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OREGON CITY, ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1922.
OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE
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NATIONAL AUTO THEFT
BUREAU TO BE FORMED
Formation of the Interstate Motor
Theft commission, a nation-wide non
profit organization designed to do
battle against automobile thieves, has
been perfected, with headquarters In
Chicago, according to word received
by local officials from the national
board of police counselors to act with
the commission agents.
j. The letter received tells the plans
and purposes of the Interstate Motor
Theft commission, ' and is in part as
follows:
"Motor car theft is today unques
tionably one of the most profitable
forms of lawlessness, with ramifica
tions in every commonwealth and
large city. Not only does motor car
theft retard the progressive advance
of every branch and phase of the
automobile industry, but it imposes
a burdensome liability upon owners
of motor cars.
"The great civic need for a power
ful, dominant force to crush out con
ditions which every 24 hours cause
a theft loss of over $300,000 in the
United States, a startling average of
more than. $100,000,000 a year, was
mainly responsible for the formation
of the Interstate Motor Theft com
mission. "The commission today occupies the
unique position of being the first well-1
organized national workshop perfected
to initiate and carry out constructive !
measures and intensify the work of all
stroying the well-organized structure
of commercialized motor car theft and
fraud which has almost attained the
respectability of sound commerce.
"Months of study, investigtion and
research work with the co-operation
and assistance of police, detective,
stats, motor car, insurance, civic and
business authorities has led to the de
velopment of highly perfected sys
tems that provide the only adequate
and practical basis for national stand
ardization of transfer of ownership,
which is conceded by experts as the
only logical and practical way to
destroy the market fr stolen cars.
"In addition, the accurate continu
ous record of all cars now in use in
the United States, or that may come J
into use hereafter, and other import
ant records and data provided for in
these systems afford accurate means
for locating a great majority of the
unrecovered cars stolen in the last
few years, as well as any cars that
may be stolen in the future, regardless
of location, changes in numbers or ap
pearance, and adequate safeguards for
every person against possessing, buy
ing or-loaning money on a stolen or
mortgaged car, by making it impos
sible to register, sell or use a stolen,'
car in. any state, without detection.
"All motorists, police, detective coun
ty, state and federal authorities, civic
organizations and other concerned are
afforded unqualified cooperation and
assistance in the prevention of theft,
recovery of stolen cars and the ap
prehension and conviction of thieves,
and in all other ways that will assist
in making the automobile a more val-
nable instrument m economic, poim
cl and social progress."
BORDER PATROL ORDERED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. American
forces on the Mexican border have
been ordered to maintain and lert pa
trol against what threatens to be a
revival on an extensive scale of spor
adic Mexican bandit raids, it was
learned today at the war department.
No increase in the border force has
been made.
PACT RECORDS NOT KEPT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. Presi
dent Harding, replying to the senate
on the Hitchkock resolutions, asking
for information relative to the treaty,
stated it was impossible to furnish
the requested information because
most of the negotiations were con
ducted without the maintaining of
a record.
BANDITS TAKE $22,000
NFW YORK, Feb. 20. Three ban
dits attacked a messenger of the
Greenwich bank at Nineteenth and
Seventh avenue here in broad day
light and escaped with $22,000.
FARM-LABOR TO UNITE
CHICAGO, Feb. 20. Farmers and
trad a unionists were called upon to
talt united political action by Wil
liam Johnston, president of the Broth
erhood of Machinists, in sounding the
keynote of the farmer-labor political
conference here today.
TEX RICKARD INDICTED
NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Tex Rickard
fight promotor, was indicted today by
the grand jury on a statutory charge
brought by the Society for the Pre
vention of cruelty to Children.
- Rickard appeared in criminal court
within a short time after the indict
ments were handled down and pleaded
not guilty. He was released under
$10,000 hail.
DR. WM. KRASSIG
DENTIST
Specializes in
Extraction of Teeth
Crown and Bridge Work
"Plates That Fit"
10-11-12 Andresen Bldg.
Oregon City, Ore.
