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T H IS X K W U K H O G R A P H I C
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAUNTEREST
Friday and S atu rd ay
March 7th and 8th
are a« necessary
to the cure you are
trying to effect as
your doctor's ad
vice. For if the
prescription he gives you
is not filled in the right
way by the use o f fresh
drugs and careful com
pounding. all his ability
cannot aid you. Bring
your prescription to a
pharmacy where not only
the highest skill is used,
but where we pride our
selves, as professional men, on the purity and freshness o f our
drugs. By helping your physician in this, as in other things, you
make that cure quick and certain.
P A R L O R PH A R M A C Y
PLAN YO U R TRIP TH ROUGH
C A LIFO R N IA
The Land of
Sunshine and Flow ers
via the
A T H O R O U G H LY ENJOYABLE ROUTE
You Can S ea in California:
Attractive seaside resorts, famous hotels, hot sprints and outdoor sporta At
Pasadena the world famed ostrich farms and magnificent homes At 8*n
Bern ad ill a and Riverside the Orange Groves. At Catalina the wonderful
submarine gardens, and at various other points attractions that delight the
eye and Inform the mind.
Low One Way or Round Trip Faros!
Round trip tickets to Los Angeles on sale dally with long return limit and
stopovers at will. If yon wish to go still further south or east, tickets via all
rail, or rail and steamer through New Orleans can be secured at reasonable
rates.
Further particulars on application to any Agent. Ask for descriptive literature on
California, or ‘ 'Wayside Notes,” deecrlbllngtrip San Francisco to New Orleans.
John M- S oot«, Gonoral Passenger A gen t, Portland, O r«.
Foreign sportsmen In Chins slwsys
observe with curious interest the ma
neuvers o f native hunters.
An English sportsman tells o f an
Incident be witnessed at the well
known Sbaba, or lower barrier, o f
Nsdoo creek. In north China. A native
shooter had hla glngal with him—■
most Uncanny looking weapon. That
there might be no question as tb Its
length. It was placed upright alongside
the Briton. It exceeded his height by
two feet two Inches, making the piece
o f orduance over eight feet in length
Englishmen sometimes complain o f the
weight of their own guna—six and a
half to seven and a half pounds. Bo
It Is astonishing to behold a Chinese
hunter carrying a twenty-four pound
gnu all day long.
This particular native was accom
panied by a small, odd looking animal,
wblch the foreigner was assured was
a dog. Observation o f the hunter and
dog at work made s deep impression
upon the stranger, f
A hen pheasant happened to drop
into a furrowed held at feeding time.
The native took her bearings, crept up
as closely as be safely could, put down
hla gun on a bit o f higher ground, and
kept It trained on tha bird. Meantime
the .dog lay down across the barrel at
the gun. thus serving as s screen for
bis master. When the proper moment
had arrived, the man fired, the bird
was killed upon the ground, and the
dog remnlned on the barrel until his
master took up the gun to reload.—
Youth’s Companion.
When Join Rimed With Vine.
Borne inispronounclatlons o f today
once enjoyed the highest standing. W e
must (tot think that Shakespeare was
sliming when he timed groin, swine.
Indeed, ol. like long I (as in Ice), sur
vived regularly through the eighteenth
century.
When a countrywoman o f
our time watches the kettle bile or
Jlnea the church she has behind her
Cowley's Join, vine; Gray’s shine. Join;
Pope's Join, divine; Dryden’s Join, de-
slgu; Addison's find. Joined: Coleridge's
Joined, mind; Wordsworth’s Joined,
kind, and Byron's aisles, tolls. Indeed,
so late a writer as Bulwer gives os
mind, enjoined, which sounds as dia
lectical as Gray's toll, smile. It Is no
wonder that Joel Barlow, the author
o f our own great typographical epic.
"The Columbtad," Jined Join and dl-
vine —Yale Review.
THE MOLE AT WORK.
R a p id ity W ith W h ic h th e Boss T u n n e l
D ig g e r M ak es th e D ir t F ly .
The mole at work presents an in-
cresting sight. His nose sinks into
Events Occurring Throughout the soil as if it were a bradawl with
a half boring, half pushing motion,
the State During the Past
and in a twinkling half the crea
Week.
ture’s head is buried from view.
