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HILLSBORO, OREGON, JANUARY 9. 1919
NO. 44
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DAIRYMEN'S PROGRAM
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FROM SHOT OF RIFLE
Was Driving Cows to Barn When
Mauser Discharges, Shooting Leg
STRUCK COW WITH BREECH
Bullet Tore Throuuh Pocket In.
dieting Terrible Wound
Lliner Lavender, of the Si halcin,
died Monday nl Hie Washington
County Hospital, from the result
nf a gunshot wound received last
Thursday nt tin? ranch of his
father In law, Harry Wilton, on
Hie N'chalcin, several miles below
Timber, on the Veriioniu mail.
Young l.ttvelitler was driving
Nome cows, carrying with him n
big Mil user rille. lie struck one
of ! w lightly with the M .111-
M-r, not thinking Hint the gun
was loiiileil, the inuxxle being to
ward him. The rifle discharged
niul the bujlcl tore through his
trousers' oeket, tearing n great
hole in hit right leg, A piece of
his jack knife was driven into the
leg, iinil home parts of nilver coin
were alio fori eel into the wound.
A large portion of the tmue was
shattered and tilled with the de
bris from the knife nml money.
Dr, (iuy Via, of Itiixton, was call
eil ii lid did nil possible to allcvi
nte hit suffering, lie i brought
'into the Washington Comity Iioh
itiil, where nil X ray was tnken.
1 .o v I' iiile r gradually grew weak
er until tlie cm) mine early Mon
day morning.
The wound torn by the M miser
bullet will wo large thnt the phy
sician could illicit his Imutl in the
aperture.
I.nvi'iider ui united in marri
age to Mini Itillu Wilson, three
years ago. '1'here nre no chil
dren, the uiilow surviving.
Mr. Wilson, the father-in law,
came over with the wounded
man. Wilson is well known in
mid around Hunks, having work
ed for the Carslcns Bros, several
years ago when they were in the
milling business.
The remains of Mr. Lavender
were shipped to Vcrnouia, Tues
day, for interment. I'uderlaker
, I'rickclt. of Hanks, in charge.
BUILDING AN INDUSTRY
While there are plenty of influ
ences to make industries ilillieiilt
to manage, something rati be
done to build up many of them.
The Willamette river alone
could be made to add fifty or six-
million ebiiiook salmon fry to
th
Columbia if the slate supplied
ha 1 1
llerles.
The state should do its part
provided Washington did the
same to add young ii-.il stock lo
the great stream I hat is the stale
boundary.
Oregon and Washington .should
unite
on n program to rchalnli
the salmon industry and re-
talc
duci
Inteiisive destruction of the
lisle
licnes. It is the lirst duty of
state lo preserve and extend the
primary natural industries nml
th
product of lishcnes should
increased. Industrial He v levy
MILK $3.70
The Carnation Milk Co, is paying
$;t.7( for milk, the first, half of
January. This is a raise of 10
cents per ewt. over the price in
December. This is the best price
ever paid for milk in (he history
of dairying in Washington Coun
ty, ns was also the former pay
ment. ' .
Try the Argus, $ 1.50 a year.
Now For
Big Year
Start 1919 right by doing your
business through a bank. A check
is just as good as a receipt. We
are always ready to give your ac
count, however small or large,
courteous attention.
