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MORNING ENTERPRISE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1913.
MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS
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MORNING ENTERPRISE
OREGON CITY, OREGON
E. E. BRODIE -
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CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER.
PRACTICAL THINGS in education are the favorites nowadays in all
educational circles. The address of Frank Welles of the office of the
state superintendent before the teachers of Clackamas county last week
emphasized this feature of the work of the country schools. He declared
that the trend of the times is toward the simplification of the courses of study
in all of the schools and the abolition of all of those things that are useless to
the child in after life.
Professor J. E. Calavan, county superintendent, has also that positive idea
in the administration of the public school system of the county. He thinks
that the schools of the county should be used to train the child for after life
not to stuff his head full of things for which he will never have the slight
est use.
Under the old system of education, the faculties of the schools filled their
courses with things and studies that the average child never had the slightest
use for in his after life and that merely served to crowd out of his mind some
of the other things that might have proved of real benefit to him. There ha?
been, in the past, too much of that sort of work. The courses have been too
full of useless, trivial things. They have crowded out the real aims and pur
poses of education the preparation of the child for after life.
The leaders of education have come to the point where they now realize
all of this and the past few years have worked a tremendous revolution along
this line. Now all of the county superintendents who are keeping apace with
the trend of the times are inducing their various boards to cut out all of
the useless work and teach those practical courses that give to the child some
vital facts that will beneficially prepare him for his after career.
The school is the training camp for the young player on the diamond of
life. The boy with the mechanical turn of mind should be given those op
portunities that will give him the fundamentals of his chosen work. From
the schools often come some of the country's greatest inventors or mechan
icians. Early in his school life, the trend of the child's mind is shown by the
studies in which he excels. He should then be given a specialized course in
those elements of that study that will be of benefit to him when he becomes
a man and that will prove useful when he goes into the business or profession
al world.
The problem of making the courses of study practical has grown finer
even than this. The county superintendent, for instance, believes, in cutting
from those practical courses in the schools all that is useless and trivial and
teaching to the students only those parts of the studies that will be of real
value later after they have finished their education and the training that they
have received in school beings to be used.
Mathematics, for an example, is an essential in education. But there are
features of the courses in that study for which the child has not the slightest
use in later life and that merely take his time and crowd his mind when lie
ought to be devoting his energies in other ways. What good does the knowl
edge of cube root do a child who may become a lawyer ? What benefit does
he gain from one-third of the matter that is nowadays crowded into the text
books or that was thrown in there only a few years ago ? The essential thin
in mathematics is the knowledge of addition and substraction. From that
basis, all of the problems of the average man or woman are worked. A
thorough knowledge of that subject is an essential in all courses that are de
vised for schools because upon it hinges most of the business dealings in later
life. . " 1 .
And yet, it is a fact that a large proportion of those students who pass
through the educational mill have not a working knowledge of the subject
and cannot figure for themselves any of the daily problems with which they
are confronted in the ordinary course of business. Of what use, 'then, is all
of this other matter that their heads have been crowded with during their
school life and that has driven out the very essentials that the school is ex
pected to give the child? - - . '
"Reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic" are still the essentials of education,
though some of our text books seem to have forgotten that idea long ago and
to have tried to crowd into their pages all of the foreign matter that could
possibly be placed there.
The same principle applies to English. No man is an educator today in
the true sense of the word whose works are filled with words that stretch
across half a line of type. Simplicity of words, concentration of thought in
the shortest possible space and sentences, is now the keynote of a true educa
tion. The man whose habits call for large words is nowadays a freak. The
best and most prominent leaders in thought no longer use extensive phrases
if they can be avoided and the best writers of all times have won their hold
upon literature because of the strength of sentence and simplicity of expres
sion. This is the principle of the reform in educational circles all over the coun
try and particularly in Clackamas county. It is the keynote to Superintendent
Calavan's administration. Practical things in education mean a useful edu
cation that trains the boy or girl for later life,:;-;
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it. Good credit opens the door of,
fortune.
