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JPage t THE BEAVKTON TIMES THE BEAVERTON TIMES Beaverton, Oregon. V Weekly Newspaper, limed Friday! . S. H. Jonas, Editor aad Publisher Entered at the Boaverton (Oregon) Poitofflce as ecoad-olaM mall matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES la advance except by arrangement with the publisher. One year by mail 11.00 III months by mail 60 Advertlilng ratee on application. COAL AND CORN Letter to a Coal Miner TiDton. Ia.. Not. 14 (Editor of the ITribnue) I lire out on the prairie forty miles from nowhere. Talk about being a lone worker in a coal mine I I worked all day in the boll inc hot aun and half the night to I raise and harvest food to 'keep your wife and babies from starving. My I good wife worked with me when she Rogers Auto Transfer 271 Taylor Street I Daily trips to Beaverton, Hillaboro and roresturovo IPboau: Main 6765; A31 10. Rx. B1464 General Hauling-Long Distaste Moving Beaverton office at Stipe's Garage BROKEN GLASS Quickly Replaced I Any size window or glass panes of any sort. ally service Estimates Furnished GUY S. ALEXANDER Leave orders at either confectionery was able, helped me care for the live stock and milked the cows evenings so I could work longer in the fields to help feed you and yours. I did not even take a day off during the busy season to haul my coal from town lest some of your good food be wasted. When I thought to make a big pro fit on my wheat your Uncle Samuel comes along and fixes the price. I take my medicine. No talk about autocracy or class legislation or an eight hour day. It was my duty to my country, etc. Now, Mr. Coal Min er, the cold wave is upon us. My wife is confined to her bed, and please remember it is just as hard for me to watch my wife and babies freeze or die from the cold as for you to watch yours die from hunger. Talking of hardships in this life of yours, such as being deprived of fresh air and sunshine in a coal mine, I would in deed welcome a little of your coal mine shade during harvest and your shelter from the winter's blasts when during a blizzard I am trying to get your food to market and haul home a load of coal, if it were possi ble for me to get any, which is not the case at the present writing. And how many times I have envied you your short hours when after a hard day's work I had to sit up all night with the livestock. You wouldn't last half as long in a western blizzard as I would in an eastern coal mine. But I have a good come back. My corn is still in the crib. I can use it to better advantage for fuel than you can use your coal for food. I do not say what I will do, for it is against the law of our land to burn foodstuff. But if it comes to the "survival of the fittest" we can aH take a hand. iS till trusting that you will see your error and go to work to get me some coal before I am forced to burn your food, I am, Yours truly, FARMER JOHN Just III Two Carloads of Coin try Mill Ran aid Coun try Shorts. Carload Al falfa Hay. Charles Berthold, Feed Store. COOPER MT. NEWS Dr. C. E. Mason Phone Calls Answersd Day and Night BEAVERTON ORIdON WANTED One or two tons of cull potatoes for feeding to Btock, for which the market price will be paid in cash. J. S. Clement. 47tl A good young cow and heifer for sale at a bargain. Inquire at Berth old Feed Store. 47tf Misses Dorotha and Jeanette Hunt ley have been ill with poison oak for several days. Wes Barney purchased a new Chev rolet. .Mr. Blomquist has been plowing the Jacobsen and Oberg places. Third grade pupils have committed the multiplication tables 2's to 20's. Frank Miller has been slashing brush for George Davis. A 23 acre tract is about slashed. Cole Bros, received $6.70 for veal hides Monday. Championship series are now on at school to determine who are cham pions in 1919. Last Friday the first contest resulted 66-64 in favor of the girls' team. It will be three best out of five. Ruth Walker was elected captain of the girls' team and. Henry Jacobsen captain or tne boys' brigade. Frank Livermore plowed the En quist place in one day with his trac tor and gang" plow. The Crocket place has been sold. The new owners may move on after Christmas.' We are pleased to have parents visit the school. Mesdames Oberg, Blomquist, Mitzel and Jacobsen called Friday afternoon. R. B. Doughty is digging a well. Also has recently completed a new garage. Mil Neuman and son scattered their straw stack over their field This week they have been plowing it under, which makes a valuable ier- fWHl Will you come to my store and get ABSOLUTELY FREE With $2 worth of Groceries or any kind of Merchandise that we carry, and take home with you free a present from this store worth from 10c to $30.00 It all depends on when you come. You can look in our window Monday, Dec. 1, and see the Free Goods. FREEMAN'S ESSE COR. FRONT AND WATSON STREETS BEAVERTON, ORE. Remember, we sell the best' bread in town, and only charge you 10c and 15c. Why pay more? Another FEDERAL Truck 1 to 5 Tons A Size for Every Business Beaverton IT WOULD be impossible for Federal Trucks to maintain their leadership except through their ability to render a superior service to each and every Feder al owner. THIS they have done for ten years and will continue for years to come. DO YOU want this kind of haulage service for the future? Hillsboro - Forest Grove tilizer. The people of this vicinity are hap py to see the road being rocked to ward Cooper Mt. Supervisor Wad worth and crew have rock laid from the main road southward past the Aug. Kuhn place. Miss Bertha Kaufmann and Mrs. John Barron were welcome visitors, at school Monday. r Pete Van de Hey has been mt? ' the dirt fly out at Ed Wolf this week, digging a well. ' Huber Avenue is now roc' : the county road north to ; r way. Good news for Thai O I I comfort- r S ssiafewBB A good oil heater filled with Pearl Oii assures you comfort. Gives steady heat at the touch of a match. No smoke, no odor, no dust, no dirt. Easy to carry about. Economical. Less furnace heat and fewer grate and coal-stove fires required. Oil consumed only when heat is needed no waste. Pearl Oil is refined and re refined by our special process which .makes It clean burning. For sale in bulk by dealers everywhere the same high quality kerosene as. the Pearl Oil sold is five-gallon cans. There Is a saving by buying In bulk. Order by name Pearl Oil. We recommend Perfection OH Heaters. PEARL OIL (KBROSUA) HEAT AND LIGHT STANDARD OIL COMPANY ICAtrro RNIM F H. JOHNSTON, Special Agent, Standard (XI Co., BEAVERTON, OREGON