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MORN IKG ENTERPRISE WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15, 1913.
Parcel Post Is
Unit System
Any One Can Learn Postage
Rates by Figuring Out Dis
tance From Postolfice.
kSGINNING New Year's day at 6
a. m. the new parcel post law
permits any Inhabitant of the
United States to send through
the mail merchandise of all descrip
tions, provided it does not weigh more
than eleven pounds and is not more
than six feet in combined length and
girth. One point the postmaster gen
eral wishes emphasized and that is
that all packages have to be taken to
the postofflce by the sender, and this
doesn't mean the numbered substa
tions ordinarily found in drug stores,
but the regular postofflce stations.
The packages will be delivered at
their destination in wagons, the deliv
eries being as regular as the present
letter service.
At present the number of men in the
postal service has not been increased.
Such a step Is considered unnecessary
at present The postofflce department
has been working overtime since last
July, when congress passed the law,
preparing for the inauguration of the
new service. Twenty thousand of the
most delicate and intricate scales have
been ordered for delivery before Jan. 1.
A most elaborate system of maps
has been completed, inaugurating a
zone system. There are eight differ
ent zones. Upon the maps are depict
ed various units in each zone. Every
town is situated in a numbered unit,
shown upon the map. The first zone
Is any distance within fifty miles.
The second zone is a greater distance,
and so on until -the last zone, which
takes in Alaska and the Hawaiian Is
lands, but not the Philippines.
For instance, the map with its num-
WIRELESS PHONE A SUCCESS.
Harvard Professor Sends Sound of
Voice Thirty-five Miles.
Assistant Professor G. W. Pierce of
the department of physics at Harvard
has devised a new wireless telephone
instrument which may eventually revo
lutionize the methods of long distance
communication. The new instrument
has already received the hearty in
dorsement of John Hays Hammond, Jr.
Professor Pierce was the guest of Mr.
Hammond at his Gloucester laboratory
at Fresh Water Cove recently, where
a series of experiments was conducted
with Jh'e new apparatus.
The wireless power was concentrated
about fifty feet above sea level. By
means of the new instrument Professor
Pierce got into communication with
the Harvard Wireless club, thirty-five
miles away, and talked with several of
the club members for a space covering
fifteen minutes.
It you saw it in the Knterprlse it's
I am a power for great good if you do
not abuse my use.
In cases of need I do my work well.
I am a builder up of health and strength
---in the hospital or in the home.
For the invalid or the convalescent for
the tired or overworked I offer a great
help.
A little of me goes a long way.
I have been among you for three generations."
I'm known as Cyrus Noble throughout the world.
W. J. Van Schuyver & Co., General Agents, Portland, Oregon
Come Over and Play Bridge
"yyHAT are you doing tonight? Can't
you and Mrs. Bruce come over and
have some bridge?
For getting people together there is noth
ing quite equals the telephone.
Telephone call to a neighbor frequent
ly results in a jolly, informal party.
The local and long distance service of
the Bell Telephone system promotes sociability.
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station
Operated On
With 8 Zones
Country fs Mapped Out With
3,500 li?iis--6overnnient
Sei s Giiidss Cheaply.
bered units printed ou it shows that
New York city, is in unit 717, which,
of course, is iu the first zone. Each lo
cality makes its own first zone, so it
was necessary for the postofflce de
partment to have" printed separate
maps for each locality. Suppose you
are in unit 717 in the first zone and
you want to send a package to Buffalo,
which Is approximately iu unit 1,162.
which is in the second zone. You take
the package to the postofflce, and the
postofflce clerk will place it on the
newly constructed scales, first desig
nating on the scales that the package
is to go to the second zone. When it
is weighed the scale will give exactly
the amount necessary to carry the
package to its destination.
The first zone of fifty miles Includes
what is called the local zone. The
maximum charge for the local zone is
5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent
for each additional pound..
