Satsuma and Pesch plums were the varieties o( these (ruits which he named as lies! suited to this part of Oreg<>n. The Maynard lie added as a good home pluiu. though not so good as the others for shipping. Three sweet, three sour and two local Succeeding Gresham Vindicator. Gresham Gaaette, East Multnomah Record varieties of cherries were suggi-sted, the Multnomah Record and Montavilla Herald. Royal Anne, Ring and l-itiilierl (or sweet ones; Olivette, Montmorency nnd Published Every Friday at Gresham, Ore., by the B kavm S tatk P vki . ihiiinu C o Richmond for sour; ami May Duke ami H. À. DARNALL, Eruto« am » M anaobr . Late Duke for home consumption. “I believe that apricots ami almomls Kn toreri a» »oro nd-<*’.<*» matter at the iMwtotfice at Gresham. <>re cents READERS A similar number of currant varieties, 1 cent per word per issue DISPLAY ADVERTISING, rates made known on application. All Lodge, Grange. School, Church, or other notices or advertisements of socials, parties, the Perfection. Fay. Victoria ami Wh te dance», concerts, theatricals.etc., given for a profit, charged for at regular rates. Grape, are recotutnemlevL To the four In order to insure change of ad advertisers must have copy in this office not later than best strawberry vines for the valley the Thursday precedinc day of publication. JOt HttBTim» is our »t«ecialty. We are well equipped to do the best work at current pri< vs Gold Dollars, Sixteen to One, Magoon ■specially farmers’ and business men’s Letter Heads. Envelopes. Rutter Wrappers. Statements, etc., in small or large quantities Auction Bills. Dodgers. Posters, etc . printed on short notice. 1 and Clark's Seedling, Mr. Lewis added the Autumn Belle as a good producer. THE GRANGE ♦ INVESTIGATI Condurteli by J. W. DARROW. Chs'hsm, N. V., iVria lAtmwiHiiulrnl .V,w 1'orA Mote FARM INSURANCE. — What an Ohio Mutual Company Is Doing In This Line. ' I It Has 2,300 Members. Carries $4.400,• 000 In Rieke, and Its President Gets a Salary of $50 a Year—Comparison of Costs With Old Lino Companies. ON MILLER-MOWERY LUMBER Company POULTRY I’AN-A-CI-A 11 MILL ANO YARDS AT LENTS JUNCTION The Huron County (O.) Farmers' Mutual luaurance company was or giinlxed thirty-one years ago It has not always had smooth sailing, tor Its losses have bvvii large some years, and yet only once In that lime has Its annual assessment exceeded tile coat every year for protection In the old line companies. The relative cost can best lie determine«). says K, r Snyder ill the National Stockman, by a com- parison covering a series of years During the time the Huron County (O.) Mutual has been doing business The impropriety of the mid­ EMTOKI4L NOTEi —thirty-one years the average annual night dance has again been illus­ assessment has twen $21MJ per $1,006. The present rnte of old line companies A resolution standing by the trated. this time at Lents. It is for farm property Is $10 per $1.600 for doubtful if a good many other legistative appropriations for the three years and $2 survey fee I. e. a policy of $1.000 would cost $12. Just state educational institutions was places have not reason to chron­ \V A X T K I > $1 per $1.0«» per year. A policy uf adopted during the past week by icle practically the same experi­ $2.000 Would cost $22. or $.'! <91 2 3 per ence. Portland was demoralized the promotion committee of the WANTED—Several car loads of giard $1,000 per year A policy of $3.060 [sista Aaron Fox, Troutdale, would coat $32. or $3.5o o 9 per $1.000 Portland Commercial Club. The for a good many months by the cedar Oregon. , Casino, the Council Crest dances per year, and so on But. no matter how resolution demanded adequate great the policy, the cost must exceed and a number of other places of WANTED — Boys inav be had ami facilities for the education of the sometimes girls. The older ones at $3.33 1-3 per $1.000. because that Is the lesser note. In general the all young and expresses the belief ordinary wages and others to be 1 cost exclusive of survey fee. The schooled and cared for in return for But the rules of these companies nre that the sums set aside by the night dance ends badly. «light services rendered. For particu­ not as Inflexible as the laws of the Legislature are not at all ex­ majority of people are ready to lars address W. T. Gardner, superin­ Medea and Persians. One of my go home at midnight. To the( tendent Bovs and Girls Aid Society of cessive. friends hnd real estate In three dlf Oregon. Portland. Ore. tf lesser portion, enough fails to | ferent places, and at every renewal Something additional WANTED—girl or woman to aawiat ; the agent made him out three sepa­ Latest estimates of the