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:9 if r Which do you want xua vuui uu urui- v J V XVV V A VAX nary plug or lasting tobacco satisfaction. Peyton Brand Real Gravely Chewing Plug 10c a pouch and worth it Gmvelylattt lomachlomgtritcxutt omor9tockwtlam ordinary ping P. B. Gravely Tobcco Company DanvUle, Virginia Russell Morji.in and Tabor lloyl ark sin inlma: a vacation al the Tillamook beaches. Married: Al Vancouver. Wn. Ausr. f, 1 ! I S. Homer Piirdin am Cclia I remit, both of Forest Cirovc. w... I'll. e w mil. rcuii, oi jmimoii. was down to the city Monday, s;et tin; some work done on a ;.-i engine. Mr. ami Mrs. Thos. Murphy came in from Mountaiii.lale, luesti.-iy, to bi.l their son. Frank. enroll tc to Camp Fremont, fare well. Francis I.. Johnson, of Shady Brook, was in town Friday on probate business eonnecteil with the estate of the late Sarah C. Jackson. For Sale Four-foot lir wood, first growth, ami ash wood, at reasonable price, delivered. C. Bei-liimyr, near Newton. P. (). address, Hillsboro, R. 5. 22-1 Christian Science Society Sunday services at 11 o'clock: Sunday School at 10:15; Wed nesday evening meetings at S, at Vita Hall, 1228 Washington Street. tf Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Grabel and Ed.Lenard and wife, of Portland, were out to the A. W. Walker ranch last week. Mr. Lenard is interested in the Seward Hotel in the Rose City. For Sale- Horse, good driver, will work anywhere; make a good mail route animal. No use for him. Will sell cheap. J. A. Hobbs. Phone, Cornelius Cen tral, East 3. 22-3 Max Crandall, the accounting exK-rt, says that the government is ikmv short of men in this class of work, and his (inn has hail a request from the Federal author ities, asking for help on the in come tax problems. State Fair, Salem, Oregon. September 23-28. Splendid ex hibits, excellent music, high class entertainments and a su perb racing card. For particu lars write A. II. Lea. Secretary. Salem, Oregon. 22-5 Mrs. Nellie Berg, formerly of Beaverlon, died in Portland, on August ;t, 1918, aged 27 years; wife of Theodore l!erg. Mrs. Berg was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones, of Ueaver ton. The funeral was held on Wednesday and interment wasj in the Rivereicw Cemetery. For Sale (iood sorrel horse, II years, weight about 1050; fine worker, driver or saddle horse, with harness, $45. A bar gain. Also hack and 3't wagon, $25. A. C. Sellers, Manning place, l2 miles north of Hills- Mrs. C. C. Friek ami son, F.arl. are visiting friends ill Portland. A. C. Mulloy ami Finis L. Brown were over from Laurel Tuesday morning. Born, to J. S. VanAkin and wife, of near Blooming, Aug. 1. U)IS, a daughter. B. Lcis. owner of the Aetna Orchards, below Beaverlon. was in the city Saturday. (ieorge Zimmerman, of beyond North Plains, was a city caller the last of the week. Married: At Vancouver, Wn.. Aug. 5. 10 IS, Walter Willis and Miss Eva Milan, of Forest drove. Editor Jonas, of Bcaverton. was in the city Saturday, ami made a fraternal call on the Ar gus. U. G. Gardner and wife are taking a vacation at the Tilla mook beaches, making the trip over in the car. Mrs. (ieorge McBreen, whose husband is in the aviation ser vice at a Virginia aero field, w as up from below Hazeldale Satur day. The Buchanan warehouse is receiving new wheat every day. and at times there are a dozen teams in line awaiting the unloading. The last payment on tlte Third l.mertv Loan is Utie not later than Aug. 15. All who arc pay ing on installment are reqiiestei to be prompt. Hillsboro Na tional Bank. Bruce Sebulmerieh, of Scholls was up Saturday, with his fami lv. Bruce has 11 acres of onions in on the Collier ranch, and on eleven acres of it will get an av erage crop as crops go this year Mrs. Sylvia Tucker, of Clarks ton, Wash., arrived the last of the week for a few days' visit with her mother, Mrs. M. A. Powell, ami went to Itoekaway yesterday, accompanied lv her