THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN; PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 15, 1907.
STATE IS HELPED
By ADVERTISING
Rich Harvest Is Reaped in
Settlers and Actual
Money Invested.
MANY COME TO OREGON
Xiow Colonist Kates Are Also At
tracting Thousands of Settlers.
Counties and Cities Get Good
Returns From Advertising.
PARTIAL KKSn.TS OF PRESENT
STATE ADVERTISING
CAMPAIGN.
Number of commercial bodies ad
vertising Oregon, 75.
Cost of advertising Portland, $1100.
Inquiries received therefrom. 16,000
Colonists arrived, March and
April. lf07, Oregon, 14,000.
Colonists arriving dally, Portland,
75.
Average wealth of colonists, 2000.
Cash returns advertising state six
months, J40.000.000.
Total advertising cost, 125.00O.
Advertising Benton County, $400.
Cash returns from colonists for
land, 8 months. $800,000.
Yearly permanent profit on adver
tising money. W)00 per cent.
Tearly profit forever on $1 adver
tising money, $500.
Total population thus added to
Oregon In 6 months, 100.000.
Five thousand per cent yearly Income
on the" money Invested, $40,000,000 total,
Is the profit estimated" from the present
advertising rampalpn being conducted by
the Oregon Development .League, accord
ing to Tom Richardson, of the Portland
Commercial Club.
"Nothing like 1t has ever been known
In positive tangible results In America,"
Bald Mr. Richardson yesterday. "Oregon
ss a whole has so far this year Invested
$125,000 in advertising the towns, cities
and counties of Oregon.and also the stato
In general, and the fact that the Trans
continental Passenger Association is
granting special low rates till October 31
only to colonists is also of great benefit
to the state. The returns have been al
most beyond belief.
"For instance: The Portland Commer
cial Club has invested $1100 In display ads
In various farm papers, and journals
covering a circulation of 7,000,000 readers.
From our investment this club alone has
received over 16.000 answers. We not only
reply to each one ourselves in the manner
that each inquiry seems to demand, by
letter, printed matter, maps, newspapers,
or any other Information tho writer hap
pens to want, but we al.so pass this list
on to the 75 commercial bodies out over
the state, which compose the Oregon De
velopment League. Theso organizations
In turn bombard the 18,000, prospective
colonists with Information of various
kinds. But added to this list- of names
are the lists, each body has of Its own.
The result Is wonderful.
"According to the railroads, as proved
by the tickets for this low rate, collected
last March and April, over 14,000 people
came Into this state to live this year.
Most of them came from the Middle West.
Iowa led in those she sent to us. with
Minnesota a close second. Ninety-four per
cent of the newcomers are Americans,
and practically all of them have been
people who sold out back there and came
here with an average of $2000 apiece.
But few were young men looking for
land to take up. Most of the newcomers
bought farms outright. In Benton County,
for example, $400 was invested in advertis
ing this rate and so far this year the
records show that over $600,000 was In
vested in Benton County land by the
colonists. There Is a return of 150,000 per
cent on the money Invested. But Benton
County is successful above the average.
Still all told Oregon this year lias on
the Investment of $125,000 received about
$2R,000,000 cash return from money the
colonists have actually brought from the
Middle West to this state and invested,
mostly in farms. Add $12,000,000 as a very
low estimate of the increased values. In
all ways such an increase of population
and cash capital has brought to the state
and you have $40,000,000 as the return of
$123,000 invested in state advertising. Has
this ever been equalled In the United
States before, or in the world for that
matter. 1n either Government or private
advertising?
"It is safe to say that for every $1 in
vested in advertising the state this year
iwe have received $500 in return. Of
course It cannot be reduced to the exact
conditions of a bank statement, but as
near as any man can calculate it thbse
ere about the figures.
"The league has not only used display
Space but has invoked that best of all
advertisements, the personal letter. Prizes
FREE CONTEST FOR CASH
PRIZES.
$3000 in cash prises for articles
published about Pacific Northwest:
First prize ...$1000
Second prise.
500
Third prize 250
Fourth prize 200
Fifth prize 175
Sixth prize 150
Seventh prize 125
Eighth prize 110
Ninth prize 100
Tenth prize 00
Ten prizes of $75 each 750
Ten prizes of $50 each 500
Ten prizes of $25 each . 250
Twenty prizes of $15 each 300
Twenty prizes of $10 each 2O0
Three Judges to be named by
Hon. George E. Chamberlain,
Governor of Oregon 300
Grand total $5000
Open to the world (except Oregon
and Washington publications). Guar
anteed by Portland Commercial Club.
