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OREGON CITY. OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1913.
TO BE OBSERVED
CHURCHES PLAN SOME SPECIAL
SERVICES FOR DAY REV.
. MILLIKEN PREACHES
MUSICAL PROGRAMS ARE ARRANGED
THANKSGIVING
A Thanksgiving
Worthwhile-
By JENNIE FOWLER-WILLING
1913, by American "Press Association.
THE merry sleighbells mocked
the agony of the woman
crouching over the dying fire.
The surly November wind
snarled down the chimney, throwing
gas and ashes into her face. She mut-
tered brokenly to herself: "Baby's gone
she's safe! I must save my boy!"
glancing toward the shabby cot where
her chubby little three-year-old lay
asleep. "Now's my only time!"
When tney were coming Home from
the "burying ground" and Melville
turned down Baird street she knew
that would be the last of him till he'd
Blept off his spree. - . '
Something pulled so hard at her
heartstrings they seemed ready to
snap. He was such a splendid fellow
when they were married! She shook
as if in an ague fit, muttering to keep
up her courage, "I must save my boy!"
She raised her haggard face and bit
back a stifling sob. "O God, I've done
my very best for Melville, but I've fail
edfailedfailed! I can only turn him
over to thee!"
She peered around the room in the
dim light. Her wedding presents made
a cozy nest of it at first, but they had
all" gone to the pawnshop.
"Mae Maude always had the knack
o' fixin' things up," her old farmer fa
ther had said. "Took after her moth
er. Make a nicer, bouquet out of a
bunch o' mayweed an' a mullein stalk
than anybody else could with pinies an'
lilies."
' She smiled bitterly over the dear lit
tle flattery while she packed her old
suit case, even thanking God that her
father and mother were safe in his
heaven. "They'll keep poor baby from
being afraid - of the newness and I
must save my boy!"
She took from its hiding place the
$200 that had been paid for the old
farm things. That would take her and
little Mellie to Aggie Duncan, down in
Texas, and she'd trust God for the
DRAGGING THE KIVER FOR THE MISSING
BODIES.
rest. Judge; Tremaiue's folks would
take care of Melville as long as he last
ed. Another great sob!
. In those awful hours alone with her
dying baby she had wrought out her
plan. A swing of Mellie's old hat be
fore the locomotive when the express
slowed for the bridge, tossing it into
the water with "her, old shawl, a clam
ber up the steps of the last car and a
settling into a seat by the door.
It never entered the heads Of the
train crew that the dozing woman
with the sleeping little boy in her lap
had stopped the train.
After dragging the river for the miss-
tog bodies the "friends" gave them
' np- Poor Mae Maude! The loss of her
ha by hud driven her crazy, and she
had drowned herself and her boy.
"? She brought up at the home of Agnes
Duncan, the dear, dumpy little help-
meet of a large sized home missionary
whose heart, everybody said, was "as
big as all outdoors."
Their bandbox or a manse was
packed to the eaves with babies and
happiness. The small lady had a few
snug little investments, the interest on
which she knew would come in handy
when she "threw herself away" on big
John Duncan.
"See here, Mae Maude." chippered
Mrs. Agnes after the tornado of wel
comes had blown over, "1 guess you'll
have to take bold of Jack's job. These
poor cowboys almost worship a wo
man's shadow. And then the settlers
homes they have to be awfully neg
lected. I can't go with Jackie very
often on account of the babies. He'll
get you a good pony. and turn you
loose on them, and. my, oh, the good
you'll do them! A special providence.
I call It!" v .
Mae Maude smiled as the immediate
past rushed before her. ".mind's eye."
queer kind of providence, she thought
But she fell into line and was soon gal
loping over plain and prairie. 4 full
sized benediction in .the settlers' .homes
and the DacKoone ot the nearest school
house Sunday school, to which the cow
boys flocked for miles around for "a
good look at the new super, just on
from the east."
One Sabbifth Mrs. Agnes crimsoned
to the roots of her hair with the ter
rible "publicity" of telling the Sunday
school folks about the "bee" they were
going to have, to put up a lean-to. with
a porch for vines, to give the new su
perintendent a living room, and would
they all come? And those who hadn't
any women folks of their own to bring
to help get the big dinner and suppei
might bring somebody else's, and Mr.
