TO TEMPER FREIGHT RATES
B U S IN E S S
New Houston Hotel
Sixth ami Everett Sts.. Portland, Ore.
Four blocks from Union U*»Dot. Two blocki
from N*;w Poetoffice. Modern an 1 fireproof
Over 100 outside rooms. Kates
to S2.00.
CHAS. C. HOPKINS. Manager.
DIRECTORY
200 Rooms
100 Baths
I
Near Both
Depots
Young Women and Men
There is no occasion for alarm on
the part o f producers or shippers be
cause o f the increased freigh t rates to
Absolutely go into effect June 25, in the opinion
Fireproof
o f traffic officials. It is realized that
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there will he some points at which a
W
pinch will he felt, pending the adjust-
r iO tC ! I lO y
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Corner Sixth and Hoyt Sta.. Portland. Ora.
LOU HIMES, Manager.
R A T E S :-76c to 12.
Earn More
New 25 Per Cent Raise to Fall Mostly
Upon Foreign Shipper.
S P E C IA L -W e e k or Month
n ■
fair to various interests.
Word from the headquarters o f the
Western traffic committee at Chicago,
brings assurance that the intention of
Hides, Pelts , CBSark,a Wool & Mohair
National and Local
Meat Business
baaia that will 1«
The meat business of the
country is conducted by various
agencies—
By small slaughter-houses
in villages—
By local Abattoirs or small
Packing Houses in towns—
both
Using only a part of the
local live stock supply
and
Furnishing only a part of
the local demand for meat.
the district committees work out the
We wui
bi»e Writ far recognized
Pnte» mCSkipyag Ta that
g».
equitable
modifications necessary.
It ill is raa
generally
in
Business cries for trained minds. Grasp your
opportunity. Enorll now in Northwest's biirRest Portland. Ore.. Seattle, Wn., Bellingham, Wn. creased earnings had become impera
business college, Behnke-Walker. Portland. Free
tive to the operation o f the railroads,
Catalog.
and the 25 per cent increase under or
der No. 28 was the necessary step to
begin the establishment o f rates to
PARCEL P05T PAID SPECIAL
yield the necessary revenue.
In the
the Housewife » Drudgery.
N o baik-breaking. Thousand» n >w in
very nature o f commerce and tiaffic it
use. Self wringing Simple and prac-
Full directions with each mcp.
necessarily follows that the effect o f
MOTOR CAR REPAIRING
the application o f the general rates
announced w ill seriously affect the
MAGNETO SERVICE STATIO N
producer or manufacturer whose goods
find a market in distant sections o f the
A U . KINDS O F
! country as against the man with a lo
Veal, Pork, Beef,
Poultry, Butter, Egga cal market.
and Farm Produce,
to the Old Reliable Everding house with a
New War Taxes IJiocuosed.
record of 45 years of Square Dealings, and
PRO M PT ATTE NTIO N
Washington,
D. C. — Installment
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T O A L L ORDERS
plan payment o f war taxes w ill lie pro-
F. M. CRONKHITE,
Broadway at Flanders, Portland, Or.
45-47 Front Street,
Portland. Oregon | vided for in the new revenue bill
which the house ways and means com
mittee is preparing to draft. Chair
man Kitchin disclosed this fact during
lx no more necessary
Lying Down Together.
than S m a l l p o x . Aiiuy
a hearing before the committee, when
The little town was all excitement.
experience has demonstrated
the almost mlraculoua e ffi
The circus had arrived. The chief at Albert R. Palmer, o f New York, repre
cacy, and harmlessness, o f Antityphoid Vaccination,
traction of the circus was the cage in senting a large number o f corpora
Be vaccinated N O W by y»u r physician, you and
which the lion lay down with the lamb. tions, urged that such provision be
your fam ily. It Is more vital than bouse Insurance.
Ask your physician, druggist, or send for “ Have
An old gentleman started asking the made.
you had Typhoid?" tellin g o f T y p h o i d Vaccine,
proprietor questions.