daughter, Maude. Charles F. Lard, of Portland working in one of the shipyards was out I uesday, greeting friens. Chas. says that ship building at present has it over working on a newspaper but he'll go back to the art preserva me atter a wiuie. J lie v an do. vt m. Hanson, oi tenons, lias finished threshing at the Ladd ft Reed farm, and had some fields there that went 35 bushels to the acre. The average yield on the entire Winter wheat crop of the ranch was in the neighborhood of 25 bushels. W. R. Frentzt 1 anil wife, at present making headquarters al Boise, Idaho, were here the first of the week, shipping personal holdings" to the (Jem state. W. It. made the trip down in a Reo and Returns in the same way. Ib is still making East of the moun tains for a Portland wholesale shoe house. boro on road passim; the Hiifli School. tf According to tint last school census Washington County had 8,102 pupils of school age, ages between 1 and 20 inclusive. On the basis of this census the coun- .y .s reee v,.,g iroin me Oiair L C. Hoeffcl, of below Witch school fund an apportionment of ,Iajscl was , l()Wn S,,tima.,. L. $14,936.10 for the county school c ,1M ))ne yf J(()Ury treasury. v. i, in ,i. ,.,..., .,,,,1 ir;ms i turned out 30,000 eggs in one month recently. Mr. Hoc (Tel has two sons in the service, one, L. L., being with the IKilh En gineers in France, and the oilier. Harry, being at Fort Riley, with the Medical Corps. Hugh Rogers was down to Marshfield and North Bend last week. He says that he saw ami talked with Peter Lorsung, well known here, one of the selective draft for Camp McDowell a few weeks ago. Peter could not pass the Army surgeons, allho he got by the local board at Marshfield and the Bend. Heart trouble was what sent him back home. He, is working in the shipyards. Homer C. Atwell, of Forest Grove, was this week appointed fruit inspector for Multnomah County. Mr. Atwell is an oreh ardist of repute, and was nt one time the postmaster at Forest Grove. He has been fruit in spector of Washington County for a term, and knows the fruit game from start to finish. Mr. Atwell was recommended bv Henry E. Docsch, of near Hills dale. J. M. Iliutt, of above Forest Grove, was down Tuesday. Mel says that no blame can be at tached to the condition of the highway as causing the W'ahl disaster, as there, was 17 feet of good roadbed on which to travel where the mac-bine went over the grade, the accident was no doubt due to the lack of lights. Mrs. A. E. Mnrrow departed for Rogue River, Southern Ore gon, Saturday morning, after an ! extended visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Linton, of F.ast of Sewell. She was ucconi ' panied South by Miss Edna Mc- ; Kelvy, who will spena me nuut l mer with the Murrows, and then ri'fnrn to teach the Meachnni school. Carl W. Watson, son of Ira w.u., rf above Banks, was . f - - - severely wounded on the front at France recently, ana ms num.. was in the casualty list ot I ue day's papers. Young Watson was in the Marines and is 21 yemru of age. As lucre i "-" port to the contrary it is sup posed that lie is convalescing and will soon be all right. Jos. J. Ingram, of near Farm ington. was up to the county seat Monday, Lieut. Lambert Wood, whose parents live at Garden. Home, is reported killed in action on the American front. For Sale Two full-blooded O. I. C. sows to farrow litter latter part of October, second litter. Also a Sharplcss cream separa tor in good condition. G. A. Wciscnbach. Hillsboro, Ore., R. 3. 