Then up comes his powerful right
foot, sliding close along the side of
hie nose. The foot, which is a kind
JEW ISH COLONY STARTED
of fine pointed chisel, cuts the earth
Many Mors W ill Follow to Contral vertically until it extends as far
Oregon at Once.
forward as his short reach will per
Portland.— The “ advance guard” o f mit;' then with a rapid motion he
some 10 Jewish families left for cen pries the earth sidewise from his
tral Oregon, where already land claims nose and so makes an opening. Very
have been filed upon and where they quickly the left foot performs the
w ill begin farming. This party w ill same operation on the other aide,
be the first o f probably 50 families and meanwhile the gimlet pointed
which w ill mova Into central Oregon nose has continued to bore.
within the next few years.
In a few seconds his body is en
The claims upon which these people tirely out of sight and only his
w ill settle are between Bend and queer little tail is visible. In three
Borns, Or. They w ill Immediately minutes, it is said, a mole will tun
begin building homes and soon work nel fo r a distance of a foot if he be
wUl be started In getting the soU in in the least hurry to go about his
readiness for planting.
business.
The Hebrew Agricultural society of
A naturalist once conceived the
Oregon la hacking the movement, notion o f ascertaining the amount
which already la extending over the of work a mole could accomplish in
entire country. This organisation has a given time. Accordingly the ex
the united sapport o f all the Jewish perimenter turned a large specimen
societies In the state. Its purpose is loose in the middle of a five acre
to find homes for the Jew Immigrants field.
Five seconds, it is averred,
where the people may become fanners after this mole received its free
and be educated so as to become use dom it had burrowed out of sight,
ful oitisene.
and the observer, with his assist
ants, after driving a stake at the
Great Oxbow Tunnel Nearly Ready. starting point, retired and left the
Huntington.— Considerable activity little digger hard at work.
Is being shown at the Oxbow project
The start was made at 11 in the
of the Idaho-Oregon Light ft Power morning, and the direction taken
company. Between 20 and 30 carloads was to the east. By 6 o’clock in the
o f material have been sent to the site evening this mole is said to have
through this point during the past two dug some twenty-three feet in an
weeks.
Great turbine wheels, im irregular course, keeping, however,
mense steel tubing, and other material in the same general direction and
Indicate that work Is finally under not attempting any side galleries.
way to finish this immense and costly Twenty-four hours after the atart
work, which means that Snake river the tunnel had been driven thirty-
Is to be lifted clear from its bed and one feet farther, with a number of
turned into a tunnel cut clear through side galleries, and fonr feet had
the mountain side. The river runs in been added to the extremity, mak
its natural channel some seven or ing sixty-eight feet of the main line
eight miles around the base o f the and thirty-six and one-half feet o f
mountain; the engineers, however, branches, or a total of_104V4 feet of
have cut a tunnel clear through the tunnels dug in twenty-five hours.
mountain, a distance of three-quarters
The bottom of the tunnels ran
o f a mile only, from side to side, and very evenly about four inches be
through this narrow, short tunnel the low the. surface. A t certain points
whole of the water of the Snake Is to the hole was elliptical in shape,
flow, creating a power that w ill be measuring one and a half inchea in
almost immeasurable when the river width by two inches in height, and
: le at flood.
sometimes it was triangular, meas
uring two inches each way.
The
surface
of
the
ground
was
usually
T IM B E R C A S E S DROPPED
cracked and raised about an inch
Laet of the Government Tim ber Caees along the course of the tunnel.—
Dismissed on Advice.
Harper’s Weekly.
Portland.— Th e government wound
up the last of the famous Oregon Um
How Life Is Passed.
ber cases, in which Senator Mitchell,
Sydney Smith once made an elab
John H. Hall and others were Indicted orate calculation aa to the way peo
for alleged land fraud. United States ple apportion their time in the
Attorney John McOourt moved, on course of a long life. When he was
advice from the y'nlted States attor seventy-two he remarked to a girl
ney general, that the cases against he met; “ D o you ever reflect how
Winlock W. Strelwer,
Hamilton you
H. pans your life? I f you live to
Hendricks, Clarence B. Zachary, Adal be my age, which 1 hope you may,
bert C. Zachary, Charles A. Watson, your life is passed in the following
Clyde EL Olaes, Blnger Hermann, John manner: A n hour a day in seventy-
H. Hall. Bdwin
Maya. Franklin P.
two years is three years. This makes
Mays. Clark B. Roomie and Edward twenty-seven years sleeping, nine
D. Stratford be dismissed.
years dressing, nine years walking,
In advices from Washington, that nine years at table, six years play
caused Mr. McCourt to take the ac ing with children, nine years walk
tion, mentioned, it was stated that this ing, drawing and «visiting; six years
was one o f the cases formerly In shopping and three years quarrel
charge of Special District Attorney ing.”
