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>AY, J A N U A R Y 21, 1915
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O ft n N ot Taiusu Into Consider
(Copyrighted l*M .)
T O W ii
a preceeding article of this
cost were given as to the com
~w
o f merchants which
rly dem onstrated th at
concerns have very
any, advan tage
o f merchandise. In this
$6000 to $20,i
ever occur
w h et it coats
x u r to yon \
to p o t in r o a r hands one o f these
beautifully i l l u s t r a t e d cata­
logues? In th eir literature you
are informed th at ther are gener­
ously giving a w a y
tree, postage prepaid, th at rep­
resents a n outlay on their p art
o f some 26 cents, and they hope
you w ill appreciate their efforts
to aid the oppressed and d ow n ­
trodden in re
oi living, etc. N o w , a * • m atter
o f fact, although they put out
several m illions o f copies o f their
b o o k fe a c ^ year, it costs them
tw enty-five cents.
T ak in g a catalogue issued for
this season by ope o f the tw o
em- country as a sample, and the
num ber o f copies the
. by the regular d e a le r*
first item o f expense the housnssut o u t last year, a care-
chant has to consider fal estim ate show s th at jo s t for
U s selling price is freight ; .printing and m ailing the cost
and the next is his cost w ould exceed sixty cents. Add
1 to that, p ro jrata, the enorm ous
business.
In
the local dealer has a snip it costs them for their staff
the m illionaire nor
eller am ong U s
so n aturally does
his shelves w ith
th at he kn ow s there is
m and for, b u t w ithin the
o f the needs o f his comm
U s stock is jo s t a s varied,
ju st a s large, as th at o f
brother m erchant in the
city.
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j ia s s
«E ra *
in the
church last Sunday
for the purpose o f
youn g men’s organisation
meat. A ll present agreed, tl
the m ove the boys have taken
a g o o d one. I t means the
hpg.ot more interest in
School w o rk and the j
Of a higher class of ent
,
for the young men of New berg.
M any interesting talks
given relative to having
thing in N ew berg which
be an uplifting benefit t o !
berg’s young p eoffe'jby
tageously occupying their
KttI , i f anything, tbé brat o í it. of “ a d ” w rite r, and ü lw tm to ra
A ll < th is goods are shipped direct and tb*. to tal w ould very p ro b ­
M an y
iron the factory b y freight and ably exceed a dollar.
people
receive
a
catalogue
who
It in carload lots th at
do not V.JT, » o f .
Some of N ew berg’s m ost
throu
«r, so
%rl
, r £
inettt men were present
must stand the initial it is very apparent th at the boys say they are pleased to
ft W h t t h M ít »rom thé factory
g iT c a o o t ,
th at our n ew m ayor
house
to cither the central o r branch a form er employee o f
also these.
eting w a s called
wheni he
* by the president o f the
pubSaltiug their
organisation, B ert M
charge averages r t f y 1918 am ounted to
w ith Rev. W hitely, G. 0.
U gh , an a large p a rt o f it is either t wo-tksrds per cent of them to tal
C . H . Nichols, W .
the year.
W ith then-
V « II. I 1 ■ . , gton,
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ó r p o sta g e .! V T h at the
rennm
Ver
force,
high
advan-
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DEATH OF
'.
On last Saturday evening while
M ils Em m a Deskins w as seated
b y the fire a t her home in the
noyth p art o f New berg, studying
the Sunday School lesson for the
next day, she gave a little m oan
and a gasp and life w as gone.
The only one present w a s Mist
B y rl De F o rd , a sixteen-year-old
niece of the deceased, w h o w as
m aking her home there and a t­
tending school.
M iss Deskina kJSg a daughter
o f the late M rs. S. A. Deskins
w h o w a s a w ell know n p itfg m
o f th is section.
Three
survive her, nam ely. M r s John
Goodrich, o f D ayton; M rs. J. B.
T odd, o f M cM innville, and M rs.
I , B. H olt, of N ew berg .
relationship w a s also closely
connected w ith m any o f the
pioneer i&roiiies in mui coin town-
if
16.— The
f o f the
vote in the H ouse o f
itives on the
i jo in t prohibition
is d aily -
No class of
more seriously '
the fact that nation-w ide
is a v ital question
w ill remain before Con-
re til finally disposed o f
than thoee members o f
>wer house w h o failed to
the affirm ative on the
leasure.
