OREOON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1907.
Sealed Bid Auction Sale
Nice residence for sale by sealed bids.
Go over and see it then cast your bid in
box for bids at the Electric Hotel. This
is your chance to get a home at your figure.
Reserve right to reject any and all bids.
Bid just what it is worth to you and your
chance is good and the highest bidder
takes the property on payment of his bid
if accepted.
Lot 50 x 100 feet, six rooms, with three
storerooms or pantry and cellar 8x10
underneath, good well of water.
Photograph showing house can be seen at
bid box in Electric Hotel. Sale by owner
S. E; KENNEDY
P. S. Bids will be opened on Sept. 15,
1907, at 11 o'clock a. m. Will give terms
with proper bid.
,1. A, Tuft ha purchased 11 lots
In Gladstone, th land lying between
the O. W. T, and the Willamette Riv
er, The price quoted In $900 and Mr.
TufU I planning to build a borne for
himself and family.
Arthur Buter, aged 13 year, wa
drowned la tho Willamette a few
miles below thin city Wednesday af
ternoon whllo buttling. Those with
Mm were too scared to give the nec
essary aid to nave hlit life,
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Selections
A Wild Went show added to the La
bor Day attraction at Oregon City.
The tent were pitched across the Wil
lamette on the Went Bide, and two
fair sized crowd witnessed the af
ternoon and evening performances.
Sunday, September 1, wan the an
nual rally day In the M. K. church
the country over, but a no many
young people are away hop and prune
picking it wan decided to postpone the
event until later; probably the first
Sunday In October,
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i LOCAL BRIEFS
Tho CoiiKri'Katlonul church pwplo
littve ordrrml mw byntnaU,
Hcr'tnry Taft speak at the Ar
mory In Portland thl evening.
The law rUtlng to denatured alco
hol wi-nt Into effuct Sunday.
Oregon City nt about five hundred
iMxipbt, young and old, to tho hop yard
itmi wm k.
It look a If Oregon City would
tiave a ball loam In the TrlClty
league ni'Xt yiar.
Lightning struck a burn belonging
to (i.iW. Sera ni 1 1 n at Macksburg lust
wwk and burmd It down.
MrMlnnvllle U to have a great
county school fair and slock show
September 21 to 27. Inclusive.
8rhol begin September 23, allow
ing thoK who wish time to spend
their varatkm In the hopfleld.
The orcaalonul rain In Oregon thU
muniner have greatly decreased the,
usual damage from foreHt ftr.
Hoy of the Congregational church
are planning for an entertainment
next Monday night, at the church.
water iiiaIii and that something must
be done to save them.
Hugh Ilrady, a Portland (liver, Is
trying to find the body of George A.
Talli-y. who was drowned In tho Wil
lamette IshI Thursday.
Mrs. Morland, who has operated a
Isiardlng house on Seventh street,
was compelled to close It last week
on account of HI health.
Council turned down the claim of
Wm. A. Bpcnru for damage on ac
Niunl of an accident at Fourteenth
street.
Garfield Grange voted a 50 cent as.
wesniont on each of Ita members at
a recent meeting to pny for painting
the grange hall.
The Court House was a deserted
rdaco I.alMir Day and the echoes which
"sound and resound" through Its cor
ridors hud full sway.
Portland citizens are now charging
that electrolysis Is destroying the
IS. T. Avlson had his hand caught
In a napper at the woolen mill Wed
nesday and as a result Is likely to
lone one or more fingers.
Uev. Hoar, the new Congregational
1st paittor at Parkplace and Clacka
mas, has arrived with his family and
taken charge of the work.
Ilev. T. V. Ilowcn, the new rector at
the Episcopal church I expected to
arrive In Oregon City today and to
preach Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
The union' picnic of the Iiaptlst Sun
day Behind of Portland w as held Mon
day at Willamette, and more, than
looo children from tho metropolis
were on the grounds.
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The fourth quarterly confidence
will be held In the M. E. church next
Tuesday evening at the church on
Main street. Presiding Elder II. F.
Holand will he present.
All the ministers of Seattle worked
all day Labor Day on a tabernacle be
ing erected for the purpose of holding
revival meeting In that city next
winter. The labor unions recognized
the preacher as "fair and square" j
workmen and praised them for their
efforts.
It look as If the building of the
new public wharf at the foot of Elev
enth street would give Oregon City a !
commission house. This Is an enter
prise) that would prove a good thing
for the city and the farming commun
ity around, and Is a business well
worth fostering.