Duncan was over on Forty Mile run 01
he'd give it out, but they'd all come
just the same and have a mighty good
time putting up the new Sunday
school lady's lean-to.
When Mae Maude climbed up on the
rear car of the express, after throw
ing her old shawl and her boy's hat
into the river that bleak November
night of the baby's funeral, she was
sure she could never laugh again. But
when Mrs. Agnes told Jack the next
day about her announcement of the
"bee" Mae Maude had to put the frills
on the story. Jack Duncan caught his
wee, plump wife in his arms, with a
baby or two thrown in for good meas
ure, their squeals of merriment ac
companying Uls full throated American
laugh, their heels kicking his broad
chest gleefully, while the second edi
tion of Melville Tremaine squeezed his
mother's neck, shouting mildly: "We
don't have to preach, momsy and me.
We'm goin' to farm it!"
Then all joined, big and little, in the
chorus of laughter, and there came
near being a riot of hugs and kisses.
Mae Maude, with the help of the
second generation of Duncans and her
correspondence with the "back to the
soil" wise men of Washington, made
the manse ten acre lot bud and bios'
som as the rose. Many a good hint did
she give the settlers and their wives
that made her word on "farming it"
take the place of their "rule of thumb"
methods. (
Dan Wetherell. a thoroughgoing
young ranchman, with his eye on the
legislature, noticed her neat, trim ap
pearance while she took notes in the
"lecture car" and increased the fre
quency of his visits at the manse.
One day he quizzed Mrs. Agnes about
her friend's widowhood, quite shock
ing her by asking her if it were "sod
or grass."
Mae Maude heard only the word
widow," but it sent the "creeps" up
and down her spine. After that Dai
Wetherell might as well have tried tc
win one of Grenfel's Labrador peaks.
She kept tab on the home folks
through the Duncans, even to the mys
terious disappearance of Melville Tre
maine soon after her own. Every
body had given him up for dead; but
woman fashion, she held stubbornly
the hope that she would see him agait
her. very own the-noble fellow thai
he was when she first knew him. Hav
ing been through the ordeal herseli
and knowing how they always thought
along the same lines when he was him
self, she looked for him to come to hei
permanently redeemed.
One evening a day or two before
Thanksgiving John Duncan came home
from a two weeks' trip. He was silent
and absentminded. though the small
house was fairly tipsy with merriment.
Agnes' usual expedient of putting the
baby in his arms was a flat failure. It
came near breaking tne cnild s necn.
for he set it down on the floor, its long
clothes wadded about its useless feet.
and when it was tumbling over on its
small nose he took it, this way and
that as he would have done a bag of
grain to make it stand on end.
Mrs. Agnes sprang to the rescue.
"For mercy's sake. Jack!"
He came to the surface long enough
to beg the baby' pardon and stop with
a big. brushy kiss its issue of protest
ing notes. "Come.' Aggy, let's go and
take a walk." "
He drewher hand into the bend of
his elbowr leaving the baby and the
Thanksgiving box that had just ar
rived from the home church, the con
tents of which the junior Duncans
were almost perishing to explore.
Just fairly beyond earshot he broke
out with, "Lost my trail yesterday. Ag
gie, and you can't guesS whom I ran
across." !
"No, Jack. Who?" certain that the
mystery of his abstraction was about
to unravel itself.
"Melville Tremaine." -
"No. Jack. He's dead." '
"Not by a long shot! The liveliest
fellow I've met for many a day! Stay
ed all night with him! Told me the
whole story!"
"Jack Duncan, what are yon saying?
Didn't he drink himself to death?"
"Tried to after Mae Maude left, but
the Salvation Army folks down there
in the city got hold of him."
"Oh, Jackie! And doesn't he drink
now?"
"Teetotal to the backbone! When
the poor cowboys get near the last
ditch they'll fight for a chance to get to
him. When the Lord makes a man
over the job can't be Improved, spe
cially such a one as Mell Tremaine.''
