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VOL. VIII. AURORA, MARION COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 26, 1918. NO. 42 OBITUARY THE ROLL CALL HOP NOTES Mrs. Mary Anna Bowers o f Aurora Oregon passed away at the Hubbard Hospital Sunday, December 1-5, 1918. Aged 32 years, 4 month and 22 days. She was a faithful member o f the Fargo M. E. church where the funeral service was held Wednesday, Decem ber 18, 1913, at 2 p. m. conducted by Rev, Thomas Acheson. assisted by Rev. J. W. Worrell o f Salem. Mrs. Bowers was the bldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bents o f Aurora, and was born near Butteville, Oregon, July 24, 1886, and spent almost her en tire life in this community. She was married to John W. Bower of Portland June 4, 1905 and to this union was born two sons. Besides her husband and children she is survived by her father and mother, Mr, and Mrs. Fred Bents, a sister Miss Hattie Bents and two brothers Wm, Bents, and Clarence Bents, the latter now with the A. E. F. in Siberia, and a host o f friends. A loving and dutiful daughter— faithful wife and affectionate mother has passed on to her reward. The committees in charge o f the so liciting o f membership for the Red Cross have secured 201 signers in the Aurora school district—It in Clackamas county and 190 in Marion— which is nearly 40 per cent of the population. A complete list o f those joining will be pubbshed next week, lack of time and rush o f work, making it necessary to omit them this week. In the Butteville district 131 mem berships were signed up, a number re fusing, because they “ had given enough already. ” All the orders on hand are for Eng lish account. - The Government has re moved hops from the export conserva tion list, and they can now be shipped to England without trouble, provided the shipper is able to get an import license from the British authorities The trans- Atlantic companies are now o f fering space on their steamers for hops from New York to London at $6 per hundred pounds. Before the war, the rate was 75 or 85 cents, and before England put on the embargo, the rate had moved up to $3 a huudred.—Ore gonian. FREE FERRY PROVIDED A t the Clackamas county taxpayer’s budget meeting Saturday at Oregon City an expenditure o f $2500 for the purchase o f the Wilsonville ferry was authorized by a unanimous vote, The .money will be used to purchase the (apparatus, now privately owned and ¡operated during the summer n.onths, | FRUIT TREES AND ROSES and a landing site on each side o f the We still have due us from two good river. It will be necessary for the j nurseries, the following nursery stock comity court to provide funds for the ■ which we will sell at the prices named: operation and maintenance o f the 1150 apple trees at 15c; 50 pear tress at ferry. 20c; 25 grafted Franequtte walnuts at i $1.00 to $1.50; 35 seedling Franquette CARD OF THANK & j walnuts at 30c; 76 plums, peaches and We wish to sincerely thank all the | prunes (not Italians) at 16c; 40 apri- neighbors and friends who so kindly ¡cots and cherries at 25c; 200 goosebei- assisted us during the illness and death ries and currants at 10c; and a number o f our beloved daughter Ida, and for ! o f roses and ornamentals at 35c to $1.00 ! each. the beautiful floral offerings. Ask us about them at once, because Mr. and Mrs. H. Pardey, | we can not hold them much longer, as and family. | they revert to the nurseries soon. C A R D OF TH AN K S To the many kind friends who came with words o f sympathy and acts of kindness during our recent sad bereave ment in the loss of our loved one, and for the beautiful floral offerings we wish to extend our heartfelt thanks and may the same kindness be oxtend- ed to you, should you ever be called to suffer the same sad lo3s, John W. Bowers and family. Mr, and Mr3> Fred Bents and family. << SCHOOL EXERCISES The Christmas exercises Friday at the Aurora school consisted o f an ap propriate program--mostly upon Red Cross activities. There were a number o f visiting patrons o f the school who were much pleased with the exercises. Seen and Heard” Oliver Wendell Homes once said,‘ ‘No one ever saw fat men heading a riot or herding together in turbulent mobs” . Let’s fatten up the I. W. W ’s! • "W hat do you mean by the quick and dead” , asked an Aurora teacher o f her brighest pupil. “ Please, ma’ am” , re plied isohnie, “ the quick is them that keeps out of the way of the Aurora speed fiends, and the dead is them as don’ t ” W e thank all our customers heaartily for the generous patronage bestowed upon us during the past year, and hope that our mutually pleasant re lations may continue during 1 9 1 9 . Alec La Fallette writes the “ dear editor” of the Silverton