PROSAIC LIFE IS NOT FOR PIONEER
Exploits of Dee Wright, Clackamas County Man,
Shame Tales of Fanciful Adventure.
(By E. J. H.)
In Dee Wright, now of Eugene,
Clackamas county has a native son of
the finest and sturdiest stock of the
Northwest. In his career of mountain
eer, trapper,, guide, and Department
of Justice inspector, more thrilling
things have hapepned to him than' one
of Nick Carters characters. Wright's
lire is closely connected with the his
tory of the Northwest of the early
nineteen hundreds and his services
to the law abiding part of the com
munity have been of untold value.
Someday a history will be written
of this country which will really mir
ror the early days of growth and
struggle. It will be filled with the
creak of strainging saddles, the riot of
saloon brawls, the sudden shots in the
night air, the stampede of horse cor
rals, border fueds, with plots and
counterplots with good men shot
down and bad men exalted, with
fierce fights and passions flaming
high, and with the steady march of
progress sounding the note above all
else. And in this history Dee Wright's
name will march across -the page and
disappear, to reappear again in other
chapters.
In tlie pursuance of his duty he has
many times taken his life in his
hands, and somehow, with courage,
strength, and good old western luck,
he has come through safely.' Take the
following hair raising tale:
"I was working with the Depart
ment of Justice in the fall of 1900," he
said, turning away from the bay win
dow of his house overlooking the floor
of the Willamette Valley. "At that
time we were carrying on a campaign
against smugglers. One night my
superior sent a detail out to intercept
one of their boats, in the Straits of
Fuca. Somewhere out in the middle of
the Sound one of the inspectors ask
ed me to take the wheel. I did. It was
pitch dark. Well, we went along for
a while when all of a sudden I felt
water creeping in around my legs.
Seizing a rope I lashed the wheel
dow" and went forward to see what
uau uctuuie oi uie omers, iney were
gone.
"By that time the boat was ready to
go down. I seized a couple of life
preservers' and jumped overboard.
Pretty quick another launch passed,
me and I heard the voices of my
partners. Then I knew I had been
doubled-crossed. if i called out to
them I would have had an oar over
my head. So I kept my mouth shut
ami let them pass. Well, I floated
about in the water for quite a while,
getting weaker all the time. Then, all
of a sudden, I bumped into a drift
log and crawled up on it, staying un
til daylight. I ripped off part of a
preserver and attached it to a splin
ter from the log, making me sort of
a distress signal. A Seattle-Victoria
steamer picked me up and took me to
port. I decided then and there," he
adde reminiscently, "to take a rest.
I valued my life too highly.
Wright was born fifty years ago in
a log cabin near Molalla. His moth
er and father were among the earliest
pioneers of the Clackamsa country.
"I took my finst pack train into the
mountains in '96," said Wright reflec
tively, "and I've had the fever ever
since." And in the twenty five years
between he has covered nearly every
accessible bit of the Cascade Range,
either as a guide or in the capacity
of inspector for the United States
Department of Justice.
Some of his most interesting adven
tures were in connection with coun
terfeiters and bootleggers. i"In the
winter of 1900," he continued "I was
sent into the Mormon basin country,
on the Snake River, to locate a coun
terfeiter. Elvey Coon twas his name
and they'd been searching all over the
mountains for the 'dives. Well in or
der to be able to ldbk over the neigh
borhood without becoming too con
spicuous I hired out as a horse wrang
ler on the Morgan horse ranch, twelve
miles below Huntington." Here stories
of the operations of Elvey Coon reach
ed him and occasionally a spurious
note would fall into his hands. He
would send all such bills to headquart
ers. But time passed and the mys
tery of the location of the dies remain
ed unsolved. Then he got on the trail
of a bootlegger by the name of Lum
Davis, who was supplying the region
with liquor.
To make his position doubly danger
ous he came in possession of informa
tion which revealed the existence of
a band of horse runners in the neigh
borhod. Now the situation became
complicated and he was forced to be
constanly on the alert to escape death.
