CLOVERDALE COURIER
Published Every Thursday
Frank Taylor, Editor and Publisher.
“Entered as second-class matter, Nov­
ember 13th, 1905 at the post office at Clo-
verdale, Tillamook County, Oregon, un­
der Act of Congress, March 3rd, 1878.
STATE NEWS NOTES
The Place Cloverdale People
Should V isit
Brief-Items of Interest from Various Towns in
Oregon.
Many farmers near Silverton are
building silos this fall.
S u b s c r ip t io n K a i ' cs
Lumber shipments from Bend in
One Year, in advance......................$1.00
the
past six months have averaged 25
Six Months............................................ r,o
Three Months........................................ 3d cars a day.
Single Copy............................................05
Beans in the Willamette valley near
Salem are showing about 3U0 pounds
A d v e r t is i n g K at es
to the aero.
Displayed Advertisements, 00 cents p>T
A few cases of typhoid fever have
inch per month, single column. All developed in Klamath Falls in tin1
Local Reading Notices, 10 cents per
past 30 days.
line for each insertion.
'I he 2Sth fall meeting of the pres­
Timlier land notices
♦ 10.00
Homestead notices
5.00 bytery of southern Oregon met at
Political Announcement Cards
$10.00 Central Point.
Mrs. John Cavinoss, 3S, committed
Jon D e p a r t m e n t
*
suicide at her home in Baber by shoot­
My Job Department is complete in every
respect ami I am able to do all kinds ing herself with a revolver.
On and after October 15. hunting of
Commercial Job Printing on short
notice at reasonable prices.
ducks ami -geese in eastern Oregon
will only be permitted after sunrise
and before sunset.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1917.
Exercises at the unveiling of the
monument
marking the end of the old
Table ethics now permit licking the
Oregon
trail
in Oregon City were held
platter clean.
Saturday afternoon.
More than 150 tor.s of rhittim bark
The price of food has dropped 4 per
has
been eo! 1 to dealers in Lincoln
cent, reports Washington. When a
county
this year at an average price
zero is tacked on to the 4 it will he worth
of
eight
cents a pound.
talking about.
There Is a greater supply of money
Bill Bryan is likely to be heard gloat on deposit in the banks of Maiheur
ing pretty soon. Silver has climbed ; county than has ev r been recorded in
steadiiv in price until it is now almost the history of th; county.
The Linn county chapter of the Red
at the 16 to 1 ration. An ounce of
silver was worth about 52 cents just be­ Cross lion earned $2161.95 In serving
fore the war broke out and now it is meals to drafted men en route from
quoted at 96 cents. Silver and wheat California to American Lake.
The Tualatin Valle Electric com­
seem to be soaring together and unles.r
pany
was granted approximately a 10
the goverment steps in the metal may
per
cent
increase in its electric rates
get to above the dollar mark.
by the public service commission.
Mr*. Ernestine Gels! r; So years old.
Not all of us can serve in the trenches a resident of Umatilla county since
or risk our lives going over the top Pendleton was a hamlet, died at her
across no man’s land, hut all of us can home in Pendleton of pneumonia.
Property own rs on the bottom
take part in “Hoover’s drive" to save
lands
west of Rainier have formed a
wheat and meat, butter and su^.ir for
drainage district and will reclaim
the men who are fighting our battle in
about 1500 acres that are flooded
Europe. We are not asked to stint our­
selves or go without food, but simply to every summer.
Hood River county has just com­
eat wisely and without waste, and to use
pleted two new bridges over Hood
substitutes for bacon and liam, wheat
foods and other concentrated foods that river, one at Trout creek, and the
other at Dee. at a cost ig approxi­
can readily be shipped across the water.
mately $10,000.
One wheatless meal a day, one meatless
A meeting cf representatives of
day a week will keep the non corn
a’l thA farmers’ unions ol FVilk county
batants in U ;r
f; ->• ' ;r.g
■
will hr held in Haifa O' loi -r 17 ioi
days most of the time. Rt member tin t
the purpose of discussing the. question
the person who wastes food during war;
of
a county agent.
time is giving aid and comfort to the,
ScnnUr Ohamberla'n is a lv?s«l by
enemy. This war will not he won on
the director cf the gcologic.il survey
the battle line alone, but on the bread
(hat a geologist has been instructed
line as well, and every oae of us can he
to visit I’olk county and Inspect re
soldier* in the fight for conserving our
ported oil and gas indications.
food supplies. We can render efficient
At a meeting held at Toledo the
service by using home grown supplies,
proposition to bond the port to build a
which will save transportation, by
steam schooner fur tli• ■ lumber and
practicing the gospel of the clean plate,
freight carry!; g business of YaqUinn
by cooking no more than nece sary, lo­
using corn or rye bread for at lea t one hay was voted down bj a vote of 7 to
meal each dav, by substituting chicken, 25.