Free from all monetary conditions.
are offered In various towns to the school
boy or girl who writes the best personal
letter East to another, telling about the
chances out here in Oregon. Then there
Is this $5000 contest of the Portland Com
mercial Club for the best articles pub
lished in papers anywhere except In
Washington and Oregon. This money Is
guaranteed by the leading men of Port
land, and Is absolutely free. The only
requirements are as follows:
"Articles must appear in a regular
edition of some newspaper or other
publication dated on -or before Decem
ber 31,. 1907, printed outside of the
states of Oregon and Washington, said
publication (complete) to be in the
hands of the Judges no later than Feb
ruary 1, 1908. Articles must be sealed
and addressed to 'Prize Contest, care
Portland Commercial Club, Portland,
Or." They will be opened by the judges
Prizes will be strictly on the merits of
the articles. Contestants can treat any
phase of the subject that appeals to
them Natural Resources, Scenery, Ir
rigation, Agriculture and Horticulture,
Timber, Dairying, History, Educational
and Religious Advantages, Climate, So
cial Conditions, etc., or In a more com
prehensive vein. The judges will be
absolutely untrammeled in making
their decisions.
"Now here is one thing I want to call
particular attention to: These colonist
rates may never be granted again, be
cause of the laws about rates recently
passed. These rates apply to all parts
of the West. That means that the
state that does the best advertising:
right now gets the best returns. Ore
gon must fight practically all the other
Western states for colonists, to say
nothing of Canada. So the best rustler
among the states gets tYt lion's share
of the people coming this way. The
state that works the hardest right now
and for the next few weeks gets the
best. ' -
"This Is not a home-seekers' rate, nor
granted by any one railroad. Tickets
under the old scheme were sold only
from certain points to other certain
points on certain trains and days of
the week. This rate is over all the
lines in America, good on all ordinary
trains, and on sale every day while- it
lasts.
"Of the various towns and cities
Corvallis got the best results, 600O
answers all told. Astoria is spending
the most money, not even excepting
Portland. Portland is receiving about
250 replies a day right now, all new
ones, too. The country papers all over
the state deserve the greatest credit,
perhaps, outside the commercial bodies
themselves, for many of them keep the
table of rates running at the head of
their editorial columns, or on the front
page of every Issue, and that costs
money."
At the Chamber of Commerce it was
learned that hundreds of new colonists
are arriving in Portland daily. How
many are reaching the other points in
the state direct cannot now be cal
culated with any sense of surety, but
the indications are that the months
of September and October will far ex
ceed tho months of March and April
In the settlers attracted to Oregon.
The railroads coming Into Portland
report that more people are arriving
daily in this city than during the Expo
sitions The baggage rooms are Jammed
full, and surplus baggage has to be
piled up outside under the shed till
there Is room for It Inside. Four box
cars of baggage stand in the station
yet unloaded. The people arriving are,
by the tickets collected by the O. R.
& N. for the week ending September 8,
as follows: Reached Huntington this
year, 1450; last year, 687. Of these
1450 newcomers 245 went to Portland;
345 to Pugct Sound points; 126 to
Spokane; 457 to points north of Port-
SPECIAL, LOW RATES TO ORE
GON. Special- low colonist rates. . Good
only till October 31, 1907. From .
every railroad station In America
and Canada to all points in Oregon. '
Good on all railroads. Good (flrst
class) on all: regular trains. Free
stop-overs at all points. Points
east of Umatilla, $2.50 less. For
sale every day till October 81. May
be last low rate ever given.
