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THE AURORA O B S E R V E R
!? “ African Elephants.
N early. every one lias seen an ele­
phant. and nearly every one Imagines
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he knows what one looks like. But
this popular impression and most of
E ditor and P ublisher the beliefs about the elephant are er­
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roneous.
In the first place, the elephants we
E ntered as second class m atter March 28, 1911, at the postoffice a t Aurora see here In America are Indian ele­
phants They are undersized, even the
Oregon, under the A ct of March 3, 1879.
largest o f them.
A full grown African elephant is
nearly three times the size of Jumbo,
which was the largest elephant ever
brought to America. "I have.” said a
i pledge allegiance to my
hunter, “shot several specimens which
i
Hag and the republic for
stood over thirteen feet and* which
which it stands,one Nation,
weighed at least twice as much as
indivisible, with liberty and
Jumbo.
justice to all.
“Next to the monkey, the elephant Is
the wisest and most intelligent of all
anim als I am not saying this of the
domesticated Indian elephant, but of
the African elephant in bis native state.
And the African elephant is always a
The war hit the Belgians almost as hard as it hit the huge, wild beast. He, is never domesti­
cated.”
American tightwads.
Pluto’s Safety Valve.
A round, smooth hole in the side o f a
granite monument about nine miles
out from Mexico City is locally known
by a term which signifies "Pluto’s
safety valve.” The hole is about nine
inches in diameter at the opening,
which- is polished. in a manner which
suggests, human workmanship. That
man had nothing to do with drilling or
polishing this hole will he readily sur­
mised when it is kfiown that it has
occasionally emitted hot air and smoke
during a period Extending over 300
years.
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Be Ready For
A n Opportunity
One often hears, “ I f / only
had a little m oney I coaid make
a fortune. ”
Wants, For Sale, Etc
LOCAL. AD R A T E .
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A uniform and invariable charge
of 5 cents per lin e is made for all ad­
vertising notices of every description
in the news columns of this news­
paper. This rate applies to fo r sale,
for rent, lost, found, card of thanks,
j “want ads,” and to all kinds of sim­
\
ilar notices as well as to ail notices of
entertainm ents, fairs, socials, shows,
| etc. No reductions or discounts.
W h y not be ready when op­
portunity knocks at your door ?
Plan to place in the bank a
certain percentage o f your sal­
ary or business profits.
Uses For Alcohol.
Speaking of the little known uses of
! alcohol, a recent writer says that few
W ith only a few exceptions all the
wd0 wear the so called “derby”
Then when the main chance
tural counties of Oregon have accepted the P n v p r n m p n t 111611
bat know that its stiffness is dug to
comes along yo u 'll be ready
plan of establishing and maintaining county agricultural a gum that is dissolved in alcohol.
Transparent soap owes its transparen­
for it.
agents for the year 1918.
cy to alcohol. The increasing demand
FO R SALE
for leather and the Inability of the
Holstein Friesian bulls ready for ser-1
Banking in every form .
market to meet this demand from nat­ ,yice. Also a few calves from good
ural sources have led to the produc- r
Gus Moser hds nothing to be ashamed of in the Ger­ tion of artificial substitutes for the ma-| producing dams. Buy them while they |
man ancestry of which he has so often boasted in addres- j ten ia These are possible through the j ,are young and have them grow ■ into
use of alcohol. The same is to be said ; money.—Ernest W erner, R t. 2.
ing meetings of Germans, so why does he now emphasize of the artificial silk that now finds a
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the Swiss? No one has accused him of being a Hun. — large and increasing sale. Alcohol Is
Hop -contracts, deeds, mortgages,
a practically Indispensable servant in bills of sale, satisfaction of m ort-}
Ju st Tired.
Oregon Voter.
Sn ails and Oaors.
the varnish used on woodwork. It is
gages and sim ilar legal blanks for j Snails perceive the odor of many sub­
“W hat’s the m atter with my foun-
used in preservatives, in disinfectants,
stance:), but only when not far away. i tain pen?" asked one user of another.
deodorants and shoe polishes, in dyes sale at the Observer Office.
and
in
lacquers
and
in
a
long
list
of
In order to prove this it Is necessary “I t won’t write. There’s ink In it; It
The Oregon Poultry Producers association has peti­
chemicals with more or less unfamil­
merely to dip a glass r<gl In a strongly | has be,eu cleaned. Maybe it needs a
Marry,
if
lonely.