The annual stale convention of the
rabbit or fish in place of beef and pork,
Oregon Congress of Mi ther4- and Pa­
bv boiling and baking more and frying
rent-Teacher associations of Orison
less. The united co-ordinated effort o f ,
will be held at Eugene this week, be­
the nation will win the war. Do your ■
ginning Wednesday and cUsing Sat­
part and get others to do likewise.
urday.
Representative Willis C. Hawley has
ALWAYS ON THE SQUARE.
announced a competitive examination
Premier Kerensky of Rucsia, accord to establish n register for eligible
ing to an eastern exchange, pays the young men for appointment to the
United States a high complement when United States military and naval
lie says that the United States is the academies.
onlv country in the world that Russia
Miss Elizabeth F< x. clean of women
is willing to trust.
at the university of Oregon, has been
Think that over a minute.
named as the Oregon executive in
The only country in the whole world the war work campaign bet!,: carried
which Russia feels free to talk to, to on by the North American student
place its confidence in, and to tell its moveihent.
seeret9 to.
An Inspection of 30,000 acres of land
And Russia is not the only naiion between Hermiston and Umi.iillrt as a
which ha« this opinion of the United possible rite for one of the additional
States. Others would give expression army training camps has been ordered
to the same sentiment if they consider! d by the corin'and Ing officers of the
it prudent, or if occasion demanded.
western division.
The United States is always on the
An eight hour day and an [nrree-e
square. It is not engaged in intrigue, In wages of 20 cents a day hae baen
does not work underhand« dlv t ainst granted to the platforn, shop and
its neighbors or the lands acro-s the 1 arn men in Portland of the Portland
sea, and it treats all nations on the fail Railway. Light & P
r company by
and «quare basis.
the board of arbitration.
This has been the course of this na­
With a bullet hole through the head,
tion for more than a century—ever tim e the body of Dr. William R. Scott, for
it gained its freedom and betaine a re­ a number of years a practicing physi
public.
cian of Athena, was found i:i the bath­
Its people are not drilled in deceit, room at the Claude Reeder farm home
nor double dealing. They take every four miles east of Helix.
nation for what it is worth on the face,
Although the normal forest fire »eg
until it is proven otherwise. It believe* son ended In central Oregon several
in the fair and square deal, and its long weeks ago. fires continue to be re­
deportment along that line has con­ ported. the unusual warm weather and
vinced all other nations of its good in­ the continued lack of rain creating can
tent. They have taith in the United ditions favorable for them.
States.
The law exempting miners from as­
The United States is governed by the sessment work on their claims for the
people, not by a king or emperor, or years 1917 and 1918 is now In effect
others w hose pergonal aims breed con­ The law* was enacted in order that
quest and bring on wars. That is why claimants could enter the Government
Russia baa faith in us. *
lerxico or dc-vote their time to war-
tus’.atMng vocations.
At the regular nvect'tvr of the state
highway commission in November,
contracts probably will be let for
$600,000 worth of construction which
will extend ov?r into next year. This
amount added to what has been con
tracted for already this year will bring
the grand total up to approx'/naUd»
$2,600,000.
Operating revenues of the O.-W. It.
& N company for the year ending
December 31, 1916, were $18,880,259,
which is an increase of $2,861,262 over
the previous year, according to tbs
railrufcd company’s rtport tiled with
the public service commission.
Owing to the fact that the liberty
loan bond campaign continues until
October 28. and is of paramount im­
portance, President Wilson requested
Herbert C. Hoover, federal food ad
mlmstrator, to postpone the food con
acrvatlon drive, scheduled for tli s
week, until n»xt week. Mr. Hoover
is.- leu orders to that effect.
A jury In Federal Judge Bean's court
■D Portland convicted Jefferson New,
of Jennings Lodge, of attempting tc
evade the draft by failing ‘willfully’
to register June 5 for the army, as
prov ided by law and a proclamation of
P.esid'-ut Wilson. He was sentenced
to 60 days i. jail. He is the first
slacker'- to be convicted in Oregon.
Negotiations ha'e been completed
for the p u r c h a s e by the Brooks-Scan-
lon Lumber company from the Shelbin
Ilixon company of a tract of 22.U00
acres of timber east of the Paulina
mountains. Included in the transac­
tion are 5000 acres belonging to John
J. Rupp, of, Saginaw, Mich. The total
stuinpage involved is 370,000,000 feet
Owing to the shortage of. feed on the
high desert and dry land sections of
riook and Deschutes counties, large
numbers of jaekrabbits are collecting
about the ranches In the irrigated
valleys and are feeding on the grain
fields. County Agriculturist It. A.