21 -a Win. Meierjergen. of north of Orcnco, was in Monday. Ho says that much Winter wheat is yield ing around 20 bushels per acre out his way, and that one field went as high as 23. The lowest yields are around 12 and 15 bushels. E. A. Eddy, of Tualatin, was in the city Monday morning. He thinks there is absolutely no doubt but that Bennett Thomp son was in the Tompiin ami Mul loy country the next morning af ter bis escape from the state prison, but thinks he has gotten clear out of the country by this time. Pioneer James II. Campbell, of the pathfinders of 1SU, died near Lehman Springs, I'ntatilla County, August i. IfilS. He was in his 100th year, and hail been in excellent health considering his age. He sustained a slight fall a few weeks ago and this seemed to break him down. When he first came to Orcsron he settled in the Willamette Val ley, and later moved to Vaneou-! ver. Four children survive- Mrs. A. B. Chapman, of Pendleton ; Edwin Campbell, of Portland;! John B. Campbell, of Hillsboro, 1 Route 3, beyond North Plains, i and Mrs. Anna I.eeser, of Echo. ' G. C. McCormiek, of Garden Home, was up to the city Mon day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Flint, of Scholls, were in the city Satur day afternoon. Louis Wirfs and Ethel Wil liams, of Cornelius; and Herbert L. Johnstone ami Itol Adler, have been granted licenses to wed, by Clerk Kuratli. So far as reported at this writ ing, the best yield of Winter grain so far is credited to Hobt, llai-trampf's ranch, near Jolly Plains, 37 bushels being the reg ister per acre. The Gartman & Robinson saw mill has rough lumber for $10 per thousand, and slab wood. 25 cents per cord tit mill. Call on or write Gartman N Robinson, Mountaiiidale, P. O. ; Meiieham's Crossing on the east fork of Dai ry Creek. 21 3 O. Phelps has about completed a new body for his Cadillac ear, ami for home work it is pretty tolerable classy. When he gets it finished up properly he will have something that will look like a Munition and it has pretty good "innards" to support its appearance. Ten miles on the bridges with antes is rather slow, but it is the law and it's mighty hard for some drivers to keep their toe oil' the accelerator when they reach the long bridge wist of town. But the speed cop has tlii tit buffaloed ami when you see six or seven eats on the big trestle it reminds you of a funeral procession. The speed on the road between hers and Forest Grove is noted these days for its reasonableness. And all this.of course, is due to the speed cop business, which has been thriving lately. Oregon lias now licensed In ' twecn fifty and sixty thousand ! aulos, and the list will still grow; .some before the year is over, ! i August L. Weisc and Agatha ( Beekwith, of Gaston, have been : granted license to wed, lliC groom having the consent of the: bride's mother to file with the clerk. Judge Reasoner tied Un knot August 1. i Mrs. Einil VanAekcrc, of near Cornelius, was in the city Tiles day. llcr husband is now inter preter at his headquarters in French ami Belgian, ami a recent cablegram to his wife stated that he was getting along line, but (hat all of his company had gone to the front July 15, he be ing detailed to stay to translate the tongues which he speaks. Mrs. VanAekcrc had with her the little son the father has nev er seen. Land for Sale About 20 acres extra good land, mile from S, P. Station, north of Uccdvillc; ' .. mile from Oregon Electric; ' acre line oak grove; balance is cleared land in paving crop: is ideal for poultry yard; u'ood ' school ; church; on mail ami milk routes; ll! miles from Portland; no buildings. Near new stale highway between Hillsboro and , Portland, uow ready for paving. Write owner, P.O. Box 27, Iteedville, Ore. 213 VETCH SEED I here will be no vetch seed liar ! v ested in the Northwest this year j and the supply of carry-over, seed is not large. We now have ; some Need in and advise our eus tomcrs to secure their needs ear- , lv. ! C. B. Buchanan & Co. ! THE TRUTH ABOUT CANDY- How Does Candy Compare in Food Val ue With Other Well Known hoods? Food value Is based on calories, which are the degrees of food value. Taking a pound of good, standard quality chocolate creams such as you buy In nil first class stores, we find thai CHOCOLATE CREAMS HAVE 2092 CALORIES PER POUND As Against Thia We Find; Whole Milk 315 Calories Cream .8H 1 Calories Whole Eggs tit'fl Calories