Page 8 OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1917 1 IS TO GET TUG US $46,000 OF FEDERAL FOOD SAVING FUNDS JOT TV But I I Tk W Oil ll BUS Oregon City probably never before witnessed a sale where the people took such a deep interest as in this sale. They know our dry goods are all new and dependable none better. They know our cloth ing, shoes, furnishing goods, and furniture are the best that money can buy they know this store gives exactly what it advertises they know that merchandise of all kinds is going sky high in price and many a man, woman and family are not only anticipating their present wants, but buying their future needs as they realize that they may never again have an opportunity to buy goods at such prices as are now offered at this MIGHTY CLOSING-OUT SALE. This is no clearance sale or sale to reduce stock and unload It is a real, genuine.bona fide closing-out sale and without regard for present high cost of merchandise we are sacrificing our entire $100,000.00 stock bought before the big advance at prices very much less than wholesale costs in many instances. REMEMBER every dollar's worth of goods in this store must'and will be sold and there will be no let up to the cutting and slashing of prices until every dollar's worth is disposed of. All our fixtures, show cases, safe, adding machine,' etc., are for sale and no reasonable offer will be refused. TO PAY w 10 1 STA1E LINE SALEM, Or. Aug. 27 Tacitly it was agreed between the officials of Oregon and California at the highway confer ence held . at Crescent City, Cal., a few days ago, that California should build the coast highway to the Oregon California line, said Governor Withy combe today, on his return from the conference. He further expressed the opinion that the highway commission should give financial aid to Curry coun ty in building the highway from the Coos-Curry boundary line to the Cali fornia line as this would give Curry county an outlet to the world. Coos county already has the high way graded to the Curry line and it connects with the Marshfield-Roseburg highway. The governor thought the cost of the highway through Curry county would be approximately $1, 000,000, and said that the county con templates bonding itself for $100,000. The conference was attended by the governor and the highway commission of California, the governor and the members of the Oregon commission, and approximately 300 California and Southern Oregon highway enthusiasts. T PACKERS. IS TO PLAN j participated in the battle of the Som- WASHJNGfON, Aug. 27. First. me. He was invalided home after a Bteps toward conservation of the Amer-, year's service and since has been em ican meat supply during the war will j ployed in England training soldiers, be taken as soon as Herbert Hoover, j He was complimented by Lord Kitch food administrator, reaches Chicago, j ener and Field Marshal Haig for bring- He will leave Washington tonight to 1 ing regiments into shape, confer with Chicago packers and with! m investigators for the federal trade com mission in Chicago investigating the packing industry. While In Chicago Hoover will attend a conference of editors of farm publications, who de sire to assist the food administration. The conference with the packers, it was stated at Mr. Hoover's office, was arranged at the request of the packers. It Is regarded here as the first move toward fixing meat prices. If meat prices are fixed, they will be regulated in the same manner as wheat and coal, through a special administrator. It is understood the packers will suggest voluntary regulation of prices and dis tribution through their own organiza tions. , 2000 ELKS CONVENE WENATCHEE. Wash.. Aug. 24. Two thousand Elks are gathered here! 21 tanks during futile fighting on Wed to attend the annual state convention J nesday. Some of the occupants were of that order, which opened today. made prisoners. NOW COING OREGON CITY'S LARGEST STORE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS YOUNG FORD HAS ASKED THAT HE BE EXEMPTED DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 24. Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford, the multi millionaire manufacturer, was exam ined by a local draft board today, and it was announced that he passed the physical tests. Ford claimed exemp tion on industrial grounds. Ford is one of the officers of his father's automobile company, which is now working on orders for the Red Cross. I CADETS OF . OF 0. BATTALION EUGENE, Or., Aug. 24. The Univer sity of Oregon has asked through the war department that Lieutenant Colon el John Leader of the British army be detailed or released to be military in structor in the university. The mili tary attache of the British embassy has presented the request to the Brit ish war office and no doubt the request will be granted. Colonel Leader was educated in the Royal Military college, and has had 21 years' military service, including the Boer war and the Boxer rebellion. He also served in India, being re tired in 1911. When the present war broke out he returned from British Co lumbia to England, and was made a major in the Ulster contingent. He I was promoted to lieutenant colonel of ! the Sixteenth Royal Irish Rifles and YOUNGER HAWLEY IS WITH POILUS AS AN ENGINEER WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. Repre sentative Hawley learned today that his younger son, Kenneth, who has a commission in the engineer corps, has reached France. The organization with which he is connected sailed from an Atlantic port two weeks ago. Mr. Hawley's son Cecil Is also believed to have arrived there, although no def inite word has been received. BRITISH LOSE TANKS BERLIN, Aug. 27 The German gen- era! staff reports that the British lost nines FULL D1 IT IS TO ME A CENSUS OF WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 27.