IKitri’at (Srmtc iExpreaa
COM)KNSKI) NKWS NOTES
Don, the 6 year-old son of Mr
and Mrs. A. B. Caples, is recover­
ing from a severe illness.
Entere«!
Judge Hollis last Thursday ev­
ening attended the annual meet­
ing of the Portland chapter of the
Subscription Rates
Red cross. Twelve directors were
Raid in advance
On Credit
One year
S i. on
One year
$1.60 elected.
Six months
,60 Six months
F'td A. Everest, deputy county
Three Months
.88 Three months
¿ .40 recorder, has an announcement on
page 4 of his candidacy for the
THURSDAY, MARCH 7. 1‘JIS
republican nomination fo r re­
corder.
A PARABLE
them much of the time, but, oc
The soldier threaded his weary casionally, you can’t fool any of John K Pollock, executive s c
retary of the state Council of De­
way back to the Colonel’s dug- them any of the time
writes the editor that h<-
out He had been in half a dozen Sick ’em, Heney! Portland fens«*,
will
be
in For«st (¡rove to attend
skirmishes with the enemy with­ News.
a
Liberty
Loan meeting on March
in as many weeks. He was still in­ If the price of waste paper con­ 15th.
tact, but scratched and wearied tinues to rise, many editors can Make some soldier boy ban, \
from crawling through barbed make
this week by sending him a Stud* -
extra spending money l age
wire and in and out of shell baling some
Book. Don’t let Forest < ¡r.. . c
and
selling
(he
stuff
that
is
be
cons
«lend a slacker in this
craters.
sent
them
for
free
publication
by
campaign.
only costs a dollar
He entered th e dugout and various candidates and organiza- and will give It our
boys a humlred
saluted with click of h els and tions.
I
dollars’
worth
of
happiness.
Other
hand to cap
¡communities
have
done
their
bit
“Colonel,” he said, “ I think I ARE YOU GUILTY?
in scattering sunshine in the camps
l/.»t us do ours it will help the
will have to quit. The battles are That person w ho willfully war.
getting to be so many. It’s rather hoards any necessities shall, upon
patriotic rally will be
too much of a good thing I have conviction thereof, be fined not held A great
in
Hdlsboro
on Saturday,
exceeding
$5,000
or
be
imprisoned
given about all I can of time and
March
16th,
under
strength and blood to this war. I for not more than two years, or of the Patriotic League the of auspices
Wash­
both. Nee ssities shall be deemed ington county. N«>ted shakers,
am going home.”
the various war ac­
No, the incident didn’t happen hoarded when either held, con­ representing
such as Liberty Loan,
But why shouldn’t it? There are tracted for, or arranged for by tivities
Savings, Food Conservation,
lots of civilians here at home turn­ any j>erson in a quantity in ex­ War
Red
Cross
M . C. A., etc., will
ing down such appeals as the Red cess of h is reasonable require­ address the Y. meeting
and it is
Cross and the Liberty Loans be­ ments for use and consumption hop« d that every patriotic citiz« n
Washington <*ounty who can
cause “the calls are so many.” for himself an 1 dependents for a of possibly
arrange to attend will l e
reasonable time.”—U. S. Food
present. Further details of pro­
MORE HIDES,
Administration Act.
gram, t me and place will be an
MORE SHOES
nounced next week Watch for
Uncle
Sam’s
Agents
Have you been paying more for
this
announcement and pr pare to
Thrift
Stamps
and
War
Savings
shoes? We think you have.
attend.
Certificates
may
be
purchased
Says F. E. White, vice presi­
any of the following-named
Woman's ('lull
dent of Armour & Co.: “The price from
firms and individuals:
Regular
meeting of the Forest
of hides is not responsible for the The Postoffii-e First N at’l Hank Grove Woman’s
b Monday,
W. F. Schultz Co. Forest Grove N at’l Mar. II, 5 p. m., c at l u Langley
high price of shoes.”
hail.
Shearer & Son
Hank
According to the big packers Caples
Executive
committee
will
meet
at
& Co.
Got! Pros.
2:30
All
members
are
asked
to
and Attorney Francis Heney, who VanKoughnet
& A G Hoffman & Co. be preparer! to pay a half year’s
Reder
Chas
l.ittler
is after them:
Shearer
K F Hurlingham
dues. Abbie J. Whitebouse, Sec-
The quantity of hides stored by Ottice
V I Fuqua
Gordon & Gordon
retary.
G Paterson
H T Giltner
the five large Chicago packers in­ G Copeland
Anderson
Red Cross Workers
creased 45 per cent since early in Cready & Me- John
M J Abbott
The
Red
Cross work rooms
O
M
Sanford
C
V
B
Russell
1916. Prices increased 45 per H R Hernanl
C
S
McNutt
will
be
clos
d
this we« k and next,
cent to 180 per cent. The num­ G H Baldwin
Pac. Barber Shop because of a lack of materials
R P Nixon
Claude E Smith
ber of cattle increased 22 per cent Chas
with which to work.
Hines
W
C Benfer
in July last year. Embargoes cut J J Wirtz
Mrs A. B. Todd, Chairman.
Brady Chowning
W F H artram pf M S Allen & Co.
off foreign trade and imports from Good
Register Your Rallies
t Co. News-Times Oflice
Argentine increased the hide sup­ Ask Investm
any
agent
for
particulars.
The
Eugenics
contest to be put
ply in the Uuited States; never­
on
by
the
Woman’s
will be
Not haunted nor infested with held March 22d and club
theless Swift & Co., alone, sold 20 spooks,
parents
un­
dwelling, asked to icgister their childnn
per cent more hides during 1917 good lot; a can five-room
be purchased by months to 5 years) with Mrs
than in the previous year.
paying $10.00 per month. No (6
You can fool all the people! interest. J. N. Hoffman. Why Clifford Walker before that date.
8-tf i Job [irinting -phone 821.
some of the time and some of ^ pay rent?
hs
Published every Thursday at Forest Grove, Oregon.
W. C. Benfer, Editor and Publisher.
second-class m atter Jan. 12, 101«». at the poatofflee at Forest Grove,
Oregon, under the Act of March 1879