LO CAL AD R A T E .
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I, M. Will was a decent visitor in
Portland on business.
M. Bisanz o f Meridian was a business
visitor here Saturday,
Mrs. A. McConnell of Union districts
was here Saturday shopping.
Local notices and classified column
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of 5 cents per line applies to for
sale, for rent, lost, found, want ad,
card of thanks and all similar notices,
as well as to all notices of entertain
ments, fairs, socials, shows, etc,,which
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to raise money for any purpose. Copy
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In the matter of
HOLLY FOR S A L E -Y ou ag Holly
trees (berry) for sale, small size,about
18 or 20 inches, 50c each; larger size
$1.00. Telephone your order or drop a
card to the Observer, Aurora, Oregon.
Fred Yergen and F. E. Yergen were
here Saturday transacting business*
M. 0, Davis was among the Butte-
ville people here on business Thursday.
AND
The Christian Herald and McCall’ s,
both one year for $3.00.
The Herald
alone $2.50 per year. Phone the Ob
server your order today.
M. 0. Davis of Butteville was among
the Butteville people here on business
recently.
MARRY—A Farmer Worth $40,000.
Full particulars by return mail, H.
253a Minna St. San Francisco, Cal.
(47-2)
Louis Racette, o f the Arizona Reds
Farm, was here Saturday on business
and pleasure bent.
as well as in all other merchandising
The Pictorial Review, 1 year for
$2.00, two years for $3.00. Phone the
Observer your order now.
Matt Ban and Theodore Campau of
Meridian were among the business
visitors here this week.
Mrs. George Brockart and son Arthur!
Brockart were in the city Thursday!
from the Needy section.
Service Talks
FOR SALE—Cedar posts, good for
hop posts, fence posts, or loganberries.
Phone or see Oscar A. Wilson, Aur
ora, Oregon.
(47)
HELP YOURSELF
More than 150 years ago Benjamin
Franklin wrote: “Keep your shop and
it will keep you.” The stamp of great
Lloyd Owen of Seattle was here last ness is on Franklin’s philosophy be
week to visit his uncle J. E. Loveall. cause it was not alone of his time; it
He returned to Seattle Thursday.
holds for all time.
Our ways haVe changed a bit in the
economic life of this republic which
Share of Aurora Mutual Telephone the great Franklin helped to build.
stock ($25 par value) for $10 cash. In No longer may every man be his own
quire at the Observer Office, Aurora, shopkeeper. Most of us help keep
some other fellow’s shop and a certain
Oregon.
element among the assistant shop
keepers have become restless because
they have no shop themselves and call
John Gahler Jr.was last week grant
tt< ,i-elves I. W. W., Bolsheviks, and
ed full citizenship before Judge Camp
er names.
bell at Oregon City. Mr. Gahler is a
native of Switzerland.
Fred Sexsmith ' has purchased the
Nevertheless Franklin’s homely say
ing is as true today and as easy to
comply with as it was the day he ut
tered it. The United states govern
ment provides the way.
War Savings and Thrift Stamps,
conceived as a war measure and now
backed by the government as a per
manent policy, give every man, woman
and child in America the chance to
keep shop. Each person is allowed to
put $1000 a year into the business—
the-business of American government.
The business guarantees 4 per cent
per annum compounded quarterly. It
is the biggest business in the world.
One can invest as low as 25 cents.
The wonderful thing about it is that
the investor helps his country as well
as himseft.
Just a few more days in which to se
cure “ Good Housekeeping’ ’ , one of the
best magazines for women, at $1.50 per
year. After February 20, 1919 it will
be $2.00 per year.
Try us for anything in the Hard
ware and Implement line.
Hardware
FOR SALE—The C. D. F. Wilsor,
farm, 81 acres 2J miles northwest of
Aurora. Write or spe Oscar A.Wilson,
Aurora, Oregon,
(47)
I Dare You Write Me; Widow worth
$50,000; Lonely; will marry; G. Missioh
Unity, San Francisco, Calif,
(47-2t)
The Wide Awake
W rite
j George McFarland recently sold his
! crop o f carrots to the Salem King’ s
: Products Go, at $15.00 per ton. There
| has been a considerable shortage of
¡some of the vegetables this company
: uses in filliug its government contract
—notably carrots and parsnips.