num­ satisfy. in general houae work. A. Hennig, Wil­ rate policies and charged him three sur­ ber of new settlers who will come is wanting and they find it in son Station or addreaa A. Hennig. Urea- vey fees - $•> This grew monotonous to Oregon during the present carrying their pleasures to a h*m, K. l>. in care of box 114. for the farmer after a term of years. period of low colonist fares place stupid, or a passionate, ending. WANTED—If you have well located anrt he suggested that the whole busl- the figure at 35,000. The move­ The men find refreshment in land or a good business proposition ness be put lu one policy, “Oh. yes," at reasonable price, write me at once agent said, "we can do that." At ment is said by the railroads to tonic; the ladies in a breath of enclosing self addressed stamped enve­ the the next renewal the farmer remarked be the heaviest since colonist outside air. Which were worse lope for reply (owners only). Address, that rather than pay any more survey J. C Ross, 816-2nd Ave. So., Minneap­ fees lie would quit the company nnd go periods were inaugurated and would be hard to tell. Half in­ olis, Minn. Into a mutual, and the agent obllgingly while not all who come will be­ toxicated men walking with girls frtO.OO per month straight salary ____ and ent out the survey fee entirely. come permanent settlers, a great of uncertain age is the limit of expenses, to men with rig, to introduce ” The ’1- ” ----- •' County ■- •• • • charge« ‘ Huron Mutual Poultry Remedies. Don't answer n $2 membership fee nn who is allow­ FOR SALE—team, harness and wag­ of filing the proof of loss. They nre hunger are overcome and the ed to cultivate such associations. on at a bargain. Address, Sandy, Ore­ adjust«! by a committee of three mem bers of the company appointed by the gon, Box 40. person lives in comparative com­ president. fort. Now comes a Minnesota FRUIT fOR WILLAMETTE VALLEY BALED HAY FOR SALE—Inquire The officers nre president, vice presi­ of Wm. Booth, Cottrell, Oregon. dent. secretary, treasurer and three di­ girl who is just completing a The president's salary Is $74) thirty-six day fast, losing thirty Prof. C. E. Lewis of 0. A. C. Tells FOR SALE—Green wood cut two rectors. years, $5.00 a c< ni delivered in Gresil* per year, secretary'« $400, treasurer's pounds in weight. The system $20 and the vice president’s nnd three aui. John Palmblad. Phone 38x1. Seven Tree and Seven Bush and directors $2 per day for the time ac­ might be all right for those who 16 tually employed, usually amounting to Vine Fruits That Grow are burdened by an excess of FOR SALE—Brown Ix-ghorn eggs, 5Oc a settime of 15 eggs. John Palmlbad. $16 to $20 per year The company now Best Here. flesh, but how about the man has $4,400,000 nt risk and 2-300 mem Phone 38x1. 16 who is already a walking adver­ Corvallis, Ore., April 1.—The seven b* rs. An ngent Is .maintained In each FOR SALE—5-horse power Stover township, who is pal cento nad compound. It is a fact, though, and bnsh fruits that will grow best in Sal«— Ouantitv of fine vetch hav ^',r nddlttonnln. the Wil amette valley were indicated by For Sab- —Quantity hay­ that the average person eats Prof. C. I. Lewis of the horticultural in barn, also 15 ton« timothy hay. C. There are 126 successful farmers' tf mutual fire Insurance companies now more than is necessary. All department of tbe Oregon Agricultural M. Smith. Phone 15«. in Ohio nnd about 240 In Illinois, It these facts taken together go to College in a recent «ddress to the Port­ Lots for sale in Cedarville, on easy Is said terms. H. W. Snashall, Pleasant View prove that eating, like a good land Y. M. C. A. Apple Culture Club. Avenue; Gresham, Route 3. Good Roads In Maina, many other things we do, is It ie a subject of special interest, since this is one of the hardest valleys in the Sulky Plow, for sale cheap; goocLas The special committee of the Maine largely a matter of habit. state upon which to give advice, the new Phone 29x2. state grange appointed to eonalder area being so large and the variety of «-hnnges In highway laws announced LOST Gresham needs a city hall. conditions so great. as its belief at a recent meeting that i With apples Many a town of less size has a especially, the industry is still in its LOST—Bay horse, white forehead, the most feasible scheme of main­ unshod, about 7 year« old and of 950 taining th ■ stale roa« will be by hav- i convenient and appropriate build­ infancy, and thus gives little back­ weight. Boss A Wak«r, Box 697, Lenta, Ore. Ing the work done under the super- | ing for this purpose. The town ground of experience fora basis of judg­ vision of the state highway