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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1913.
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The phenomenal business of Opening Day was but a beginning, as Thursday's business established A RECORD FOR SECOND DAY'S
BUSINESS. From opening hour they came even in greater numbers than on opening day. Eleventh and Main Streets presented a
lively appearance, while the sidewalks were almost blocked before noon with ranges jand furniture awaiting delivery. Really it was a
sight that would strike terror to the man with a grouch or the old fogy, who contends that it does not pay to advertise.
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We fully realize the necessity of advertising but unless backed by quality and PRICES that offer special inducements, we could not
hope to make our sale TrIE GREATEST SUCCESS in the history of our business. As we said in the beginning, IT'S MONEY WE
WANT, and the prices that prevail throughout our entire stock, is filling our store with appreciative patrons from all parts of the sur
rounding country who realize that this sale presents money-saving possibilities unequalecL
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There will surely be something doing, something that will be of interest to every family in Oregon City and Clackamas County. We
have arranged for sufficient sales people to insure prompt and particular attention to all. Come let us show you how we conduct our
salesCome prepared to buy for you will find something you want and the price will please. Watch this space for there will be daily
something to interest you, something that will save you money. The large banner and colored pennants mark the pi
lace.
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Want Family Parties.
"The owners of the yards are especial
ly pleased to have family parties, and
provide wood and water, and in some
cases are generous with vegetables.
They also furnish some amusements,
and dances are frequently given for
the entertainment of the young mem
bers of the parties. Many a romance
has had an auspicious beginning in
the hop yards, and the old hop poles
if they could speak up could tell some
pretty little ilove stories, but year af
ter year they rear their heads heaven
ward and never a word quoth they.
Make Good Money.
"Tidy sums are made by the fast
pickers, usually the younger people,
but few there are who come away
feeling that the time ,has not been
well spent. And, oh, the healthful
ness of living out doors in the hop
' laden atmosphere, and the fun they
do have!
"Hops, however, have a value far
and away of . more importance than
the mere pleasure which their picking
affords to some thousands of people.
Last year the yield in the valley
amounted to 118,600 bales, with an
estimated value of $3,332,000. Hops
grown In the valley are of superior
quality, and are grown more cheaply
than in any other section of the
world. Last year a lage percent of
the crop went to England, owing to
the fact that they were of a finer
grade than those produced in other
hop-raising sections.
Are Valley Product.
"Hops are to the Willamette Val
ley what cotton is to the southern
states only if our hop crop is not
good or prices are low, we have so
many other drops that we do not feel
the disastrous effect that we should
were it our one money-maker.
"Grains are wonderfully fine as a
rule, in fact there Is no such thing as
a failure.
Prune Work.
"With hop picking time comes the
prune season, and picking and drying
and packing of prunes is another job;
and this moves along quickly, for the
prunes are shaken from the trees and
are quickly picked up from the
ground and hauled to the dryers to
be converted into the article we have
learned to value for its healthful
quality.
"The price of prunes In the past
few years has withdrawn them from
tie vocabulary of the funny man and
we no longer read of the long suf-
f-ingbea'Fding house keeper on a
quest for prunes. They have come
into their own, and the man who dug
out his prune trees during the lean
years stands in the class with the hop
va.r.1 owners who plowed out Aheir
-hops. No use crying over spilt milk,
out tnere are a iul ui wimtia wuu
wish in the back of their head, that
they hadn't.
Big Apple Crops.
"And after harvesting and thresh
ing and hop picking and prune drying
will come apple picking and packing;
and this is a story in itself how the
packers spend several days in school'
learning how to 'pack' apples, and
the"n after they have become profici
ent their fingers fly at the task. And
there are happy times in the orchards
and packing houses . as in the hop
yards.
"In the mean time, products of gar
den, Orchard and field have been gar
nered for the fairs, state and county,
and the children have a hand to in
this, for they have been raising for
their juvenile fairs all over Oregon,
surprisingly good specimens. And
when the different fairs are held
father will hitch up the team, mother
will see that there is plenty of eats
and the whole family will spend a
day at the fair, or it may be that
the beautiful camp grounds of state
or county fairs will ure them to one
more happy time out doors before
winter descends upon the land. Ore
gon has many pleasures to offer her
people."