Appeal, thank ing him for mentioning his (Alec’s) name a couple o f times without “ lam basting me as a few other papers have in this county” . What papers could it have been? pitsliutg fm i a (JHernr Christmas mtfcr a * ¿Shipper “ Bill” who signs his name to the “ Love Letters of a Rookie” , in' the Portknd Telegram, can’ t .understand why all Y. M. C. A. huts in France (and perhaps America) have a bald- headed fellow who always wants to start a song. Bill says they all look alike, and thinks they must be part of a regular “ issue” . All o f which about the bald head reminds us o f the only two Y. M. C. A. “ Secs” we know— I both newspapermen, Gordon J. Taylor | and Fred Lock ley—the one because he j IS baldheaded and'CAN’ T sing and the other because he is NOT baldheaded | and THINKS he can sing. WILL-SNYDER CO. TH E STORE OF MERIT UR blessings on those boys, O mother dear, That through them we can give with loving cheer The Christmas gift from Christ of Bethlehem, ’Tis this: ‘O peace on earth, good will to men.’ Our boys, so brave and true, they understand,; They fight for peace for ev’ry opprest land; Yes, staunch and firm, they conquer unjust fo® To give the gift that Christ died to bestow ” According to the government census bureau, Marion county has 2 out o f I every 100 persons above 10 years o f age i ^ who can neither read nor write, which means that there are nearly 1000 peo-1 pie in this county who are illiterate. | The following table shows how many if people in each 1000 cannot read or write in the counties named: 20 Marion____ __________ _ 16 Clackamas....................... Yamhill___ . . ______ . . . .. 11 11 Polk .................................. Multnomah............... ...... .. 15 Jurors for the January term o f the: Road patrolman Allie Zimmerman has Twenty-two counties have less than circuit court have been drawn in the several teams hauling gravel from the Marions 20 per 1000, ;and 12 coun- Irvin plant on: the Aurora-Wilsonville county clerk’s office. The session will road. ties have more illiteratesi per 1009 than Marion. Wasco has the highest num- open on January 16. Grand jurors will j Bids will be opened by the highway bagin work two weeks earlier on D e -! ber per thousand people--7 2 . cember 30. The jurors from this see- commission in January for the paving The editors o f the Silverton Appeal | tion are Henry Zorn o f Champoeg, W, I of the Salem-Aurora part o f the Paci and the Silverton Tribune—John T. Once before the con T. Grimm of Hubbard, J, M. Kromling: fic Highway. Hoblitt and Henry E. Browne (note o f Hubbard, and J.. P. Feller o f Don- j tract was actually let, but was after the aristocratic “ e ” ) - are engaged in a aid. wards cancelled. violent controvery over the proper method o f acquiring Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys and apples, whether they should pry them loose from Sena tor Alex La Follette or appeal to the generosity o f Walter L. Tooze, Sr., chairman o f the Marion county Repub lican Central Committee, Tne Appeal j being near-Democratic naturally pre- j fere the Democratic-Independent brand while the chameleonic Tribune asks no questions as to the political trade mark j THE RELIABLE MERCHANDISE STORE on either turkeys or apples -b u t cur iously enough is solicitous as to both 1S98 Established quality and quantity, and the date of their arrival. All o f which is mere hearsay. IJL 0 ; 0 0 J John Damm is out again after week at home with a bad Cold. a The Aurora Masonic Lodge has just handed Mayor Sadler a check for $10 for the United War Work fund. J. E, Loyeall, who was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital last week, following an attack'Of influenza, is re ported improving. Among those who attended the Bud- get meeting at Oregon City were Rob ert Colzin, Fred Wagner,Hugo Muecke, \ George Gray and Joe Resch. Otto C. Keil, o f Aurora, and Miss I Ida Stilger, 20 o f Macksburg were I granted a license to wed last week and were married yesterday at Macksburg. A. H. G IES Y The honor flag o f the Fourth Liberty Loan has been received for the Aurora banking district. War Franz Kraxberger, Ed. Moore and Roy Chubb, the appraising committee of the National Rural Credit Associa tion were here Monday on a trip ap praising property for loan purposes, I Among the business visitors here the past week were Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kinyon, Sidney Graham, Edward Hilt on and daughter, Mrs. Arthur White, S’ 0 j Mr. and Mr?. E. A. M. Cone and John ! and W, L, Murray, Itljjith full appreciation of ^ y o u r patronage during 1918, we express the hope we may be favored with its con tinuance during 1919. Mtfllj fuu a liappp (Üfjnñtmañ unît a jJraaprrmiB Nrui frar SA D LE R & K R A U S