Several attempts wer made on his
life.. 'In Mineral city Six Shooter Car
nahan tried to make me dance. He
fired five shots around my feet, but
I didn't dance a step." At Weatherbee,
Oregon, the gang tried to poison him.
"I noticed that on one certain morn
ing no one ate any rice, so I didn't
eat any. I fed it to a dog belonging
to Charley Bryant, one of the crowd,
and the dog died. Well, Charley and
I had a fight right there."
By this time he had located the dies
of the counterfeiter and was ready to
make the arrests. "Then a horse rolled
on mo and I was laid up in the hospi
tal in Baker city- W. S. Bell, my chief
in Seattle "sent up John Minto later
Chief of Police of Portland and still
later sheriff of Marion County, to
make the arrests. He took in Lum'
Da Vis, Elvey'. Coba and Ithe (horse
running gang." ,
Wright, while talking was looking
out of the window. His sharp eyes
spied a woodpecker in the distance.
He pointed it out. "You know," he
said, 'one reason" why I've always lov
ed the woods is because I've always
been interested in nature. Some men
go into the mountains and think of
nothing, but finishing their Job and
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getting away. I don't. I could watch
that woodpecker for a half hour, and
not get tired."
He was also conected with the gov
ernment investigation " of the land
grant frauds in Oregon and Idaho dur
ing the early nineteen hundreds. - In
the fall of 1902 there was a surveying
party running lines for the govern
ment In the Pend d'Orellles country,
near Grouse Creek. It was thought
that timber Interests were Influencing
the position of those lines, and accord
ingly Wright and a party were sent
out to check up on them. Two of
them, Wright and Whiting, went into
the timber, and one came out. Whit
ing was killed, shot down from an
ambush. Wright managed to get as
far as Sandpoint, Idaho, with valuable
information. There on the 2"6th of
Otcober, 1902, he was shot down while
stepping on the platform of a train.
"Well," Wright said reflectively. "I
guess I'd died there if it hadn't been
for a telegraphic error. The N. P. rail
road had an engineer by the name of
Dave Dright, and when the operator
at Sandpaint telegraphed in that Dee
Wright had been shot down they sent
out an engine to get the man they
supposed to be their engineer. So I
got out alive, by a mistake."
Wright has found humorous ele
ments in the most dangerous of situ
ations. "The funniest thing that ever
happened to me I think was when I
took some Chinamen to Seattle." It
was at Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, in 1901.
Candian Mounted Police had warned
him of the existence of- a gang of
men running Chinese across the bord
er. Each Chinaman so smuggled into
the United States brought at that
time from one to five hundred dollars
each. Consequently it was a profit
able business.
Wright went to Bonner's Ferry to
investigate. He soon found that a
new consignment of Orientals had
just been brought across and were
hiding somewhere near the town. He
also found that the marshal of the
town seemed very much disinterested
in the whole affair. Accordingly he
loitered around the town, with his
eyes open. Soon he saw mat at regu
lar intervals a Chinaman would be
escorted surreptitiously into the
town and then disappear into a cer
tain building. They were coming in,
in, one by one. Waiting until he saw
the smugglers bring in another man
he hastily left the town, crossed the
river on a boom a mile long, and soon
picked up their trail. Soon he caught
the odor of a wood fire and shortly
afterwards came upon the mam group
of Chinamen who were crouched
about the fire waiting for the smug
glers to. return for the next man.
They took Wright for one of the or
ganization and acting. upon this mis
conception he got them together and
took them to town.
The marshal attempted to take
them away from him, but he resisted
and succeeded in getting them on a
train for Seattle. At several points
on the way efforts were made by
representatives of t he smuggling
ring, who boarded at various small
towns, to divert his attention. All
this time the Orientals were supreme
ly unconscious of the fact they were
rapidly riding a boat back to China.
Not until they reached Seattle did
they realize it. "Then," said Wright
with a chuckle, "Such a ki-yi I never
heard in all my life.'
