly want a pair of
Oxfords for summer wear and no
where can you get more value for
your money. Oxfords in both
plain toe and English.
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Scarred and battered from hard
service on the Hindenburg front,
"Let 'er buck," a Ford camionette
which since the Armistice has deliv
ered supplies to the boys of the 27th
Division in the rest area, came nois
ily into the yards of Y. M. C. A.
headquarters at Le Mans a few days
ago, with "Jimmy" Cornelison at the
wheel.
The chauffeur back home is the
Reverend James Cornelison, a well
known Presbyterian clergyman and
for twenty years missionary to the
Nez Perces Indians in the State of
Oregon, to which place he was as
signed at the close of his university
course way down in Kentucky, his
native state.
"Jimmy," as he is familiarly known
by the men of the 27th Division, left
his field at home last June and went
to New York to enlist in Y. M. C. A.
service. Instead of applying for a
chaplaincy in the army or religious
work as might have been expected,
he asked to be assigned to the motor
transport section, so that he might
more easily get next to the "Man
behind, the gun." He was according
ly placed with this important serv
ice and sent across to France, arriv
ing early in September. He "met
up" with the 27th Division through a
friend and was put in charge of a
Ford camionette which had been see
ing hard times at the front since the
preceding May. v
Rev. Mr. Cornelison christened his
pet "Let 'er Buck" in honor of an
epic drama of western life enacted
annually back home in Oregon. The
car and its driver soon became known
by all along the Hindenburg line be
tween Cambrai and San Quentin.
Back and forth "Jimmy" drove his
little vehicle, carrying supplies from
base to canteen and from base to can
teen, although the Division which he
was serving was often under shell
fire and he took his life in his hands
many times. The camionette aver
aged three hundred to- five hundred
miles a week during the most severe
and critical period of the war when
the Division was engaged with the
British in fighting the Hun. Every
battalion of the 27th Division had its
own canteen manned by Y men or
army detachments at the front, dis-
spensina cigarettes, candy and other
goods.
When the men entrained at Tin-
court in November to go to the rest
area following the armistice, they
were served freely with hot cocoa,
cigarettes and crackers, the Y men
dividing into three shifts of eight
hours each for five days and five
nights continuously. Both officers
and men praised the work of the Y
men of the Division.
Much of the supply of goods which
the Rev. Mr. Cornelison sold or gave
away to the men for weeks, had to be
purchased from the British or from
the American army. The Ford cam
ionette which carried many loads of
supplies, is in excellent running
order, barring a sore throat and a
few teeth gone. She is one of the
oldest, cars in the service of the
Y. M. C. A. in France. For month
after month "Let 'er Buck" display
ed four pennants, one telling her
name, another with the word "Pendle
ton," another "Oregon" and still an
other "Round Up." At a fair esti
mate the car has negotiated 15.000
miles since Mr. Cornelison took it in
charge.
BOUGHT
LIBERTY
If you have any back
bonds, I will buy
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IoWland
Pacific 377 Home B-38
8th and Main Sta. Oregon City, Ore.
WANTED
OPERATORS ON SEWING
MACHINES also WOMEN for
HAND FINISHING COATS.
INQUIRE GARMENT DEPARTMENT
OREGON CITY WOOLEN MILLS
Instead of going home with the Di
vision with which he served, Mr. Cor
nelison will remain in the Y service
in France until his full year is round
ed out in June. Then he will go
back to his Indian congregation of a
thousand souls to resume missionary
work. As a side issue during his
period of service at the front he had
charge of the Y mess in his division,
often doing the cooking himself.
Cut This Out It Is Worth Money
DONT MISS THIS. Cut out this
slip, enclose with 5c and mail it to
Foley & Co., 2835 Sheffield Ave., Chi
cago, 111., writing your nam and ad
dress clearly. You ' will receive in
return a trial package containing
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound,
for coughs, colds and croup; Foley
Kidney Pills for pain in tides and
back; rheumatism, backache, kidney
and bladder ailments; and Foley Ca
thartic Tablets, a whoesome and
thoroughly cleansing cathartic, for
constipation, biliousnesi, headache,
and sluggish bowels. Sold Every
where. Courier and Farmer, both for f 1.15.
SOLD
BONDS
payments on your
your receipts.
WATER BOARD ISSUES RULES
ON SPRINKLING PRIVILEGE
Rules governing sprinkling of
lawns in this city will soon be issued
by the water board. According to a
report of the secretary, the hours for
sprinkling will be from 6:00 to 8:00
o'clock in the morning and from 6:30
to 9:00 o'clock in the evening. One
half of the city's water consumers
may use water for sprinkling or ir
rigation, and the other half uses the
water on the following day. This
will equalize the privilege of the
consumers, so that only one half of
the water users will be able to use
the hose at one time. Rules govern
ing the size of the hose nozzle to be
used will be in effect this year, and
the size will be limited to a 3-8 inch
opening. The sprinkling season
opens June 1, and sprinkling fees
must be paid in advance.
Schools to Close
Several schools will close this week
over the county, completing the work
for the past year. Included are the
Sandy, Marmot and Firwood schools.