The Bank of Oregon City
3 LBBST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
1-
TRADE
17 1-2 acres of fine beaver
dam land, 1 1-2 miles from Mc
Minnville, all improved. Price
4000.00; will exchange for
equal value in Oregon City
property or acreage near this
city. This property is free
from incumbrance and title
guaranteed.
DILLMAN & HOWLAND
Heart to Heart
Talks
Much of the Blind ness In the World
Can and Should Be Ended Forever
By HELEN KELLER, Remarkable Blind and Deaf Mute
I WAS blind; now I see. I was deaf; now I hear. I was dumb; now I
speak. The hands of others wrought this miracle in me.
I am glad to think of what the blind can do, because their brave
accomplishments prove, absolutely prove, what people with five senses
can do.
They show what good servants the brain and the senses can be when
they WORK TOGETHER. You who see raise your eyes and behold
the sun and moon, the earth, the ocean and the faces of men.
We who are blind stretch out our hands and know all the softness of
growing things, all the sweet ways of children, all the endearments of
human affection. But the senses alone are not enough. It is only when
they are united with IMAGINATION AND THOUGHT and feeling
that they acquire their full value.
THOSE WHO ARE BLIND KNOW HOW TO BE BLIND. THEY
MUST ALSO LEARN HOW TO WORK TOGETHER WITH THE SEE
ING SO THAT EVERY BLIND CHILD MAY BE TAUGHT, EVERY
BLIND MAN AND WOMAN HELPED. WE CAN. WE MUST UNITE
SO THAT MUCH OF THE BLINDNESS IN THE WORLD SHALL BE
ENDED FOREVER.
CATTLE PRICES HOLD
STEADY FOR WEEK
Receipts for the week at Portland
stock yards have been: Cattle 757,
calves 18, hogs 4330, sheep 5144,
horses 103.
Cattle market holdings steady for
top quality, with steers selling at $7.50
for best stuff. More medium grade
cattle were offered than choice. Cow
stuff was about the same grade of
poor quality that has been - offered
for some time, selling from $4,50 to
$5.75 with just one lot selling for 6
cents. Prime light calves are worth
$9.00, heavy ones $6.00 to $7.75. Bulls
featured from $5.50 to $6.25. Stags
steady.
A big run of hogs for the first of
the week, but tops still held at 8 cents
for three loads Monday and the week
closed strong with fifteen loads for
the open market and top quality still
going at 8 cents and this price is apt
to hold until stock show season. The
show is billed December 8-13 and will
attract shippers from the entire
northwest and is the largest show
ever held west of the Rockies.
Sheep receipts were increased from
every northwestern state this week,
still the sum total was not exception
ally large, but what the run lacked in
quantity it amply, made up in quality.
Prime ewes brought $4.00 again and
choice wethers $4.75 to $5.00 for ex
ceptional quality and lambs elicited a
$6.00 bid with the market closing on
a firm basis.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Real estate transfers filed with the
county recorder, Monday are as fol
lows: W. E. Simpson to Ida E. Simpson,
lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 in block 4, Mountain
View addition to Oregon City; $1.
Julia A. L. Casto to Charles W.
Casto and wife, W. 1-2, W. 1-2 S. W.
of section 32 township 3 south,
range 2 east; $1.
Nora Criswell and Charles Criswell
to Estella Criswell, 20 acres in W. i
sections 3 and 10, township 3south,
range 2 east; $1.
Nora Criswell and Estella Criswell
to Charley Criswell, lot 1, block 148,
Oregon City and part of section 10,
township 3 south, range 2 east; $1.
Charley .Criswell and Estella Cris
well to Nora Criswell, parts of sec
tions and 10, township 3 south, range
2 east; $1.
UNCLAIMED LETTERS
7c;
Livestock, Meats
BEEF (Live weight) steers
cows 6c; bulls 4 to 6c.
MUTTON Sheep 3 to 4c; lambs,
a to 6Hc.
POULTRY (buying) Hens 12c;
old roosters 9c; broilers 11c.
SAUSAGE 15c lb.
PORK 10 to 10c. '
VEAL Calves 12 to 13c dressed,
according to grade.
DUCKS (Live) 13c; geese, 12c;
APPLES 50c and $1.
DRIED FRUITS (Buying) Prunes
on basis 4 for 35 to 49c.