After that there is a graduated in
crease, the second zone having a ra
dius of 150 miles, the third 300 miles,
etc., until the eighth zone, which in
cludes every town over 1,800 miles.
Separate provision is made for all
packages that weigh four ounces or
less. Like the present system of fourth
class matter, there will be a flat rate
of a cent an ounce. If a package
weighs over four ounces it goes under
the pound rate.
Every postmaster and postofflce clerk
handling parcel post has a map and a
guidebook which holds the key to the
numbered units on the map. If you
want to send a package to Buffalo his
guidebook will show him which unit
Buffalo is in. and then the map will
AT 80 GIVES HEALTH RULES.
Enjoy Yourself and Ignore Diet Tables,
Says Sir George Birdwood.
Sir George Birdwood, officer of the
Legion of Honor, laureate of the French
academy and formerly professor of
anatomy and physiology at Bombay,
has contributed at the age of eighty
his views on how to reach a ripe old
age. His maxims are:
Don't think about your health.
Enjoy yourself as much as possible.
Ignore dietary tables.
Eat whenever you feel inclined.
Look on the bright side of things.
Sir George is particularly scornful
about the diet on which another con
tributor to the discussion thrives
namely, two meals of eggs, bread and
butter daily.
"Such a life," he says, "would not
be worth living. The great question
is not how to live long, but how to live
well."
A small classified ad will rent that
vacant room.
designate the' zone."' All' he has to" do
Is to mark his scale with the zone in
dicator and the machine will show the
amount of postage.
The postofflce department has Issued
a guide book and map that can be pur
chased for 75 cents. There is also an
insurance against loss of all packages
not over $50.
Among the things that will not be ac
cepted for delivery are intoxicants, ex
plosives, inflammable liquids, live or
dead animals, firearms, disease germs,
books or printed matter.
A special series of stamps has been
engn ved for the service.
The greatest advantage of the par
cel post is to the farmer who wants to
sell his products direct to the consum
er. A postal card for a dozen or more
fresh eggs can be sent on one day and
the eggs received the next. All kinds
of produce will be acceptable. Eggs
can be packed separately in cotton and
placed iu corrugated pasteboard boxes
so they can be shipped with entire safe
ty. All packages containing eggs must
be marked "eggs."
All fragile articles, such as millinery,
toys, musical instruments, glassware,
etc., must be marked "fragile."
It is expected that the parcel post
will hurt the express companies' busi
ness, particularly in short deliveries,
on account of the cheap rates of the
parcel post. The suburban poultry
and produce markets will be accessible
to thousands of town buyers.
The parcel post stamps measure 1 by
14 inches between perforated lines.
The color is red for all denominations.
In a curved panel across the top, sup
ported by a paneled perpendicular col
umn at each end.
Triangular ornaments occupy both
upper corners. The denomination in
large numerals is in each lower cor
ner, with the title of the subject and
the word "cents" or "dollars" between.
The designs on the several denomi
nations are as follows:
1 cent Postofflce clerk.
2 cents City carrier.
3 cents Railway postal clerk.
4 cents Rural carrier.
5 cents Mail train.
10 cents Steamship and mail tender.
15 cents Automobile service.
20 cents Aeroplane carrying mail.
25 cents Manufacturing.
50 cents Dairying.
75 cents Harvesting.
$1 Fruit growing.
RUSSIA'S BIGGEST FORGERY.
Gang Turned Out Millions of Counter
feit Notes.
Russia's secret police are busy trac
ing the producers of millions of coun
terfeit notes that have been passed into
circulation In Russia and on Russian
financial houses abroad. It is the big
gest and most perplexing forgery case
they have ever tackled.
Four of the men concerned in the
traffic a commercial drummer named
Dunaievsky, a merchant named Semo
nev and two others named Liebenthal
and Rochlin have been captured with
skillfully forged notes to the face val
ue of nearly a quarter of a million
rubles in their possession. They have
been subjected to the Russian variety
of the third degree examination, but
have revealed nothing leading to the
discovery of the forgers factory.