"Did vou inform him about Mae
Maude?"
"It was mighty close work to get
around that,' for she's uppermost in his
thoughts,, but I said to myself, 'Aggie
and I'll treat all hands to one big sur
prise." He'd never given her up. He
said: 'Iknow her conscience. She'd
never go to God without a good.
straight summons drowning the boy
too! From something she said once.
she's somewhere in the southwest I'll
find her yet. My business is to make
myself worthy of her love. .My heart
ached to tell him the whole story, but
I thought he could wait a day or two
longer and we'd have one good, old
surprise down here where things don't
often happen. He promised to come to
our Thanksgiving dinner. He's well
THF TURKEY'S :
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Photo by American Press Association.
I
WONDER what I can have done
To merit all this trouble
Shut up where I can have no fun
And bent until I'm double! .
This morning alt the folks rushed out
- And chased me over fences
And here and there and round about
Until I lest my senses.
I ran toward the farmer's wife
And thought she would befriend me.
But even she upon my lif
Did nothing to defend me!
Students Will
Go To School
of Own Accord
Instead of being forced to go to
school the students of the West Linn
school have made arrangements to re
ceive special instruction Friday morn
ing. Attendance will be purely vol
intary on the part of the pupils but
indications show that practically ev
ery student will be present.
It is planned to take up special work
in the subjects which prove to be the
more difficult for the students. Arith
metic and grammar will probably oc
cupy most of the time of the voluntary
morning session.
DAMES AND DAUGHTERS.
Miss Ruth Law established a world's
air record for women at Garden City
recently, when she made a flight of 800
feet in, altitude about ten minutes in
duration with a passenger aboard.
Mile. Francoise Prudent of Louhans,
Saone-et-Loire, who was accidentally
registered as a boy at birth, has been
summoned to perforni her military
service and declares her willingness to
.do so, provided she obtains a vote.
Princess Wigenstein, the oldest ac
tive society woman in Europe, is in her
ninety-fifth year and leads an active
life.. She dances, it is said,, with the
grace 'of youth and has just finished a
play. Fifty years ago she established
herself at Lausanne and has lived
there ever since. Her chalet is the
center of -intellectual activity.
Dr. Louise Pearce, recently appoint
ed as assistant to Dr. Simon Flexner of
the Rockefeller Institute For Medical
Research in New York, has served as
the only woman on the staff "of the
Johns Hopkins hospital and was ap
pointed to the psychiatry staff at the
Phipps clinic. Dr. .Pearce was prepar
ing to take up this important work
when she received the Rockefeller as
signment.
Current Comment
"The prison system," says a reform
er, "is a form of slavery." True. And
for that reason it ought to be avoided.
Cleveland Leader.
"The Mexican tango," a London pa-
per calls the situation across the Rio pivotj. but swayed by the wind, has
Grande. Wouldn't St Vitus' dance de- been designed to get students acquaint
scribe it more accurately? New York ed the sensation of flying.
Tribune. In a Paris aerodynamic laboratory
No tipping is allowed in the unUmfor testing model' aeroplanes wind
station at Portland, Ore. That's a long speeds up t0 seventy-one miles an hour
way to go, but people in search of new are prodUCed by ingenious machinery.
sensations might find the trip well '
worth their while. Cleveland Plain ' - .......
Dealer. ; Household Hints.
Perhaps it is true that Emperor Wil- " .
liam is thinking of entering a yacht to- liMe?ne bot"ef' no.k, or food
race for the America's cup. If he does should be covered In the sickroom,
he will be cordially welcomed if he Stick a pin through-the cork of every
comes over here to see the captain sail bottle that contains poison, and. this
her. Boston Globe. ' ' may save tragic mistakes when se'ek-
' ing medicine in the dark.
fixed on Ills ranch." ... If tne cloth upon of the 1Iv"
Little Mrs. Aggie was laughing and ing ?m had le weights- fastened
crying and hiding her face in his shirt Vf7 l ,fach. of, ltsur corner8 "
front Then her housekeeperliness wu1! not bl displaced by every one
came to her help. "There'll be a lot o' who happened to touch it in passing,
things in the Thanksgiving box. and '
Mae Maude has been fattening one of Science Sittings.