From Kansas City. $25; St. Joseph,
$25; Leavenworth, $25; AtchlBon, $25;
Council Bluffs, $25; Omaha, $25;
Sioux City. $25; St. Paul, $25; Min
neapolis, $25; Duluth, $25; Winnipeg,
$25; Dos Moines, la., $20; St. Louis,
Mo., $30; Oklahoma, O. T., $30;
Peoria. III., $31; Chicago, III, $33;
Evansvlile. Ind., $35; Indianapolis,
$35.85; Memphis, Tenn., $37.50;
Louisville, Ky., $38; Cincinnati, O.,
$38; Detroit, Mich., $30.30; Cleveland,
O.. $30.78; Nashville, ' Tenn., $40;
Pittsburg, Pa., $41; Toronto, Ont.,
$41.05; Buffalo, N. T., $42.50; Birm
ingham, Ala., $44.50; Atlanta, Ga,
$46.75; Ashevllle, N. C. $46.85; Mo
bile, Ala., 46.85; Washington, D. C,
$48.25; Montreal. Que., $48.60; Phila
delphia, Pa.. $411.75; Baltimore, Md.,
$40.25: Boston, Mass., $49.90; New
York City, $50.
land; and the rest were distributed to
Baker City, Walla Walla, Pendleton,
Hood River, The Dalles and other
points In the state.
AIM BLOW AT POLYGAMY
Methodists Would Give Government
Power to Suppress Practice.
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 14. (Spe
cial.) The Puget Sound Methodist
Conference today unanimously adopted
a series of resolutions demanding that
Congress submit a constitutional
amendment giving the Federal Govern
ment power to punish polygamlsts. It
Is declared in the resolutions that the
Mormons have not kept faith with the
Federal Government, and are still prac
tising polygamy. The states are aaid
to be powerless to enforce state laws,
because of Mormon activity In local
politics, and the Methodists Insist that
the Federal Government be given au
thority to regulate the creed.
The resolutions were offered by the
reform committee without any previous
notice and were adopted without any
debate by a rising vote.
The following ministerial delegates
were elected today to the national con
ference: Presiding Elder B. F. Brooks, of Ta
coma district; Presiding Elder S. S.
Sulliger, Bellingham district; Presid
ing Elder George A. Landen. Centralia
district, and President E. M. Randall,
of the National Epworth League, who.
is still attached to this conference and
reports from Seattle.
The full list of lay delegates Is: F. A.
Hazoltine, South Bend; O. P. Callahan,
Bellingham; L. E. Klrkpatrick, Seattle,
and AV. P. Hopping, Tacoma.
SCHOOL CAPS.
Children's school caps, all styles and
colors, 25c, 35c and 50c; children's
heavy school hose, 12c a pair. Great
special values Monday and Tuesday in
table linen, wool blankets and lace
curtains. McAllen & McDonnell;- the
store noted for best goods at lowest
prices.
Says He Has Big Cucumber.
PORTLAND. Sept. 15. (To the Ed
itor.) In Fridayfs Oregonian is an
article headed, "That Big Cucumber."
Now, I have a cucumber that was
picked oft the vine more than a week
ago, that still weighs 3 pounds 3
ounces, and measures 14 inches in
length and 11 Inches in circumfer
ence. It would have weighed several
ounces more when freshly picked. It
is of the Long Green variety, and
grew in dry ground. They attain a
large size before the seeds form. It
has been suggested I exhibit It at'the
Pure Food Show. A. WEBFOOT.
GERMANY
i
OF FLEET'S MOVE
Hinted That This Nation Is
Cause of Hurried Transfer
- to the Pacific.
TREATIES BIND NATIONS
England Must Help Japan if Latter
Fights- Two ' Powers at Once,
Hence Little Cbance of Jap
" anese-Amerlcan War.
BY CHAUNCET TPOMAS.
According to certain powers that be the
real reason why the American fleet of
battleships is being rushed to the Pacific
rests in one word Germany.
Considerable speculation Is in the air
concerning the real motives of the War
Department, although perhaps not over
half a dozen men in America can tell just
the reason why the big boats should
leave- the large Eastern cities "exposed"
at this time, and hurry into- Western
waters. The war talk involving Japan is
more or less Idle International gossip.
Japan Is out of money, and could not
fight without the financial backing of
some wealthy nation. Then there is stllf
another reason, why a war with Japan is
practically out of the question: Japan Is
under treaty with England to assist Eng
land if England gets into armed trouble;
in return England must help Japan in
case Japan is fighting two powers of the
first class.
If Japan crossed .swords with the
United States at present Russia would
without doubt lose no time in digging up
the hatchet and sweeping down into Man
churia and Corea. This would pit Japan
against two first-class powers indeed,)
and, according to treaty, England would
then have to fight the United States.
Japan Cannot Fight America.
