Tbe “BONBONNIERE” Aerial Navies C. W. MERTZ J. C. LATTA Graham White declares that M E R TZ & L A T T A the next war will be won by air­ > Carries a most complete and ships. that two thousand o f them up-to-date line of W could be built for what one bat­ Smokers’ Articles tle ship costs. It is true that aerial navigation is advancing . perhaps faster than any other Tobaccos & Cigars science; the men birds are mak­ «Ü ing longer and longer flights and FRESH CANDIES, FR U ITS carrying more and more weight. Both Phones, Corner First Avenue and Second St The first great trouble seems to ICE C R E A M be either in carrying enough fuel or in feeding the engine when in S O D A A N Y STY LE We Blow Our Own Hora flight. But that can be improved R. A . Phelps upon’ We have an idea that the Proprietor Forest Grove, Ore. greatest improvement would be Finest o f Bread and Pastry Baked Every Day in storage batteries, if they could only be lighter. W e sell 6 loaves of bread for 2 5 a a A u ■ uXu ^ 1 u P ^ u a u -- a T . T - ■ 1 u ■■ P P WTW + + But looking ahead a litte, imag­ Independent Phone 412 Free D elivery to All Parts o f the City ine two thousand air ships each i carrying one bomb, taking their Forest Grove flight over a city, army or fleet | Pacific Avenue + and dropping their terrors. No + one ship could hope to fire two thousand shots in a battle, and + what would an army do if two Livery, Feed and Sales Stables thousand shells were to be droD- + G o o d team s and rigs— B aggage called for ped upon it in a single quarter o f and delivered to all parts + an hour? It is whispered that when Ger­ P E A R L W W IL L IA M S , Proprietor. many made her demand for a Pacific Avenue . . . - Forest Grove naval station on the west coast of Africa, or in lieu o f that a mighty tract o f French Congo country, she really meant to fight if her demands were denied, We guarantee these water but when she learned that France systems to give perfect satis­ had so perfected aerial naviga­ faction. We have installed tion as to overtop all other na­ fifteen o f these outfits and tions, Germany grew modest in every one o f the owners her demands and seemed anxious is tickled to death. We will Running W ater in Your Hom e to come to a peaceful settlement W h erev er y o u l i v e — in to w n , s u b u rb o r o f the trouble which she had gladly give you name or take country—in a (C 8 or 12 room houae—an adequate, Baggage checked to destination and satisfying, lasting supply of water on any floor or in made. Certain it is that hence any room every day of every year ia now possible. you to see them working. sleeping car arrangements made For here is a compressed sir svstem that cannot be forth the nations, in measuring from * ft ow e o f a o r W o o —or that mo m u m m o r ’m OREGON ELECTRIC RAILW AY g o to omn o r tp p io , Will do the work of a thousand pails for y o m —saves drudgery, safeguards the family each other’s naval strength must!Through trains East from Portland via “ The North Bank Road” health and protects the boms from danger« of firs. A Champion Mowers take into the count the navies o f ROUND TRIPS EAST Parry Buggies the air as well as those o f the St. Paul. Chicago. U 7„ o- New York, ( Minneapolis, I deep sea. eonaUtinc o f a steal L O s d O f tank In tout callar conn acted Milwaukee, * ^ Philadelphia, ' $109.35 Mitchell Wagons with r o w wall, cistern or spring—a gas angina, w is d -a ill Kansas City, ’ $60.85 sc hand-pump, and a simpla, aasy-to-iostell system o f is all that is Omaha, L St. Louis, $70.85 Washington, U inu 0c Where They Were Injured h o i s will sa vs you mon ay—in doctor’ s bilks, and add to fo o t Duluth, \ Denver, I A Full Une of Hardware Baltimore, i * 108’ 35 à L O O S O r Water System mitad to tha naads o f y o u Winnipeg, j Colorado Springs, ' Boston, $110.85 Soma w ill navar gat out o f ordar or naad rapairs. A raw Most any one can be an editor. nii