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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1917
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.