The idea of England and America at
war over the brown man is absurd;
hence if Japan let herself be dragged into
a war with America she would find her
self against not only Russia and Amer
ica, but without any help; in fact if
necessary for international or territorial
reasons, England would no doubt side
with America under almost any1 circum
stances. So the chance of wAr with Ja
pan is small' lnjdeed now and for some
time to come.
The troubles between hobos in San
Francisco and the Japanese are of the
same caliber as the tempest in a teapot
in Vancouver between the Canadians and
the Hindus. Neither is of more import
ance in an international sense than the
recent black and white riot in Atlanta.
But the American fleet is hurrying to
the Pacific; and with every evidence of
something serious in view. The Ameri
can vessels in thePhllippine waters have
Just come home to the Golden Gate. Why?
Perhaps because Germany has more float
ing metal in the Pacific just now than
has the United States and thin-skinned
cruisers are safer for a few weeks under
the guns of the Golden Gate than thou
sands of miles away from all help in the
Philippines.
Panama Canal a New Feature.
Russia, another power on the Pacific
In the long runi has no fleet, so our
warships are not looking for bear. And
if America feared the only other Pa
cific power she would surely keep the fleet
near the big cities on our Eastern sea
board. The Panama canal will soon put
a new piece on the board of the interna
tional chess game that never ends. Only
within the past three years Germany
came within a hair's breadth of getting
San Domingo. Nothing prevented it but
the menance of American guns, and the
problem was not solved, but merely post
poned, by President Roosevelt's taking
practical control of the black republic,
but whose efforts 'were practically re
versed for political reasons within our
own borders.
Within the past year Secretary Root,
one of the two right-hand men of Presi
dent Roosevelt, has made a tour of South
America, the one continent where Ger
many hopes to get a permanent foothold.
At the present time the other right-hand
man. Secretary of War Taft, and perhaps
the next President of the United States,
is on his way to the Philippines, then
direct to Germany, where he will have a
talk with the Kaiser. The next Congress
will no doubt undertake to revise the
tariff, and the American tariff has always
been a sore point with Germany.
Germany wants, and for trade purposes
badly needs, a stronger foothold in the
Orient. During the late Spanish war Ger
many several times put a chip on her
shoulder in Manila bay.
Swinging for a moment nearer home:
Only last week Secretary of The Navy
Metcalf made s hurried trip along the
Pacific Coast in person, then direct back
to Washington and to the President. At
once the sailing time of the battleship
fleet was hurried up one month, changed
from December 17 to November 17.
Turning again to a wider view: Eng
land and Germany have not been on over
cordial terms concerning world trade for
the past decade. "Made In Germany" has
become a hated trade term in England.
Selling German steel in Sheffield has
rankled the Englishman for the past ten
years. -
"With all the above facts to judge from,
no one need be surprised if a deal either
to take or to buy the Philippines suddenly
bears fruit with the root in Germany. The
interests of England and America on the
Pacific are too nearly alike to give rise
to the slightest war cloud; and with the
American fleet in Pacific waters no Ger
man fleet will ever try to reach the east
ern coast of America. If it does. It will
naturally And the English fleet between it
and home, a situation more dangerous to
Germany than to anyone else. If the
American fleet, after cruising Pacific
waters, finds them still pacific and returns
to the eastern seaboard. It will probably
mean that the Kaiser has thought better
of whatever he may now have In hand or
mind. Such will no doubt be the outcome
of the present movement of the American
battle fleet, but behind it all lie hidden
the real reasons of which few men are in
a position even to hint.
SUES MRS. BAUMGARTNER
Man Run Over by Automobile Would
Collect $15,000 Damages.
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 14. (Special,)
Edward B. Evans, the employe of the
Postal Telegraph Company who was
knocked down by an automobile on First
TALENTED ACTOR WINS RECOGNITION.
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(, 4i VtUti n 1-ir.r. iHMTO a-l.i m.i-tt
Lee Wlllard.
The career of Lee Wlllard, who has
appeared here during the past week in
"A Texas Ranger," is of unusual in
terest. It also serves as an incentive
to all young men and women who
undertake the stage as a" career. Mr.
