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FALLS CITY NEWS
FALLS CITY OREGON. SATURDAY, APRII. 20, 1918
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VOL. XIV
BLACK ROCK ITEMS
readings that were much enjoyed.
Mr. Manford Sehlit* and Lira.
Mr. Will Hawk moved to Kail*
Haggidorn were Fulls City visitors
C'ity on Friday.
on Monday.
Muster Clifford McGovern wan
Mesdames Robertson, Ridenour
fcivon a party on Saturday after*
noon, it tteinK Ilia ninth birthday. und Williams made a trip to Falls
City on Tuesday.
The following wore present:
T H E W A R , T H E FARM
A N D TH E FARM ER
By Harbor* Quick
Member Federal Farm Ixten Board
Tim
for mar
everywhere
lovee
Mrs. W. C. Bullis and Mrs. R. peace. The American farmer aape
Violet I'he I pH, Kvu Bullis, lorn
• tally lovee peace Hiuce the dawn of
Ames, Melva Sportsman, Evelyn P. Price were Red Cross delegates history, the farmer has been the man
who suffered most from war. AU that
Hrown, loyd Hughes, Hill Ames, to Dallas on Tuesday.
> be possesses lies out of doors In plain
Charlie and .Jimmie Oniahi. Ice
W. T. Wallace made a business eight and la «poll of war- hla bouse,
cream and cake was served to all. trip to h»ill* Q ty on Wednesday.
bis grain, hla livestock
The flames
llhe guests del irtetl for home,
' M>et light the eklea la the rear of
A very . ijoyabte picnic w u i- . ‘ ry invading army are consuming
■ayitvr Ojev had a gor<d time.
given by some o f the Falls City *.• things that yealertU* represented
Miss Ruby LYowley is on the
Vi la life autrk. and the life labors of
people at Black Rock, Thursday, past geneVtloaa of farmers.
aick list
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April 1H. The guests arrived on
Beery where the fanner Is a warrior
pyroi Ames has a new "F o rd ." the noon train. They were es­ when war la the only thing which will
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corted to the school house where haake and keep him ftwe He cannot
rally to the coloea as quickly as can
r* Hugl*n, larnm, Joe and
f'littqr^W allace are hune a few the ladies o f Black Rock had pre­ the dwellers In the cltlM. because U
pared a delicious lunch for all. lakes longer to aand to the farms the
d »’ anty^st the Siletz.
call to arms. It takes longer to call
United S<M 1
A fte r lunch they went to the
the farmers from the fields than the
•gainst tha \V*>nd eon of Dallas home o f Mrs. W. C. Bullis. Mrs.
city dwellers from the shops, tinny
to rw ovn M M u l l __
rhattel mo tgn-
" ,m‘ o f Mr. Mary Hammond Stelzer enter­ do not hear the first blast of the
trumpet Other* do not at first under­
•nt to th> A
W 'e
V r W
« rn .
tained with a musical recital by stand Its meaning because they have
John fiulliJ,
Fisher, and her pupils. Mrs. Hazel Courter not had the time to talk the matter
illW, 'Hals*
Bi
(iladys Ridenour took in the dance sang a solo. There were 70 in over with tbelr acquaintance* Instead
attendance. The following ¡pro­ of reading half a doaen eitrae a day.
at Falls City Saturday night.
the fanner may read weekly papers
gram was given:
only. Ha must have more time In a
Mrs. Mabel McFarland returned
sudden emergency to make up his
Solo
Mabel
Otte
from Portland on Friday.
mind.
It Is Impossible to set the farmers
Miss Sayre took in the Normal Trio- Bernice Dodd
nf the United States sa Ore by means
Luella Ward
exercises on Friday.
of any sudden spar« of rumor. But
Hilda McCormack
when they do Ignite, they burn with
Miss FJizabeth Wagner o f Falls
a slow, hot fire which nothing can put
City taught for Miss Sayre Friday. Solo Harold Wagner
out Tbay are sometimes the last to
Vocal Solo Viola Lane, aecom- beat up but they stay hot. In a long
James Collier o f California has
papiment, Clive Courter fight they are always found sturdily
carrying the battle across N o Mena
moved to our city,
Solo—Luella Ward
Lend In the lest grim struggle The
A mar loan farmer will give all that be
Captain Tooze, Mrs. Tooze and Reading— Mrs. Stelzer
has and all that he Is to win this
Miss Baker o f Dallas held a patri­
great war against war.