-The government is to take stock of the na tion's food supply. In order that the president, con gress, and other officials of the government may be able to base need ed action on a knowledge of what the national larder contains, and how -it measures up to the needs of the mil lions of breakfast, dinner and supper tables of the nation, the United States department of agriculture will begin immediately to make a quick survey of available foods and feeds through out the country. This will cover sup plies on the farms, in factories, and commercial stores and warehouses, in retail shops, and on the shelves and in the bins of the family pantry. The work will be carried on principally by the bureau of markets, the bureau of crop estimates, the bureau of chem istry, and states relations service of the department, with funds appropria ted for the purpose in the recently en acted food production bill. The survey is to be made as of the date, August 31, and it is expected that statistics on certain products can be supplied within three or four weeks. T TACOMA, Aug. 27. The new army cantonment at American Lake is to be motorized. Orders to this effect were received from Washington today. Construction work on stables were therefore stopped. Perhaps only half the number of horses and mules pre viously expected at the camp will now be needed, It is said. Captain Snyder, assistant camp quartermaster, said today: "The government has found motora to be of greater value than animals In a number of lines. All trucking, haul ing of -stores, the transportation of men and munitions is done more ex peditiously with machines." There were to have been 600 stables at the cantonment, and 125 of these are already under way. REGULATE WHEAT ONLY CHICAGO, Aug. 20. Board of Trade men and livestock dealers returning to Chicago from a conference at Wash ington, said today Food Director Hoo ver does not at present contemplate extending his regulation of wheat to corn, oats or provisions. SWING STORE SUPPLAN 3 Y. M. C. A. LOSES BULL DURIIAMS; CAMELS COMING WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 The young Men's Christian association shipment of tobacco for the American troops in France has been lost. Word came from Paris today from the Red Cross com mission to France, saying no suitable tobacco to replace the lost shipment was obtainable there and urged that 10 tons of tobacco be sent at once. The Red Cross war council immediately ac cepted an offer of the Liggett & Mey ers Tobacco company to donate 1,500, 00 cigarettes, 20,000 packages of smok ing tobacco and 10,000 cuts of chewing tobacco which will be forwarded to the American troops at once. France has agreed to admit the tobacco free of duty as well as all other articles for the American soldiers. E MISSi VISITS PRESIDENT AT AL CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Viscount Ishil, special ambassador and head of Japan's mission to the United States presented his credentials to President Wilson late today and with them an autograph letter from the emperor, congratulating the president and peo ple of the United States upon their de cision to enter the war against Ger many. The ambassador recalled seeing American and Japanese colors waving together at the relief of Pekln In 1900, and told the president It was a source of pride to every Japanese that the United States now was fighting with Japan for a safe and enduring peace based on ' respect for the smallest and weakest of nations; on contempt for the arrogance of materialistic force; on reverence for the pledged word." Tonight Viscount Ishil and the mem bers of his mission were the guests of the lwesident at a state dinner In the White House, closing a day of the for mal calls of courtesy preceding the important conferences at which the business of the visitors will be dis cussed. !E BY 1212 WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. Nearly two billion dollars for 1272 ships, ag gregating 7,968,600 tons, is the United States shipping board's program to beat the submarine, it was officially announced today, The Adams Department Store will be closed Monday, Sept. 3rd Legal Holiday The Closing Out Sale will start again on Tuesday Morning and continued until all stocks are closed out. Adams Department Store U.S. E UTILE THAT RUSSIA WILL FAIL WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.