Wlllard is a graduate of Washington
State University arid a young star of
scholastic attainments. He , has ap
peared' In Portland a number of times
and has always left a favorable Im
pression. He Is ambitious, to reach
the highest levels to which an Ameri
can actor may attain and seems like
ly to do so. He has the unmistak
able touch of genius which is required
of those who seek success in sock and
buskin, and if no untoward thing hap
pens him he is sure to make his
mark. Those who have watched his
work feel very sure that Lee Wlllard
will soon assume the position he de
serves to occupy as one of the really
great American actors. ,
avenue, driven by Mrs. F. P. Baumgart
ner, of Portland, a few days ago, today
began suit against Mrs. Baumgartner and
her husband for $15,000 damages.
Evans alleges in his suit that the auto
mobile dashed around a street corner with
great speed and ran over him, severely
Injuring him. Evans was riding a bicycle
at the time he was struck. Mrs. Baum
gartner was in Seattle visiting her mother,
and had brought north with her the auto
mobile, with which she won the first prize
in the Portland rose show.
Road, Beyond Law's Reach.
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept 14. (Special.)
A coroner's jury today held that the Great
Northern switch engine which struck and
killed M. Tsukuno, a Japanese banker and
business man, while he was on his way to
the Great Northern dock with flowers for
Judge Thomas Burke, Banker M. F.
Backus, Ambassador Thomas J. O'Brien
and others, was running at the rate of 25
miles an hour, in violation of the city
ordinance. The jury endeavored to hold
the railroad responsible for the accident,
but the point where the killing occurred
is just outside the speed limits.
KILLS RATS FOR A LIVING?
NO, HE DOES IT AS AN ART
Laik, Rat-Catcher Extraordinary of Russia, Has Come to Portland to
Bid the Town of Rodent Pests.
THOSE persons who have believed
heretofore that cats and poison
were the surest mediums for killing
rats and mloe must-necessarily revise
their, views of the matter. Neither
cats nor poison have anything to do
with modern rat-killing. The up-to-date
extirpator . of rodent pests is of
the human family, and he relies on no
assistance from the feline species or
from the mixtures of. chemists.
The peer of human rat-killers, the
man who relieved Russia of its sur
plus rodents "back In the plague days,
has Just been hired by the local health
authorities to apply his art to local
pests. The term art is used for. the
sufficient reason that this slayer of
rats and mice has placed his work on
an artistic basis. It is elevated above
the mere skillful handling of imple
ments which marks the artisan. With
him. It is a matter of temperament, of
Innate understanding and study and
long experience. He has mastered the
psychology and habits of the rodent
tribe, until mice simply stand In line
for the honor of being put out of ex
istence by his masterly method.
The mice-killer's name is Laik. He
emanates from Russia, where for sev
en years he was official rat-slayer in
the City of Odessa. His services were
secured yesterday by the health au
thorities, and his salary is provided
for under the City Council's, special
enactment of recent date.
Laik will begin operations bright
and early tomorrow morning. Health
Commissioner Pohl has instructed him
to apply his genius first to the water
front. - He will accordingly open hos
tilities in ' that vicinity, and continue
until the last of the rodent hosts is
dead.
Laik, -who Is a Russian Jew, past E0.
bearded and silent, declines to speak
of his methods. Not even the city
authorities are able to learn how he
operates. In fact, he says it would be
impossible to describe his modus op
erandi, for the reason that, like the
work of other artists, intuition plays
so large a part in what he does. He
warrants results, however, and brings
a long string of credentials to show
that his is a master hand when it
comes to exterminating pests. His
most recent commission was to rid the
City Park of its rodent inhabitants,
and in this he was eminently success
ful. There has been some speculation as
to how Laik operates. Some say he
uses a subtle lure in the shape of a
chemical compound, and then sprays
the hapless creatures with deadly
poison. Others Insist that he follows
the time-honored formula of posting
himself at a rat-hole and making a
noise similar to that produced by a
piece of cheese. However this may
be he gets the results, and that is
what counts. It is claimed for him
that in one pest-rldd.i . coriimunity he
deprived some 91,000 rats of their, cor
poreal existence.
Do not for a moment get the Idea
that Portland is swarming with rats
or mice or any other pests, excepting;
perhaps, a few pessimists. Rodent
pests are really scarce out this way.
but following the general policy of
improvement, it Is the desire of the
city to do away with everything in' the
rat line that at present infests the
community. Wharf rats will go first,
and then a new Held of operation will
be provided for the city's new official,
whose formal designatn is Chief of
the Bureau for Extirpation of RaU.