.The life of the outdoors has made
of Wright a powerful-figured man. His
frame is robust and his chest deep.
He has a shock of iron gray hair that
refuses to- stay put. But the most re
markable about him is the appearance
of his eyes. They are the eyes of a
man long trained to seeing into dis
tances, and seeing into danger. They
are clear and keen and one judges that
they can sight with unerring accuracy
along the sights of a rifle. Life has
left him rich in philosophy, with an
abundant store pf genial humor, and
with malice toward no man. Although
he is intimately acquainted ith all
aspects of tie Oregon land grant
fraud and did much useful work for
the government on it he refused to
tell of past misdeeds of certain of
the prominent figures. "It's all over
now," he said. "They've paid their
debt to society and they shouldn't
be required to pay it again in the
form of publicity. Let dead coals
alone."
Last summer he guided a moving
picture outfit over thousands of miles
of the Cascades. On the trip he res
cued Harnish McLaurin, noted author,
from drowning, and has as a memory
of that event, a gold watch, with that
author's grateful recognition of his
service in time of peril, inscribed on
the case.
"I haven't piled up a lot of money,"
Wright remarked. "But I have a lot of
friends, and what more could a man
want?"
And what more could Clackamas
county want for a typical native son?
THREE DIVORCES ASKED
IN CIRCUIT COURT HERE
Three divorce suits were filed here
Friday. Minnie A. Bristow is asking
a decree from. Harry S. Bristow al
leging cruelty. The Bristows were
married at Vancouver, Wash., Sep
tember 6, 1917. Gertrude M. Consta
ble is seeking a decree from George
Earle Constable on the grounds of
inhuman treatment. The couple were
married at Vancouver, Wash., August
12, 1914. Clarence Cooper asks that
his marriage to Florence Cooper,
which ' took place at Vancouver,
Wash., July 26, 1914, be annulled as
the defendant was at that time the
wife of Norton North.
COUPLES GET LICENSES
Two marriage licenses were issued
Monday. Fred Heilman, 32, route
six, was given a license to wed Min
nie Plowman, 24, route one. August
F. Mahrt, 27, Estacada, was granted
a license to marry Iva Bowman, 18,
of Estacada.
INCOMES HAVE INCREASED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. Taxable
incomes of individuals returned to the
government for . the calendar year
1919 showed an increase of nearly
$4,000,000,000 as compared with 1918.
according to statistics Issmed tonight
by the internal revenue bureau.
BIT OF INDIAN HISTORY
SEEN IN NEW DISCOVERY
River Site Thought to Have
Been Burial Ground of Old
Tribes of this District.
Old timers who kaew this district
back in the days when the Indians
were not yet a forgotten race- are
trying to remember if they had ever
heard of an old burial ground on the
west bank of the Willamette, just
across the river from where the Aber
nethy flow8 into the stream. Stories
of such things have sprung lup In
times past, only to. die down with lit
tle of nothing tangible about them.
These yarns were revived about a
week ago with the finding of a skel
eton on me west shore by the work
men who are grading the approach
for the new ferry. Many theories
were advanced, but the strongest was
that the graders had run ontr an
ancient burial ground of the old na
tives. For some days this was scout
ed, for it was believed that the body
was that of some unfortunate who
had been drowned, and his remains
cast up shore on a flood tide.
Many Relics Found
Children, and those who spent-their
cnuanood days here, know that upon
the banks of the river there, many
arrowheads, spearheads, and an oc
casional Indian implement were to be
found. Time was when searching
parties for these relics were organ
ized and some highly valued chipped
stones have been located among the
sands of the river bed there.
Following the discovery of the skel
eton, the workmen continued to find
Indian relics stone implements ar
rowheads and other things that bore
the mark of the early tribes!
But yesterday several skulls and a
quantity of beads were unearthed.
The beads are held of particular sig
nificance for it is known that the
braves used to bedeck themselves
freely with their bead-embroidered
wampum and strings were of no un
common usage. Perchance these are
relics of the Clackamas or the Molal
la Indians tribes which have long
since passed into the great beyond
leaving behind . them only fragment
ary imprints upon the pages of the
-history of the West.