the turkeys!" Then came a relapse
and another outburst: "Oh, Jackie, The eye cannot see a molecule, an
Jackie! But won't we have a Thanks- atom or an electron.
giving worth while?" Taking cognizance of the various
; : , i movements of the earth, a person tak-
Be Thankful Anyway. ing a three mile stroll has traveled
The real, original and genuine 85,255 miles. : . ' ' I
Thanksgiving dinner must boast a tur- Every beat of the heart sends two
key and cranberry sauce if it ll to be ounces of bloodJnto the hair-like blood
strictly orthodox In regard to the vessels called capillaries, lining the air
meni. Nelt to that in importance is cells of ,ungSi ad from this air the
the mince or pumpkin pie. . . blood Is fllled with oxygen.
Yet if none of these things is forth- .; . . ' .
coming it is well to be thankful any- ' v "
way. In the words of that rare old " Weeds. ,
Pennsylvania philosopher. Benjamin Perhaps If we could penetrate na
Franklin: - ture's secrets we should find that what
"We will thank God that we haw
bread and butter to eat, and if we
have no butter we will thank God
for the bread."
BY
GQfiJ
I
NSTEAD, she grabbed ma by a foot
With no consideration,
And in this prison I was put '
Without an explanation.
The farmer's sharpening an ax;
The children talk of "dressing."
Oh, my, I wish I knew the factsl
These rumors are depressing!
But all the future I can see
Looks very, very murky.
Just now I think I'd rather be
A chicken than a turkey.
Boys Eat Pie In
Speed Contest At
West Linn School
To decide what boy in the West
Linn school could eat the fnost pie,
a pie-eating contest was held m
that institution Wednesday afternoon.
Big, round, home made apple pies
were used in the contest and every
one of the several dozen, which were
brought, were consumed.
Arthur Day achieved the honors of
being able to eat more apple pie than
any other boy in the school and James
McLarty ran him a close, second. Over
a pie and half were consumed by the
two contestants.
Flippant Flings.
It has just come to-the surface that
Tolstoy wrote 565 letters to his wife.
What a lot of leisure a man has when
he doesn't shave! New York Press.
A St Louis woman intrusted $23,000
to a lawyer and got back about $3,000.
The attorney couldn't have been feel
ing very well that day. Philadelphia
Inquirer.
A Missouri ' judge has ruled that a
woman has a right to use a broom
stick on her husband. The vacuum
cleaner was invented none too soon.
Toledo Blade. -
Cost of Living.
Chicago looks for a continual rise in
beef prices. An upward direction
seems to be the only one beef prices
know. Detroit Free Press.
Newly arrived babies, finding that
the price of milk is going up, have rea
son to protest against being born into
such an inhospitable world. Chicago
News.
Old King Coal Is a terrible soul. A
terrible soul is he. He calls for your
all. He calls with gall. And he takes
you. Yessiree! Louisville Courier
Journal. .
Aviation Notes.
A German chemical plant which
yields much hydrogen gas as a byprod
uct has built a three mile pipe line to
supply It to dirigible balloons.
A "dummy aeroplane secured to a
we call weeds are more essential to
the well being of the world than the
, most precious fruit or grain. Haw
thorne. , f 'o-. .
.i... .ynn Mining
ONCE A FAST, NOT A FEAST.
Thanksgiving Was Not Fatal to Tur
keys In Early Days.
Turkey did not figure in the original
Thanksgiving "feast, but it became a
feature of that historic meal so long
ago that the reason is lost in oblivion.
On the original Thanksgiving day the
pilgrim fathers fasted and gave verbal
thanks that they had been saved from
the perils of the gea and permitted to
find a home in the new land Giving
up every sort of occupation and spend
ing the time in Bible reading and in
prayer, the colonists regarded it as ati
annual occasion of much solemnity.
It was not until thirteen years after
the'' settling of "Massachusetts that
Thanksgiving day received, official
cognizance, although it was generally
observed by churchgoing and after a
few years of stern fasting a better
dinner than was served on week days.
