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H igh Cost o f Living Reduced
HOW
? Simple enough: Crow the river, farmers,
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* on the new bridge into Marion county, and
bring your grist o f wheat for flour and feed. We will give
you for every bushel o f wheat delivered to the mill, viz-:
$1.015
8 pounds oran .
.104
3 pounds shorts
.048
Or all flour, 40 pounds. . y .................. t.
ÌM
P- 8.—We pay half ferry charge to thoee having to crass ferriw
WHILE LIQUOR HOUSES LOSE
OUT MERCHANTS DO MORE
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One o f the m ost startling evi
dences o f the change o f senti
BT ORTON E. GOODWJN,
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ent, Com m ittee o f One
ment m anifested in Oregon to P u b licity D eportm
Hundred.
wards the liquor traffic is seen
There is only one fa ir * a y to
in the organization o f the Com fin d out what O regon dry Will do
m ittee o f One Hundred, com . fo r O regon. That is by investi
posed o f leading business men, gatin g wh*at O regon d ry has done
m anufacturers and merchants I fo r those parts o f O regon now
from all over the state.
Reduced Railroad
Other Big Attractions
Special Trains
T W W U rO re*oT v> N
fa r as can be learned in
The Committee o f One Hundred
Salem, O regon C ity, R oseburg,
proposes to tell the people o f Oregon
A lbany, Eugene and other O re
how all kind* o f business feels
gon Td ry tow ns, business has been
towards the saloon.
better in a ll linea, save that o f the
Oregon Dry “ Ads."
saloon, in evegy d ry tow n.
W hy, even in Pendleton, w hich
One feature o f the Committee o f
One 'Hundred’s fight is that H ia voted wet .after being dry, but
carrying the war right into ^the w hich w ill probably vote dry, many
merchants are now in favor o f a
enemy’s camp ^uad while it does not dry town and declare collections
expect to be able to match its dollars w ere better, business better and bad
with the Scores o f thousands being debts few er when the town was dry.
poured into Oregon by the Eastern
distillery men, it expects to spend
In Salem, building has been
large sums for advertising the Oregon
greater since the town went dry.
dry measure in the newspapers o f There are but few vacant houses,
the state.
and those vacant are described as
Motion Picture Slides.
ha* been reAenanted by other lin ei
The Committee o f One Hundred o f business, and one M -th t priori«'
has already reserved space for the pal saloon sites has been replaced
b y -a fine new building block.
Since Salem meat dry a <20,000
brick building has been erected and
a «0 .0 0 0 business block is going up.
’ Doesn’t look as if dry Salem hurt
that town, does itt
Salem went dry January 1, 1014.
J. E. Wheeler, president o f the Mc
Tbe building permits for the first
Cormick Lumbar Company, la chair eight months o f 1913, when the
man o f the Committee. He said:
town was wet, total <388.925. For
the first eight months o f 1914 they
Dry Oregoa Helps Baaiacaa.
were <422,385, an increase o f
“ The Committee proposes to center <33,400.
its fight on the economic aspect of
Another instance o f a dry town
the saloon in Oregon. We know busi helping business! Absence o f the
ness is better, bsd debts are fewer, saloon always means better busi
where the saloon is not. Our mills ness, fo r the money that once went
have fewer accidents, our laborers are to the snleon , goes into trade.
FAIR GROUNDS, SALEM
Checks cashed oa ce in saloons are
more efficient where the men do not cashed in stores— and part o f them
drink.
are spent there, in place o f in the
“ As to the mors! aspect, we shall saloons.
There were 254 arrests fo r the
not concern ourselves, leaving that
phase in the hands o f other organisa first seven months o f 1913 in Salem
for drunkenness; in 1914 the ar
tions.
Corresponding Low Round Trip Fares from all other sta
rests totaled only 47 fo r the satie
tions, Main Line and Branches.""
cause.
Payroll Is Huge.
M om Enlarge Premises.
“ On this Committee n payroll is di
In addition to regular trains there will be Special Fair
rectly represented o f between <5,000,-
The three largest stores have had
Trains from Portland direct to Fair Grounds,
000 and <6,000,000 a year, against to rem odel their premises because
which the less than «00,000 payroll of increased business, when other
stopping at intermediate points.
o f the brewers does not make much o f towns— w et at that—have been com
plaining.
a showing.
In Oregon City arrests have de
“ Wo intend to show that the saloon creased 60 per cent.
is a parasitic industry; that it Uvea
Violations o f the state liquor laws
off the payrolls o f lumbermen, fisher (bootlegging and so forth), are now
men, canneries, manufacturers, farm less than one-half.
You see the saloon men never
Full particulars from any Agent o f the
ers and so forth.”
The following tabulation gives some ii'.ed to obey the law— in a .dry
town they have to obey it. .