For
Circular
Circular
F R A N C IS M O T O R C A R C O .
Edward Muecke spent several days
! last week with friends in Portland. He
[jwas one of 3500 people who witnessed
j Puccini’ s tragic opera at the Auditor
ium, where Haruko Onuki, the demure
Japanese song bird (California born)
appealed as “ Madame Butterfly.”
East 13 and Hawthorne Avenue, Portland, Oregon, Agents
Clackamas, Multnomah and Columbia Counties.
'
Many beavers have been trapped here
this season. Ed. Kraus caught a large
! one a few days ago, making almost a
| dozen. E. M. Howe has trapped 8 or
110. Canby parties are said to have
¡trapped 9 or 10, Allen KeiJ has caught
| some, and Ralph Leabo has several to
; his credit. Prices vary from $8 to $15.
Wurster Bros.
Conduct The Most Modern
and Sanitary Meat Market
in The Willamette Valley.
Try Their Home Products—
Pure Lard, Weinerwurst,
Pork Sausage, Bologna, Etc.
Aurora, Oregon
Hugo Muecke hands the Observer a
“ produce price current” card sent the
Willamette Trading Go., at Barlow,
|¡June 22, 1893, by Allen & Lewis of
j Portland, giving market quotations on
|¡that date. Some of these quotations
| are as follows: Oats, 48 cts. a bushel;
potatoes old, $1.50 to $1.75, new Cali
fornia $1.50 to $1.60; eggs 15c a dozen;
| j butter 20c to 40c per roll, according to
■quality; bacon 13 to 14cents; lard 14 to
115 cents; young chickens $2 to $5 per
dozen; and turkeys 16 cents. All of
which make the consumer long for the
1 “ good old days,”
Hardware Store
OILS
AURORA GARAGE
IS NOW CARRYING A FULL LINE OF PARTS
FOR CHEVROLET a n d FORD CARS
ACCESSORIES
HERBERT J, MILLER, Prop.
Greases
Free Air
Shorty gets a
hunch from
the Captain
When you get such
real lasting tobacco
satisfaction from a
small c h e w /’ says
the C aptain» “ it
can’ t cost any more
to chew this class of
tobacco.’ ’
“
LOUIS WEBERT
FORDSON TRACTO R
Implements
GAS
Review of Reviews has now advanced
to $4.00 per year, and worth it! But
you can get this great magazine and
the Observer, both one year for $4.50.
W. H. Cochran. A. D. Gribble, Ed.
Clarence May’s home and will occupy ,B. Miller, Chris Lorenz, H. Jackson,
If you are about out of Letter Heads
it at once.
Mr. May's family have and Franz Kraxberger were among or envelopes, order today. Telephone
The Observer acknowledges a card been in Portland the past year.
those at the Clackamas county court us your order.
from Joe Graham, Jr,, Ambulance Co,
Wednesday on road matters.
26, how with the army o f occupation in
MARRY IF LONELY; for results*
Germany, hear Coblenz.
. Anyone interested in planting logan-’
try me;best and most successful“ Home
E. E. Brodie of Oregon City, publis- Maker” hundreds rich wish marriage
berries or other smallfruits may secure
information o f value by applying to the I her of the Enterprise, and Phil Bate* soon;strictlv confidentialjmost reliable;
Miss Lorraine Lee, a member o f the Aurora Observer, Aurora, Oregon.
of Portland were here Thursday, on years of experience; descriptions free.