FORESTS ONLY SOLUTION TO
LANDSLIDES AT CANAL
BIRMINGHAM, England, Sept. 18.
The Panama Canal figured promin
ently in the proceedings of the Brit
ish Association, which closed yester
day. In the economic section Pro
fessor A. W. Kirkaldy described the
economic effects of the canal, while
in the engineering section Dr. Vaughn
Cornish, distinguished for geological
research, discussed the land slips in
the cana,!, especially in Cilebra cut.
Dr. Cornish declared these slips
were due to seams of coal underneath
rotting, which resulted in the thrust
ing up of the granite and the melting
away of the bank. This evil was un
foreseen by geologists and could be
attributed to the cutting away of for
ests along the canal that formerly
absorbed the moisture, which now is
penetrating the stratum underlying
the canal.
He said that nature would continue
to take this revenge until the forests
were regrown, when the underground
Slow would cease.
In the discussion which followed
Professor Kirkaldy and Sir Oliver
Lodge said that without biological re
search the canal would have been im
possible; it was only by the destruc
tion of the microbe of malaria that
white men were enabled to work
there.
CALIFORNIA SUFFERS FROM
EXTREME HEAT BLASTS
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 18.
Southern California faced another hot
day today, but the prospects, as an
nounced by the weather bureau, was
that it would not be within 10 degrees
as hot as yesterday, when the mer
cury went up to 108, a degree short
of the record.
From 5 p. m. yesterday, when the
government thermometers registered
102, the temperature gradually de
clined until a minimum of 81 was
reached at 9 o'clock this morning. At
midnight 99 degrees were recorded.
There were 21 fires in the city yes
terday. The intense heat was blamed
for some of them. Twenty-two men
who fought the. fires were injured and
prostrated. The fire loss, it was es
timated today, would total 8200,000,
and the fire department was exhaust
ed. Nineteen buildings were de
stroyed.
CURRENCY BILL HAS
E THROGH HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. The com
plete revision of American banking
and currency mmethods proposed in
the Democratic currency bill was
started on its way to the statute
books today. By a vote of 286 to 84
the house passed the bill in practi
cally the same form in which it was
originally proposed. Twenty-four re
publicans and 14 progressives joined
with the democrats in voting for the
bill.
With this overwhelming house ma
jority and the indorsement of Presi
dent Wilson behind it, the measure
was sent over to the senate. There
it was referred to the banking and
currency committee, before which
hearings on the subject already are
in progress. The committee may not
be ready to report for several weeks.
Thaw's money holds out well.
In "coming back" Sulzer is handi
capped. Don't expect the new tariff law to
help you raise good crops on animals.
A monument to Davenport is all
right, but he .csred a better monu
ment himself.
What but destructive accident coii'.d
have been expected of a Zeppelin air
ship. '
Those prayers seem not to have
reached that judge who decided
peainst Sulzer.
When all couples who ntarry are
happy ever after, the workl will be
very nearly all right.
The mouth of the Columbia is the
key to all above; hence is more im
portant now than all other projects.
Chronicling a recent newspaper
change, the Banks Herald says: "The
Bay City Examiner has again passed
into new hands, the s'teenth time
since Bay City began to bay. Two
printers, Messrs, Merritt and Hamil
ton, have talten the paper and will
put the finishing touches to the young
city endeavoring to swallow Tillar
mook. Here's success to them."
With deep sighs of perfect content'
ment the Baker Herald says: "Baker
county fair time this fall is the most
happy ever known here. Large crowds
of contented and prosperous farmers
will be here to see the best fair ever
held. That fair will show" more ex
hibits of more bountiful crops than
has ever been shown before. The pro
gram will be the best ever given." '
"In this case of assault by Mr. Jones'
goat, what testimony have you In re
buttal?" "The goat's." Baltimore American.
There are a million fishers
There is no cause to doubt It
But most of them are wishers
Who merely talk about it
Exchange.
"That's what I call a horrible end
ing." "What's that?"
"The steam calliope that winds up
the circus parade." Louisville Courier
Journal. - ,
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