Mr. Palmer advocated tax on gross
results from ux , and danger from Typhoid Carriers.
"L)o these two ever quarrel?” he sales, which he said would be less felt
THC C U T T C t L A B O tA T O tY , B C fftC L F Y . C A L
asked.
raooueme vaccinia a aaauaa unDia u. a. aov. u c ia a a
than the tax on war profits. He op
“ W ell,” admitted the proprietor, posed a tax on stock dividends, con
“ they are not always peaceful. Some tending that exemption from taxes
times they have a bit of a scrap.”
should not be based on capital because
“ And then?”
“ Oh, then,” said the proprietor, “ we o f the widely varying revenues o f
generally buy another lamb."— Louis companies operating along the same
lines. He argued for a tax on gross *
ville Courier-Journal.
income which could be passed along
A n o th e r “ H o w le r.”
easily to the consumer.
Soap 25c. Ointm ent 25 .a d 50c.
On the examination paper of an en
gineering college one of the questions
Rate Order to He Amended.
ran: “ What steps would you take in
Washington, D. C. Railroad admin
determining the height o f a building, istration officials have reached a ue.-is-j
££ _
Granulated Eyelids. using an aneroid barometer?”
Eye* inflamed by expo-
Answering this, one youthful aspir ion to rescind that portion o f the new ‘
cure to Sun. Duel and Wind ant wrote: " I would lower the barom freigh t rate order prescribing that
mck.lv relieved by Murine eter by a string and then measure the higher interstate rates shall apply on
yeRemedy. No Smarting,
intrastate shipments when interstate
string.”— Boston Transcript.
_ _
just Eye Comfort. At
schedules already exist, ami a final or
Druggist! or by mail 50c per Bottle. Murine
der to this effect may be issued in a
Eye Salve in Tubes 25c. For Book*! Ibe f ye
few days.
VIEB ask Murine Eye Remedy Ce.. Chicago
T H E H. F. N O R T O N C O M P A N Y ,
FRED DUNDEE
MACHINE WORK
WELDING
CYLINDER GRINDING
SHIP
TYPHOiD
These slaughtering and distributing
agencies fill a well defined but neces
sarily restricted place in the distribu
tion of the products of live stock.
But only packers like Swift &
Company, organized on a national
scale, are able to undertake the ser
vice that is more vitally important,
involving
Skin Tortured
Babies Sleep
After Cuficura
An Obligation to the Producer
To purchase for spot cash all the
live stock the producer may send
to market for slaughter.
An Obligation to the Consumer
2
Force of H abit.
Jack— Why did you break your en
gagement with that school teacher?
Tom— If I failed to show up of an
evening she expected me to bring a
written excuse signed by my mother.
— Exchange.
Dangerous T ra it.
“ That dog is exactly like bis mas
ter.”
“ How Is that?"
“ When he attaches himself to a per
son It Is exceedingly difficult to shake
him ofr."— Exchange.
Some Speed.
Marx— Are you athletic?
Lois— Oh yes. I ’m the fastest cro-
chetor on our college team.
Marx— Zasso. flow fast can you go?
Lois—Oh, about 30 knots an hour.—
Minneapolis Tribune.
THE MAKING OF
A FAMOUS
MEDICINE
How Lydia E. Pinkham’»
Vegetable Compound
Is Prepared For
W oman’s Use.
With the Fingers!
Says Corns Lift Out
Without Any Pain
You reckless men and women who
are pestered w'th cornB and who have
at least once a week Invited an awful
death from lockjaw or blood poison
are now told by a Cincinnati authority
to use a drug called freezone, which
the moment a few drops are applied
to any corn or callous the soreness Is
relieved and soon the entire corn or
callous, root and all. lift* o ff with the
fingers.
Freezone dries the moment tt Is ap
plied, and simply shrivels the corn or
callous without Inflaming or even Ir
ritating the surrounding tissue or
skin. A small bottle of freezone will
cost very little at any of the drug
stores, but will positively rid one’s
feet of every hard or soft corn or
hardened callous.