Fight Story Is Told
Another tale which is revived when
the discoveries are noted is the story
of a great fight wh.ich was once
waged along the sides o the Oregon
City gorge. One of the battle grounds,
the tale, now almost legendary, re
cites, was in the vicinity of the arrow
head beds, which, they say, account
ed for the presence of the many
pieces of flint which evidently at one
time tipped the shafts of the native
savages.
As yet, the theories regarding the
discovery of the skulls and the one
practically entire skeleton, are based
only on conjecture and what little is
remembered of the ' early struggles
between the Indians here and their
customs. No one so far has been able
to establish, thru examination of the
skulls, whether or not they are re
mains of white men or of Indians.
It is recorded that during the flood
of 1890, several men were drowned,
and at first it was believed that it
might have been one of these who
had been located. The immediate
presence of other human bones how
ever, caused the discard of this
theory.
The history of the Indian in this
or any other region is but imperfectly
recorded. Little regarding the life of
the Red Men is known and in most
Of books the struggles of the pioneers
themselves take precedence. It is re
garded as possible that the discover
ies made on the west shore may be
the means of adding another note to
the page of the record of the people
who lived along the Willamette in
the days when the Bridge of the Gods
still spanned the Columbia.
Union High School
Notes
The "U" club of the Union high
gave a Valentine party Wednesday
evening at the school auditorium. The
evening was spent in eats, games and
stunts. The eats consisted of van
illa ice cream in which was frozen
pink strawberry hearts and pink
heart shaped cookies. Those enjoy
ing the evening were: Blanche Jun
kens, Bill Mootry, Vena Barnes, Sid
ney Brown, Beulah Snidow, Ruth Rob
inson, Marie Bittner, Marvy Zanicker,
Mildred McKillican, Amber Ford,
James Sutton, John Hogan, Elwood
Thompson, Arleigh Reed, Marvin
Hickman, George Patterson, John
Mickels, Leonard Green, Ed Donelly,
Jack Hempstead, C- O Main. The
evening was enjoyed bj all. .
Lincoln's birthday was observed by
a short program given by the faculty
and students; the program consisted
of violin solo by Miss Helen Leathers.
Many popular pieces were rendered
by Woodson Smith, Baxaphone;
Dempsey Powell, traps; Eugene Ved-
der, baritone; Miss Leathers, violin
ist, and Ella Parker, pianoist. After
the music many short talks were giv
en by each of the faculty on the life
of Lincoln.
Thursday morning the students
were surprised by a "movie" called
the "Ghosts In the Garret," also a
Harold Loyd comedy.
The girls Cardinal Glee club, also
boys Glee club are busily practicing
for the first annua concert which is
to be given in the near future at the
U. H. S. auditorium. The program
will consist of the following; Cardinal
Glee club, V. H. s. boys glee club, U.
H. S. orchestra, violin trio, Cardinal
quartette, Grecian drill, readings,
duet. Cardinal sextette, all under the
direction of Miss Helen Leathers.
Many of the "students are absent
from school on account of bad colds
and sickness.
Due to the prevalence of Influenza
in the West Linn Union high school,
the concert which was to be presented-
at the school auditorium February
24, will be postponed until Friday
evening, March 3. The program will
complete the West Linn Lyceum
course.
Neighbor
How oft, these dreary, nous e-bound days of snow,
A lonesome, longing hour at dusk I know,
When wandering wistf ull y my rooms about,
Unwitting at the windo w I peer out!
The air is heavy; full of wintry chill;
Few venture forth, and all i s hushed and still.
Am I survivor of a town that's dead?
A silence so impresive whis pers dread.
When, lo, like cloud by da y and fire by night,
A coiling wisp of graynes s greets my sight
The smoke-wreath, from m y neighbor's flue unfurled.
Brings me a message of a c ozy world.