VACATION DAYS ARE OVER
FALL TERM OPENS TOMORROW
IX ALL SCHOOLS.
Increased Attendance "Will Result in
. Crowding of Many Buildings Xew
Ones Are Still Unfinished.
To the average person of mature years
today is Sunday day of rest and peace
and tranquility. To the juvenile mind it
is an occasion of more far-reaching sig
nificance the day before school opens.
Willie and Johnny and Harry must es
chew the shady swimming pool, the rip
pling Ashing place, the inviting hills and
the places that are dear to the youthful
heart In vacation time. It Is arithmetic
reading, spelling and grammar that must
hold his attention henceforth. He must
forget the cooling river and the wily trout
for the less pleasing but infinitely more
necessary requirements of algebra, Latin,
geology, natural history and the like;
while Nellie and Florence and Jessie
must put aside pretty Summer dreams for
the .more material pleasure of. ascertain
ing what 2 y plus 3x equals.
Indications are that there will be an un
precedented Increase of attendance over
the opening of the Fall term in the
Portland schools last year. In fact the
probable Increase is placed somewhere be
1000 and 2000, which means that many of
the schools will be crowded for a time,
for the additions and new school struc
tures are mainly unfinished, even as last
year.
When school opened last September
some 13,964 children responded to the cali
of Dame Erudition. It was more than
there was room for at the time. The
days had to be divided in order to ac
commodate the pupils of several crowded
buildings, although, of course, none was
turned away.
This year the estimate of probable at
tendance is fixed In the neighborhood of
from 16,000 to 17,000; in which event there
will be more overcrowding, temporarily at
least, and the corps of 620 teachers may
have to be increased. Only one of the
half-dozen school additions has been com
pleted and this is a two-room affair at
Irvington. At Portsmouth, Vernon, Cres
ton, Arleta, Montavilla ' and Terwilliger
the additional schoolrooms have yet to be
completed. . At Arleta half-day classes
will doubtless be required for some con
siderable time to come, that all may be
accommodated. The new Vernon school
is far from ready.
Several da-s must elapse before the
schools will be -able to settle down , to
routine work, owing to changes of text
books. These changes apply to all classes
except those graduating with the end of
the Fall term.
The county schools, as well as those
of the city, open their doors tomorrow,
and a heavy enrollment is looked for
in the rural places of learning. All
county schools open in the morning
excepting three, which began the Fall
term last Monday, the Russelvllle.
Sandy Road and Cedar schools. Changes
of text books occur also in the county
schools.
BLANKETED STORE'S SIGN
Furniture Company Complains
Against Foster & Kleiser.
Acting on a complaint filed with the
City Auditor by the Independent Fur
niture Company, the City Council will
be asked to declare the Foster & Klei
ser billboards at the southeast corner
of First and Morrison streets a
nuisance, and a detriment to the mer
chants of that vicinity. M. M Sugar
man, manager of the company, says
that when he rented the store at-106
First street, his people were ap
proached by representatives of Foster
& Kleiser who desired to bill the two
story wall on the south side of the
building. The firm offered to paint
one-half of tho wall with the sign of
the furniture company and use the
other half for other signs. Mr. Sugar
man did not accept this offer, as he
wanted the entire wall for his advert
tieement, but told the representative of
Foster & Kleiser that he would con
sider their offer to paint his sign on
the wall. The man made a bid which
seemed too high, and Mr. Sugarman
would give no answer. He looked up
other sign painters and receiving
lower bids, refused to give the work
to Foster & Kleiser.
On the next visit of the representa
tive of Foster & Kleiser, Mr. Sugar
man told him that he had given the
work to another painter. Whereupon
the representative of the eignboard
people told him that should the work
be done by an opposition firm Foster
& Kleiser would place 20-foot signs
all around the building, thus shutting
in the Independent Furniture sign from
view. Mr. Sugarman told him to go
ahead, and gave the work to an inde
pendent signpalnter.
Inside of two weeks Foster & Klei
ser carried out their threat and raised
20-foot signs around the Independent
Furniture Company's sign, completely
hiding it from view. On the sign
boards were placed advertisements of
other furniture companies.
Hence Mr. Sugarman's appeal to the
Council.
Changes In Oregon City Schools.