Two men suspected of complicity
were traced in vain to France.
CATTLE MARKET HAS
There was something of a boom in
the cattle market in Portland Tues
day, and as a result prices consider
ably out of the ordinary were paid for
choice beef stuff. For a week or
more cattla have been coming in
rather a scant way, and when the
market opened Tuesday with another
meager supply there was a rush on
the part of buyers. Prices started up
and there was no halt in the upward
movement until the $8.25 point had
been reached. Two prime steers, av
eraging 1185 pounds in weight, were
taken at that figure, while a bunch
of 22 well finished steers went at $8.
These were the highest prices paid
for regular run steer stock in the
local market for months and fdr above
the average at this stage of the sea
son in years.
In the cow division there was a
similar display of strength, the ad
vance in values amounting to a quar
ter or better. One small bunch of
prime cows sold early in the day for
$7.10, while a load of fancy heifers,
avering 1212 pounds in weight, was
taken at $7.60. A few rather heavy
calves gold at $7.75.
Prevailing Oregon City prices are aa
follows:
HIDES (Buying) Green salted, 7c
to 8 c; sheep pelts 25c to 65c each.
FEED (Selling) Shorts, $26; bran
$24; process barley $27 to $28 per ton.
FLOUR-$4.50 to $5.
HAY (Buying) .Clover at $9 and
$10; oat hay best $11 and $12; mix
ed $10 to $12; alfalfa $15 to $16.50;
Idaho tmothy $21 and $22; whole corn
$30.
OATS $24.50 to $25.50; wheat 85;
oil meal selling about $42.00; Shay
Brook dairy feed $1.30 per hundred
pounds.
Livestock, Meat.
BEEF (Live weight) Steers 6 and
6 l-2c; cows 5 and 5 l-2c; bulls 4 12c.
MUTTON Sheep 4c to 5c; lambs
5c to 5 l-2c.
PORK 9 1-2 and 10c.
VEAL Calves 12c to 13c dressed,
according to grade.
WEINIES 15c lb; sausage, 15c lb.
POULTRY (Buying) Hens 11c;
spring 10c and old roosters 8c.
MOHAIR 33c to 25c.
, Fruits
APPLES 50c and $1.
- DRIED FRUITS (Baying). Prunes
on basis 6 to 8 cents.
VEGETABLES
ONIONS $1.50 sack; tomatoes 50c;
corn 8c and 10c a doz.; cracked 40.
POTATOES About 35c to 45c f.
o. b. shipping points, per hundred.
Butter, Poultry, Egg.
BUTTER (I tying), Ordinary coun
try butter 25c and 30c; fancy cream
ery 75c to 85c roll.
EGGS Oregon Ranch eggs 30c to
32c case count.
Ink Stains.
A teaspoonful of salt to a gill of milk
makes a mixture which will remove
most ink stains from clothing.
CMS!
All blue and yellow automobile
today with the contest manager
EXTRA SPECIAL ONE DAY SALE
500 Free Votes with every 25c box of stationery
Friday only, Huntley Bros. Co. will place on sale 250 boxes of
their best Eaton-Crane 25c Stationery, 500 bonus votes will be
given with eacfe box sold, 1000 free votes with 50c box and 2,000
with every dollar box.
Huntley Bros. Co. J. Levitt V. Harris
The Rexall Store
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OREGON CITY ELKS'
IS
Out in Oregon City they have an
Elk Lodge scarcely three years of
age, and yet quite recently they ded
icated a $25,000 home, and it is one
of he best arranged homes in the
entire country, says the Inter State
Elk.
They have the correct idea of the
mission of the Elk out there. With
them it is community betterment,
and the resident there who is not
fitted for or desirous of engaging in
this work, is not enrolled in the lodge
membership That's all. The best
people of the town are behind the
Oregon City Elks, and it is the classy
social club of the town as well as the
most pregressive.