It speaks, "I come from th e heart of home;
I keep the welcome warm f or those who roam ;
I cook the food ; I am the c entral life
Of that hearth-stone whoa e vestal is the Wife.
"I crackle, and the Baby cr ows for glee;
By me, Grandmother sits through peaceful days;
And laughing Boys and Gi rls play out their plays.
And look, all up and dow n the friendly street.
Are neighbor chimneys, live, from homes as sweet."
' A deep content the social s moke inspires!
I have a chimney, too. I t end my fires.
THE WOMAN CITIZEN
Blil Boards.
BiU boards and board-bills are syn
onymous with low standards. The city
or individual that allows either to
stand Indefinitely is derelict. Some
states are now passing laws prohibit
ing tfee bill board.
It 1b desirable that merchants have
an opportunity to call attention to
their wares, but this should be done
in legitimate ways. No one has a right
to take me by the collar, as I walk out
for my health, and force me to inspect
his wares, with the chance that I might
buy. I have a right to walk with mind
free from distracting thoughts of mer
chandise, and undisturbed by ugly ob
jects put in my way to remind me
of mundane needs.
If bill boards were always new, or in
repair, or in" good taste or neat, it
would not be so bad; but they are usu
ally of the cheapest construction and
quickly become dilapidated. Their art,
if such it might be called, is of the
crudest and most glaring. Often they
discuss personal symptons and dis
eases indelicate to exploit in public.
If the newspaper opens its columns
to advertising it is a purely business
matter. One may take the publication
or leave it alone but not so with the
bil board, which one must see wnether
ybillsauikvnifgl- wlyl- h hed.lE mbfg
The bill-board is not only an intru
sion on a pleasant landscape but fre
quently, erected on a neighboring lot,
may shut off the view from some fin
residence and is a "nuisance."
Advertising is becoming more and
more business news and should be
fresh information to be of interest to
us. As such the bill-board is generally
useless. The newspaper and mag
azines are now recognized as the ef
fective and legitimate media of adver
tising, and in the interest of civic
beauty should be used for this instead
of the unsightly and often dangerously
dilapidated bill-board.
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RECIPES s
v ; 3 i J t i S S
Muffins.
"Oh, have you seen the Mufin Man,
the Muffin Man, the Muffin Man;
Oh, have you seen the Muffin Man,
Who lives in Dury Lane-"
English Nursery Rhyme. .
Brea'd is called the "staff of life,"
but is deficient in proteins and miner
al salts. Muffins, containing eggs,
milk, fat, sugar and mixed flours, is
far more complete and might almost
be called . the whole accouterment of
life. With fresh fruit or a salad, it is
a balanced ration.
Warm breads are not unusually con
sidered easily digested. This is be
cause the tendency is to chew them too
little. They should be made very light
and baked thoroughly.
Muffins made 'with mixed flour are
of finer texture and better flavored
than if made with white flour alone.
A wide variety of muffins may be
made, but the principles are the same
in all. Use the following proportions;
two cups flour, one cup liquid, one
tablespoon fat, and one of sugar, tea
spoon salt, two teaspoons baking pow
der for each cup of flour. If eggs are
"used reduce the baking powder a half
teaspoon for each egg. If milk is the
liquid it makes a fine flavored muffin,
but water may be used by adding a lit
tle more fat -If sour milk is used it
should be first sweetened by adding a
half teaspoon soda to each cup.
In mixing flours corn meal, oat
meal, bran or whole-wheat use half
white flour, as the others are too grit
ty to make an adhesive batter. Muf
fin batter is thick enough to drop
heavily from the spoon. Bran muffins
are an excellent preventive of consti
pation. Mufins may be made with left-over
oatmeal, corn-meal, rice or hominy
mush. First soften the mush with milk
then add other ingredients.
TCrurliKh muffins are raised
with
yeast instead of baking powder. To
the batter .considerably thicker than
with baking powder, add half cake
yeast disolved in warm water. Sugar
and eggs are usually omitted from Eng
lish muffins. Let the batter rise, then
drop on a hot well greased griddle
and bake five minutes on each side,
turning with a pancake turner. Serve
hot. The left-over muffins may be
split and toasted for tea.