«... V .v
.tion from every state
Union is to the effect th a t
voce which gave prohibition
y in the House on the
ty. *
test in th at body has set
Funeral ser vices w ere con­
to thinking w h o bad not
ducted a t the Christian church
ore given nation-w ide prohibi-
on M on day b y Rev. G eorge C.
n serious consideration. T o
Ritchey, the pastor, and burial
iy it had never occurred that
in the fam ily lot in the
first straigh t-out prohibition
Dundee cemetery. H ad
tion ever subm itted to
B*ed until F ebruary 97, she
could, w ithin little more
w ould have been 5 6 years old.
year from the time of its
rodnetion poll more than a f
t
idnty o f these voting on the
th at i t could rally a
The executive and a few mem­
haefa w ould have been bers of the “ B ad ger State A s­
a sufficient to put on sociation” met a t the home o f
Federal statu te b o o k s la w s H i L . j Christenson, the 16 inst.,
conceded im portance o f the and derided to bold the fourth
bill, the trade commission, annual (Hauer and social day on
b a s k os the tolls re- W ednesday, February 3, in I. 0 .
WISCONSIN RALLY
d e a f. I t i a f
ling i ah «esa»» of
nectsd. w ith the running, of
a
and fbe percentagethis
it is o f the to ta l sales for
period is know n a s the
o f doing business.”
This,
however, is entirely ap art and
itefrom the percentage o f
pr<f ot'X
, * li article to determine
cost
his sellibg price. By better meth-
ods ana r stricw f economy one
merchant m ay <Jo business at a
less expense than his com petitor,
which w ould ethtok him to sell
the same article a t a low er price
and still make exactly the same
percentage o f profit on' ft.
It is plainly evident th at if the
large city sto re* and .catalogue
houies have no advan tage over
t^e small dealer in buying an
article, it is manifestly im possible
for them to sell it for less than
the sm all dealer, unless their cost
o f doing business is less than the
local merchant’s. From m apy
sources it
different
cost of doing business and it
very rarely exceeds 20 percent.
It w ould simplify m atter* very
much if a few o f the b ig catalogue
koupjs w ould publish the same
inform ation. As o f course they
w on ’t, in order to make a com­
parison it w ill be necessary to
estimate it. F o r exam ple, take
afrder bouses
one o f the
situated in Chicago.
Such a concern has an immense
overhead expense entailed in
m aintaining a large office force
as w e ll a s a corps of high-salaried
advertisement writers. These are
ten w ho paint in such a t.
I Ur ord pictures the virtues
goods sold b y the house.
F o r this w o rk they secure the
best men they can get, p ay in g
them salaries rangin g from
pose th a t their cost o f doing
operation w ith the bays.- The
business could not by any p os­
fully tw o hodrs
sibility be less than 20 per cent-***
finally concluded by unatv-
“ d
probably more.
imot
ous vote being made to the
■Ufsnf
H it costs the
extent
extei
th at the chairm an ap-
b ig city houses aalarge a
pt>in.
point a committee o f men to
age of their totpl sales to do meet i w ith the boys and help
business, and they can buy their devise plans o f co-operation.
goods no cheaper than the local
The boys say they sincerely
merchant can, there is only one hope that they m ay have the
w a y left in which they can under- unanim ous backing o f every man
sell him, and th at is by being in N ew berg,
realize
satisfied w ith a sm aller rate o f that older h
beads
than- tbeir ow n
<
income on the capital invested in are needed m a b ig undertaking
the business. H o w m any of our o f this kind.
merchants make more than ten
Those appointed on the com­
per cent on their invested capital? mittee to co-operate w ith the
N ot very m any.
Yet the m ail­ boys’ organisation were Tom
order house referred to above de- T yndall, G. O. Bassett and S. P.
clared a dividend last y ear o f a Tim berlake. »
trifle m ore than 22 per cent.
A very natural mistake is made
by m any people in thinking they
can buy goods cheaper from a
Store doing a business in a large
c itf than they ¿an front their
home tow n merchants.
There
are m any reasons w h y this belief
exists am ong dwellers in sm all
tow ns and ru ral communities,
but the main one is because they
sim ply take fo r granted the
statem ents made by such con­
cerns in their advertise men
it
to in
M an y g o to the large nearby
cities to make their purchases be­
cause they think they h a v e s
larger and more varied stock o f
goods to select from. In a meas­
ure this is true, bnt bear in mind
the fact while considering this
question, th at the large city
stores cater to the extremes of
society, the m illionaire, a s w ell
as to the dw eller in the slums.