Ward has planned the third annual
jaekrabfiit campaign to commence
next month.
Petitions to tfie governor of Oregon
praying that ike hunting season for
deer be extended in the first district
from Ccti ' or 15 to Oct- hr-- 31 were
generally signed in L nee’.a county.
Hunters argue that, c :"g to forest
fires, much of the season was c'osed
by gubernatorial orders, and that the
extension prayed for will he In the in-
ten sts of food conservation.
Because they have failed to comply
with a law paused ^ y the 1917 legis
laturo imposing upon thi m the duty
of filin - certain data with the secre­
tary of s ale, no fi ss than 13 Oregon
county clerks are subject to removal
from office by the governor. The
counties in which the cl erk3 are de­
linquent are; Benton, Clackamas,
Clatsop, Crook. Curry, Deschutes, Har­
ney, Jackson, Jefferson. Morrow. Till­
amook. Umatilla and Wheeler.
Farmers of western Oregon whor.e
land is in need of agricultural lime can
have but little hope for early relief
from the state lime board, according
to Warden Charles E. Murphy of the
state penitentiary, ,-!.o is secretary of
the beard. Nothing definite has been
accomplished by the board since its
creation by the 1917 legislature, which
appropriated $29,000 to be used in
acquiring a lime deposit and preparing
the product for agricultural use.
Six post roail projects In eastern
Oregon will be submitted to the fed
cral government by the state highway
commission f< r Joint construction.
They are the following: From Pendle­
ton to Deadman hill, on the Pendleton
U- Grande hlahwey; from Union to
Telocasset; from Elgin to Minim, on
thp La Grande Joseph highway; from
Shaniko to Hay » reek; from Fossil
to Service, and from Payvllle to
Prairie City, on the John Day high­
way.
Morris Roon of Junction City, In a
letter to the attorney genc-al, says
dogs are killing his sheep and he Is
poisoning the dogs with very good
success, but he wants to know if there
Is any law autho:izlng a stockman to
put out poison for dogs under such
circumstances. Roon rays some of
the dogs he has poisoned w-ere peg
and he has been threatened with d e
trouble, but so far no one has flltd
suit against him. He has lost about
$430 worth of sheep and Las poisoned
15 dogs.
Arrangements were made in Port
land at a conference between J. D
Farrell, president of the O.-W. R &
N. company, other railway officials
G o l d e n ’s
WOMEN'S S H O P
A complete line of lleautitul Fall and
Winter Styles in
G o a t» a n d S u i t »
For Ladies and Misses ready to wear
We save yon ¿¿0 per cent on every
g.innent bought in our store.
We also make to vour order exclusive
styles in Coats. S u i t s and separate
Skirts.
«
Satisfaction is what we offer you aud value
in money-saving is what we are giving you.
We make Suits for Men, Tailored in our
Store on Premises.
Looated in dough.s old Drug Store building on Firat
Street. When you think about Coats, Suits, or Skirts
SEE US.
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V B U IU O l R ^
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TILLAMOOK, OREGON
It
Pays to
Advertise in
the Courier,
East V ia California
Fa a pL-asnnt winter route,
through a land
Travel in comfort
where it is always summer.
There’s S.in Francisco, San Jose, Del
Monte, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Santa
Barbara,
Los
Angeles,
Long
Beach,
Venice and many other charming re­
sorts,
and
much
beagtiful
scenery
en route.
Three Daily Trains
Portland to San Francisco.
Standard
and tourist eleepers, dining cars, solid
steel equipment.
Particularly attractive
at this season of the year.
Ask your local agent for particulars.
John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent
Portland.
Southern Pacific Lines
and city officials of Prinevtlle for tl:e out a controversy which waged nearly
completion of the municipal railway all summer to the effect that men
from Prlnevllle to a Junction with the working on bulls of vessels during
Oregon Trunk The plan 1» for Frlne construction after they have been
ville people to subscribe $£0,000 to launched, or longshoremen or steve­
Interest bearing certificates, guaran­ dores working on vessels in an harbor,
teed by the city of Prineville. When may come under the terms of the work­
the money is In hand, the O.-W. R. & men's compensation act. is upheld by
N. company and the Spokane, Port the Johnson law passed by the last
land A Seattle railway company will congress In this act. while the com-
supply rails and rolling slock on a mon law remedy Is still allowed to a.<-
lease basis, with option to purchase. piy. and a right of action Ilea in the ad­
Work will be resumed as socn as thp j miralty courts for the eases In ques­
tion. the law saves to claimants ”tha
money is raised
rights
and remedies under the work­
Contention of the industrial accident
men'«
compensation
law of any atata.”
commiasion of Oregon made through­