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The Maupin Times
Published Every Friday at Maupin, Oregon,
JessilinE E. Morrison, Publisher
Subscription: One Year $ 1 .50, Six Months 5cts, Three Months 50c
Entered as second class mail matter' September 2, 1914, at the
post ollice at Maupin, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879,
Wamic
hogs to The Dalles Saturday.
Ladelpha Farlow from Smock
is staying at the Frank Magill
home attending school here.
Percy Driver and Mrs. Lena
Woodside were Maupin visitors
Friday.
Hermon Gesh went to The
Dalle3 last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Ledford
were here from Smock Monday.
Orrin Farlow, Ted Blanehard,
Miss Sarah May and Miss Beulah
Blanehard of Smock were Mau
pin visitors Sunday.
Jim Kennedy, Guy Harvey,
Ed Driter and Willis Driver
weut to the mountains Sunday.
Jim and Vernie Wing, Clifford
and Claybourn Palmateer and
Winston Lake went to Tygh Sun
day night to charivari the newly
weds, Mr. and Mrs- Guv Rem
ington but the young couple had
slipped away from town, aluding
the eharivari party.
Guy Stog3dill. Glen Lucas, Mrs.
May Chub. Miss Pearl Baker
and Miss Alma Driver were in
Maupin Monday. .
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wing were
Dalles visitors Monday.
Several of the young people
went from here Suhday night to
attend the moyie show at Tygh.
Many'went from here Satur
day night to attend the dance at
Maupin.
The fair at Tygh opened today
with a good crowd of visitors.
Jim Kennedy has a crew of
eight men filling his silo with
sunflower and corn fodder.
Dick Polmoteer and sons made
a trip to The Dalles today .
Fall "sown grain is up and look
ing well here:
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School Supplies are now ready
Maupin Drug Store.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Purcell of
Smock passed through here Mon
day. On the grade above town
the steering tie rod of their car
came loose and necessitated re
pairs before they could contiue
their trip.
Cheap watches the kind you
pay $3 75 for at other places.
$2-25 at Maupin Drug Store.
For Sale-25 sacks of fall' rye
if taken right away. J. W.
Ayres. '
Blaine Disbrow returned Wed
nesday from Bend and is a guest
at the Times office.
Wage war on the flies Fly
poison 2c. Buhach Powder 10
and 25c Maupin Drug Store.
Are you using The Times liner
column when you have any thing
to sell or want to buy some article
that your neighbor maj have or
wishes to dispose of? If imt try
a want ad iu that column. We are
sure that it will bring results.
BULWARK AGAINS1
WINTER SHORTAGE
Some Facts About Cold Storage
and the Charges of Manipula
tion and Exorbitant Prices.
Once sea In the suMect of cold stor-
Ige has come into the limelight of pub
lic attention ; and this time In connec
tlon with the nation-wide search after
the cause for the high cost of living.
There can be no argument in behalf
of hoarding and holding back food sup
plies for speculative profits. But this
is a matter quite apart from the true
and legitimate purpose of cold etor
Sge; and, unfortunately, because of
the much agitation and damaging pub
licity that have centered about the
subject from time to time, the real
service performing function of cold
storage has been largely obscured.
Laying In Winter Stocks.
City-wise people, and even country
wise people, have long sines forgotten,
.amidst the conveniences of modern
!!fe, that there was a time In the his
tory of our country when "laying in a
winter's stock" devolved npon each
household Individually. Today, one
does not even need to remember that
eggs are not an all-year-around prod
uct; that butter Is produced in scant
iriniinr In the winter, and cheese like-
.rise. Not a few would be completely
surprised to Snow that even meat pro
fhirrlnn ha its seasons of scarcity.
The buyer for the household in these
days simply goes to the store, any day
in the vear. eicectine to find theEe
and similar commodities on the mar
ket .
Are Storag Overstocked?
However, we are told that storage
stocks of certain commodities are at
the present above the normal as com
pared with this time last year. It has
been computed that the combined ex
cess of i number of Important foods
In cold and dry storage amount to 10
per cent. While on the face of it this
looks like undue hoarding of reserves,
yet It must be remembered that com
parisons with last year are altogether
misleading. Demands for a great
number of commodities have-Increased
tremendously, Our exports for June
were double what they were a year
ago,, and 40 per cent of these erports
were foodstuffs.
Moreover, our reserves last year
were Inadequate, Those who recall
some of the extraordinary prices of
certain foods last' winter and spring
know precisely what it means to have
too small holdings In storage. That
we are better prepared for next winter
than wg were for last should not be
used as the basis of wholesale con
demnation of our methods of providing
for our future wants.
How Priest Are Determined.
Cold storage has been criticised se
verely as an Instrumentality that lends
Itself easily to the taking of unfair
profits. Without a question Its ability
to .extort has been grossly eingerat
ed. Storage warehouses are scattered
throughout all portions of the United
States and their contents are ojvned
by thousands of competing firms and
Individuals. About half the, storage
space in the country consists of public
warehouses that rent space to who
ever wants It, either for small lots or
big ones. Tabulated figures of the
amounts In storage are gathered and
disseminated by . the government
tnflnthly; and the amounts in holding
from month to month figured against
what should normally be in storage
during those months (or the estimated
demand) form the basis for prices.
8ome Figurss en Profit. j
But the best Information at M
profits In the cold storage business
consists of actual figures, and such
are published regularly by the fdrV
Department of Agriculture. These
show, for Instance, that In the season
of 1915-1918 butter stored In June end
July at an average of 26.64 cents
pound, sold from November to March
at an average of 2T.45 cents pound,
giving a gross profit of 0.81 cents
pound, or scarcely enough to pay for
storage and nothing for net profit or
Interest on Investment, In 1916-1M7
the gross profit was 7.79 centt
pound, and In 1917-1018 It was 6.86
cents. These gross amounts mutt
cover storage charges and Interest on
the money tied up for several month
before the net profits are arrived it.
It Is apparent from these figures that
storing of foods Is sn uphill and down
bill business with Its fat and lean
years, and affords an average profit
which la nnf atppkbIva tn tIaw nf Ilia
risks that are run. Figures on storage
ggs for 1915-1916 show a net loss of
2,2 cents a dozen; for 1916-1917, to
unusually prosperous year, the net
profits were 5.64 cents a dozen; and
f"r 1917-1918 there was a net loss of
1.42 rents a rtoren.
Extravagant charges of manipula
tion and control of prices ar prepos
terously absurd If! view of these sea- .
sons nf lows. The tips and down of
profits simply Imlirnte the hnzHidS Of
the game; for the best lulil plant of
men can not foresee when t warm .
spell may come which will start the.
hens to laying, nor, on the other hand, -a
cold snap that wilt shut off current,
production entirely. Year In and year
out, as the figures would Indicate, the.
consumer pays but a- modest sum fo
the blessing of cold storage, wnlefc
takes upon Itself, with all risks Ink
volvocl, the task of laying In bit wlntetj
stores for hUu ' j
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Note New Prices:
Chassis, Regular - -Chassis,
Starter - -Runabout,
Regular
Runabout, Starter -
$485.00
570.00
540.00
613.00
Touring, Regular - - 587.00
Touring, Starter - - - 659.00
Coupe 897.00
Sedan 956.00
Truck, Pneumatic - - C85.00
Tractor ------- - 895.00
F. O. B. MAUPIN
Fischer's Garage
Exclusive Representatives
for
Maupin, District