Idea o f the prominence o f the mem
Bank* Deposits Increase.
bers o f tbs Committee in the business
world o f Oregon:
Deposits in the banks have in
i'leased. There is more building.
Members o f Committee.
Hud debts are being cleared up.
C O L !. « * » PRESIDENTS AND PRO
Collections are easier. Not one mill
FESSORS .. ......... ; ............................
.1 0
MANUFACTURERS ...................... ....... . . T check has been cashed in a saloon.
All business men say trade is bet-
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Which answers the question as io
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ii hg ihe cry has com e from all oner
BER AN D T IM M
Oregon fo r a dry town.
L. Adams, one o f the leading Ore
gon 'City merchants, said:
“ Slhce Oregon City went dry,
TRANSPORTATION HEAD
Our home near the College
ARCHTTBCT ........................ .
business has niu<*h improved. Col
INSURANCE O FFIC E R « .
and brick store building
lections are easier. I have fewer
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bad bills on my books than I had a
GRAIN
DEADER
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on First Street
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year ago. People now have a ten
READ ESTATE DRAM3R8
dency to buy their goods at home.
Now is the time to buy, while A im O N E B R ........................
I used to cash 15 cheeky on mill pay
you can « e t property' at low 9^ASKM0R8 «•»»•••••*••••
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nights. Now I cash 50 . The aboli
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price. This is the best buy in
tion o f the saloon has turned a vast
MAYOR .........................
this grow ing city. Any Real CO U N TY JTTDOB .................
sum o f money daily into Ihe chan
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Estate man can show yon.
nels o f trade in Oregon City.”
A h s ltfM M S tr m w s v s t j * WWAIV.
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All o f w hich answers the ques
tion
o f whether a town is belter wet
] S 8 1 3 r* » d w a y .
OREGON DRY SLIDES.
or d r?. ,
¿B V S U W M b t
In large number« o f cities
ra U a tfV M U M W m t S r U< Ooramltt*. o f On*
BaaSitS. T4S Msrfsa BsUAlac. Portias*. Or*.
and towns all over Oregon the
Committee o f One Hundred,
the* business men’s Oregon dry
Reasonable.
organisation,
has made ar
White
Bronze
made:
from
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Loam may be obtained for any pur
rangements for slide« to be ran
pose on acceptable real e«tate se fined zinc, will never moss grow ,
in
the motion picture theaters
curity. Liberal privileges. Corres
deface or lettering grow dim.
on behalf o f a dry Oregon.
pondence solicited.
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J. C. Gregory, Agt.,
These slides give the facts and
A . C A gency Company
figures regarding Oregon dry.
Newberg, Ore
Friends o f Oregon dry are
758 C o. Electric BUr. DENVER. COL.
knees?*
440 P U u Bids.. S m Frsscuco
asked to visit these theaters
sad congratulate the theater
manager on his action. Those
Notice
who sea. slides being shown are
invited
to send a postal to the
I have the best equipped auto
Committee
of One Hundred,
truck for passenger service in the
748 Morgan Building, telling
country. Will make trips to
the name of tho theater and
State Fair, so don’ t fail to see
what they t!vnk o f tho slide.
LOW ROUND TRIP FARES
Far» from Newberg $3.15
All Trains Direct to Fair Grounds
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dates.
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and
One of the many fanciers at Ha
verfordwest bought a pigeon for s
shilling, but somehow it got away
from its cot and didn’t seem likely
to enter ii again. So tbe discon
solate owner ran to bis brother and.
pointing upward to a distant speck
of something circling in the «ky, ex
claimed. ,rI.ook at my shilling !*—
Cardiff Western Hail.
A Missouri darky was endeavor
ing to sell a mule to a Jefferson
City man, who, however, was in
doubt as to the animal’s age.
“If,” said he, “this mule is as
yonag as you claim’ why is it that
he bends so at the
“Oh, don’t let dat - little fact
worry you, boss,” the negro hasten
ed to say. “Dat mule bend at de
laigs, bnt it ain’t due to no age
dat he does. De hones’ truf, boss,
is dat I ain’t had ds money to look
after dat mule de way he odgbter
been. Ify stable is kinder low, anf
dat mule be been obliged to stoop
a little, dat’a all.”—Harper*» Mage-
si oe. f»
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A ll homes must hare plumbing o f some kind.
The question is: what land and how much?
Only die best guaranteed fixtures should be
W e handle only guaranteed fixtures, and
guarantee all our work.
Newberg, Oregpn
PHONES: Residence, Red 167; Shop, Black 196
SA N ITA R Y PLUMBING, STE AM FITTING
. GALVANIZED PIPE, E T C
<12 First Street, Opposite Spaulding Logging Co’s. Office, Newberg. Or.
J. L. V A N BLAR ICO M
Staple and Fancy Grocerii
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
We please the m ost particular. Phone wa a grocery order and
see if our prom pt service doesn't surprise you. We want your trad#