ONIONS $1 pei sack.
POTATOES 75 and 85c.
BUTTER (Buying) Ordinary
country butter 23c to 25c.
EGGS Oregon ranch, 45c.
Prevailing Oregon City' prices are
as follows:
HIDES buying Green salted, 10c.
OATS (buying) $23.50 and $24.50
wheat 77c and 78c; oil meal selling
$38; Shady Brook feed $1.30.
CORN Whole corn $36; cracked
$37.
SHEEP PELTS 75c to $1.50 eacn.
FLOUR $4.30 to $5.
HAY (buying) Clover, at $8 and
$9; timothy $13 and $14; oat hay best
$10 and $11; mixed $9 to $12; Idaho
and eastern Oregon timothy selling
$20; valley timothy $15 to $16.
FEED (selling) Shorts $24.50;
bran $22.50; feed barley $30 to $31.
There is yet time this year for Ciu
dad Juraz to be captured three or four
times. -
The classified acs columns of The
Enterprise satisfy your wants. .
The following is a list of unclaimed
letters at the Oregon City postoffice
for the week ending November 28,
1913:
Women's list Cox, Miss Wilda;
Kremer, Mrs. John; Mitchell, M audit:;
Palmer, E. H.; Stroller, Edith, Tag
gard; Mrs. Ida; Throves, Grace.
Men's list Borlan, Arthur, Camp
bell, W. R.; Denlin, R.; Gunther, Hen
ry; Jones, Charles;; Lanig, G. W.; Mc
Clain, D.; Nadeau, Joseph; Nixon,
James; Petty, James (2); Purdy,
Claire N.; Powell, Cyrus;; Wikert,
Wm. N.
CITY STATISTICS
LARSEN Born, Sunday, Novem
ber 30, to the wife of L. M. H. Larsen,
905 John Adams street, a daughter.
You forget that you are an adult and
demand an equal intelligence and real
ization of right and wrong from those
who have neither the reasoning fac
ulty nor the experience to see life as
plainly as you behold it.
"Boarded up."
In the hot weather in the city, when
the houses cast no refreshing shadows
such as lie under the trees and along
the fence rows in the country, there
are two melancholy sights.
One of them is to be seen in the
slums. There men and women and
little children sweat and pant and
live their lives among sights and
sounds and odors which defile the air
and make it pestilential.
The other lies "uptown," where the
wealthy folks live when they are in
town. Now they are summering by
seashore or lakeside or in the cool,
breezy mountains. Their houses stand
tenant less, with doors and windows
boarded up.
You may walk along row after row
of houses of the wealthy without find
ing one open.
In the slums the gutters swarm.
In the rich districts you may walk
squares without seeing any one save
an occasional watchman or caretaker.
The quarters of the wealthy are al
most as deserted as the ruins of Baby
lon. At night one might almost hear
in fancy the hooting of the owl and
the yelping of the jackal that make
the silence more pronounced in the
wreck that was Nineveh.
Too often do the rich board up them
selves as well as their houses. Be
tween them and their brothers, the
poor, is a wall of gold that shuts out
human sympathy.
They are "boarded up."
They hoard their treasures of wealth
and art as in summer they close up
their mansions. In winter the houses
are occupied for a brief time between
Sittings to winter resorts. Most of the
year the town houses are closed.
So it is with their sympathies. They
close them up as they do their houses.
Every city, every town and villa has
its dividing line between its rich dis
trict and its poor quarter. Beyond it
the poor may not pass and the rich
do not care to travel.
They board themselves up.
Not all, of course. Some there be
who keep open all the year round the
houses of their love and brotherliness,
who do not Inclose themselves within
their own four walls and forget the
world without.
Of such are the true philanthropists,
"lovers of man," who work in hot
weather and in cold for the advance
ment of their fellow men. They are
invested with the sense of the brother
hood of man, and they garb themselves
in the robes of charity and forget the
rich raiment to which, in virtue of
their worldly wealth, they are en
titled. Which, think you, shine the brighter?
Helping Oneself.
Remember that every man at times
stumbles and has to be helped up; if
he's down you cannot carry him. The
only way in which any man can be
helped permanently Is to help himself.