DR. MOUNT JUMPS AS
AUTO GOES OVER BANK
Dr. Guy Mount narrowly escaped
serious injury Monday evening when
he was returning in his automobile
from the West Side. As he was pro
ceeding along the West Side road
about 9:30 o'clock the machine be
came unmanagable and started over
the rock precipice, but Dr. Mount ap
plied the brakes and jumped through
the side curtains of the machine, es
caping injury. The machine also
stopped, but not until the two front
wheel had gone over the bank . The
machine, however, did not fall and
was not injured.
WILLAMETTE CLUB TO
GIVE BIG DANCE
The first dance of the Willamette
Club for the 1913 season will be giv
en Thursday evening. The dances,
which were such a success last year
will, in all probability, prove as great
a success this year. The subscription
is already iarger than was expected
and a large crowd is assured. At
Thursday evening dance Fox's or
chestra will furnish the music. Those
wishing to join the club should do
so at once and avail themselves ot
the first dance. A series of five dan
ces will be given.
Flavor Instead of Meat.
"Tuppenny loaf, please an' muwer
says will yer cut it in slices wIt a 'am
my knife?" London Opinion. v
Be sure and
Leading Clothier
Morning Enter jpris
A 25c Bottle of "Swissco" Hair and Scalp Remedy to be Given Away
Take the Coupon to Jones Drug Co. and They Will Give
''Swissco" Grows Hair, Brings Back Its Original Color and Removes Dandruff
and Scalp Diseases
First Week.
The free bottle of "Swissco Hair and Scalp Remedy
if used as directed, will astonish you. It is a NEW RE M
TDY, the latest and best preparation before the public.
It is the result of years of investigation and research
into the reason why so many of . the hair preparations
have failed in the past to do the work demanded of
them. It is marvelous in its action, and thousands have
received amazing re suits just from the free bottle we give
them for the asking.
Because you may not have received any relief from
something you have tried, don't be foolish enough to con
demn everything else. You will be greatly benefitted by
the free bottle we give -vou, :
"Swissco" 50c and $1.00 a bottle is for sale and rec
ommended by all d ruggists. Those outside otf Oregon
City who cannot call at druggists mentioned below, will
receive a free bottle, prepaid, on receipt of ten cents in
stamps or silver, to help cover the expense of packing,
etc., by addressing direct to the Swissco Hair Remedy
Co., 5312 P. O. Square, Cincinnati, O.
FREE COUPON GOOD AT -
Scene Painting.
The huge paintings required as
scenes for theaters are now, according
to an article in the Scientific American,
painted with the canvas lying fiat on
the floor instead of. as formerly, In an
upright position. In this way the work
can be done much more rapidly. The
colors used are in powdered form, a
barrel to each color..
tes
contest votes must be deposited
at Huntley Bros. Co.
get your votes
Quality Grocer
Third Week.
"SWISSCO" DID IT
Give full address; write plainly.
JONES DRUG
It Pays.
At the urgent request of the adver
tising department we reprint this bit
of logic from an unknown source:
"When a duck lays an egg she Just
waddles off as if nothing had happened.
"When a hen lays an egg there's a
whale of a noise.
"The hen advertises: hence the de
mand for hens' egg9 Instead of duffks'
eggs." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1 dat
Star Theatre
Best Pictures
Fifth Week.
FREE BOTT LE COUPON.
Good for one 25c bottle only, at druggists
named below, when name and address is properly
filled in on dotted lines below. Those outside of
Oregon City will get a free bottle by sending ten
cents, in stamps or silver, direct to Swissco Hair
Remedy Co., 5312 P. O. Square, Cincinnati, Ohio, to
help cover expense of packing, etc.
I have never tried Swissco Hair and Scaln
Remedy, but if you will supply a 25c bottle freeT
as above, I will use it.
CO.
CHARITY.
, Chanty is genuine joy.
To look up and not down that
is faith. To look forward and not
back that is hope. . To look out
and not in that is charity in
thought. Lend a hand that is
charity in action. Edward Everett
Hale.