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Pirst Annual Clearance Sale
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Beginning February 8th,
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and continuing for the entire m onth w e will make special reduced prices on our entire line o f general
merchandise.
Following are a few o f the many bargains o f this M O N E Y S A V IN G S A L E .
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3 cans C om 25 cents, $1.75 per case
1000 yards of Calico, per yard
3 cans Tomatoes 25c,
500 yards Outing, per yard
9c
300 yards Outing, per yard
7c
#1.95 per case
1 package Raisins, 10 cents
20 per
2 pkgs. Arbuckles C offee 34 cents
cent off
on all
W o o l Dress
Ladies’ and Gents’ Golf Gloves at cost
1 gallon can of Apricots 40 cents
Ladies’ and Gents’ Umbrellas
1 gallon can of Apples 40 cents
M en ’s
1 gallon can of Pumpkin 35 cents
H eavy
Cotton
1-4 off
Underwear
at
42 l-2 c per garment
7 bars of Golden Star Soap 25 cents
W e cary the largest
your shoes.
and most com
25 per cent off on all of our new line of
Jewelry.
Every Article W arranted.
plete line in this part of the county
and have just received our spring line.
W e will include them in this B ig
Sale
at from 15 per cent to 20 per cent off.
Goods
1 gallon can of Peacfies 40 cents
A Special Additional Cut will be made
on all Loggers.
M en’s sporting duck boots, pair
$4.50
M e n ’s short duck boots, pair
$3.00
M en’s short plain boots, pair
$2.75
In fact everything in
our
store
will be reduced in P R I C E and must be
C a n n o t a f f o r d t o m is s
T H E S E B A R G A IN S IN O U R U P -
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L ad ies’ Trim m ed Hats O n e-H alf Price
1 pound Mokona C offee 16 cents
JEW ELRY
SH O ES
D R Y GOODS
S P E C IA L R E D U C E D P R IC E S O N
O U R E N T IR E
P A R A F IN E
STOCK
C L O T H IN G
20 P E R C E N T
D IS C O U N T
in Q U A N T I T Y , for we need the M on
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"Size de World Up Right.”
" I hear folks tellin’ what a bad world
average increase in the price of lum
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dls am to live In and dat a good man
• More lumber was cut in the United
ber has been 49 per cent, ’ t will not gits no show. You Jest size de world
States last year than in any other year
b i long before cheap woods are few up right aud you'll slip along same as
odder folks, and as fur de good man—
in its history. The enormous amount
a id far between.
he'd better rub some of it off. Too
of 37,550,736,000 board feet was pro
Figures upon the lumber cut of the much goodness Is like puttin’ a woolen
Made of selected Eastern Oregon Hard Wheat,
duced, and the mill value of this was
United States in 1906 are contained in blanket on a boss in a July day. It's
it produces more loaves of bread than any other
hot fur de blanket and uncomfortable
8621,151,388.
In
addition,
there
Circular 122 of the Forest Service,
flour and the loaves are lighter and whiter.
Be
fur de boss.
were produced 11,858,260,000 shin
which can be had upon application to
cause of the increased quantity of bread produced
" I haln’t sayln’ a word agin truth
gles, valued at 82*.155,555,
and
the Forester, U. S. Department of i and honesty aud gineral integrity. As
the cost is no higher than for other flours.
long as de world seemed to have any
3,812.807,000 lath, valued at 811,-
Agriculture, Washington. D. C.
use fur ’em dey was handy things to
490,570. On thewhole, it is safe to
have around de house. What I say Is
say that the present annual lum
dat you can't be a heap different from
anybody else and make it pay or have
ber cut of the United States ap
any fun out o' It. I f you do business
proximates 40 billion feet, and that
A Vers© From Solomon Ttld of a Mar wld a man you have got to do it as
the total mill value of the lumber, lath. I
odder folks do.
riage Engagement.