Theodore Roosevelt
GRANDMOTHER USED SUfiE TEA TO i
DARKEN HER FADED OR GRAY HAIR
Mixed With Sulphur It
Makes Hair Soft, Beau
tiful Cures Dandruff
The on of Bare and Sulphur
for restoring faded, gray hair to
Its natural color dates back to
grandmother's time. She kept
her hair beautifully darkened,
(lossy and abundant with a brew
of Sage Tea and Sulphur. When
ever her hair tell out or took on
that dull, faded or streaked ap
pearanoe this simple mixture was
Applied with wonderful effect.
But the Brewing at home Is
aanssr and out-of-date. Nowadays
killed chemists do this better
than ourselves. By asking at any
drag store for the ready-to-use
produet called "Wyeth's Sac
And 8ulphur Hair Remedy" you
"will tut a large bottle for about
50 oents. Some druggists make
their own, which Is usually too
sticky, so Insist upon getting
Wyeth's, which can be depended
upon to restore natural color and
beauty to the hair, and la splendid
for dandruff, dry, feverish, itchy
scalp and falling hair.
A wen-known downtown drug
gist says his customers insist on
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur, be
cause, they say, It darkens bo nat
ually and evenly that nobody can
tell it has been applied it's so
easy to use, too. Tou simply
dampen a sponge or soft brush
and draw It through your hair,
taking one strand at a time. Do
this at night and by morning the
gray keir disappears; after an
other application or two, it Is re
stored to Us natural color and
looks glossy, ot aadabnlnV
nvll L-cr onv-o. U.
Adv.
WE REPAIR ANYTHING
AND EVERYTHING
MILLER-PARKER COMPANY
Next Door to Bonk of Oregon City
CUT FLOWERS AND POTTED PLANTS
Also all kinds of Fruit Trees, Roses and Shrubbery for sale at the
new green houses at Third and Center Streets. Funeral work done
at lowest possible prices. Orders received over phone Main 2511.
H. J. BIGGER
Ponderous.
Evelyn He's a very learned man.
You wouldn't think so. would you?
Natica Oh, yes. I suspected it at once.
Evelyn Indeed? Natica Tes. He
makes me so tired! London Illustrat
ed News.
Great Armor.
A habit of prayer and a sense of
humor forge invincible armor. Beth
Bradford Gilchrist
Wants, For Sale, Efc
MISCELLANEOUS
WANTED Work by the day by a
woman that will hustle. Call 150S
ICth street.
WANTED Work of any kind by edu
cated man of middle age. Address
"S.," care Enterprise.
Fm SALE.
FOR SALE Five or six acres on car
line, four miles from Oregon City;
easy cleared and level. Price $200
an acre. Enquire Enterprise office.
FOR SALE Two light wagons; good
as new. Inquire C. J. Hood, tele
phone Main 142.
FOR SALE, CHEAP Fine grade jer
sey -cows and heifers. Two miles
south of Oregon City on the river;
phone Main 2013, J. H. VanMeter.
FOR SALE Delivery wagon. August
Erickson. Phone Main 3051.
FOR SALE Two valuable oil paint
ings at a great bargain. Must sell
this week. Apply H. H. Finik, rcom
9, Barclay Bldg.
LOST AND FOUND
LOST Gold mesh watch fob, near
' skating rink at West Linn. Finder
return to Grace Wilson, Gladstone;
reward.
LOST Plan gold ladies watch; in
itials E. L. G. engraved on watch.
Lost on Main street. Reward for
return to Enterprise.
L. AUSTIN, the tailor, for men and
women. Suits made to your meas
ure, alterations and refitting. Prices
reasonable, Room 9, Barclay building.
WOOD AND COAL
OREGON CITY WOOD &. FUEL GO.