SHUTE SAVINGS BANK
. PROMPT : CONSERVATIVE : SAVE
('has. Sclimldliu, of above Bux
ton, writes his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. ('has, Scluuhlliii, under date
of Dee. (I, that he is nt n hospital
completely recovered from bis
experience in the battle to the
left of Verdun. He says:
"Left New York, Dec. 10;
passed Halifax and saw the ef
fects of the terrific explosion;
reached Liverpool Christmas
morning; on Christinas l'.ve we
were in the most dangerous of
submarine .ones, and were
obliged lo sleep on deck for the
three nights ending that day. We
then entrained and went to near
Southhampton. We crossed the
channel four days Inter and land
ed at Havre. Tour days were
spent there and we then spent 21
hours by rail, reaching .Severs,
slaying there until May 10, doing
guard duly. 1 was then sent 73
miles away to do guard duty
where a large lank factory was
being built between Issoudall
iinl Chateroux. Middle of June
I h fl to finish training for the
front. Middle of July was trans
ferred to the 1st Division, near
Pari. Last of July made my
lirst visit to the trenches. Was
at the St. Mihicl offensive al Ver
dun, r.nclosed you will find a
printed slip, showing our division
was complimented. The battle
mentioned took place to the left
of Verdun, facing Germany from
France. The Coiumandcr-in-Chief,
in his orders compliment
ing the 1st Division, said :
"Between Oct. II and 11 this
division met with resistance from
clement of H hostile divisions,
most of which were first-class
troops and some of them were
completely rested. The enemy
chose to defend if positions to
the death and the fighting was
always of the most desperate
kind. Throughout the opera
lions the ollieers and men of the
division displaced the highest
Ivpeof eon rage, fortitude and
self sacrificing devotion lo duty,
in addition lo many enemy killed
the division captured 1107 of the
in my, 1377 field guns, 10 trench
mortar and numerous machine
guns mid stores.
The Commander-in-Chief has
noted in this division a special
pride of service and a high state
of morale, never broken by hard
ship or battle."
MISS PEARL PATTON
Miss Pearl Patton, daughter of
the late H. C. l'atton and wife,
died in Portland, nt the St. Vin
tciits Hospital. Jan. 5, 19l!,
from nn attack of influcnxa. She
w as born nt Shady Brook, Feb.
12, 188(1. Her father died two
years ago, and her mother passed
away many years back. After the
leal It of her mother she made her
home with the Tompkins, of near
North Plains, Of her immediate
family she is survived by n broth
er, Page Patton, of Mason Hill,
Hie past few years a resident of
near Helvetia. The funeral took
place from the Limber Undertak
ing Parlors Tuesday, and inter
ment was in the Harrison Ceine
tey, near Mountaindalc. Miss
Patton was a niece of Leonard
and (ieo. Tompkins, of Hillsboro,
and of the Tompkins Brothers, of
above North Plain.
Registered Ciuernsey bull for
sale; 5 years old next Spring.
Sure breeder. Sire is Jeff Chief,
lH(i()(i; Dam, Yeksa Dewdrop
28187. Also a two weeks old
Guernsey Grade bull calf. Hi
dam gives (i gallons milk daily. A
ten spot will take this calf. J.
D. Koch, Cornelius. R. 2; Tele
phone Cornelia' 158. South of
Blooming. 41-0
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B. Leis, Beaverton Orchardist,
Says Returns Will Be Big
VALLEY CONDITIONS IDEAL
Spraying, Pruning, Cultivating,
Interestingly Dealt With
I'.ditor Argus: I think this is a
good time to remind our orchard
ists that it is the proper time to
start the next season's work and
to help them to the best of my
ability. I shall ask them docs it
pay to take care of your trees,
from n paying standpoint? To
begin with, from twenty-three 25
year old trees 1 sold over' $125
worth of tipples. All we had to do
was pick them and put them in
boxes, the buyer furnishing the
boxes and doing the packing. The
balance of my apples sold for
$1.50 per box nud 1 w as not able
to fill all of my orders.
My jinnies sold for nine cents
per pound and acres netted
me $1075 not so bad. Can any
one beat it with nny other crop?
I think not.
We have, as I have proved time
and again, the best soil for grow
ing fruit of any kind in the coun
try and there is no mistake about
it, but we are not doing it. It is
a common thing to hcc npplcs
that should have been raised
right at home w ith the Hood Riv
er label on the boxes, and you in-
ipiire w hy. The answer is we can
not gel nny clean fruit here, so
we have to get it elsewhere,
which is, I nm sorry to say, too
true. Well, who is to blame for
such a condition? There are some
lh.it I know w ho w ould be willing
and anxious to lake eare of their
trees but do not know how. Well,
I think the fruit inspector would
be the proper person to tell them
how to do this.