Solo—Gladys Estey
otic meeting in our city Tuesday.
This war was at first hard to under
Duet ' Lydia Bullis
: Hand. No armed toe had Invaded the
Earl Housed came in Saturday
United States. The night skies were
Mabel Baker
from Portland.
not reddened by burning ricks and
farm houses.
No raiding parties
Reading Harold Wagner
Mr. and Mrs. King and son Rich
robbed us of our cattle or hones. No
saber-rattlers Insulted our women It
are spending the week ut N ew ­ Trio Mabel Otte
t
seemed to many of ua that we were
Opal
Ward
port.
not at war—the thing was so far off
Luella Ward
We did not realise what a giant war
Mr. and Mrs. Beard of Falls
had become—a mouster with a thou
City attended the patriotic meet­ Duet Mrs. Hazel Courter
send arms that could reach serosa ths
Mrs. Mary Stelzer
ing. Mrs. Beard gave patriotic
•ess and take from us three-fourth* of
everything we grew. But finally we
Saw that It was so
If the Imperial German government
had made end enforced sa order that
go American farmer should leave his
LUCKY STRIKE
CIGARETTE
E
V E R Y month w e make enough
Lucky Strike Cigarettes to reach,
end to end, from N e w York to China,
the long w ay around. That’s
15,000,000 A DAY
Regular men like the Lucky Strike
C igarette— good, solid Kentucky
Hurley tobacco, Line for a cigarette
because—
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i IT’S TOASTED
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own land haul grain or drive etnek
to town. It would have done only a
little more than It uroompllabed by
Its lulerdlct against the freedom of
the see. What was tha order against
which we rebelled when we went In­
to this war» ltJoh at the condition of
the American farmer in the latter
Van of 1*14 and the first half of l f l f
and see.
When the war broke out. through
surprise and panic we partially gave
np for a while the use of the sea as
• high «ray.
And tha farmers of
America faced ruin. I know an lo ss
farmer who sold hla 1114 orop of 16..
QWl bushels of wheat for seventy cents
a bushel Farmers la tha south sold
their cotton for half the coat of fro-
during It. All this time thorn por­
tions of the world whose porta warn
open were ready to pay almost any
price for our products. When finally
we set our ahlpe In motion ones more,
prosperity returned to the farm*. But
U never returned for tha farmers of
tlaee nation* which lemalDed cut off
from ocean traffic.
Take the case of Australia. There
these crops have remained unsold on
the farms. No ships could be spared
to make the long voyage to Australia.
0o In spits of the efforts of the Oov-
arm new to anvo. the farmers from
ruin, grain has rotted In the open.
Millions of tons have been lost tor
lack of a market
fjuah conditions spell Irretrievable
disaster ffneh conditions would have
prevailed In this country from the out­
break of the war until now if oar
Government had not first insisted wttfc
every diplomatic weapon, and finally
drawn the sword
Why did we draw the sword? To
keep up the price of wheat and cot­
ton. and to protect trade only? If
someone should order you to remain
on year farm, and not to use the pub­
lic highways would your resistance
be based only on the fear of lose la
profits from failure to market your
oopo?
By ao means! You would
fight to the last gasp! Not to make
money, but to be free!
When a man Is enslaved, all be
loses In money Is his wages. But tha
white man bae never been able to so-
cept slavery. He has never yet been
successfully enslaved. There rises up
In him against servitude a reeentment
so terrible that death always Is prsf-
erable
Buy a Liberty Bond
TH A T
Government of the people,
by the people and for the
people shall not perish from
the earth.
This (pace donafed It fhs 3d liberty Isas
Campaign by I. SELIG.