“ I haln't sayln' dat It’s fur de best
and shingles each year p'oduced is
When slip left her home In the small
dat meu lie and cheat and deceive aud
not less than 8700,000,000. These town to come to New York to take up ;
a special course o f study her |>et sis j stand ready to do each odder up. and
figures give some idea of how vast is
neither will I deny dat It adds zest to
ter was fast reaching the crisis o f a
the lumber industry and how great is love affair. The |»et sister was a most life and sharpens up a man's wits. I
reckon I rather lnjoy It when Ebulli
the demand for its products.
winsome young lady and had long kept tion Brown comes ober to my cabin
a goodly train o f suitors a sighing. fur an hour's visit and tries to take
A glance at the kinds of lumber pro-
ML’T U A I. R IR E R E L IE E AS S N .
this
l»e the
de doah mat wid him when he goes.
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tu t: g grand
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duced shows very clearly the passmg ^
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hoped „ for Bhe llked
I f he was a good man he would be u
of white pine and oak, one the greatest1 the younK
cordially—thought lie ! bore. As It am. I ’m wonderin’ when he
softwood and the other the greatest
was Just the sort to make a proper | will succeed In glttln’ de mat.
------IS THE------
"Jesi look upon men ns men.
brother-in-law.
h.tidwood which th»- forest has ever
But the weeks passed, and not a tilt j
“ I f you haln't lookin’ fur truth and
grown. Since 1895/ the cut of white j 0f definite news about the progress of you git a dose of it de surprise w ill be t
pine has fallen off more than 40 per ! the affair did the older sister receive pleasant.
"D on't expect de big end of de trade
In l!«T city boarding house. She be-
cent, while that o f white oak has fallen j came noxious. Isnilse. she thought, Pat's what de odder feller Is also look
off more than 36 per cent, Today 1 must not go on recklessly trifling In In' fur.
"Be reasonably honest and 1 « rea
yellow pine lead s all othet woods in such Important matters.
Then one night about 10 o'clock. Just sonably truthful, but don't go to brag
amount cut, while Douglas fir— and ns she was going to tied, came a tele
gin' about It or you'll be thought a
this will be surprise to many— comes gram.
The servant brought It up. thief and a liar.
The elder sister was country girl
" I f you want to pass your last days
second. Since 1899 the cut of Doug
W ith lime sulphur solution for San Jose scale a
enough to be thoroughly frightened by In de porehouse. use men as dey ought
Its fir has increased 186 per cent. ■ the pale mantln, black Inked envelope. to use you. I f you want bacon and
pure liquid spray manufactured by W . Stratton
Ix>uisiana is the foremost yellow pin© J How ominous It looked! At length slie taters fur breakfast, use men Jest as
& Son for sale by G o ff Bros., Forest Grove, and
gathered courage to open It. This Is dey use you—wld a leetle extra exer
state, with Texas. Mississippi, and Ar- j
by W . H . Stratton, Cornelius, by the gallon or
tion throwed in fur good measure.”
what she read:
kansas following in order.
Washing- j
M. QUAD.
Solomon six three.
LOl'lSE
barrel.
W e keep lime and sulphur for spraying.
ton produces b y fr jt h e greatest amount i
Solomon six three! Whatever in the
He Sldeiteps.
world! Oh. why, yes. stupid, it of
of Douglas fir.
Husband—Yes. dear, o f course w*
course meant the Song o f Solomon,
sixth chapter, third verse! But—and must economize.
A comparison of the lumbcr-produe
W ife—Well, then, I've concluded that
i ig states shows that since 1899 there her cheeks flushed with shame—she
hnd no Bible!
I might do the cooking myself.
have been many changes in their rel
There was a great scurrying about
Husband (hastily)—Oh, no. It's cheap
A G e n tle H in t.
The Workman's Error.
ative rank.
Washington, which in the boarding house to And a copy of er to keep a servant In the house than
” 1 got a newt rebuke for my curi
the sacred book. The girls were rout a doctor.—W om an'! Home Companion
1899 stood sixth, now leads, while
osity once." snld a well known Bnltl
ed out In vain, tin all sides the cry
more man. • and it was administered
Wisconsin, which eigh t years ago led arose, "Who's got a Bible?” Just think
Speed.
by a native o f the Cheat river region
all others, is now third.