If your druggist
hasn't any freezone he can get It at
any wholesale drug bouse for you —
Adv.
No
Danger.
“ I,” said the temperance man,
; “ strongly object to the custom of
christening ships with champagne.”
“ I don’t," replied the other man. "I
think there’s a temperance lesson In
it.”
“ How can that be?"
"W ell, Immediately after the first
bottle of wine the ship takes to water
and sticks to it ever after.’ ’— New
York Globe.
Com plying W ith O rd er*.
A visit to the laboratory where this
"W h y do you want a glass of starch
successful remedy is made impresses water?”
even the casual looker-on with the reli
“ Because my w ife is a prohibition
ability. accuracy, skill ami cleanliness ist, and the doctor has ordered me to
which attends the making o f this groBt take a stiff drink."— Exchange.
medicine for woman’s ills.
Over 350,000 ixiumU o f vnrious herbs
Suggestion.
nre used anually und all have to be
"I have named my new car The
gathered at the season of the year when
their natural juices and medicinal sub Loan.”
"Why have you given It such a name
stances are at their best.
The most successful solvents nre used as that?”
"Because nobody can blame you
to extract the medicinal properties from
then for speeding It up."— Exchange.
these herbs.
e
Every utensil and tank that comes in
A Dreadful C alam ity.
contact with the medicine is sterilized
"Sm ith’s exclamation when he found
and as a final precaution in cleanliness
the medicine i pasteurized and sealed the condition of his hoot was harrow
ing.”
in si nlc bottles.
"W h y harrowing?"
I* ’> the wonderful combination o f
r >ots and herbs, together with the
"Because It was the cry of a lost
and ca«c used in its preparation sole."— Exchange.
which has made this famous medicine
■ • succ ssful in the treatment of
You M ay T ry Cuticura Free
.'-male ills.
Send today for free samples of Out!-
* The utter* f«um women who have
ti restored to health by the use ,,f curn Soap and Ointment and learn
’ in F 1 inkhntn’ s Vcgetch
t ■ - how quickly they relieve Itching, skin
•end v.hvh we are continu.diy pub- and scalp troubles. For free samples,
'ix h in r a test to its virtue.
address. "Cuticura. Dept. X. Boston.”
At druggists and by mall. Soap 26,
f>. N b.
No. 25, 1918
¡Ointment 25 and 80.— Adv,
NORTHW
EST M
ARKET REPORT
Wheat— Bulk basis for No. 1 grade:
Hard white, $2.05. Soft white, »2.03.
White club, $2.01. Red Walla. $1.88.
No. 2 grade, 3c less; No. 3 grade, 6o
less. Other grades handled hv sample.
Flour — Patents, $10 per barrel;
whole wheat, $9.60; graham, $9.20;
barley flour, $14.504i15.00; rye flour.
$10,754/ 12.75; corn meal, white, $6.50;
yellow, $6.25 pt r barrel
M illfeed— N et mill prices, car lots:
Bran, $30.00 per ton; shorts, $32;
middlings, $39; mixed cars and less
than carloads, 50c more; rolled barley,
$75(<i76; rolled oats. $73.
Com Whole, $77 jier ton; cracked,
$78.
Hay — Buying prices,
delivered:
Eastern Oregon timothy, $29ei30 per
ton; valley timothy, $264(26; alfalfa,
$24(u24.50; valley grain hay, $22;
clover, $19(u20.00; straw, $9.00ei 10.
Butter—Cubes, extras, 37Jc; prime
firsts, 37c; prints, extras, 42c; car
tons, lc extra; butterfat. No. 1, 41c
delivered.
Eggs - Ranch, current receipts, 34c:
candled, 35c; selects, 36c per dozen.
Poultry — Hens, 27c; broilers, 40c;
ducks, 32c; geese, 20c; turkeys, live,
26(u27c; dressed, 37c per [M>und.