1919 graduating class of the Washing
t
I their way home from Salem, where “ The Successful Club” , Mrs. Purdie,
ton High School of Portland was one of
they were attending sessions of the Box 556, Oakland, Calif.
a group picture o f that class in last
Those &ho haveTaken out hunting or j legislature a couple of days,
Sunday’ s Oregonian. Miss Lee is well fishing licenses at the Ehlen Hardware
The Observer is agent for the Satur
known here as a charming vocalist.
store are Chas, Neift, hunting; C. B.
day Evening Post $2.00 per year. Lad
Brewer, angling; and C. P. Kinney,
J. W. Berkey, the rustling Chevrolet ies Home Journal $1.75 per year.
combination.
man, has rented the Bogard building at Country Gentlemen $1.00 per year.
the corner of Front and Hayes and is Telephone us your order now.
using it for an auto show room. Last
Mrs. H, L, Colvin and daughter were week he sold a Chevrolet to W. J. Wil-
FOR SALE—15 lbs, onion seed that
among those from Union shopping here son.—Woodburn Independent.
grow big onions and finest sets.
Notary Public
Friday. Other were Mr. and Mrs. j
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48-2t
C. E. Watts, Aurora, Rt. 2.
Chas. Eilers, W. R, Colvin, Fred Wag
Fire Insurance
It is rumored that the “ Red Eye’
ner and John Whitworth.
BROODERS FOR SALE—Two Peep-
that caused the fun at the Marion Hotel O-Day, and one McClanahan.all in first
recently at Salem was thrown off the class shape. At one-third first cost.
AURORA
OREGON
Frank L. Miller has taken the agency train near Aurora and picked up by a F. E. Yergen, Rt, 1, Hubbard. 48-2t,
for the Velie line of cars, for Marion “ comrhittee” which knew it was co
DR. de LESPINASSE
ing and where it was going.
FOR SALE—Dry 16-inch* fir wood,
and Polk counties, and has established
old growth. W, L, White, Aurora,
DENTIST
a branch agency at Salem. J. W.
Rt. 3.
48-4t,
Jones, formerly with the Journal Pub
A hop contract made some time ago
lishing Co. of that city will be his Sal
FOUND—Umbrella, owner can have
Trullinger Bldg
Phone United 6319 em manager. Mr. Miller will thus be between the Seavey Hop Company and
Crisell Bros, and Hong Kee, by which same by applying at the Observer office
in a position to cover both counties the latter parties are to grow and de and paying for this notice.
H ubbard , O regon
efficiently.
liver 15090 pounds of hop3 to Seavey at
Fresh Cow For Sale—Inquire of John
j 18 cents, has just been recorded at Ore-
Whitworth, Route 3, Aurora. Oregon,
| gon City,
G. A . EHLEN
Good taste, sm aller
chew,longer life is what
makes Genuine Grave
ly cost less to chew than
ordinary plug.
Write to:—
G e n u in e G r a vely
DANVILLE, VA.
for booklet on chewing plug.
Peyton Brand
REAL CHEWING PL U G
Plug packed in pouch-
The “ Youth’ s Companion” (new)
and “ Todays Housewife” both one year
for $2.50.
' “ Buy your flour, feed and poultry
supplies of the Hubbard Creamery Go.,
Hubbard, Oregon.”
Send us your order for Pictorial Re
view and McCalls, both one year for
$2.50. Good until Jan, 31, 1919, only.
M A R R Y A t Once—Thousands of
lonely, congenial people, all ages,worth
$5.000 to $350,0(0 seeking early mar
riage. Big list of descriptions FREE.
Ralph Hyde, 253a Minna St.,San Fran
cisco, Cal.
(48-4tp)
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FRUIT TREES AND ROSES
We still have due us from two good
nurseries, the following nursery stock
which we will sell at the prices named:
150 apple trees at 15c; 50 pear trees at
20c; 25 grafted Franequite walnuts at
$1.00 to $1.50; 35 seedling Franquette
walnuts at 30c; 75 plums, peaches and
prunes (not Italians) at 15c; 40 apri
cots and cherries at 25c; 200 goosebei-
ries and currants at 10c; and a number
of roses and ornamentals at 35c to $1.00
each.
Ask us about them at once, because
we can not hold them much longer, as
they revert to the nurseries soon,
I
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AURORA, OREGON