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ALBANY, OREGON. FRIDAY. MARCH 5
TELEPHONE TROUBLES
The real cause of unsatisfactory telephone service has
been revealed by a New York telephone operator. She testi
fies as follows:
"The service is poifect poifect.
"Course we girls have our troubles, what with fresh
. guys and cranky dames always thinkin' all you hafta do is
listen to them tryin' to explain why they thought of the
wrong number.
"Me give a wrong number? Wheredya get that stuff?
The trouble is we've gotta lotta people in this burg who
speak the English langwidge like they was drinkin' soup."
So there you are! It isn't the company's fault at all,
and it isn't the fault of the employees. It's the fault of the
public, which is irascible, unreasonable and slovenly in pro
nunciation. And since unsatisfactory telephone service
seems to be universal, it is to be presumed that the public
everywhere else is likewise to blame for the slow response,
wrong numbers, etc. Or isn't it? "
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THRIFT STAMP WEEK
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This week was observed in the public schools of the
country as Thrift Stamp week.
A week devoted to arousing anew the public interest in
these small but safe securities should be of benefit not only
to the school children but to their parents also. The finan
cial problems confronting the average family at this time are
such large ones that it is especially desirable that the habit
of small savings, systematically reserved from the income,
should not be overlooked.
No one who has a small bank into which he drops his
odd bits of cash needs to be told how rapidly the small
amounts total up. No one who has the habit of investing a
Huancr a wcck, or a aay, in a thrift stamp needs to be told
now quicKiy ms certificates become something to reckon
with as capital.
It will be increasingly hard within the next two years
ivr most peopie ro ao any saving on a large scale. The small
government securities offer a chance to keep on saving with
wi wo aiiu oaiiy guaiaillCCU.
Children who see their parents systematically through
hard times as well as good, and who are encouraged to fol
low the example are learning a lesson invaluable through
a life time. Thrift Stamp week should see a great revival of
public interest in a sensible and partiotic measure.
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One reason for the shortage of "hired men" is that they
are so called, and it hurts their feelings, according to a writ
er in the Literary Digest. Well, why not "agriculFural aids "
or bucolic assistants," or "rural employees"?
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The list of presidential candidates sounds like the secret
societies of our youth, when we were all officers.
is wCT" E"8'ish Critics the Present-day girl
is spoiled Still other commentators refer to her as
. fres"- Now what can a poor girl do?
Fire! Fire!! Fire !!!
PROTECT YOUR
AUTOMOBILE
TRUCK
GARAGE
I HOME
r-1L BUSINESS
With a Pyrcne or Johns-Manville
FIRE EXTINGUISHER
$10.00 and $10.50
Complete With Bracket
"Ask the Man Who Has Used One"
RALSTON
ELECTRIC CO. 310 West 2nd Sj
TODAY'S EVENTS
Krid..y. March 6, 1.20
Today is the lSOth anniversary of
he Boston Massacre.
Centenary of the birth of Alvah
Hovey, for 55 years president of
N'i'wton Theological Seminary.
Students represent lug the Univer
sity of Manitoba und the University
it North Dakota will enitago lit a
iebate thil evening o the subject of
the compulsory settlement of indus
trial disputes by courts of arbitra
tion. The fourth Intercollegiate Confet
.Mice on Vocations for Women will
pen at Cornell University today, un
ler the auspices of the Intercollegiate
Vocational Guidance Association,
which is inmle up of about 60 women's
college and universities throughout
the United States.
Comments of the
State Press
State Rights
II i Just a bit amusing to read tJ
rock-ribbed, republican Khodu Island
opposing the prohibition amendment
on the grounds that it violates "slate
rights." Astoria lludget.
j Handicap of Money
Hiram Johnson says he cannot over-
come the hnndicnp of money .spent
in beh.ilf of his two leading rompeti
i tors for the nominntion. It Uviks
' as if Iliram were pluming un alibi
! where he can find it Hfter the conven
; lion. Kugenc Hegister.
Today's Calendar
! of Sports
4)
Raring
Winter meeting of f ub.i-AmcricNii
Jockey Club, at Havana.
Winter mooting of Business Men's
Racing Asm., at New Orleans.
Polo
Opening of annual tournament of
Coroiudo (Calif.) Country Club.
Motorboat
Opening of annuul midwinter rejr.it
'.a at Muimi. Kla.
, Basketball
Central A. A. U. championships, at
Chicago.
NVbras!;e State intcrsrholastic ,
.ournament, at Lincoln.
Handball
National A. A. U. junior champion- :
hips, at Detroit.
Wrestling
Joe Sucher vs. Drank, at Detroit.