For
speedy
mar-
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tioned the Federal Government to fix the price of corn and iar names. One of its important uses |
smelling substance and bring it near | new point."
| riage, try my club, very successful, i
try putting it aside and giving
other wheat substitutes a t a reasonable figure and place a j gunpowder
18 ta tde m
anufa<'t,ire of smokelesa best, largest in the country, established j the large tentacles of a snail in mo­ ; it “Ever
a rest?”
and other explosives.
tion. If it is put close to these horns
11 years; thousand wealthy wishing toj the tentacles are violently drawn back. j “No.”
supply on the Oregon market, or else lift the limit of 10
“Then try it.”
marry at once. Confidential . descrip-1 As the animal perceives the odor it
Sirius
and
the
Dog
Days.
per cent on the amount wheat used in the nation.
The complaining man did. Now he
The dog days are reckoned about tions fre e .
Reliable
Club.—Mrs. j changes Its course. Snails also smell
forty and are set down In the almanac Wrubel, 732 Madison St. Oakland, Cali- j by means of their skin. Contact is not i thinks he has solved the mystery of
as beginning on July 3 and ending Aug fornia.
necessary, for the mere vicinity of a I the crankiness of fountain pens. He
12-7-1917
11. In the time of The ancient astron­
perfume causes an indentation of the has learned that resting takes out one
W ith no deferred classification for men who have omers
of the kinks.—New York Sun.
the remarkable star Sirius, call­
skin.
married since May 18, 1917, and with the proposed e x ­ ed also Canicula, or the dog star, rose W A NTED— Goats. Call or
beliaeally— that is, just before ihe sun W. E, Frazier, Aurora, Oregon,
tension of the draft age to 62 years, the “ marrying jus­ —about the beginning of July, and the ora Mutual Phone,)
tices”, the preachers, and Vancouver m arriage licence sultry heat which usually prevails at
that season, with all its disagreeable
Pigs for Sale.—Louis R acette, Route ¡
clerks are strictly up against it. W ar and m arriage a r e .___. effects, among which the tendency ot 3, Aurora. (Aurora Mutual Tele- !
dogs to becomeytiad is not one of tin- phone.)
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least disagreeable^ was ascribed to the
DENTIST
malignant rays of the star. Owing to
A bill making it a felony to circulate false reports with the precession of the equinoxes the Hogs for Sale—Big and little, Poland
Room 414 Bank of Commerce Building
the intention of interfering with the operation or success j heliacal rising of^ sinus now takes Chinas. Call up the Observer office.
place later in the year and in a cooler
Salem, Oregon.
of American military or naval forces or obstruct the sale season, so that the “dog days" have
FOR
R
EN
T—I
will
rent
some
of
my
of Liberty bonds or securities was introduced today by. not now that relation to the particular onion l8nd for cash or share rent, and j
position of the dog .^ ir from which
Come to Salem, for your Dental Work— All Class­
will give good terms for clearing onion I
Senator Culberson^ and referred to the judiciary committee. they obtained their uume.
es of Dentistry AT M ODERATE PRICES.
land for the crop.—M. J . Olson, Wood-1
The bill proposes a fine of $10,000 with imprisonment for
burn, Oregon.
Artificial Milk a Complex Mixture.
17-2t.
not more than 20 years.
To show what a,n arsenal of chem
j
lrnls has to he employed when we
Fresh, four year old Holstein Cow!
want to copy nature tile Paris Nature
Herd te st ¡
the formula for artificial milk with heifer calf, for sale.
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A Washington news dispatch declares that the Senate prints
Glen C. Carothers, Hubbard,
as patented in England. It is us fol­ 5-3,
Oregon,
(46-2t) ,
bill giving the government control of the print paper busi­ lows:
In 200 pints of water at 8.T degrees
ness was defeated by the votes of the Oregon Senators. C. dissolve 400 grains o f phosphate of
If this is true, their votes were directly opposed to the potassium or the equivalent quantity I
of phosphate of soila. Add sugar suf- |
interests of the newspapers, especially the country news­ Orient to make 4.5 per cent of the j
final product and mix hi twenty kilo­
papers, as these papers see it.
grams of extract of nuts. Boll, then 1
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| distill and treat with a culture of lactic J
j ferments until the desired acidity is J
,
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leading agncul*
AURORA STATE BANK
DR. UTTER,
CROWN AND BRIDGE W ORK
A Specialty.
Farm ers who have plenty of skim milk have the! solu- °1,tai“ed L>astei1,1rize at <i0 or1170 dH
t on of the m eat shortage in their own hands. Made i my of citric acid, rids can be dried j
into “ smear c ise,” it becomes a food product richer th an rand sold as a p°wder-
beef, both in protein and energy. Made rig h t—as it i s
A Distinction.
I "T l,e w°.r'd is divided into two
made in Aurora— “ sm ear case”, cottage cheese, Dutch
11 ,classes.” said t|>p village' oracle oracu-
cheese (call it w hat you wish) is a tasty dish, full of j larly. "those wfco borrow and those
nutriment, and a good substitute for meat. Try it.
wb "No.
