BUYING MADE-IN-OREGON GOODS MAKES MORE OREGON MANUFACTORIES POSSIBLE
That every dollor’s worth of manufactured goods sold in Oregon might be manufactured at home by
home workmen, and largely out of home-grown materials, by enlarging existing units of manufacture, is
evidenced by the fact that small quantities of almost every line of manufactured goods are now made in
the state. If we would become a rich and mighty commonwealth, we must employ Oregon workmen in
Oregon mills to work up Oregon products ready for consumption. To this end, the consumer must de
mand “Made in Oregon” goods of all kinds, and the watchword of ever county, city and town in the state
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should be “Oregon Made Goods W hen Possible, and More Smokestacks to Make More Goods Possible.’
foot steel bridge across the John 30, produced $310,613. Expenses raeturer, and every one connect
Day river, eight miles above $21,436. Commissioner Watson ed with the distribution would
Day ville.
thinks he can handle the business lose reputation and money, for
the public will not long continue
The Base Line road is to be hereafter for $17,000 a year.
paved with Warrenite from Port
State Prison Supt. Lawson is to be gulled.
‘ ‘Advertising is no more ex-
land to Sandy, at 88 cents per putting in a rock crushing plant
square yard.
near the institution for feeble I travagan ce than the use of good
Oregon City will expend $GOO minded, to be worked with con 1 seed or good machinery by the
on fountains, feeding racks and vict labor, and supply material i farmer. Extensive advertising
hitching posts for horses, to draw for state and county highways on is just as economical as quantity
production in the,[motor car in
a large scale.
country trade.
dustry, for example, for it brings
Abuse of direct legislation is
The Corvallis & Eastern is be
larger and quicker returns for
ing reballasted from Albany to shown by the Attorney General,
the investment, allowing for re
Hoover, and there is talk of ex when he says the bill to abolish
investment in; material and con
the Desert Land Board should be
tension eastward.
sequent larger production.
Telephone rates have been ad called: “ A measure disposing of
“ Money spent in extensive and
vanced at Newport on a basis of the present State Engineer and judicious; advertising is the best
revenues sufficient to maintain putting another man in his place investment in the world today for
at a higher salary.”
improved service.
every one concerned. Any sales
Workingmen’s compensation
John Shallinger, of
North
man will tell you that advertised
Bend, will test the state butter acts are forcing employers to hire goods can be, and are, quality
law, that provides for only 16 and men without families wherever considered, sold at much less cost
M AKING BUTTER AT O. A. C. Dairy Manufacturer’s Laboratory
they can do it.
32 ounce packages.
than those unknown.”
The steamer Bandon has made
The Portland Railway Light &
Did the battleship Oregon take any
Power Co. has established an ag the fifth trip out of Toledo, with
part in the Santiago battle, and what
ricultural department in charge 750,000 feet of lumbér.
part? What battleships took part?
Owing to the European war,
of H. E. Cross, at Gresham.
The Oregon took ;in active part in
the battle. She left San Francisco un
salmon
pickling
at
Astoria
has
Eugene building permits for
der orders March 10, 1898. steamed
July totaled $190,920, the largest ceased.
■ I around the Horn, reached Jupiter in
The Dalles will install four
Hops are expected to go to 50 le t Florida. May 24. and assisted in
for three years in any one month.
drinking fountains.
cents, as a result of the war the pursuit and destruction o f the
Included $100,000 high school.
Spanish fleet July 3. The other ships
The Weinhardt, Astoria, hotel
Owing to increased labor cost abroad.
engaged were th»»^battleships Indiana,
will add a fifth story.
Pendleton has immediate use Iowa. Massachusetts and Texas, the
and employers liability laws, the
Eugene Odd Fellows will erect cost of sawlogs has been advanced for fifty new houses.
armored cruisers Brooklyn and New
York and some gunboats. In the bat
a $20,000 lodge building.
fifty cents to one dollar per thou
tle the speed o f the Oregon enabled
Buy Goods That Are Advertised
The contract has been let for a sand.
her to pass some o f the other ships
bank building at Mosier.
Collier’s
Weekly gives the fol and to force the Cristobal Colon to
Hopyards are offered twice as
run ashore and surrender.
It was
G. D. Fell, of Pendleton, is many pickers as heretofore so lowing cogent reasons why it is thought at the time that the presence
building a large cleaning plf^pt. early in the season, in spite of a safest to buy advertised goods:
of the Oregon probably prevented the
‘ ‘ You have more assurance of escape o f the Colon.
Geo. Melvin Miller will erect a campaign urging people not to
quality in advertised goods than
$25,000hotel buildingat Florence. pick hops.
in
those not so well known. You
Picketing the public market
Plans have been completed for
naturally
ask why?
at Salem goes on, but is turning
a $25,000 high school at Rainier.
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‘No
manufacturer
can, year
general public sentiment against
B. M. Lombard will add two labor organizations that are pay after year, afford to go down in
docks at Portland, eosting$70,000. ing the bill.
his pockets to pay for advertising
WEEKLY REVIEW OF
OREGON INDUSTRIES
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY
Enlist In the
Army of
Common Sense.
By MOSS.
rsncio.N .
Curiosity.
Common sense.
Some folks still
view the ads In
th e
newspaper
with SUHI' I-
CION. They cling
to the l>ellef that
the merchant is FO RCED to ad
vertise to get rid o f SPU RIO U S
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Photo by Am*K^can
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\The Artillery of Servit
PO R TLAN D FLOURING MILLS
The Perry Veneer plant at
Bandon has resumed operations,
The Public Service Co. of Tilla-
mook is installing a 12,006 gallon
oil tank.
Prof. Young, of the depart-
ment of economics of the state
university, has been in confer-
ence with Father O’ Hara and
other labor leaders to frame a
program for the unemployed.
when his goods do not give satis
faction. He seldom makes a
profit on his first order— it is the
repeat order that makes the mon
ey for him.
Successful advertising is a sure
The contract has been let for
The Corporation department of indication of quality, for without
the Capital highway in Washing
the state government for the first value o f the product, no adver- j
ton county.
year o f its existence, ending July tising could succeed. The manu-
Portland water service will lie
extended in Irvington, at a cost
of $125.000.
During the present year more
than 100 new houses will go up
in Corvallis.
Peter Loggie. of North Bend,
is planning a $45,000 brick apart
ment house.
Steel rails for the Willamette1
Valley Southern are arriving by
boat at Portland.
W. M. Penrod will establish a
ginseng industry at Mabery, on
the Mt. Hood line.
Federal and state officials a re!
urging a large expenditure for
extermination of rats in Oregon.
Bids have been taken for a 150-
Other folks read the ads. out
o f C U R IO S IT Y once in awhile
after they have finished every
thing else in the pa|>er. They
think the ads. are a NECKS
SAK Y E V IL that can la* ID L E D
O VER
Then there is the C H E A T
G R O W IN G T H IR D CLASS, the
people who make it their HI'SI
NESS to read the ads with the
COMMON SENSE purpose of
K E E P IN G PO STED on COM
M E R C IA L EVENTS
The COMMON SENSE read
era o f this paper, we hnp|>en to
know, are In the G R E A T M A
J O R ITY
They are W ISE
If you have l>een SUSPICIOUS
or CU RIO U S join the R IG H T
T H I N K I N G THRONG A T
ONCE
Make it your business to REN-
E F IT YO U R S E LF by W A TC H
I NO the ads R E G U L A R L Y In
the COMMON SENSE W AY
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