I am sorrv to say that Wash-
ington l ouiuy, in me w orn on
the late Milton Low nsdale, com
missioner of the first district, is
the most neglected enmity in the
state. For example, I noticed in
the budget the sum of 100 for
fruit inspector. Then I happened
to sec the Multnomah budget,
which was $1025 -some difference--and
I doubt if thnt $100
w ill be used up. The fruit inspec
tor is allowed $.1 a day and ex
penses, so vou will see that not
much can ne none, mere are
trees right here in mv neighbor
hood (and it is the swine all over
the county) that it would be a
blessing to the community if they
were made into firewood, ns they
are a disgrace to any community.
We mailt: a very good begin
ning ii few years ago, and it be
gan to look as if we were to raise
some clenn fruit, but n change
came 'over the spirit of our
action.
There are perhaps some who
will say; "I sprayed and it did
not do any good." That may be
true, but there are reasons. Per
haps you sprayed and you were
in too much of a hurry and did
not make a thorough job. I was
looking nt a man some time ago
spraying trees. He went up and
down tlie trunk with his spray
nozzle and then told me he wish
ed he had 50 acres to spray, as he
thought he could spray them nil
in one day, nnd I believe he could.
While spraying you will have to
spray every little branch and limb
including the trunk, otherwise
you may just as well not spray.
The scale multiplies nt such nn
enormous rale thnt one female
scale Is capable of producing 60,-
000 living young in one season, so
yon will see what it means to
sivrav thoroughly. Another reas
on is, perhaps you used n spray
on which vou don't pay freight on
water, as is extensively advertis
ed in some of the mail order
bouse catalogues. Now, let me
tell you what Prof. Mclander, of
the Pullman, Wash., experimental
station, snvs regarding soluble
sulphur, as also our chemist that
we engaged to give us the ingred
ients. "In compounding a prod
uct of this kind, 100 pounds solu
ble sulphur compound, contain
ins 00 per cent soluble nnd M
per cent inert matter, which is
principally soda, nre advertised
to be the equivalent ot a 50 gal
barrel of lime and sulphur solu
tion."
A 50 gallon barrel of our lime
nnd sulphur solution contains not
less that 134 pounds of soluble
sulphur, whereas it is stated thnt
100 pounds of soluble sulphur
contnins about 50 per cent solu
hie sulphur. It would, therefore.
take more than two 100 pound
kegs of soluble sulphur to equal
the amount of soluble sulphur
contained in a 50 gallon barrel of
The program for the 27th annual
meeting of the Oregon State Dai
rymen' Association, to open on
Tuesday, Jan. 14, at the Court
House, in Hillshoro, is announced
as follows:
Address of Welcome, William
Seliiilinerieli, Hillshoro, President
Washington County Farm Hiireau
Response, Frank E. Lynn, Per
rydalc, President Oregon Dairy
men's Association.
Appointment of Committees,
"Doe it Pay to Supplement
Pasture with Grain?" It. C. Jones
Tillamook County Ag'l. Agent
and Dairyman.
"The Great Menace," Horace
Addis, Portland.
12:00 Noon 1 :30
"Cottonseed meal vs. Cocoanut
Meal and liran vs. Barley for
Dairy Cows," S. Fine, Corvallis,
Instructor in Dairy Husbandry,
O. A. C.
"What Co-operation Really
Means to the Dairyman," Alma
I). Kalr., Portland, President Ore
gon Dairymen's League.
7:80 P. M.
"The Oregon Dairy Council,"
R. L. Sabin, Portland, Dairyman.
"The Food Value of Dairy Pro
ducts How Really Vital They
Are," E. C. Calloway, Portland,
City Milk Chemist.
Wednesday, January 15
10:00 A. M.
"I'nelc Snm's Plan for the
Eradication of Tuberculosis
Certified Herds." Dr. Sam B.
Foster, Portland, B. A. I., U. S.
Dept. of Agriculture.
Business Session.
12 Xoon 1:30
"Some Factors that Contribute
to the Cost of Milk Production,"
Thos. Carinichacl, Gaston, Dai
ryman nnd Breeder.
"How Kale can be Used to Re
duce the Feed Bill," C. Dickson,
Sliedds, Dairyman and Breeder.
"How to Treat Contagious
Abortion ami Sterility," Dr. B. T.
Simms, Corvallis.
I pay the best prices for good,
f-..ti. t..i ..ni nn..