Raisins, first floured, or cocoanut, or
nuts, or cherries .blueberries or other
fruits may be added to muffins to give
variety. They are put Into the batter
be last thing.
Pre-Spring Busy-ness
The ground-hog, like Caesar, has
&y -
Chimneys
veni-vidi-vici-ed, old Phoebus is .driv
ing his chariot northward and the bril
liant sunshine shows up dusty corners
we were blissfully unoenscious of in
darker days. We feel the itching to
clean house, but it is too early. We
should wait until we can turn every
thing out doors to feel the stir of the
wind and the glow of the sun.
But there is a pre-spring busyness.
These are - inventory days. How can
we, any better than the merchant, be
aware of where- we are "at" without
giving all our possessions the once
over? Stores are offering many things
at reduced prices and the thrifty
housewife will stock up now or buy
ahead for next' season. But she dare
not do this without the inventory to
tell her exactly what is on hand, what
can be adapted from one purpose to
another, and what more will be need
ed. The war taught us many lessons
many lessons. We learned that meat-
les, sweetless, heatless, days were
tolerable and increased our studiness
and saving stamps. Why not carry
this -less spirit into peace times, to
the same two advantages? We do not
need to store away on shelves so
many sheets and towels and sets of
things. In an emergency we can buy
more and it is extravagance to over
provide. But it is wise to buy enough
during these sales.
The forward looking housewife is
doing the spring sewing to get it out
of the way before housecleaning time.
Her household are not afraid of the
heat of sumer for they wil be cloth
ed in gingham. The use of the needle
is increasing, helped by the simplicty
of present styles and the fact that
many women have made themselves
dress-forms. The inventory tells what
can be made bigger by letting out a
tuck or passed down the line by put
ting in one. It discovers that one has
more clothes than one realized and in
dicates that new ones will be- requir
ed.
A good sorting over and weeding out
now will make housecleaning easier.
Under this head comes the maga
zines which accumulate so fast it is
impossible to keep them all. Winter
evenings is an ideal time to cull them.
Frequently a housewife will say,
There are so many fine helps in these
magazines but I can't remember them
and can't find them when I want them.
Why not file them systematically? Get
twenty large, tough envelopes. Label
them according to your interests:
Care of Baby, Clothes, Menus, Recipes,
Labor Saving Hints, Cleaning, etc. Ar
range the envelopes alphabetically and
slip into each all articles on that sub
ject. If a valued recipe Is on the back
of an article about the baby put both
into the envelope about baby and put
into the envelope with recipes a note.
Recipe so-an-so in envelope Baby. Then
you can find either easily.
This is the season for the "stitch in
time." An inspection of winter cloth
ing will find the pocket which is rip
ped, the button loose, the lining which
sags, and the weak spot needing a
patch. The bedding also needs atten
tion. It should be put in ship-shape
against the advent of warmer nights
when it will be shed and ready to
store away.
What To Do
FOR A COLD If the system is in
good condition one is not likely to
take cold. Keep the bowels open and
breathe the fresh air. Make the body
hardy with cool sponge baths and vig
orous rubs. Do not go out into the cold
after a warm bath, as it opens the
pores. Keep the feet warm and dry.
Eating onions is an old-fashioned pre
ventive while onion syrup is an old
fashioned cure.
For a cold in the head snuff up cam-
phor fumes of use the bone acid wash
or salt water, or spray the nose with
a disinfectant in the atomizer. Gargle
with strong .salt water. You will prob
ably need a laxative during the life of
a cold. Quinine followed by hot lemon
ade is a god old-fashioned remedy,
scarcely improved upon in later years.
Acompany this with a hot foot bath
and go to a warm bed. When thor
oughly tucked in, nightcapped and all
let someone else open the windows
that you may breathe your cold out,
but you must keep well covered all
night and not become chilled. If you
can stay abed the next day, all the bet
ter. Drink a good deal of water and
eat little but oranges.