Thus by degrees the feature of the
great day became the dinner that ac
companied it ,
.A Candy Cornucopia.
A cornucopia formed of nougat or
white -candy makes an effective table
decoration at Thanksgiving and has
the added advantage that the children
can break it up and eat it afterward.
It may be filled with candied oranges
and grapes, marrons glaces and other
nuts.
ORPHANS NEED HELP
St. Agnes Baby Home is one of the
most interesting- charitable institu
tions in this part of the state, and the
good work accomplished is difficult to
define. Anything concerning children
is certain to make a popular appeal to
the public, and at Thanksgiving time
the tiny orphans should be generous
ly remembered by those more fortun
ate. All homeless babies are received
at the St. Agnes Baby Home, regard
less of religion's and creeds, and as
the institution is of necessity not self
supporting, it deserves unselfish as
sistance from the public.
The home is ideally situated on the
banks of the -Clackamas, and the chil
dren enjoy the unlimited freedom and
fresh air so necessary to their well
being. A visit to the home is well worth
anybody's time and is sure to awaken
an interest in the work being done.
SIRES AND SONS.
Yuan Shih Kai, who has been elect
ed president of the Chinese republic for
a term of five years, is fifty-four years
old and has spent most of his adult
life in official service.'
Dr. C. C. Bass, to whom the Ameri
can Medical association has awarded
its annual medal, is a resident of New
Orleans. The award was made in rec
ognition of his success in cultivating
the malarial parasite. -t
The patent office has reported a par
tial list of nearly 500 patents issued to
negroes, among them twenty-seven to
Granville T. Words of New York for
electrical devices, many of which are
in use throughout the country.
Henry Carter Adams, who will go to
China in the capacity of general fiscal
adviser, is professor of political econ
omy at the University of Michigan.
He will aid a government commission
appointed for standardization of xec
ords and accounts of government rev
enues. Alexander M. Thackara, who was re
cently promoted from consul general at
Berlin to consul general at Paris, grad
uated from -Annapolis Navai academy
in 1869 and resigned from-the service
in 1882 to take charge of a manufac
turing business. Mrs. Thackara is a
daughter of General William T. Sher:
man.
Pen, Chisel and Brush.
J. O. Davidson, who will execute
the bust of Ambassador Page, is an
American sculptor whose work has at
tracted marked attention in the last
few years. ... -
Madison" Cawein, the "homespun"
poet dedicates his new volume of
verse,. 'Minions of tlfe Moon." to "All
children Wg and little, who have ever
believed Or still believe in faeries."
Alban Jasper Conant for whom Abra
ham Lincoln satf or'apoj-trait before
he became president, recently celebrat
ed his ninety-third birthday in the New
York studio which he has occupied for
more than thirty years. Active in
mind, he still enjoys fairly good health,
and every day finds him busy with his
.brush. . '
. English Etchings.
" '"
- Sixty men emigrate from England
for every forty women. '
London's zoological garden, in Re
gent's park, was founded in 1828.
Except in, the Indian, service, Brit
ish army nurses are not allowed to
dance in the stations where they are
at work. Tne .order was issued two
years ago.
The Bank of England is not the lar
gest bank in England. . Its deposits
amount to $326,770,000, while the de
posits of the London County and West
minster are $410,500,000, those of the
London City and Midland $426,000,000
and those of Lloyd's 5433,648.000. .
- Of Course. - -
Of course your own- way of earning
a living is the hardest way there is.
Chicago News. ' , '
g ADE'S
THANKSGIVING 4
FAITH.
5 Here is a story apropos of
Thanksgiving' for which George j
Ade, the humorist, is directly re- J
sponsible.
"The only time 1 ever believed
in the transmigration of souls
was one frosty November after-'
noon on my Indiana farm," he 4
said to some friends not long ago.
T "It was a day or two before j
a Thanksgiving. The trees were
T bare. The fields were a russet t
brown color. Toward mever
those russet fields strutted a very
plump, very large, very young 4,
turkey. j
"Then it was that an ardent $
g belief in the doctrine of metemp- T
sychosis seized me.