The successful city m erchantw ho
ow ns such a store, you can de­
pend upon it, has made a most
exhaustive study of* his trade,
and know s that be has to gath-
• t hi» stock from thè four quart-
ers o f thè globe to meet thè d ì-
m ands made by his wide range
o f patrona.
Just so with.the
merchant in thè «m ailer tow ns.
He has given thè m atter thè
.
-
The Chehalem Center and
Cbehalem C hautauqua w in be
held January 26-29. The fore­
noons, from 10 to 12 are t o
be filled by Prof. B ro w n an d
Prof. Fitts, of the O. A . C., w ith
lectures on horticulture a n d
dairving. These lectures are free-
to an.
APPARATUS FUR MAKING ICE
E very farm er can have bis own
ioe plant a t a cost o f from $13
to $20, if he w ill use the ap ­
p aratus described in a new bulle­
tin ju s t issued by D. J. D. W al­
ters, professor o f architecture in
the K an sas A gricultural College.
The ice plant is made o f g a l­
vanised iron and consists o f a
double tank w ith an inner tank
ab o u t 10 feet long, 2 feet wide,
and 12 inches deep. The top of
the tank should be slightly wider
than the bottom .
The inner
tank should be divided into six
com partm ents b y means ot gal­
vanised iron strips. (
This double ta n k 'sh o u ld be
placed near an outdoor pump
w here the com partm ents can be
easily filled w ith w ater.
Being
exposed on all sides, the w ater
w ill freeze in from one to three
hours. A bucket full o f hot
juater poured into the space be
tween the tw o tanks w in loosen
the cakes so that they m ay be
removed. One freezing w ill give
five cakes of ice each weighing
t2 0 pounds. Fourteen freezings
w ill yield four tons o f pure ice,
car enough to lust an average
fam ily for a year. The cakes of
Me can be packed a w a y in saw ­
dust in the cellar as they are
C ould any bigbly im portant
asure such a s th e ta riff bill,
the trade commission, the totts
repeal o r the reserve bank act
have secured a m ajority of the
votes of the -House ot Representa-
tives if opposed by the President,
tjie Secretary o f State, the m ajor­
ity and the m inority leaders, and
m any others w ielding great p o w -
er on the subject?’
The only reasonable and logical
conclusion to be reached, say the
friends of temperance is th at the
prohibition
amendment
have had behind it a m oral force
o f conceded and exceptional
strength to have m ade it possible
under the circumstances to secure
a vote which no other one big
question o f to-day could possibly
have commanded.
JOINT INSTALLATION
OF C A » AND CIRCLE
M on day evening, January 18,
B urr O ak Circle No. 13, Women
of W oodcraft,* and
N ew berg
Cam p, W oodm en o f the W orld,
installed their newly elected offi­
cers. P a st G uardian Neighbor
M rs. Wesley Boyes installed the
officers-elect for B u rr O ak Circle
as follow s: G uardian neighbor,
M rs. A i N. Pressnal; past gu ard ­
ian neighbor, M rs. W . A. Jones;
advisor, M rs. Linnville; m agic­
ian, M iss C ora H adley; clerk,
M rs. W . W . Nelson; banker, M rs.
D. J. Gilbert; attendant, M rs. W.
3. M ills; inner seutinel, M rs. F. A.
Vinjent; outer centinel, M rs. D.
W. Heston; captain o f the guard,
M r s N. S. Byers; musician, M rs.
T.
L . Cum m ings; m anagers,
M rs. W . B. W igh t, M rs. Henry
Bhret, M rs. Ethel Thom as.
Consul H enry Clemmens in­
stalled the incoming officers tor
N ew berg Cam p, as follow s: Con­
sul commander, Isaac Sbeels;
advisor lieutenant, D. W . Hes­
ton; banker, C. F . Butler; clerk,
Tom Tyndall; escort; V. L . H o b ­
son; watchm an, G. O. Bassett;
sentry, A. A. W illis; m anagers,
M . L . Pinney, B. C. M oore.
Jam m y as, at OiaSalam C u t s .
