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FOREST GROVE PRESS, FOREST GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1913. 4 It might as well be taken for to town. If the rural housewife ing, “ We must live to eat.” granted that those fourth class Must close as we want to attend has a pair o f blankets she G . Edwin Secour, Manatfinjf Editor. wants dry-cleaned she can the play, “ Two Hearts that beat postmasters will be removed from civil service regulations. T H E P R E S S P U B L I S H I N G C O send them to town in a parcel as One.” tonight. They take up too much needed with a parcel post stamp affixed. “ In regard to the next edition: FO R EST GROVE. ORE. Maybe she will send a dozen or Dump Mrs. Hill, slide the Pana room at the pie counter. —Oregon T eleph on es : so o f eggs or a pound o f butter ma Canal on the dead galley, Register. O f f i c e 602 R e s i d e n c e 397 along to pay the bill. kill Deacon Jones and put Sally It is said that there are about How can the parcels post Freckles to press on thé last run. T e r m s o f S u b s c r ip t io n 110 persons in the country to authorities know all this so far Bucklin’ s Arnica Salve twice and One year, in advance.................... $ 1.50 every automobile. Without ad They don’ t know it put those two linotype locals, Six months, in advance....................... 75 ahead ? Three months, in advance....................50 ahead. ditional manufacture, the ma England has been do ‘Wanted a house keeper’ and chines themselves will reduce the ing that sort o f thing for years. ‘Wanted a House to Rent’ in the THURSDAY. JANUARY 23, 1913. ratio to an even hundred.—Even They’ ve studied it in England. hell box. Have the office towel In England they send waists, washed. You’ ll find it standing ing Telegram. Display advertisements for publication in the Am send P ress must be in this office not later than Tues curtains and linens to Scotland back o f the ink keg. A New York woman wants a day evening to insure appearance in current issue to be laundered. The parcel ing this as a night message be divorce because her husband al post makes if practical to send cause its cheaper and things are Entered at the post office at Forest Grove, Ore. ways takes the larger share of fine laundry work far in to! quieter. Give our regards to all as mail matter o f the second class. the beefsteak. She ought to be the country where there are and buy up all the rice in the thankful to have a husband who communites that specialize in town and burn it. Yours, If you wish to rise with the can afford to buy beefsteak.— that business. Needless to Shy and Mrs. Shy.” sun, do not sit up late with the Eugene Daily Guard. say, that both sides profit by the Congratulations, old top. daughter. parcels post. They even send If Oregon wants to forge ahead The “ back to the farm” cry is garments and cloths to Scotland j This is the season o f the year along educational lines it had no longer a joke, it is a wail on to be dyed, for certain Scotchj when the defective flue gets in better get away from this school the part of those who have seen towns have developed the art of its deadly work. The coming of j book commission proposition, and the error o f their ways and dying from generation to gener- the cold weather makes heavier enact a law like that of Wiscon would be glad to get back and tion. The Londoner gets a bet fires necessary, with the result sin, giving free books to all. find that the farm has not gone ter and cheaper job of dying be-j that if the flue becomes over Thus the poor will have an equal cause of the parcels post and the j heated the fire quickly spreads away ahead o f them. chance for education along with Scots profit by the trade. and there is a heavy loss before the “ better fixed” p e o p l e ’s the arrival o f the fire depart There was a man in our town, children.—Hillsboro Argus. When women take' over the ment. Extra precautions must And he was wondrous wise; He swore (it was his policy) county offices the cuspidors will be taken to guard against any If the editors throughout the He would not advertise. go out o f the courthouse. With thing o f the sort. A blazing country and the storekeepers But one sad day he advertised. a woman judge on the bench the house on a cold morning doesn’t throughout the country will com And theteby hangs a tale, The ad was set in quite small lawyers will have to stop smok make a strong appeal to anyone. bine. if they will use the parcel ing. And with women council- type, post instead o f opposing it, they And headed, “ Sheriff’s Sale,” men we may expect ordinances Try as hard as you please, you will soon find themselves posses making it a misdemeanor to can never get the knocker to be sors of a new prosperity, and It is a well known fact that the wear a dirty shirt or come down lieve his home town is anything competitors on a real and suc most severe critics of the public town unshaven. There is con but a modern Nazareth. Nothing cessful scale with the great mail schools and the churches are the siderable to this woman suffrage good can come from it. Even houses that have