In the same of the sister trying to sleep that night
" I t takes you a long time to pass a
without knowing what that verse wasf given point.” said the minute hand en in West Virginia.
period Oregon, onuiaiana, Mississippi,
" I had stopped overnight In the dis
It would have tieen Juat like a woman passant.
trict In question and iu the morning
Idaho, and California made great strides p, q,» down to pleasant dreams, content
“ I may be slow." answered the hour was strolling alou t the place, asking
as lumber-producing states, though, to know that she could satisfy her cu hand, “ but It tnkes you all of sixty-
all sorts of questions. Presently 1 met
riosity In the morning not!
six minute« to catch up with me."— a lanky mountaineer, who greeted me
on the other hand, the amount pro
The landlady, good soul, came to the
Chicago Tribune.
with 'H ow dy' and passed the time of
duced in M ichigan, Wisconsin. M in rescue. She was no heathen. She hnd
day most pleasantly. Seeing that he
a Bilile. Up to her room with It flew
C o n s id e r in g .
nesota, Georgia, Kentucky. Tennessee,
was barefooted, a circumstance, it
the sister and shut the door. Such a
After he bail l»oeii lu deep thought
seemed to me, quite odd in a mountain
Missouri, Indi *na, and Ohio fell off turning over o f pages by eager, nerv
for several minutes Mr Ilenpeck sani-
ous region. I asked:
ous fingers! Solomon six three. She
anywhere from 29 to 5 4 per cent.
*'I have made up my mind.”
" 'Is it the custom o f this country for
found It. and then she cried “ Hurrah!”
"H ave you?" his w ife replied
"It
T h e highest-priced native woods are and laughed, for the verse was:
the men to go without shoes?'
ms to me It took you a long time,
••'Waal.' the native drawled, 'some
At the Zoo—Good gracious! How
walnut, h k k orv. and ash, and the
I am my beloved a. and my beloved Is considering what you had to make up.”
on us do. but most on us atten's to our heavy my l»arrow Is today.—Von V>
—Chicago Record Herald.
cheapest are l » c h and white fir. From mine.
own business.'
Lippincott's.
rant.
—New Y'ork Press.
Greatest Lumber Cut.
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the fact, however, that since 1899 the
Most Grocers Sell
OLYfriPiC PLC/Jg
Every sack guaranteed
Ask your Grocer for It.
THE PORTLAND FLOURING MILLS CO.
USED BIBLE AS JiPHER.
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BANKERS AND MERCHANTS
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
Forest Grove Time Table
NORTH BOUND.
6:*t0 a. m., arrives at Portland 8:00 a. m.
8:50 a. m.,
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i0:30 a. m.
1:30 p .m .,
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2:50 p.m.
4:44 p. m.,
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M 6:35 p. m.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 2 lv. Portland 7:00 a. m. lv. Forest Grove 8:34 a. m.
No. 8 “
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11:00 a. m., ar. '*
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12:20 p.m.
No. 4
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4:10 p. m., lv. “
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No. 10 "
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5:40 p. m.. ar. *'
'* 7:00 p. m.
No. 7 departs
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No. 9
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E. C. S i m p s o n , Agent.
W. E. COMAN, General freigh t and
Passenger Agent, Portland.
— Hoffman & Allen Co. are agents
for the famous Butterick patterns.
— Dr. E. H . Brown, Physician and
Surgeon. X-Ray and all electrical ap
pliances in office.
Calls answered
night or day.
W e
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LAWYER
Real Estate and Corpo-
ation Law a Specially.
OFFICE over
Hin»' Stoft
Forest Grove,
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Of Forest Grove, Oregon
B e st and C heapest
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S p ra y Y o u r T re e s
W . H. Stratton
& Son
H O L L IS ,
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Oregon
HANCOCK & GORDON
F A S H i O .V S T A B L E S
Pacific Ave.
Forest Grov»
Neat Turnouts
E. W . Haines Bank
(asnausHan ■.*>«.)
Forest Grove, Oregon
A general banking business transacted
Interest paid on time deposit*.
Accounts invited.
City Shaving Parlors
For the Best. Un to date " ork.
Baths. Pacific Ave. Forest Grove.
A. I. Wirtz, Proprietor
S . A . A \ o u ito n
Thm
Leading T^nsnriali^
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Forest Grove, Oregon
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— Buy your spraying
Nichols where you can see it
and know just what you a-e
2nd house south of Laugnlm •
Forest Grove.
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