OREGON CITY, Or., 'Sept 14. (Spe
cial.) Olaude Turrell was this after
noon elected principal of the East ham
Building by the board of directors of
the city schools, succeeding Mrs. Viola
Seattle, Portland, San Francisco
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jL&tmons
Headquarters for everything hnt I rlscht In
Clove. Oct tbe I.ennon bablt and bar rout slovf-B
of a specialist. We bave devoted a lifetime to the
Blove busiaeaa aad know how to avoid the perils
of buying poor Rloves - a mistake buyers often
make though their intent Inaa are good.
New Fall Gloves New Styles
NEW COLORS: Commencing Monday, Septem
ber 16, we offer the following special bargains:
Womens' Gloves
Women's 16-bntton length pure silk, patent tips,
, heavy weight, mousquetaire style with clasps;
regular $2.00 qnality, but we have too many
small sizes in black. Black, sizes 5V2 and 6
being elastic, will fit 6V2 hands; $2.00 QQ
qnality, pair OI7C
Women's elbow-length Kid Gloves, Lennon's Su
perior Quality; black, white and C0 OC
colors; $3.50 quality, pair t3
Women's 1-clasp fine kid; black, white 'TO
and colors; $1.25 value, pair IC
Women's genuine Dent's, one-clasp, hand-sewn,
outseam Cape Walking Gloves; $2 J1 Cfl
value, pair pl.OU
Men's Gloves
Men's Pique Kid Gloves, men's Pearl Castor
Gloves, men's outseam Cape Gloves, C1 1 C
$1.60 value, pair pL,XJ
Men's genuine Dent's hand-sewn outseam Cape
Walking Gloves; $2.25 value, jJJ
Men's "NAPABUCK" Gauntlet, the ideal glove
for motoring; greaseproof and waterproof; the
only lightweight glove that is really tough and
soft; worth $3.00; our price, jJ yg
Umbrella Specials
Men's and women's guaranteed American Taffeta,
tight-rolling, neatly cased; stylish natural wood
handles; 26 and 28-inch, worth - ff
$1.50 and $1.75; sale price..... pX.JJ
Women's tape-edge Union Taffeta, with 50 styles
of the latest novelties in handles; f1 QC
$2.75 values .P '
Lennon's Umbrella Hospital
. Doctor Ivennon and his expert assistants are
prepared to handle the must difficult cases. Bring
in that umbrella you were thinking at discarding.
"Better than New" is our motto. New covers from
65e upwards.
WiiAA, 7
MAIL. ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED
309 Morrison St.
Opposite Post Office
M. Godfrey, .who resigned - to take
charge of the Willamette School. - Mr.
Turrell 1b 28 years of age and a native
of Michigan! He is a resident of Mil
waukee. i -
Mrs. Beatrice Harrison, of Portland,
was elected teacher of the first primary
grade of the Eastham Building, to suc
ceed Miss Frances Myers, who has
been elected teacher of the second
grade in the Harrison School at Port
land. Mrs. Harrison formerly taught
in the public schools of Portland and
for the last three years has been in
the Tillamook City Schools. Her prep
aration was acquired at Grand Rapids,
Mich.
and is typical Irish. Mr. MacManus Is
a hard worker and will devote to lit
erary labors, much ot the., time- he
spends among Donegal's gray hills.
The name of his cottage is Dun Ethna.
OREGON MEN IN IT.
A Big Thing for the State and a Big
' ger Thing for Those Personally
Interested.
On another page Is given a full ac
count of gold-dredging operations in
Eastern Oregon along Burnt River
where from 70J0 to $25,003 In gold is
the range of yield per acre over 12,000
acres of dredging land acquired by the
Western Dredging & Developing Co.
Colonel C. E. S. Wood Is president and
F. M. Batchelor secretary and general
manager. This is one of the biggest
mining enterprises in the West and
its success is merely a matter of the
time required to get the dredges in
full swing. There Is nothing proble
matical about this kind of mining.
McManus on "Ould" Sod.
New York Sun.
Eeamus MacManus' American friends
are In receipt of postal cards from him
which bear a picture of the little vil
lage of Mountcharles, in Donegal, Ire
land, and the hill behind it on which
stands the cottage where the Irish
writer is spending the Summer.
Montcharles is situated near the shores
of Donegal Bay, on the north side.
Comb Out?
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the scalp healthy. Does not color the hair.
We hate no secrets 1 We publish
the formulas of all our medicines.
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