Boxing V
Benny Valger vs. Pal Morgan, 15 ;
rounds, at New Orleans. i
Willie Jackson vs. Johnny Dundee.
i rounds, at Jenrsey City. :
Young Chaney vs. Johnny Murray,
i rounds, at Jersey Ctiy.
Mike O'Dowd vs. Jackie Clarke, 10 i
rounds, at Atlanta, Ga.
; Hook Number
If the United Stales hail been in
tarty in the I.miruo of Nations and
' taken a place of authority at 'the
start the idea of leaving Turkiy in
full command in Constantinople
would mil ..uve had much standing.
, Oregon Statesman.
All Hide
The newspaper anil Me magniine
alike are full of stories bearing o,, the
prosperity of the working mun and
the resulting beh sales records of
thoso who sell foods to the working
men Wr are told that the worker
himself is investing in silk shirts and
flat his wife and daughters demand
the best to be hail In the way of
wearing npparrt The time when "'the
rich they rode in chaises ami the
poor they walk, be JasUs" is rapidly
fading into the dim past and an era
is speedily approaching when all will
ride in automobies. Kugene Register.
Nt a Trust
The court says the steell combine
is not a trust. Freely translated this
decision means that umler our laws
there ran be no combination of busl
ness interests which will violate the
provisions of the Sherman anti-trust
law. Eugene Guard.
A certain variety of woodpecker
produce a sound exactly like the dis
tant roll of a drum, which ran be
heard half a mile awav on a still day.
The "beats" are made at the rate of
at least sixteen per second, and how
the bird can do it is one of the many
mysteries of nature which has still
to be solved.
Bad Marksman
Because the tobacco chowers of
Wichita, Kan .. have become such bad
marksmen the city manager has de
cided to banish cuspidors from the
city hall. Their range of hits was
so wide that apparently some of the
spitters couldn't hit a swinging tank
without aiming from a rest Oregon
Journal.
Middle names were once illegal in
England.
from 80323 to RAZOR 8?BA?S,
WS'JS
Oregon Is the boot plaoe ia th world
for coroarolal growing of rosea.
Razor straps mantifaiturod here are na
tionally alTortisod and cold.
Oregon manufacturers of carbon paper,
drag saws, rubber heels, stoves .broors,
furniture, ooravjh drops and other oo-o-dlties
rutfee tholr products so good that
the world aoia for Oregon-ide.
Associated Industries of Oregon
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Planning that Garden
With the first appearance of Cock Robin signs of
spring bring thoughts of that garden that will furnish
you with so much pleasure in the making and so much
luxury and real satisfaction in the eating of your own
grown vegetables a few weeks hence.
But to garden you must have tools, and our tools
are of the right kind and quality. Better look over
yours.
SPADES HOES RAKES SHOVELS
WHEELBARROWS WEEDERS PLANTERS
Garden tools of all sorts. You can always depend
on quality and the right price at the
MARKER
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West
1 a.
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ROLLED OATS di ff
Twenty Pounds for v UU
HAMS, Beautiful, 9?r
sugar-cured meat afiOC
BACON, High Grade, , 04
Sugar-cured, Fresh OfC
BACON STRIPS, Od
From very best bacon, wrapped OOC
COMPOUND, on
Pearl Shortening aJstiC
LARD, PURE WHITE, o r-
Fresh, A Good Buy at OOC
MILK, Borden's None Superior, 7 (r
Per Can, Id cents; Per Case .... P .UU
CHEESE. A fine or-
wcll flavored quality OOC
TOM ATOFS, Solid Pack " " " g
SALMON, Avery high' Quality, "An
Per can, Only 0xC
TOIL FT SOAP. A line bargain CC
12 bars for . OOC
WASH INC? POWDER. Good as Citrus, OC-
5, ll-ouncti Packages for "OC
Wc Pride Ourselves Upon Sen-ice and Delivery.
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Miss Constance E. Miller a domestic science
expert, whose work has been read by thousands
of women throughout the nation has written us
the following letter:
"In my professional work 1 have, of course,
seen many kitchen cabinets. But I am obliged to
admit that none has seemed to mc to so exactly
meet the daily needs of the housewife as the Sell
ers. You have evidently studied kitchen work
and you have certainly solved the problem of
labor saving and convenience in the kitchen. To
my mind, the Sellers is by for the most convenient
kitchen cabinet of all."
Fisher-Braden Co.
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SUNBEAM 'lamps
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EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL
Western Electric OUTFITS INSTALLED AND IN OI'KRATIOM
Farm Light SATISFIED CUSTOMERS JOHN WINKLEY.
And Power W. W. POLAND, O. B. KEEBLER, I. H. COPE-
Oulflts LAND, JOHN WILLS, J. S. LUCKEY.
WIRING DONE BY LICENSED BONDED WIREMEN
Phone 20
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