Francis J. Heney, who conducted the
Mitchell
trial. Johu H. Hall was
P ro o f of H is Lovo.
granted a full pardon by President
“ But,” she asked, “ hn-en’t you
Taft December 19
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ever told any other g in that you
loved her?”
W ill Operate Co-operative Cannery,
“ Yes,” he replied; “ 1 have told a
i Grants Pass.— Th e Grants Pass can dozen other girls I loved them.
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nery, which has not been operated for thought I did, too, but you are the
the past four years. Is to be opened first one I have ever really loved. I
again thia season through the efforts know now that I never realized be
of members of the grange. The can fore what real love was.”
nery was first built and operated one
“ How can you be sure that this is
season by a stock company, but later real love?”
the establishment passed Into the
“ On each o f the other occasions I
hands o f the , First National bank. was unable to keep from wondering
Bince which time Its doors have been while 1 was telling my love how I
closed.
would be able to support the girl if
A cooperative company is now being she accepted me, but now I don’t
organised, however, stock to be taken care.” — Chicago Record-Herald.
by grange members, and a competent
cannery man will be put In charge.
The plant is one o f the most complete
In western Oregon, being equipped for
both canning and preserving all kinds
o f fruits and vegetables, as well as
having a vinegar factory and spray
factory In connection.
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Everything For Your New Home
Estimates Furnished
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Is the Place where the Transients get their Money’s worth
First Class Meals Set in Family Style for 25c.
No Hotel in New berg Can Compete with O ar Beds
Rates $1 Per Day; $5.50 Per W eek
W IL L E. P U R D Y C O M P A N Y , Props.
T h e S t o re o f Q u a lity
You will always find here a full snpply o f fam ily medicine
believe in me and
I am glad to say that the people everywhere
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have been my firm friends every since I started in business. I
suggest that
tnat you visit my store foi
for all kinds o f Drugs, Medicines
ana Chemicals; Perfumes, School books and Stationery; L ig g e tt’ s
and Lowney’s fancy candies and in fact every thing carried by an
up-to-date D iug Store. Don’ t fo rget the Rexall line, everything
guaranteed. I make prescription work a specialty.
You Are A lw ays W olcom a a t tha Rexall Store
L Y N N B. F E R G U S O N
Prescription Druggist
302 First St.
Phone Black 106
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us an opportunity to furnish you with anything you need in our line.
Newberg M fg. and Construction Co.
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408 North Main St., Newberg, Oregon
Maiufactnrers of Doors, Windows, and Other Building Materials
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H O U SE W IRIN G A N D
E LE C T R IC A L SU PPLIE S
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Rose Bushes!
I f you are thinking o f Roses fo r your garden write, call or come to
East Side Greenhouse
W e have what you want in the shape o f a large collection o f
fine strong plants at prices that are right fo r YOU.
For your room adornment some beautiful ferns in many vari
eties. also other potted plants.
To make your garden beautiful Spring, Summer and Autumn
plant hardy flowers. W e have them.
Phone Blue 202
JO H N G O W E R
Puzzling Question.
“ Which would ;/ou rather have,
a cow of your own or a reliable city
milkman?”
“ That depends.”
“ Depends on"what?”
“ A lot o f things. There are two
differences between a cow and a
Artisans Form Community.
milkman, and one difference is in
Marshfield.— The Progressive Co favor o f the form er and one in favor
operative Producers la the name of a of the latter.”
new organisation which has been or
E x p la in .”
ganized for the purpose of establish
“ First.— A cow gives pure milk.
ing s settlement which will be differ
“ Second. — A cow doesn’t give
ent from most anything else lu the credit.” — Clevlnpd Plain Dealer.
state. There are now 20 members In
the organization but 100 members are
desired. The purpose Is to start a
settlement which w ill be operated
along a mutual benefit line.
The society members will take up
land In the Loon lake district between
Coos bay and Sootsburg and they will
not only till the soil, but w ill also
carry on manufacturing pursuits. The
men who have Joined are most all
skilled mechanics or carpenters
Lumber, Lath, Shingles
Cement, Plaster
Quality
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N ew L ig h t on 8ocratee.
The misunderstanding o f words
frequently causes strange answers.
A child who had been taught that
Socrates had a wife who was un
pleasant to him and that the great
philanthropist drank hemlock, when
asked the cause of his death, re
plied:
“ Socrates died from an overdo««
of wedlock.”— Strand Magazine.
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