Ganguin, Dealer in Livestock, Ti-
1 n t nnvt
earn, wre., iv. 2. -iu
lime and sulphur solution. Lime
and sulphur solution selling say
at $7 per barrel of 60 gallon, is
the equivalent or more in soluble
sulphur of 200 pounds at $7 per
hundred, or JfU for the 200
pounds. Perhaps this may be
another reason you have failed
nnd not getting results, ns the sol
uble sulphur is not lime and sul-
hur, but sodium sulphur.,
i suppose some of you will say:
"He is in the spray business
that is the reason he tells us about
it." i would answer, forget it.
Get your spray anywhere, as long
as vou get the spray that vou
know for sure will .do what it is
intended for. The only thing thnt
1 am writing this for is to keep
our eountv in tlie lronr. ns it
should be. We are raising the best
of everything, including cows,
onions, etc. but our fruit business,
the best of all, is sadly neglected.
As to spraying, any time from
now on until tne tmus nre swell
ing is a good time, preferably
w hen the buds are swelling nnd
the trees show life. Spray with
lime nnd sulphur, 10 to 1, but
hove all. prune first and burn
your primings, so as to kill all the
scale, etc., otherwise they may be
carried again to your trees by
birds and otherwise. As to prun
ing, don't get into vour trees with
an axe and chop oil' the limbs, ns
they will never heal over. If
large limbs have to be taken out
make a cut about a foot or more
above where the limb is to be tak
en off: then make an undercut so
as not to split the under bark;
then cut off the stub close to the
tree. If it is a limb over two inch
es in diameter, paint the cut with
white lead and it will grow over
nicely. Don't take your pruning
shears nnd cut ott your last year s
growth, as that will stimulate it
to more brush growth. Rather
thin out vour branches and let
the sun have a chance at it and
vou will see the results in a short
time.
If your trees are in uncultivat
ed ground try to get a few loads
of barnyard manure and plow it
under to get some stimulant in
the soil and keep your ground
cultivated. You could grow some
root crop, potatoes, etc. If, on the
other hand, your trees do not
bear and have had cultivation, let
up on vour cultivating and sow in
a crop of wheat,-oats, etc., in or
der to check their growth. They
will make fruit instead of leaf
buds.
Will write again when the pro
per time for spraying arrives;
what to use, when to spray, etc.
I am nt your service for anything
in the fruit line.
B. Leis,
The Aetna Orchards.
ALL OVERJHE STATE
Tillamook Increases Her Dairy
Output Each Year
SILVER DOLLAR PER OUNCE
A Review of State Activity and
Industry
Value of cheese products in Coos
County increased $500,000 in
1!I8.
Hubbard State Highway
Commission to erect mixing plant
here to pave Pacific Highway
Portland to Salem.
Prices have already begun to
Iroii. The government expects
to lose 500,000,000 on the guar
anteed w heat price of $2.20 per
bushel as- against market price.
Copper has shown a sharp de
cline and as business goes back
to normal, wage adjustments will
doubtless follow.
Albany Linn County's share
I !!'.) state tax to be $93,3G7.
Roseburg Myrtle Point high
way to be improved at cost of
125.000. Work will start early
next spring. ,
Bar silver is quoted in New
York at 101 1-8 cents per ounce.
Tillamook county dairy herds
have increased ten-fold in last 5
years.
Cottage Grove to Walker road
of four miles to be paved. Will
cost $74,000.
Cottage Grove Sale of tree
fruits brought Lane county over
.f370.000 in 1918.
Wallowa Flouring mill turning
out 100 bbls. flour every 24 hours
Corvallis Benton county to
get .f2!)(i,000 for roads.
Salem Fruit Union moving out
10 carloads evaporated fruit per
Coos Bay mills manufactured
2G:i.250.000 feet lumber in 1918.
Road from Hillshoro to Mult
nomah county line to be paved in
pring.
The Dalles Wasco county has
44,145 acres planted to winter
wheat.
Echo Umatilla county's 1918
wheat yield was 3.64(5,433 bush-
Is.
Portland One shipyard used
19(5 carloads steel in November.
Brooklyn S. P. Co. erecting
oil storage plant in pards here.
Oregon soils nnd waters pro-
luecd $3(12.882,000 in 1918, as
igainst $322,063,000 in 1917.