depart- | ment. is amply able to have such a The tree fruits he suggests as goo«l LUMBER—At our new mill 1J^ miles ment through its state ropd Inspectors l building and scarcely feel the ones for this district are apples, pears, southeast of Kelso. We deliver Iumtier. and that funds f«-r the maintenance of (- these roails should come from an an cost. Let it be a good one. peaches, cherries, prunes, plums and Jonsrud Bros. nual license fee for privilege of opera- I Several of the city institutions walnuts; and tbe vine and bush fruits, ting automobiles, said fees to lie CHURCH NOTICES. grapes, red and black raspberries, graded on the basis of horsepower. could be housed in it to great blackberries, gooseberries, strawberries i BAPTIST CHURCH—Rev. Ford M advantage. Besides a council and currants. Burtch, pastor. Services, Sunday Founder of the Grange. School 10 a. m. Preaching 11 a. m. room, there might be others for The be»t varieties of apples for the and A peraonal letter to the editor of this 7:30 p. rn., each Sunday. the fire department, the com­ valley, he says, are Yellow Newtons, FREE METHODIST C H U R C H — department from O. If. Kelley, found mercial club, jail, and, why not Jonathans, Grimes Golden, Rome | Rev. J. A. H opper , pastor. Service«, or of the Order of Patron* of Hus- Beauty, Gano, Rhode Island Greening, J School, 10 a.m.; Preaching bnndry, conveys the intelligence that the library? The library is as Gravenstein, Ortley, Wagener, Spitaen- Sunday every Sunday at 11 a m. Prayer his health Is fairly good, although he meeting, Wednesday evening at 8 Is well advanced in years. Ho la al­ truly a public institution as any berg and Vanderpool Red. o'clock. All welcome«!. other the town has. It could Pear trees that will bear best here ZION’S EVANGELICAL CHURCH, ways glad to hoar from hla grange friends, and It would I* a pleasing well afford to provide a con­ are the Bartlett, d’Anjou. Comice; Gresham—Rev. F H Freund, pastor. courtesy for them to write him telling Patrick Rorry, and Clarige. Others Saavrcas (German) 11 a. m., every venient library room for the use suggested as worthy of trial are the. Sunday morning. Sunday school at of the work the grange Is doing In of the citizens of the town. Then Glow Moneau, Barr<- Hardy, Rodo and 10 a. m. Saturday school at 2 p. m. tliofr community. Ills nddross Is 2014 LINNEMANN MEMORIAL M E. Kalorama road, Washington, I). C. let the upper floor be given over Howell. I CHURCH, Gresham—P astor , Rev. Nineteen different varieties of [reaches to an auditorium, a place where J. F. Dunlop. S krvk eh , Sunday Farmers and Autos. the people might meet on special may profitably Ire grown in the Willam­ Schoo), 9:45 a m.; Preaching at Mr. J. George Frederick, editor of ette vallev. Prof. Lewis named in their 11 a. rn. and 7:30 p. m., Epworth Printers" Ink, aaya: “Out of 10,000 occasions. Decoration day fruiting order, the following as good League l at 10 a. m , preaching 2-1 4th Sundays at 11 a. m. ami 7:30 more than pay for the keeping den June, Early Crawford, Early Char- ' arid K. W. Dunlap, n prominent granger p. m. lotte, Mamie Rose, Muir, Elberta, and investment, besides being a Globe and Salway. ROCKWWD M. E CHURCH-Rev. of Ohio, bas bees renominated for pastor. ' iup J a / > bool every dairy and food commlaaloner of tba sort of intellectual centre for the The Italian p«une and tbe Franquette Jahn, Sunday at 10 a. m. .Preaching at 11 •tate. Mayette, and Maylan walnuts, and the community. a. m. and 7 :.V) p. rn. I Want Column Our Methods. Our Slock of Lumlier and Millwork ami Our Prive«. We are confidimi that it will result in securing your busi- m"ss when you mssl anything from a |Mist to a bill of lumlier for a lionati or liarn. The I ««st in quality for tin« mon­ ey, is the motto we try to live up to. Come in and investigate Test Dr. Hess ■ • IRIAI It is tn make your liens lay, tn make ynur chickens grow last, healthy ami strong, tn cure gapes, cholera and roup. Of course you art« expected tn keep your |a>ultry free from lice and for that purpose wa know of nothing (letter than Instant Lotts«« Killer. LET US HAVE YOUR OROER NOW nnro your watch 9 UU Lu keep time : I I! not, we’ll cure it, ami then you'll wonder why you did'nt think of us - long liefure. All our work guaranteed, No hasty, | slipshod job leaves uur ■bop. Our “ ' v irkuivn are skilled and conscientious, You’ll not grumble nt the prices, either. Fred D. Flora MT. SCOTT DRUG CO. Laut*, Oregon JONSRUD BROS. BORING OREGON PhoiH* ill Mill I I 4 mil«« m * u |1$ v ««1 of Krlao CEDAR POSTS ’ SHINGLES MOULDINGS TURNED WORK LUMBER $6 AND UP l^irgr tl«M*k of hiinr|.tiutt»rr on hauti Hough and Drv«»r