A delegation from tho Willamette
Development I.cngue went to Portland
Thursday night to hear Secretary Taft,
on Invitation from the committee hav
ing the matter In charge.
The Sodnville Hotel at the mineral
springs town of Sodavllle was burned
last week Thursday, and for a time
It looked as if tho little hamlet was
doomed to go up in nmokc.
rM. A. I Williams and Miss Ver
netta Itatdorf were quietly married
Wednesday evening at tho Presby
terian unrsonngo In this city, Rev. J.
H. Lundsborough officiating.
The necessary signature to the
petition for a vote on the proposition
for an excise board have bin secured
ami tho paper properly filed with the
recorder. The minister' association
Is back of the project and from thl
on the campaign will be for votes
December 2.
Both Oregon City teams lost in the
ball games Sunday. The Gray were
defeajod by the Wabash club of Port
land, on the Willamette grounds. In
a score of 4 to 0. A patched-up Woolen
Mill team was defeated at Caneraah
Park by the Holllday Maroons In a
score of 14 to 7.
The repair to the bridge over the
Clackamas at Parkplace have progres
sed far enough so that the bridge will
be opened to the public Saturday, and
perhaps Friday afternoon. This will
prove a great convenience to those
who wish to come to Oregon City
over that road.
The Portland Pure Food Show and
Industrial Exposition, for which the
Retail Grocers' Association has been
preparing several months, opened at
the Exposition building Monday night
and will be In full swing every after
noon and evening, with the exception
of Sunday, up to and Including Sep
tember 14.
Ralph Nash and George Dlllman
were In an automobile accident Labor
Day, on the bridge across the Willam
ette. The boys were both astride one
horse when It became frightened at
an auto they met on the bridge. The
horse threw both off In front of the
machine and young Dlllman was se
verely hurt by the fall and coming In
contact with tho moving auto. No
one really to blame.
A HUNGRY GHOST.
8tory of a Rsctnt Prematura Burial
In China.
This Is the tale of a ghost that eat,
and It bus thrown thy town of tho
Hlaugfii district of China Into a com
motion, The fact are related In the
North China Herald. Ou March 27
the thirty-year-old son of Tzl Lung, a
schoolteacher, was thought to have
died of typhus fever. HI family be
ing very poor, the body wa placed In
a frail wood cofJln nnd burled only a
few Inches under the soil outside the
western gate of the town of Hlnng
yang. On April 0 a man put his horse
to graze on the spot. The tM-ast found
good gruss near the grave and brought
Its foot down upon the soil above the
coffin, the lid of which wa broken.
In a little while the owner of the horse
aw a gaunt white arm thrust up
through the hole made by the horse's
hoof.
Thinking the dead man's ghost wo
about to rise to avenge the Insult of
fered In the breaking of the coffin, the
watcher hurried up and began shovel
ing earth Into the bole to keep tho
ghost down. A muffled voice expos
tulated and twgged to lw freed, claim
lug to be the living son of Tzl Lung.
The watcher fled in terror to the town,
where be told every one be met of
what had happened. The ghost' fa
ther urged that the ghost should be let
alone and not further disturbed.
A large crowd, however, went out
of the city to view the wonder. The
ghost kept lagging most plteously to
be let out One man had courage
enough to unearth the cover of the
cofJln completely and open It, allowing
the "resurrected" man to sit up. Uice
oup and wine were brought and rav
enously devoured by the ghost, still
sitting upright In bis coffin Imbedded
la the earth.
Finally the unhappy spirit was re
leased and confined In a temple until
be could prove himself to be a living
man. Chicago News.
DELAY IS DANGEROUS
Come and see about getting those broken down
teeth repaired or extracted as it will save your
health and see what we will do the work for.
We can do any case of dentistry from extracting
to most complicated piece of work Absolutely
Painless. We have testimonials to prove our
statement.
Our Prices are Rfo-ht
Our work right and that i
the reason that in a short time
in Oregon City we have built
up our large practice and it is
growing every day.
We Use No Cas
We Use No Cocaine
We extract painless, we give a
printed guarantee with every
piece of work.
Fine Cold Fillings, guaranteed for 10 years, $1 and tip.
Gold Crowns, $4.00 to $5.00.
Bridge Work Solid 22 Kt Cold, $4.00 to $5.00 per tooth.
Plates, guaranteed to fit and last for 10 years, $5.00.