Livestock leads, grain second.
Hood River Fruit growers
received 2,uuu.nuu ior iam
rop. All records for apple pro
luction since 1910 broken; 12
acre tract of pears netted $9(564.
Portland Flour shipments
from Portland and Astoria for
1918 amounted to 1.567,936 bar
rels, valued at $15,646,80(5.
SERGT. JENSEN WRITES
Sergeant Harold Jensen, of the
3th Balloon Co., A. E. F., under
date of Nov. 24, wrote his moth
er. Mrs. M. K. Watrous, well
known at Banks: "We are in
German barracks in the Bois De
Pannes wood, where the Germans
held their line about four years.
Wonderful dugouts, concrete lin-
il fiO feet deen: some of them
wall-napered and electric lighted.
and with rustic benches on the
n.ikiXv Am suniilv sertreant now
and have plenty of wood. Build-
insr w as formerly a bowling alley.
The country is deserted except
for soldiers. We are four miles
from where the Yanks made their
iir lrivc in July and the ffronnd
is covered with war material and
wreckage shell holes and mud.
F.ven tbe birds have left. But the
rats, along with other vermin, are
still here. Heard a fellow say the
other day that Napoleon's pose,
it,ll his liana insine ms coat, was
not a studied position, but was
because he couldn't quit scratch-
mff lonsr enomrh. because ot tne
cooties, to get his hand out.
French people are much pleas
ed w ith the armistice and consid
er the war finished. On the 1 1 th
the
.... celebrated bv bcll-rint.inff
ind drowning their four years of
trials in wine and some of them
succeeded. In our travels I have
seen the oldest church in France
980 years' old. and still in use
and in a good state of preserva
tion. Being back of the lines it
u-na mil il.-imnwd bv warfare.
Cold here, nnd ground is froz
en for two weeks. Thaws enough
davs to make it muddy, then
fi.nixi Mini iii nt niirbt. Looks as
though we shall be home in a few
months.
Four-foot slabwood, $2.75 per
cord; 16-inch wood, 3.50 per
cord. Place vour orders. li. ti
P. Lumber Co.. South Third St.
Hillsboro. Phone 942. '43-tf
G. B. BUCHANAN CO.
(Incorporated )
Hillsboro, Cornelius and North Plains
Wholesale and Retail Dealers fn
Grain, Hay, Flour, Feed and
Grain Bags
Car4ot shipper of POTATOES and
ONIONS. Grain chopped or
rolled at any time
Lumber, Shingles and Lath
AT CORNELIUS
Beaver State Flour
The Best Flour at the Lowest Prices.
Telephone; Hillsboro, Main 14,
Cornelius, City 1515, North Plain, Main 263.
HARD SURFACE ROADS
Will soou lead from Portland to
tbe splendid
Beaverton
Acreage
Many choice small tracts on sale.
Splendid train service morniug and
evesing into the city. Buy your little
home before the big raise ccmes.
SHAW-FEAR COMPANY
102 Fourth Street PORTLAND, OREGON
6 Per Cent Mortgage Loans
FOR SALE
We have some good First Mortgage Real Estate
Loans for sale to net the investor 6 per ct. Full in
formation upon request. No commissions or ex
pense. These loans guaranteed.
HILLSBORO INVESTMENT COMPANY
John M. Wall. W. Mahou.
TRUCK LINE
With Sanction of Council of Na tional Defense.
Commencing Monday, Dec. 9, UMS, the undersigned will es
tablish a regular Truck Line, with sanction of Council of
National Defense. Portland to Forest Grove and Interme
diate Points, leaving Portland about 8:30 A. M., and Forest
drove about 1 :30 P. M., daily, except Sunday. Hillsboro of
fice, A. R. England, Main St. All classes of freight will be
carried nothing too large or too small.
Rates reasonable, furnished upon application.
ROGERS AUTO TRANSFER CO.
Phones: Main 5205 A3110 Hillisboro, 4-21W 271 Taylor St.
We Have the Neatest and Most Complete Stock of
JEWELRY and
SUNDRIES...
In the City of Hillsboro. We do repair
work in first-class work and our charges
are always reasonable ::::::
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YOU, LET US FIT YOU Td, GLASSES
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