Beefsteak I0!0 Calories Com Ititift Calories Riee , ll'i'JO Calories While Brea.l I I 80 Calories Corn Bread . I 175 Calories The one big event which has established candy as a food i this tremendous war. This w ar has put cv ci v thing to the acid Ii si and onl v thai u hieh is lit sun jv es. For instance, there was a time when rum and whiskev wen thought to supply I he ideal bodily fuel. But today the acid ! -.1 of war has proven In yond a donbl Ilia! alcohol is a thing of lie mi as a food product. On the ollu-r hand, candy, which went into the war praclc illv uureeogni.ed, h is come to the front as a food of trciin ndoi . i bp' and something which is very, very essential to the soldier. The British Army reports that its soldier in Frame lino re quired live limes the amount of candy that was expected. A constant stream of candy, aggregating many Ion-., is goinc regularly to our own soldiers in France while thousand of lie. are used weekly by the boys in training-camps in this eoiinliv That is because candy supplies a normal craving for some thing sweet to supply the bodily need for eai hohv drales ( fio I foi the system). Thai's why candy is becoming Iceognied as n food instead of a luxury. It happens to be the wav in which most , pie like best to supply their system wild the fin I il needs, Im normal limi lh lUiAr iMHitrtr uae onlt i Mt ril al lh ur u.l wf mpiU wi ihu country. KiaM mm Inu mwt tut rMn cut aitMirlr In Iwu. The Candy Manufacturer of Oretjon ase tin iitare T Upon the Fast HIS COMPANY IS ONE OF PORTLAND'S MOST IMPORTANT Pl'BLIC I TII.ITII.S. IT'S BIG GENERATING PLANT AT GAS( (), NOW PRODUCING 7,500,000 CCBIC FEET OF GAS DAILY, IS ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE COCN'TltY. FROM THIS PLANT IS SUP PLIED THE GAS FOR PORTLAND, VANCOUVER, OREGON CITY, GUI'S HAM, FOREST GROVE, HILLSBORO AND THE TEH It I TORY BETWEEN. OVER fio.ooo METERS ARE SERVED THROUGH 1.0 to MILES OF GAS MAINS. PORTLAND GAS & COKE COMPANY HAS PAID 7 PER CENT DIVI DENDS REGULARLY UPON ITS PREFERRED STOCK. NOW, WITH A NEED OF CAPITAL TO EXPAND OUR SERVICE IN KEEPING WITH DEMANDS, WE ARE OFFERING FOR THE FIRST TIME PREFERRED STOCK DIRECTLY TO OUR CUSTOMERS. ! 7 per cent Preferred Stock Available to Patrons on Cash or Partial Payments FOR CASH YOU MAY PURCHASE AS MANY SHARES AS YOU DESIRE, OR AS WE MAY HAVE TO OFFER, THE PRICE BEING loo PER SHARE, PLUS THE ACCRUED DIVIDEND TO DATE OF PAYME NT. ON PARTIAL PAYMENTS YOU MAY SECURE ANY NUMBER OF SHARES UP TO US, PAYING iflo PER SHARE DOWN AND $10 PER SHARE EACH MONTH UNTIL THE PURCHASE PRICE OF I0() PER SHARE IS PAID - FINAL PAYMENT TO INCLUDE ACCRUED DIV DEND FROM THE LAST PRECEDING DIVIDEND DATE. A Safe Partial Payment Plan SHOULD PURCHASERS OF STOCK ON TIME PAYMENTS FAIL TO MAINTAIN THEIR PAYMENTS, OR FOR ANY REASON WISH TO WITHDRAW, ALL MONEY' PAID IN WILL BE RETURNED WITH (i PER CENT INTEREST, UPON 10 DAYS NOTICE TO THE COMPANY AT ANY TIME PRIOR TO DATE OF FINAL PAYMENT. Quarterly Dividend Dates THE DIVIDEND DATES FOR THIS PREFERRED STOCK ARE- FEBRUARY 1ST, MAY 1ST, AUGUST 1ST, AND NOVEMBER 1ST. AN INVESTMENT IN THIS STOCK PROVIDES A SOURCE OF INCOME WHICH HAS PROVED ITSELF RELIABLE. Where the Stock May Be Purchased ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES ARE THOROUGHLY FAMILIAR WITH THE DETAILS OF THIS PLAN TO INTEREST PATRONS FI NANCIALLY IN A BUSINESS WHICH TIIEY KNOW AND PATRONIZE. ASK ANY EMPLOYEE ABOUT IT; INQUIRE AT THE GENERAL OF FICES, OR ANY BRANCH OFFICE. IF MORE CONVENIENT, A REQU EST BY TELEPHONE OR MAIL WILL BRING YOU FULL PARTICU LARS, WITHOUT OBLIGATION. ORTLAND GAS & COKE CO. General Offices and Salesrooms, Gasco BIdg., Fifth and Alder Sts., Portland "Passed by the Capital Issues Committee as not incompatible with the Na tional Interest, but without approval of legality, validity, worth or security. Opinion No. A 630." HILLSBORO STATION, L. F. McPheeters, Hillsboro Drug Co., 1207 Main St. Serial No. 10. r f