Extracting by our painless methods 50c. And free when
plates are ordered.
OREGON DENTAL PARLORS
Over Harding's Drag Store and Postoffke.
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OREGON CITY, OREGON
County School Superintendent Zln
sor has 'resigned his position and T.
J. Gary of Willamette has been chos
en as his successor. Mr. Zlnser was
led to this step by pressing private
business; he expects to move to his
farm In Polk county. Mr. Gary has
taught rifteen years In this county and
is well-known to the teachers and the
school officials of the county. Mr.
Zlnser leaves a host of friends who
will regret his retirement at this time.
Mrs. Willis Johnson, nee Cheney,
who lived her younger years in Ore
gon City, and Is well and favorably
known to a large circle of friends In
this country, died at her homo at Ho
Ik. In the mountains near Tillamook
on Monday of this week. The news
cam ns a shock to her friends and
relatives in this city as it was not
known she was 111. She leaves a hus
band nnd two small children to mourn
her loss. , She was 31 years of age.
Burial will be at Tillamook.
Seward's Prophecy Realized.
When, shortly before his death In
1S72. William II. He ward was asked
what he believed to be the greatest
achievement of hi public career, be an
swered, "The annexation of Alaska."
He added, however, "But the American
people will not grasp the value of that
acquisition for a third of a century
yet" Thl how that Seward, tbe em
pire builder, wa also a prophet Sew
ard ha been dead for thirty-five year,
and It Is only In recent time that hi
countrymen have appreciated the Im
portance of Alaska a a possession.
Strong opposition was offered In the
bouse of representatives in 18C7 to
making the appropriation of $7,200,000,
the price which Seward paid to Russia
for tho province. Said one of annexa
tion' opponents In that chamber, "All
that Alaska will ever be able to pro
duce are polar bears and Icebergs."
For several years a nickname for the
1 region was "Seward's Folly." But time
has fully vindicated Seward. Leslie's
Weekly.
The Oldest Text Book.
Within the last few years a revolu
tion has been accomplished at Oxford
which ouKht really to affect the mind
of the nation more than the difference
between Lord Curzon and I.ord Itose
bery. A text book has been discarded
which was already venerable for Its
antiquity at the beginning of the
j Christian era. Needless to say, we are
I referring to Euclid's Elements," for
! What other text book ever had such a
run as that? It h:is been accepted
ever since its publication, which was
! hi tho reign of the first Ptolemy (B. C.
323 -Sol. No writer has ever become so
Identified with a science as Euclid
with geometry. The nearest ap
proaches are to be found lu the rela
tion of Aristotle to logic and of Adam
Smith to political economy. London
Spectator.
A Stairway of Concrete.
One of the most novel, useful and
pleasing uses to which cement has
been put In Interior construction la the
I hanging concrete stairway. In its
j construction no structural Iron what
, ever is used, only small channel bars
' oiie-qunrter Inch by three-quarter Inch
! Fpncetl about four Inches and covered
j with expanded metal lathing. The
j false work can lie removed In two
weeks. The stairway supports not
only its own weight, but, in addition,
7,r00 pounds of marble, nnd a load of
2,0(10 pounds has been carried up the
stairs without Injury or deflection.
! Only the best quality cement should
be used In Interior work. Phlladel
' phla Ledger.
TABLECLOTHS.
The "Doubl'er" and the "Bubble" of
Olden Time.
Id tbe twelfth century the table
cloths were very large and were al
ways laid on the table double. For a
long time they were called "doublers"
for that reason. The cloth wa first
placed so as to touch the floor on the
sldo of tbe table at which the guest
sat. Then all the cloth that remained j
was folded so that it Just covered tbe
table. (
Charles V. bad sixty-seven table
cloths which were from fifteen to j
twenty yards long and two yard wide. I
lie had one cloth which was thirty
two yards long, and that had the arms
of France embroidered on It In silk.
All of thee were fringed.
In the sixteenth century "doublers,"
or double cloths, were replaced by two
tablecloths, one of which was small
and was laid just as we lay ours to
day.
The other, which was put on over it,
wa large and of leautifully figured
linen. It was skillfully folded in such
a way that, a.i a book of that time
say, "it resembled a winding river,
gently ruffled by a little breeze, for
among very many little fold were
here and there great bubbles."
It must h.ive required much art and
care to make dishes, plates, saltcellars,
sauce dlsbe nnd glasses Ktand steadily
In the rald.t of this undulating sea
nnd among those "bubbles' and puffy
folds.