Wood and eoal, 4-foot and lS-inch
lengths, delivered to all parts of
city; sawing c specialty. Phone
yffur orders Pacific 1371, Home
A12. F. M. BLUHM
NOTICE OF ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that an elec
tion will be held in the City of West
. Linn; in Clackamas county, Oregon,
on the 31st day of December, 1913.
to determine whether the bound
aries of the said city of West Linn
shall be altered and extended to in
clude the following bounded and de
scribed tract, to-wit:
Beginning at a railroad tee "rail
set at a point on the south boundary
line of tract thirty-three (33) in Wil-
lamette Tracts, situate in Clack
amas county, Oregon, said point Is
on the boundary line of the town of
West Linn" in Clackamas county,
Oregon, and at a point which is N.
22 deg. 21 min. W. 995 feet distant
from an iron pipe set at the south
east corner of tract sixty-one in said
Willamette Tracts; thence wester
ly following the boundary line of
the town of Willamette in Clack
amas county, Oregon, to the south
west corner of tract 36 in said
Willamette Tracts; thence north
along the west boundary line of
tracts twentyfour (24) and thirty
six (36) to the center of the county
road on the west line of tract six
teen (16) ; thence northwesterly
along the center line of said county
road to the north boundary line of
said Willamette Tracts; thence
easterly following the boundary line
of said Willamette Tracts to an in
tersection with the boundary line of
said West Linn at a point on north
westerly side of the county road
from Oregon City to Willamette;
thence southwesterly along said
county road to the place of begin?
ning, all in Clackamas county, state
of Oregon.
And an election will also be held in
the territory so proposed to be an
nexed, on the same date and for the
same purpose.
Each of said elections will begin
at the hour of 8 o'clock a. m. and ,
continue until 8 o'clock p. m., of the
said day.
The polling place within the city
of West Linn will be at the city hall
therein, at the Willamette Falls
Railway station of the Portland, Eu
gene & Eastern Railway company
at the west end of the suspension
bridge, extending across the Wil
lamette river between West Linn
and Oregon City. The judges will
be L. L. Porter, L. L. Pickens and F.
Doty; the clerks will be N. C.
Michels, Moreita Hickman and Ella
Farmer.
The polling place within the ter
ritory proposed to be annexed will
be upon lot B of block 16, Willam
ette Tracts, according to the duly
. recorded plat thereof of record in
the office of the recorder of con
veyances of Clackamas county, Oret
gon. The judges will be D. W.
Farmer, Chas. Fromong and John
, Ryser; the clerks will be Geo. De-
Bok, W. J. Bartholemew and A.
Robinson.
That at said election the electors
will be invited to vote upon - sucn
proposition by placing upon their
ballots the words "for annexation"
or "against annexation."
By order of the common council of the
city of West Linn.
Dated, December 2, 1913.
L. L. PORTER, Recorder.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the County Court of the state of
Oregon, for Clackamas county.
In the matter of the Estate of Shelby
B. Shaver, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to the credit
' ors of, and all persons interested in,
said estate, that the undersigned
has been appointed by the above en
titled court, administrator of the es
tate of Shelby B. Shaver, deceased.
All persons having claims against
said estate are hereby required to
present the same, properly verified
to the undersigned at Oregon City,
Oregon, within six months from the
time of first publication of this no
tice. GEORGE M. SHAVER,
Administrator of the Estate of'
Shelby B. Shaver, Deceased.
CLARENCE L. EATON,
Attorney for Administrator.
203-4 Masonic Temple, Oregon
City, Oregon.
First publication, November 25,
1913.
NOTICE
In the matter of the estate of John C.
Jaeger, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has filed his final ac
count as administrator de bonis non
in the above named estate, and the
above named court has set the 12&
day of December, 1913, at the hor
of 1:00 p. m. of said day at the court
house of said county as the time
- and place for hearing any and all
objections to the allowance and ap
proval of said final account, and any
person desiring to file objections
thereto is required to file the same
with the said court prior to said
date.
, GUSTAV JAEGER,
Administrator de bonis hon of the
estate of John C. Jaeger, Deceased.
L. G. ICE. DENTIST
Beaver Bui'ding
Phones: Main 1221 or A-193 -
Pabst's Okay Specific
Does the worx. You all J r ((
know It by reputation. S.UU
Price Y
FOR SALE BY
JONES DRUG COMPANY
D. C. LATOTJRETTE, President
F. J. METER, Cashier.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF OREGON CITY, OREGON
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