done so much people who have never taken the question beyond what appears when some bit o f successful injury o f late years to the pros trouble to enter the doors o f the on the surface. hustling or unusual generosity perity of the local merchant. institutions that they criticise. sets the outside world talking, No mail order house can pos They stand outside and bark in One man in a hundred reads a he finds some flaw, some man sibly succeed in a community as stead o f entering and learning book; ninety nine in a hundred ner in which the deed would well as the local merchant, if for themselves the truth about read a newspaper. Nearly a have been better had it happen the local merchant plans his matters. It is far easier to set century ago, when the Ameri ed elsewhere. Personally, his business as intelligently and up a hue and cry than to make a can press, which is now a spread brains if changed to water economically as is done by his thorough investigation. ing oak, was in its green twig, would not be sufficient to dampen distant competitors. Thomas Jefferson said he would the dust on a gnat’s whisksrs, Hitherto the great mail order The most productive o f all rather li ;e in a country with but he considers himself capable houses have had the advantage agricultural years was 1912, de newspapers and without govern of giving advice to old man Sol in buying and distributing. clares the report o f the United ment than in a country with a omon. Manufacturers were compelled States Department o f Agricul government and without news- j to deal through jobbers and mail ture. The earth produced its papers. Now, in the beginning ( An editor sat in his easy chair, ' order houses. They could not greatest dividend. The sun and of 1913 resolve to at least say a with troubled look and dishevell reach the consumer direct. the rain and the fertility o f the good word for the Forest Grovel ed hair. An irate subscriber But, with the parcel post and soil heeded not the human con Press, the “ Paper That Does! was standing by, with an awful through the parcel post, and troversies, but kept in co-opera Things.” look and blood in his eye. The with the aid o f the country tion with the farmer’s efforts to subscriber meant the editor to newspaper and the country store utilize them. The reward was An Oregon editor was recent-1 thrash, his optics to bruise, his keeper, manufacturers hereafter a high general level o f produc ly m a r r i e d . He has lived nose to mash. He would wipe will be able to deal direct with tion. The man behind the plow through the agonies of a genuine the earth with the editor bold, the consun.ers, and the great filled the nation’ s larder, cram | wedding and has even told the for telling facts he shouldn’ t mail order houses will find that med the store houses and sent truth about it in his paper, lie have told. The battle was brief, they have real competition an liberal supplies to foreign coun 1 has likewise done the world a the carnage great, and the sub excellent thing for everybody. tries. ) favor by expressing his views of j scriber found his mistake, ah— New York Journal. He retired from the traveling double and looking out too late. The parcel post that the gov at the world through two pairs scene with bruises and pain, and Ever know of anybody to die ernment put in operation in the j of eyes. he’ ll never tackle an editor o f old age ? Ever see or hear of United States January 1st, will Here’s his story of it, right again. a death certificate that did not have results much like those of fresh from his pen: give some disease as a cause o f the first telephones. It will be "This life seems like a fairy death ? a great system that will bring dream. I’ ve been haltered and The length o f life is shorten the consumer closer to the pro tied. No more soup and hash. J ing they tell us. It is not doing ducer and the producer closer to In the language o f the immortal anything of the kin d—we are the consumer. It will carry I’ m feeling bully. 1 expect to shortening life, that’ s all. No one ever dies of old age. conveniences o f the city to the feel different when I get to buy I defy any o f you to show one country and fresh produce to ing coal and other things. She, the city kitchen direct. (that’ s my w ife,) says she’ ll be Women are recalling a San who has. There is an Indian in If the country lass has a glad when we get home. I eat Francisco judge. Evidently j this state who is now past 130. skirt she wishes dyed or a too much here, but I asked her they intend that no part of their and who will soon die, and when feather curled she will send them if she remembered that old say- new-found function shall remain he does I’ ll bet a hundred dol lars the death certificate will unutilized. —Or ego nian. show that disease, not old age, There is talk o f reforming the killed him. In Bible days men lived hun New York stock exchange. But dreds o f years, and the cause you never hear any talk o f re was that they were not sick forming the boob whose money j every fifteen minutes. You see keeps the stock exchange going. these old patriarchs didn’ t open —Portland Daily News. is now in effect and w e have made all the day with a cocktail and a arrangements and are prepared to send cigarette and close it with ice The misguided burglar who out anything w e carry, in accordance cream and black coffee. These broke into a newspaper office at men lived close to nature and with the law, and with promptness Springfield Oregon, must be an didn’ t give the ailments much of and dispatch. amateur. How much did he ex-1 a chance to get them. pect to get on a pair of scissors 1 he rates a r e : City and Rural Delivery; first pound But we have degenerated and anyhow ?