If You Haven’t the Neceisary Cash
OR AT LEAST ONE LITTLE
$50 LIBERTY BOND
(This le the first of three articles. The second to be published next week.)
U. S. Loans T o Farmers
Now Nearly $50,000,000
Nearly twelve million dollars
was loaned out to farmers of the
United States b) the Federal land
banks during the month of Jan
nary last
Ou February 1 the total smoqnt
loaned out to termers by these
banks sines they were established
was nearly $50.000.000. the num­
ber of loans closed being 24.000.
The amount applied for at that
date wsb 1260.000,000. representing
over 100.000 applicants.
The total loans made by the va­
rious banks were as follows:
$».760.400
81. Paul _______
8, »30,076
Spokane ............
8.613.200
Wichita
... $.666.600
Berkeley ..........
... 3,210,180
Omaha
....... .
3,124.412
Houston
-------
New Orleans ......
3.026.255
... 2,827,»00
IaHilsville ...
2,286,480
St Louis ..........
Baltimore
.......
2.114.200
.. 1.814.666
Springfield ........
Columbia ..........
.. 1,468.066
What are you farmers going to
do for the Government now that
It Is asking for ths Third Liberty
1 Loan f
F O R
(on easy payments)
Y O U R
IN F O R M A T IO N
Here are some of the things your
Liberty Bond money loaned to the
Government will buy for our boy*
‘ Over There":
A $60 Liberty Bend will supply tour
months' sustenance In the field fi>r
one of our eoldiera.
A gioo Liberty Bend will supply *00
pounds of smokeless powder lor
one of the big guns.
A $200 Liberty Bond will equip and
uniform four of our blnejscketa
A $600 Liberty Bond wtll supply ISO
of our boys with gas mmmhm iD
which to tecs on« of the dead­
liest menaces of the trenohes.
A $ 1,000 Liberty Bond will buy gaso­
line enough to drive one of our
submarines 3.060 mile# In our
campaign against the underseas
raiders of the Kaiser.
A $2,000 Liberty Bond will supply
620 thlrt eon-pound shells to sink
Gorman submarines
livery Idbarty Bond you bay M g s
actively to shortafi and win dm
"Protection the Alllee effeefi ue may
weaken our sense of duty.<—TBI% Fab.
4, 1817.
Have you weakened?
Da
your duty!
Buy Liberty Bonds.
l?.?n up anyway, take it to your bank and it will be a ccep ted
as security while you are making your paym en ts.
Donated to Liberty Loan Campaign.
BANK OF FALLS C ITY.
BUY
A
1
u u t i iy
1
Bond
1
TO-DAY !
Donated to Liberty Loan Campaign by
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FALLS CITY L IM B E R & LOGGING CO. |
WAR STAMP DRIVE
Weakly Report For Polk County
Airlie
Ballston
Broadmead
Dallas
$ 252.66
128.66
8.00
1,016.16
Falls City
307.20
Rickreall
127.45
Independence
266.00
Total for week ♦2,096.(0
WAR SAVINS SOCIETY
O O
G u a ra n te e d
J h jlS S T H A J ^ ril
Wednesday evening, members
of the Adventist Church met at
the home o f Mrs. Larson and
organized a W ar Saving Society.
A fter the election of officers all
present signed the pledge,
interest manifested by each one
spoke well for the business to be
done by the society.
Officers elected:
Pres. Harvey Bedient
Sec. Harley Griffin.
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W ILL YOU FIGHT
Frank Gibson, Republican candi- ;;
In the trenches at close range, or fight at long
date for the nomination for th e,;;
range behind the lines by lending your money
office o f County Judge was in the ;;
to Uncle Sam to hold up the hands o f those who
city Thursday in the interest of his ;;
can
actually wield a bayonet for you?
candidacy. Mr. Gibson says that • ■
he has no apology to make for I!
putting his name up to the voters, j T
He feels that he is fully qualified, +
Donated to the Liberty Loan Campaign by
wants the job and has no promises *
to make, other than to serve all
the people of this county to their
FALLS CITY M E A T M A R K ET
very best interests in harmony,,
with the laws.
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