Pork— Fancy, 25(<i 23Jc per pound.
Sack Vegetables —Carrots, $1.15 per
sack; turnips, $1.50; parsnips, $1.25;
beets, $2.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 75c4(
$1 fier hundred; new California, 10c
per pound; sweet potato«^, 10c per
pound.
Onions— Jobbing prices, l ! u l } c per
pound.
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To make available to every con
sumer. everywhere, in season and
out. the lull supply and variety of
meat products, of the highest
standard that the market affords.
W IT H YOUR H A N D S T IE D by some
Not a Perm anent Objection.
Prospective Tenant — I like the |
house, but I don't fancy having that
huge building opposite. It cuts out
the view.
Agent— Oh, but that’s only a muni
tion factory. It may blow up any dxy. |
— Exchange.
chronic “ female com-
plaint” or weakness,
what can you expect?
There’s nothing you
can
accomplish—
J
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A W aste of Knowledge.
“ Your friend seems very pessimistic
about the outcome of the war.”
“ Yes, you see, he has no way of ad
vising Gen. Foch when to bring on his
reserve army."— Exchange.
ihJ
en-
no
reason for it Doctor
'
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, The
t hey regu-
late liver, bowels and stomach.
T ru e Devotion.
“ And you love me for myself alone?”
“ Yes. dear."
"Suppose I were to inherit a million
dollars ?"
“ I could help you spend it with a
clear conscience."— Birmingham Age
Herald.
In v e s te d to an Expert.
P i e r c e ' 8 Favorite
Prescription will cure
’ you. safely and o-r
■
you'll giv e
every one of these
womanly troubles, this is the only
remedy: In periodical pains, bearing-
down sensations, organic displace
ments. and every kindred ailment, and
in all the nervous disorders caused by
functional derangements.
An easily procured vegetable pill Is
made up of May-apple, the dried juice
of the leaves of aloes, and the root o f
! jalap, made into a tiny pellet and coat
ed with sugar. It was first put into
ready-to-use form by Dr. Pierce nearly
50 years ago. Almost every drug store
in this country sells these vegetable
pellets in vials for 25c— simply ask
for Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They
have Dr. R. V. Pierce stamp.— Adv.
Cattle—
June 16, 1918.
“ Do
that mule of yours kick?"
Prime steers.................. $14,004(15.00
■•v.p. replied Farmer Oorntossel.
Good to choice steers.. . . 12.50<<i 13.50 ” .\n' I don't much object. There alius
"Miss Bertha says she has such an
Medium to good steers.. 11.f(Y*i 12.00 has to be si.-tr.e kickin' and I'm per elastic nature.”
Fair to medium steers .. 10.50vil .60 f -vtlv s-uisfied to leave it all to the
" I suppose that is why she does so
much rubbering.” — Exchange.
Common ¿o fa ir steers .. 9.00(0 lo.o<. mule."— Washington Star.
Choice cows and heifers. 11.00m 12.00 j .
Com. to good cows and hf 6.50(0 8.50 j
Canners..........................
4.004i 6.00 I
Bulls................... .......... 6.5 0 fl 10. Off'
Calves.............................
8.5<Vu 12.0°
Stockers and fe e d e rs ....
8.00(o lu.00 j
Hogs—
Prime m ixed...................$16.50(o 16.65 ;
Medium m ixed............... 16.354(16.80
Rough h ea vies............... 15.50(o 15.60 ;
P ig s ................................. 15.25(«T5.50 i
'Bulk................................
16.50 j
Sheep—
Prime spring lambs....... $ 16.00(o 16.50
P O S T O F F IC E
CNOcM M O t C A N ' S
Heavy lambs................... 15.60»! 16.00
IO «S CO.
Yearlings........................
9.504(10.60
W ethers..........................
9.004(10.00
SERVICE UND ER T H IS E M B L E M
Ewes...................... .
5.504! 9.00
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fet U.S.Marine Corps recruits.
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