However, the fashion bad only a
short existence, as Is apt to be the case
with unpractical fashions, and toward
the latter part of the century a single
cloth, laid flat and touching tbe floor
on all sides of the table, came Into gen
eral use, ,
Often Enough.
Rich A nnt-You only visit me when
you want money.
Spendthrift-Well, I couhfr't come
much oftener. could It - Harper's
Weekly.
Punith the Big Criminals.
Tbe average American business
man, whether be deals In railroad or
salt mackerel, will agree with tbe At
torney General when he says:
"Business men ought to wish to
have the laws strictly and Impartially
enforced. If this Is done everybody
knows what he can do and what he
cannot and everybody has a fair field
and no favor."
The Attorney General has an Idea
that the surest way to Impress the
public with the Impartiality of law is
to punish the big criminals who have
hitherto claimed Immunity and whose
notorious example has acted as a sub
tle poison In threatening every plane
of business life. i
FLAGMAN AT SINGER HILL.
The proposition to put an overhead
crossing over the Southern Pacific
railway at Singer Hill, In this city,
I has not reached final adjustment. But
recognizing the danger to people driv
ing over the tracks at that point the
! Southern Pacific has stationed a flag
jman at the foot of the hill to warn
people of the approach of trains. The
farmers coming Into the city by that
route can feel safe under the new ar
rangement; the new overhead cros
sing will likely come a little later.
Dr. George Hoeye and family, of
Oregon City, arrived in Salem this
morning, and are making their annual
outing by camping at the fair grounds.
They will be at home to their friends
there for several weeks. Salem Jour
nal.
George F. Field, State Fish Com
missioner of Massachusetts, and Dr.
Delmo State Superintendent of Hatch
eries In Massachusetts, In company
with Superintendent Henry O'Malley,
of the United States Bureau of Fish
eries, made an Inspection of the
Government work at the Clackamas
station, last week, where racks and
traps have been installed, preparatory
to commmenclng the Fall work.
They also went to Cazadero and In
jspected the state station. More than
(1,000,000 eggs have been taken from
I the early Spring Chinook run at that
station.
Jones A woman generally lowers
her voice to ask a favor.
j Black Yes; but I notice she raises
jher voice If she doesn't get it.
William Jennings' tf! jjenuings'
Lodge, John Straight and Louis Him
lor are home from a bunting nnd fish
Ingvtrlp on the Upper Clackamas Riv
er. They went as far as the old hatch
ery and were absent ten days. Mr.
Jennings says they would have remain
ed longer, but they shot eight deer
and rather than have the meat spoil
brought it home and will return for
another outing. Mr. Jennings also
says that there is plenty of trout In
the upper Clackamas! but no salmon,
on account of the dam across the riv
er at Cazadero.
Town Without a Postoffiee.
I While In Scotland last nutumu 1 nr
' rived at Maxwelltowu, Klrkeudbrlght-
shire, and wanting a stamp for a pie
j ture postcard I Inquired for the post
j omoe, but to lily surprise I wns in
i formed the town had neither post nor
, telegraph otfice. Investigation revealed
I that the town had n population of
! more than 3,000 inhabitants, being
i also a burgh, with its provost, town
; council and bailies. This unique town
; has to depend on Dumfries, nearly
l three miles distant, for everything of
a postal nature.-Loudou Tit-Bits.
The First Trousers.
rockets were one of the great sar
torial objections urged against trou
sers, and a writer on male fashions
eighty years ago declared: "No pockets
can bo tolerated on any account what
ever. They make a man Ick like a
Yankee." London Chronicle,
Faim Foi Sale
I 02 Acf eS mikiom
the villege of Marquam where there
is two stores, postoffiee, blacksmith
shop, $ 1 500 school house, church
and parsonage. About 6 miles from
railroad. 7 miles from silverton, 2
miles from Scott's Mills; good house
and barn; about 45 acres in cultiva
tion, besides pasture; place well
watered; good soil, about 40 acres
fine bottom land; 1 5 acres good tim
ber; telephone line passes by place; j
t f . t n 4 !
gooa nop iana; oottom iana wouio
grown fine corn. Price $4,500,
$2,500 cash, balance on time.
For particulars write to
A. B. MARQUAM, Tiller, Ore.
or if yotf wish to see the farm call on
PHILLIP MARQUAM, Marqaam, Oregon.
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