— The Dalles Optimist. handed down our weak spots un .0 5 . Each additional pound .01. Eleven pounds . 1 5. til today if you would line up a O ur stock is very complete in all departments and our We know few institutions bet thousand men you would not find ter deserving attention from prices are as low as the lowest. ten o f them without some ail such machinery of suppression ment. I elephone in your orders or write us and you will get as public opinion possesses than There is no telling how long the goods promptly. G o o d s sent on approval. those newspaper contests which we might live if it were not that purport to discover the ten most our enemies killed us. No hu Prompt and courteous service is our motto. popular school teachers or the man being knows the length of ten most beautiful stenographers. a natural human life. Do the relatives and friends of Some day we will give less at these young women realize that tention to breeding hogs, horses they are being daubed with vul and hens and more to raising garity to make money for news boys and girls. And when we L p-to-the-nunute Druggists papers whose need has l>ecome do we won’ t have old men at extreme by the time they adopt forty and invalid girls at 2 5 - this device ? —Collier's Weekly. Oregon City Lourier. F o r est G rove P ress Forest Grove, Ogn. FOREST GROVE PHARMACY D R . C. E. W A L K E R W . P. Dyke Attomey-at-LaW Osteopathic Physician and • Notary ‘Public Treatment by Special Appoint Forest Grove Oregon ment Only J, N. Hoffman A ttorney-at-LaW W. Q. Tucker, M . D. EQUITY AND PROBATE ONLY Office Hoffman Bldg. Pacific Ave. Ind. Phone 502 Forest Grove Mark B. Bump Physician and Surgeon Calls answered promptly day or night Phone: O.fice 2/1, Residence 283. Dr. C. F. Via Physician and Surgeon Attorney-at-laW South of Court House Hillsboro, Ore. Office over Hoffman & Allen Store Phones, Res. 35XX, Office 751 Calls answered promptly day and night Forest Grove, Ore. Hollis & Graham W. E. Pettenger, D. M. D. A ttorneys-at-LaW Room 6, Hillsboro National Bank Building Forest Grove, Ogn. E. B. Tongue, Jhlorney-al-Law Hillsboro, Ore. R. M. Erwin, M. D. Physician and Surgeon District Attorney. Tamiesie Bi ilding 3d and Main Sts. Hillsboro, Ore. Hillsboro, Ore" Yeager & Cornish Attorneys at Law S. T. Linklater, M. B., C. M. Physician and Surgeon H i l l s b o r o C o m m e r c ia l B a n k B u ild t n g P h o n e C it y 2 3 2 Delta Building H ills b o r o , O r e g o n John M. Pipes, Martin L. Pipe,, n a d - George A. Pipes, Hillsboro, Ore. at-Law C. H. Pollock, D. M. D. 811 Chamber o f Commerce Linklater Building Phone Main 74 Portland, Ore. Hillsboro, Ore. Dr. H. R. Kauffman Physician & Surgeon Office: Elmer H. Smith, M. D., D. O. ‘Physician, Surgeon and Osteopath Forest Grove, Ore. Forest Grove N at’ l Bank Building Phone Main 0131 Calls answered day or night. Hillsboro National Bank Bldg. Dr. D. W. Ward Dr. E. B. Brookbank Physicians and Surgeons First Ave. No-th Phone: Office 4 0 x Residence Hillsboro, Ore. Dr. S. M. Regan, D. V. S. 22 402 Forest Grove, Ore. Res. Phone City 133 Ofiice Phone Main 783 3rd St., 1 .block N. of Main St. Hillsboro, Ore. W. B. COON, V. S. O f f ic e o n 1 s t S t . Between Pacific and 1st Ave. S. J. O. Robb, M. B. Tor. Having bought out Dr. Feeley, Vet Physician and Surgeon erinarian, I wish to notify the public that I am prepared to answer all calls, Phone City 384 day or night. Rooms 4 and 5, Schulmerich Bldg. Phone Main 9 5 F o r e s t G r o v e , O re Hillsboro, Ore. H. W. Vollmer, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office in Abbott Bldg. • Both Phones Forest Grove, Ogn. Dr. E. J. Crowthers Physician and Surgeon Calls answered day and night Office in Jackson Pharmacy Cornelius, Ore. Ind. Fhones HOME B A K IN G CO. Finest of Bread and Pastry Baked EXCHANGES PHONE 901 Atlorney-al-laW Rotary Public R ea l Estate Hillsboro, Ore. Lawyers riu)M . The New Parcel Posts Daniel D. Bump W . M. Langley & Son Every Day. W e sell 6 loaves of Bread for 25 cents Free delivery to all parts o f the city Pacific Avenue, - --------------------------------------------- Forest Grove — ■ ■ "--"1 Forest Grove Planing Mill Co. General Contractors and Builders Dealers in LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES, CEMENT, SAND and LIME. All Finishing Lumber Kiln Drid. Manufacturers of Frames, Mouldings, Sash, Doors and everything required in the build ing line. W e sell Flint-Kote and Mikado Roofing. Also Sherwin-Williams Paints. O ffice and Factory, Council St., Forest Grove