SUSP,
torieal t
d
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XI, st Wart i
Praa. Levi T. ]
I ’M P. M .-M r. Himea, sa ;
P . I t —Williaan D.
a “Fioca aoá War.” Mr.
m e in Psris wbm war was
3:00 P. M.—lfia
:
7:80 P. M.
art Grove, i
on “ThoNsw ;
M .-M r.
3:00 P. M.
B. F .
land aad H
gram — Frank Sharp, M rs. P itt
M r s W . D.
m an and M rs. F . Sage; Kitchen— land, w ill read several
C rissy M . Scott, M rs. J. W . first tw o days, and
the-
M oore and M rs. W . Jones; Din­ field the last tw o d a y s The O .
ing room — M rs. Isabel Lane, A . C. professors w ill use a lantern
M rs. M . W . Cooper, M rs. Rock- a t the Chehalem Center church.
weÜ and M rs. B. Christenson; Adm ission for the four days 6 0
Reception— M rs. Otis, M rs. S. W . cents.
•> -A-. -h, ■ ,
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N ew house, M rs. Chas. Churchill
Com e early w ith well filled lunch
baskets, determined to make this
Mrs. Etta V. Loomis died
the best gathering of B adgers
All are cordially" in-[Jan«*ry 15, 1915, at her home
yet held,
vited, w h o have a t some time 1284 N orth F ron t street, Salem *.
lived in Wisconsin. W ill make Oregon.
She w as bora June 16 ,1863,
an effort to seat the first table at
11:45 o ’clock as it is hard for the near W heatland. She has left t o
ladies to care for the children mourn her loss her husband, H ~
who-com e from school and are A. Loom is, tw o children, her
obliged to leave in time for father aad mother, M r. a u d
school again. It is hopfd that M rs. W . H . W ood, Salem , and«
brother, W illiam W ood,.
the children
w ill not bring and
“chum s” w ith them as provision H opew ell and one sister, M rs.
is only made for Wisconsin Minnie Vestal, Dundee, besides a
She w a a mem­
families.
After dinner a s ort host o f friends.
program w ill begiven. The most ber o f the South M ethodist,
o f the d ay to be spent in m aking church.
Funeral services were held irons
acquaintances, and renewing old
ones. The hall w ill be open and the First Presbyterian chords
w arm by 10 o ’clock and some of Salem, Rev. C arl E llio tt officiat­
the committees w ill be there to ing.
OBITUARY
care for any w ho come earlv.
2t , M rs. L . A. M oore, Sec’y.
!
S.S. PARTY
...
140 P. M.—Dr. Dyott, Pint <
rational Church of Portland, on
tion in the Making’'
a 4 S i
etc., it is reasonable to
réost o f do-
depends bis ultim ate
success o r fitffure. T o the con­
sumer not versed in commercial
ng o f tU s
not quite
kW f
f . t T. H
W . C. T . U. w ill meet, J an u ary
27th, a t the home ot M a im
B ow er man.
A ll members please bear in ­
mind that this is the m onth t o
pay dues and come prepared, o c
send you r dues, thus saving the
T reisurer, M aria Bow erm an, a
vast am ount o f w ork and w orry-
in collecting same,
The feasibility of having a con­
vention here and the m atter o l
arran gin g for a reception for new
members gained in the contest
last summer w ill also be decided
upon. M eeting w ill be called a t
2 o ’clock instead of 2:30 as there
is much business to attend to.
Em m a L an gw o rth y ,
Press C o r.
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The members of the Young
Ladies' Sunday School Class, of
Spridgbrook, met Tuesday even­
in g a t the home of Daisy New -
bou aeto elect new officers and
adopt a class name. Hereafter
they w ill be know n-as “ Truth-
seekers.” The new officers which
installed are: Ethel C ow -
gill, president; M abel H aw o rth ,
vice-president; Stella H ubbard,
secretary and treasurer. The re-
o f the evening w a s spent
w ith fancy w ork and music.
Those present were: M rs. J.
H. Rees, teacher; Misses M yrtle
N ew by, M aude and M abel H a­
w orth , Stella H u bbard, Beatrice
Nordyke, Belle W hite,
A lta
Gumm, E va M arkell, Ethel and
The H igh School orchestra w ill
Blanche C ow gill and Daisy New - play a t “ The Sleeping C a r” Jan.
house.
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29th and 30th.