-That Rus sia will fight on not collupso was ' the general official view here todiiy. Secretary of State Lansing official ly denied stories of a general pessim ism lu government quarters over the Russian situation. He authorlied this comment: "I don't think there is any feeling that Russia Is on the verge of a col lapse. In fact, she is stronger today than she was a month ago, both from the general government and military standpoint." The recommendations of the Root mission, he added, are about to be carried out. He confirmed newspaper statements yesterday that American aid. In the way of a loan, supplies and ships, has been agreed upon. This will have the probable effect of composing difficulties, forecast in recent confidential advices from Am bassador Francis. This aid Is avail able Immediately as a result of yes terday's cabinet conference. And, though Riga may fall, military men here in complete touch with the Russian situation doubt that Germany can spare sufficient men to make her drive tell. The Francis advices, gathered from the Russian government, pointed to the possibility of Riga falling, and also to the fact that Internal political trou bles, as well as the military menace, might force removal of the capital from Petrograd to Moscow. Today the state department expec ted to address a note to Minister Ter eschenko In an encouraging vein. This message, along with the aid voted, Indicated that this government has confidence In the outcome. So long as collapse Is not a certainty, the Unit ed States stands ready to assist fully in establishing Russia effective against Germany. The Moscow conference this week Is expected to crystallze the political sit uation. With all the elements repre sented and striving to get some work ing foundation for the new democracy, the American government is hopeful that the sound progressive sections will rule. IN THE CLACKAMAS, ROSEDURG, Or., Aug. 28. Max Meyers, first sergeant of the sanitary corps of the 3d Oregon, was buried here yesterday. He was recently drowned In the Clackamas while swim ming. Meyers was formerly a meat Inspector In Portland, and a veterinary surgeon here. He Is survived by his father and mother and a brother and sister here. Major W. S. Gilbert, chaplain of the 3d Oregon Infantry, delivered the fu neral sermon here. He was accompan led by two members of the regiment, LONG AIR. FLIGHT IS IDE BY AN ITALIAN PARIS, Aug. - 29. Captain Gulllo Laureaml, an aviator In the Italian ar my, has established a new world's rec ord for long-distance flying, by travel ing 900 miles without stopping, accord ing to a dispatch to the Temps from Milan. The Italian flew from Turin to Naples and return, a distance of 920 miles as the crow files. SON-IN-LAW OF SENATOR LANE IS V 0 R PEACE WASHINGTON, Aug. 27,-At a pro Gurmim meeting here lust nisht Isaac Mcltrlilo, sun In law of the into Sena tor Ino, vigorously attacked the views of u speaker who undertook to defend the Wilson administration McUrldo urKed the audience to stand by the 1 4i Follctto resolution recom mending peace and opposing con scription. 1918G.A. R. MEETING BY A SINGLE VOTE DOSTON, Aug. 2J.-rortland. Ore gon, won from Atluntlo City, N. J., as the gathering place for the 1918 en campment of the 0. A. It., by one vote yesterday at the business session of the Cist annual meeting of the Civil War veterans. The convention today formally rat ified the selection of Portland as the encampment city for next year. Amid cheers and battlefield cries the aged Union veterans of the Civil war late yesterday adopted a message of greeting, encouragemont and sym pathy to the soldiers of Russia. The Woman's Relief Corps elected Mrs. Lois M. Kanuff, Cleveland, Ohio, national president; Mrs. Carrie L. Hoyt, Berkeley, California, national senior vice president, and Mrs. Eliza beth J. Savage, Danger, Me., national Junior vice president PORTLAND, Or, Aug. 23. For the first time In the history of the north west, the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will meet In Portland next year. How the 10,000 veterans of the Civil war and their families will be enter tained and cared for during the en campment here will be worked out at the noxt state encampment to be held next June. The national encampment will be held about September 1, 1918. This year's encampment at Boston was held unusually early. This will be the fourth national en campment to meet on the Pacific coast for San Francisco hns been the site twice and Los Angeles once. Dr. J. B. Hall, past commander of the department of Oregon, welcomed the Information that the national en campment would be brought to Port land next year. It has boen tho. dream of many of the veterans to bring the big gathorlng to Portland and for the past year the leadprs have boen quiet ly working with tills end in view. OF WHEAT AS BY BOARD IS LIABLE TO BE $2. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. The price paid by the food administration for the portion it buyB of the 1917 wheat crop probably will exceed $2 a bushol. The committee, which will recommend a price, will submit Us report early next week. In recommending a price, the com mittee plans to consider that the pro ducer must receive enough to stimu late production next year and at the same time will consider carefully war conditions ond the rights of the con sumer. In the food control bill congress set an arbitrary price of $2 on the 1918 wheat crop. The food administration's hope is that the government price will obtain in private transactions and it is ready to buy up the entire crop for distribu tion if prices cannot be established. 00 POItTLAND, Or., Aug. Si-Oregon's share ot tho government war emergon ey fund to aid agriculture and food con servation l 14(1,600. Announcement of tho apportionment was received by Dr. W. J. Kerr, pres ident of Oregon Agricultural college, from tho secretary of agriculture at Washington Wednesday. Dr, Kerr ar rived In Portland Thursday morning, Twenty five thousand dollars, Dr. Kerr announced, will ho used In en larging the work of county agricultural agents, who in turn, beginning lu Sep. toniber, will ni'Kimlco n campaign throughout the state for emergency production and conservation of food products with special reference to the 19 IS crops, Thirteen thousand six hundred dol lars wll bo spent in lucrensnd effort to teac h Oregon women the best ways of saving and conserving food, Eight thousand dollars w ill bo spent lu support of the Junior club work, a the boys and girls of the atato have proved themselves a substantial and practical factor In food production through gardening ami raising of live stock. Of the $25,000 fur couuty agricultur ist work, Dr. Kerr continued tils an nouncement, f 1000 will be apportioned to each of 25 counties. Under the government's rule and the preseut state regulations, each couuty taking advantage ot government aid must fur nish a certain amount, which Is auto matically duplicated by the state, thereby creating a trl partnership, gov ernment, state and couuty. In the cam PuIku to lucreiiHo food production on farms. Each county, dependent on Ue ahd conditions, will raise $1200 to $1500, and the total from the three sources will vary from $3300 to $42uo In each ot the 25 count tea. The amount tor each county will permit the employ ment ot an expert agriculturist, and provide htm with assistance and tx ponses. It is not possible, however, for any Oregon county to make an appropria tion for the purposes mentioned until January 1. Dr, Kerr, therefore, has secured from the secretary of agri culture a waiver of the requirement, In so far as It would affect Immediate work, provided the county commission of each county pledges itself to make the county's appropriation unless a majority of the peoplo ot that county file a protest. There are now 14 couuty agrlcul Ists. The plan evolved permits the employment of 11 more whose work will begin In September. An Immedi ate home economics campaign will bo organised, utilizing seven trained wo men whose cinployement Is especially provided for, tho entire extension stuff In tho college and the high school In tructors In domestic economy through out tho state. Exhibits and demon strations will be made at all county fairs and teachers' Institutes. Leaf lets will bo published containing ro cipes for the preparation for table use of the fruits and vegetables that are now being dried by the patriotic wo men of Oregon. Dr. Kerr will attend a conference next Monday and Tuesday at Spokane of representatives of all land grant colleges of the Pacific coast ond north west, together with farmers and busi ness men. W. W. Harrah of Pendle ton and Mr, Roborts of The Dalles will represent tho farmers of Oregon, and J. II. IJooth ot Uoseburg tho business men. The conference will bo attend ed by throe official representatives of the government Dr. II. A. Pearson, as sistant to the secretary ot agriculture; Dr. C. E. Lelghty, agronomist of the bureau of plant Industry and Dr. R. A. Oakley, In charge of congressional seed distribution. Among the subjects to come before the conference Is the Question as to the maximum soodlng possiblo of win tor wheat and rye, Dr. Kerr hopes to secure a portion of the government's $2,600,000 appropriated by the govern ment to help finance the wheat crop of Oregon farmers for 1918. E FROM FAMILY STRIFE SACRAMENTO, Cal Aug, 27. John F. Hades, a enrpentor, shot and Idled his wife und then nont three bullots Into his own heart at 7 o'clock this morning. The murder and sui cide occurred on the sidewalk In front ot the state capltol. Family trouble was said to be the cause. A month ago, arter boating his wlfo, Kudos took poison In an at tempt to end his life, Five children,, aged from 4 to 16 years, survive, BEAN CROP SMALL ROSEIIURO, Or,, Aug. 27. The bean crop of Douglas county will not yield one-fourth the crop expected, ac cording to reports, owing to the dry weathor and lata planting. The Mar tha Washington beans, ot which a large acreage was planted, is practi cally a total failure. Thla seod was bought at high prices, on the advice of the Oregon Agricultural college.