T " 'You.' I said to the superb J
4 bird 'you are how a turkey. And J
J you will die tomorrow. But j
cheer up. Your next transmi-
X gration will be into the body of a
T humorist not unknown to fame.' "'
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H. t
THE HORN OF PLENTY AS A
SYMBOL OF THANKSGIVING.
The cornucopia, or horn of fruitful
ness and abundance, always used by
the Greeks and Romans as the symbol
of plenty, is an apt expression of the
sentiment that prevails on Thanksgiv
ing day. Filled with fruits and flow
ers, it makes one of the most charming
of centerpieces for the Thanksgiving
dinner table. The contents should be
arranged so that the cornucopia is over
flowing, the fruits and flowers running
out of the horn and over the table.
" A cornucopia may be made of wire
covered with silk, or again with linen,
or it might be made of cardboard on
which vines or autumn leaves are
sewed. The leaves of the galax, which
do not fade, could be used, although
one should prefer the beautiful black
berry vine, which at this season is al
ways at its best in color. The leaves
of the vine should be made to run uf
toward the mouth of the horn and
trail about its edges, suggesting a horn
being wound about with them. Flow
ers, too, should fall about the brim sc
that fidelity to the originaj idea might
be preserved.
A Thanksgiving Prayer.
GOOD thing to read on Thanks
giving day, if one feels that th
trials and tribulations of tht
year outweigh the compensa
tions, is the prayer of Roberl
Louis Stevenson, the poet, writ
ten during his last illness in Sa
moa. It breathes the very es
sence of the Thanksgiving spirit
A
o Here-lt is:
"Ule tbanh thee for tbts place In
wbtcb we dwell ; for the love that unites
us; for the peace accorded us tbts day 1
for the hope with which we expect the
tomorrow j for the health, the worh, the
food and the bright shies that mahe
our lives delightful j for our friends In
all parts of the earth."
Goose and Turkey Rivals.
The goose may soon replace the clas
sic bird which now forms the apex oi
most Thanksgiving feasts if the ad
vice of some food experts is followed
According to them, the turkey Is lm
mature before Christmas, being put
through a system of forcing to get tc
the proper weight and fatness. While
its flesh is all right as far as health
goes, its flavor is not at its best until
Christmas, when it really becomes the
king of fowls. On the other hand, the
flesh of the goose has reached its per
fection at Thanksgiving time.
Pride Goes Before a Fall.
"Stop!"
.The word was hissed by a goose just
as a gobbler with all sails set strutted
by. But the proud bird, intent on ad
miring his own plumage, ignored the
command.-"
"Humph," sniffed the envious an
serine. "He's all puffed up because he
heard the farmer say Thanksgiving
would be his day to enter society."
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WHAT THANKSGIVING MEANS
-H. ,H.
To the small boy .
Turkey and cranberry sauce.
TO the debutante
The first dance of the season.
To the farmer and florist;-
Big business.
To the wanderer .
..- Home.
To the mother .
The family will all be ther
To the father . .
More carving to da -To
the collegian .- .
Football.
To the tired shopgirl
A holiday. -
To the chef
"" . ' . -. Extra "work. :
- Arts. '
We praise the arf of talking. To display
It we are proud.
We think there s something clerer In con
versing right out loud.
We dodge the art of listening, and to learn
It we are slOvr
But the art of saying something Is the
art that we should" know. - .
Cincinnati Enquirer
Safety. ' -'"
. "Yoir- say you made a fortune as i
merchant In the City of Mexico?"
:' I had a little Idea that brongrnt
thousands to me. I established bomb
proof rest rooras:"--Kansas City Join
al. .
Catholics and Episcopalians Will
Have Own Ways of fiememb-
ing the Day Lutherans
to Have Meeting
The Methodist, Congregational.
Presbyterian.-United Bretheran and
Evangelical churches will hold a union
Thanksgiving service in the Presby
terian church' this morning at 10:00
o'clock a. m., Rev. W. T. Milliken of
the First Baptist church will give the
address. The Presbyterian choir will
sing as an offertory, "Be Joyful Air
Ye Land," by Adams, and Mrs. Leon
Des Larzes will give "A Song of
Thanksgiving," by Allitsen.