Valentines
It Is amazing now Important is Val
entine Day in theieyes of the children.
That mother stores up sweetness in
the life of her child who enters with
him into the spirit of the occasion, es
pecially if she .helps with the actual
work of making the pretty tokens.
Home-made valentines are infitely
superior to those from the store, for
they afford the child an opportmaity to.
construct something artistic a 4 to
give it to another with his nffesflou.
Red and green cardboard, gUt and
silver paper, advertising pictures and
even .wall-paper, with its od desiga,
may serve as raw materials far the
manufacture Of valentines.'
XA lesson of brotherly love say be
impressed at this season if the child is
led to remember with a valentine each
of his school mates, particularly tkoee
likely to be overlooked by
8&S- -4 -e-
SMILES
It Gets 'Em.
When stately Dame or College Vrosh
Comes flapping through the siov sad
slosh,
Both feet ensconsed in mackintosh.
Then is stern sense put on the kibosh.
From simplest swain to General Foeh
Hearts masculine fall for the galosh!
Phone Cut Denied
(Continued from, page ose.)
by . a separate exchange. From
the
standpoint of telephone service, the
situation is not different, exeept in
distance, from scores of other tons
in the state. There is nothing to
justify discrimination in favor of Os
wego except that such discrimination
has existed heretofore.
The reestablishment of free service
would necessitate the granting of
similar favors, not only to Milwaukee,
Oak Grove and Gladstone, but also
Tigard, Beaverton, Gresham, Fair
view and doubtless other towns sit
uated close to larger cities. Sneh a
policy, though apparently an hi signi
ficant matter in each individual ease,
would inevitably result in Increased
cost of service and higher rates to
the patrons of the larger exchanges. "
FIFTY-FOUR
YEARS AGO
Taken from the Oregon City Enter
prise February 15, 1868
Bad Arrangemnt We loara that
sheep are dying by the hundred in
Linn and counties south on aocout ot
snow and lack of proper care.
Delegates The Highland Baseball
Club of this city met on the evening
of the 13th, as we are informed by
a note from Mr. T. J. Spooner, eeere
tary, and elected Messrs. J. It Bacon
and Charles Warren delegates to at
tend the Baseball Convention at Port
land on the 21st.
Clear Creek A new post office has
been established in the Mattoaa set
tlement in this county, and mamed
Clear Creek. O. P. Mattoon has re
ceived the appointment as poet mas
ter. Panther About One nigh last
week Mr. L. D. C- Latourette, ef this
county, lost ten sheep, killed by a
panther.
Freight Rates We learn that
the charges on freight between Port
land and San Francisco have been in
creased from $5 to $8 per ton, and
that even at that rate, sufficent ton
nage will not be available for carrying
away the shipments to be made in the
next two or three months.
Washington'a Birthday Ball We
learn that it is the intention of
Colonel White to give a grand ball on
the evening of February 21st at the
Cliff House.
TRAPLINE IS MAINTAINED
BY HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR
Jack Saum, of Tualatin, junior in
the high school, has for three years
maintained a' line of traps along a
narrow creek that crosses his father's
ranch. This winter he sold three'
mink skins, a few skunk and many
muskrat pelts. Last year he did not
trap because the market did not war
rant the trouble; the year before he
obtained six mink, for which he re
ceived from $8 to $9 each.
PLEA IN BOOZE CHARGE
CHANGED BMMILTON
Merle Hamilton, arrested a week
ago Saturday on charges of having
'i!ty y tne recorder.s court
rav nH w,, finrt sso Wamil-
ton stood trial last week and the jury
disagreed. He was to have a second
trial Wednesday, but changed his
plea.
j GEORGE HOEYE
CHIROPRACTOR
! Cauf ield Bldg.
Phone 036-W
Oregon City, Ore.
s Phones:
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Off. 80 Res. ZU-W 5
I EMORY J. NOBLE f
LAWYER
Justice ef Peace
1 201-2 Masonic Temple, Oregon CSty.i
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