<> lend
It ain't.” contradicted a member
of the corner grocery audience. "It
] orter lie. but it ain’t.”
“ Indeed! And how do you think it is
The moral standards of the present day Prussian are j divided?"
hard to comprehend. Dr. Engel, one of the most promi­ i “Inter two classes—them that wants
ter borrer an’ them that won’t lend.”—
nent men of Berlin, after admitting th at the number Of j Cleveland Plain Dealer,
unmarried Prussian mothers has reached almost 200,000
yearly, asserts th at this condition is “ evidence of the mor-| Ethiopia was described by tbe Greeks j
al healthiness
of the German
race.” In America we have I to
and tbe Hotn,T
af
6oun^y !!bli:bf!,ar!
“
.
south of Egypt. Shortly before
other names ft r such conditions.
the birth of Jesus a native dynasty of
I women holding the official title of can-
dnee held sway iu Ethiopia and even
resisted the advance of Roman arms.
ab­ One of these is the queen noticed in
the Acts viii. 27.
The rapid loading and unloading of freight cars is
solutely necessary in order to carry on successfully,
great struggle in which the nation is involved. fCvery
thoughtless citizen, shipper, or business man needlessly
taking a single heur out of the combined force necessary
for success is doing an act similar to th at of the man w ho
pulls a brick fiom the foundation of a great stru ;t i e, in
which the removal of a few may bring the whole msss
crashing down. Every patriotic user of freight cars should
exercise the utmost effort to unload and release them with­
out a moments unnecessary delay.
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A Slight Misapprehension.
"W hat became of your pretty cousin
who married that actor fellow?”
“Oh. he's now a star, and she is sup­
porting him.”
"Supporting him, eh? That’s what
comes of marrying these stage folks.”
—Baltimore American.
j
Very Helpful.
“When a congressman makes a mon-
key o f himself he can have it stricken :
from the record."
“What about it?”
I “I was ju st thinking that would be I
j useful In ordinary life.” — Louisville
President Wilson has asked the 300,000 Boy Scouts! Courier~Journal-________
of America to act as Government dispatch bearers in
hi « company,
carrying to the homes of their community the pam-i
a man' ^ by!
phlets prepared by the Federal Committee on Public In-1 The Suitor-Then rm an right, fo r '
I’ve been keeping company with your
formation. They are asked to place certain im portant in­ daughter for over two years.
formation from the President himself in the hands of 5 ,-
. Practiced What He Preached.
000,000 American citizens, each of whom will be Request­ Hills—Cruet says tbat he believes In i
ed to promise to pass the printed informa tion along to one keeping in touch with his fetlow men. ;
Mills—Well, there aren’t many of them
other good citizen. Very shortly every Boy Scout in tbat he hasn’t touched.
America will receive an identification card, bearing his If you can speak two languages you
name, troop number, city and state, and showing his ap­ are lucky; if you speak one honestly
you are wise.
pointment as a government dispatch bearer.
Teach the Children to Save
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III
The inculcation of Thrift in the minds of the young is one of the
important duties of those responsible for the education and train­
ing of children and youth. Youth is the critical period of life for
the child. Today is a critical period in our national life. Youth
needs training in habits of thrift and economy. The nation needs
(as a loan) all th at thrift and saving of the people can provide
to carry it through its time of peril.
As a beginning, 1 the Observer will provide a Thrift Card and 25-cent
Thrift Stamp for the boy or girl of the family, as outlined below:
THRIFT STAMPS FREE
Now is the time to “ square up,” re­
new, or pay in advance as long as you
With each yearly subscription to the like, getting the full worth of your
Observer is given . a 25-cent United
S tates T h rift Stamp free! Send us money in one o f the best local papers
your check for $1.25 for a a year’s sub published in the Valley and at the same
scription to the Observer and by return time get a 25-cent T h rift Stamp to
mail you will receivs a receipt for a full start a Thrift Card for the boy or girl.
year’s subscription, together with a 25-
We are willing to do our bit, What
cent T hrift Stamp and Card. Pay for 2
years and get your receipt for two full about you?
years, and a T h rift card with two 25-
cent stamps. A stamp will be given
with each year's subscription—one, two
This offer is good only until 5 p. m.
three, no m atter how many—whether
it be payment for arrearages, renewals, Saturday, January 26, 1918. Why not
or new subscriptions.
send us your remitance today?
No greater benefit can come from a small beginning than to make
your boy or girl a creditor of the United States Government and
a t the same tim e impress upon their minds by repeatéd admoni­
tions the importance of th rift and saving—both to the child and
the country it should be taught to love and assist.
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THE A U R O R A O BSER VER
AURORA, OREGON