St. John's Catholic church will hold
services on Thanksgiving with high
mass at 9:00 o'clock a. m. with a short
sermon and benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament after mass. ,
At St. Paul's Episcopal church there
will be celebration of the oly Com
munion at 7:30 and again at 10:30
o'clock, when "the rector, Rev. C. W.
Robinson, will give an address. The'
annual Thanksgiving offering is for
the benefit of the Good Samaritan
hospital. The decorations are elabor
ate, consisting of a great variety of
fruits and grains, and special music
has -been arranged.
Thanksgiving day. will be observed
at Zion Lutheran church with special
services at 10:30 in the morning and
7:45 in the evening. Rev. W. R. Krax-
berger will be in charge, and special
music has been arranged by the choir.
The offering is for the benefit of Pa
cific Theological Seminary.
FIGHT AGAINST THE
PLAGUE IS NOW ON
In order to aid in the fight againsi
tuberculosis in this state and in the
country at large, the women of this '
city, under the direction of the State
Federation of Women's clubs, will sell
the "Red Cross" stamps.
- The stamps will be placed on sale
in many of the stores. Last year
7200 were sold and this year an effort
will be made to dispose of their full
consignment of 10,000.
Ten per cent of the money raised in
Oregon will aid in the fight against
the plague in this state whi le the
remaining 90 per cent will go to the
national American Red Cross society.
LITTLE DEMAND FOR
Though Thanksgiving is here, "the
tone of the markets in the turkey
trade was slow Wednesday and many
of the birds that were sent in were not
of the best grade. The orders were
not as large as formerly and the de
man was generally weak.
The same condition spread through
the trade for dressed chickens though
the supplies have been liberal
Oranges dropped in price while onions
remained firm. Country killed calves
are scarce and the supplies limited.
Livestock, Meats
BEEF (Live weight) steers
7c;
cows 6c; bulls 4 to 6c.
MUTTON Sheep 3 to 4c; lambs,
5 10 otec. '
POULTRY (buying) Hens llc;
old roosters 9c broilers 11c.
SAtJSAGE 15c lb.
PORK 10 to Kmc. ,
VEAL Calves 12 to 13c dressed,
according to grade.
DUCKS (Live) 13c; geese, 12c :
turkeys, 20c.
- APPLES 50c and $1.
DRIED FRUITS (Buying) Prunes
on basis 4 for 3oJto 40c.
ONIONS 51 pe sack.
-POTATOES 75 and 85c.
BUTTER (Buying) Ordinary
country butter 23c to 25c.
EGGS Oregon ranch, 45c'
Prevailing Oregon City priGes are
as follows: ' ii : -
HIDES buying Green salted, 10c.
OATS (buying) f 23.50 and $24.50
wheat 77c and 78c; oil-meal selling
$38; Shady Brook feed $1.25 per cent.
CORN Whole corn $36; cracked
$37. - .' .
SHEEP PELTS 75c to $1-50 eacn.
FLOUR-$4.30 to $5.
-HAY (buying) Clover, at $9 and
$10 ; timothy $13 and $14; ; at hay best
$10 and $11; mixed $9 to $13; Idaho
and eastern Oregon; timothy selling
$20; valley timothy $15 to $16.
FEED-r-(selHng) Shorts. $24.50;
bran $22.50; feed barley $30 to $31.
ATHLETICS LEAP
Connie 'Mack's - world's champions
led the St. Louis Browns by one point
in fielding during thel913 Anerican ,
league season,'" according to the offi
cial averages. The" Athletics finished
with the percentage of ,966 for 153
gamesLand the lowly Browns had the -average.
of .965. Cleveland, Chicago,
Boston,- Washington, New Tork and
Detroit followed in the order -named. ,
v , : v
Medfor Sun: The Harvard men
can now cease to glare ferociously at '
Yale meiu They had -no glare coming,-
for the Yale fruitgrowers ot th--valley
outshipped Harvard" orcharaifts
two cars and gained' 15 boxes on them
yesterday..... . " .
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