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Aurora
Observer
AURORA
Published Every Thursday
VOL. IX.
AURORA, MARION*COUNTY, OREGON. OCTOBER 30, 1919.
HENRY COLVIN HOME
WAS WITH NAVY IN CHINA
Henry Colvin returned to Aurora last
week after about two and a half year’s
service in the navy. His mother met
him in Portland upon his arrival from
San Francisco. He spent most of* the
time on Asiatic station at Shanghai,
Honkong and other ports. He has seen
HENRY COLVIN
a large and interesting part of the
Orient, particularly China. But he is
very glad to get back to Oregon and
this part of the Williamette Valley, apd
is not anxious for further service in
foreign lands, though his experience
has been a most interesting one.
While Henry at times expressed his
determination to return to Old Oregon,
“ if he had to swim” . Uncle Sam sent
him back safe and dry.
CLACKAMAS COUNTY TO
HAVE SPECIAL ELECTION
The Clackamas county court has
called a special election for N ovem b er
24 to vote upon the question of issuing
$1 ,700,000 in bonds for paving, Over
1300 registered voters signed the peti­
tion. Calling the election was thus
made madatory.
The action of the court will probably
mean that the electors will not be con­
fronted with alternative issues and
that the proposed scheme of Charles
E. Spence, master of the state grange
to submit at the same election a prop­
osition to levy annually a 7 mill tax,
will be deferred until a later election,as
will the proposal to issue bonds to the
value of $150,000 for the construction
o f a new bridge across the Willamette
river at Oregon City,
The bond issue provides that $105,-
000 shall be diverted for a new bridge,
but the balance of the $1,700,000 must
be used on county roads, radiating into
nearly every nook and corner of Clack­
amas county.
The following three plans have been
much discussed, but the first only will
be voted at the election November 34.
A plan to issue bonds for $1,700,000
to hard surface 145 miles o f road, the
grading and base for the pavement to
be done by the 10 districts in which the
designated roads are located.
A plan to vote a 5-mill tax. (Spence
now proposes to increase the the tax to
7-mills) yearly for 10 yeais. A 7-mill
tax will raise about $200,000 per year.
This plan provides that the districts
shall grade the designated highways,
but that the county shall lay both basd
and hard surface and pay .for both.
The third proposal to go on the bal­
lot is a bond issue of $150,000 for a new
bridge at Oregon City,
Theodore Roosevelt’s Last Words
(Read at the All American Festival In New York City)
I cannot be with you, and so all I can do is to .wish
you godspeed. There must be no sagging back'
in the fight for Americanism, merely because the
war is over. There are plenty
of persons who have already
made the assertion that they
believe the American people
have a short memory and that
they intend to revive all the
foreign associations which most
directly interfere with the complete Americaniza­
tion of our people. Our principle in this matter
should be absolutely simple. In the first place, we
should insist that if the immigrant who comes
here does in good faith become an American and
assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an
exact equality with every one else, for it is an out­
rage to discriminate against any such man because
of creed or birthplace or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man’s becom­
ing in very fact an American and nothing but an
American. If he tries to keep segregated with men.
of his own origin and seperated from the rest of
America, then he isn’t doing his part as an Ameri­
can. There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American but some­
thing else also, isn’t an American at all.
Weriiave room for but one flag, the American
flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbo­
lizes all wars against liberty and civilization just
as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation
to which we are hostile, We have room for but
one language here, and that is the English
language, for we intend to see that the crucible
turns our people out as Americans,
The noon recess has been shortened
half-an-hour allowing the pupils in the
grades an opportunity to get home be­
fore dark. This plan was put in oper­
ation for the first time Tuesday.
Classification o f the library books
has been completed.
The books are
now arranged according to the classi­
fication supplied by the state library
at Salem and reference work is now
more easily done.
Officers of the newly formed Student
Body Association have been elected and
assumed office. The elected are: Presi­
dent and business manager, Theoda
Gribblef secretary-treasnrer, Mabel
Anderson; editor-in-chief, Leona Will;
sergeant-at-arms, Kenneth Bents.
Final arrangements have been made
for the Hallowe’en party in the Odd
of
American
nationality,and not as dwellers in a polyglot board­
ing house; and’ we have room for but one soul loy­
alty, and that is loyalty to the American people.
Faithfully yours,
- T . ROOSEVELT.
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Mayor Ehlen has received notice
from the Portland Army Retail Store
I that the store will accept bulk orders
j from Municipalities, at a - discount cf
110 per cent—to allow for the cost which
the city must incur in distributing tl e
goods, Freignt charges will be pre­
paid by the army store. Municipalities
ordering goods for re-distribution must
satisfy the Army S tore superintendent
that the goods will go to the consumer
at the government retail price.
The mayor is taking up the matter f f
price lists with the government, ai d
anyone interested may secure further
information from him.
THE GREATEST MOTHERS
TURNS TO TASK OF PE\CE
THE THREE GROSSES
The iron cross is black as death and
hard as human hate;
¡•The wooden cross is white and still
and w h is p e r s 'll« , “ T o o L a t e ,”
B u t the Red Cross sings of life and
love and hearts regenerate.
The iron cross is a boastful cross and
marks the war-mad slave;
The wooden cross is a dumb,, dead
cross and marks a shallow gravea
But the Red Cross reaches out its
arms to solace and to save.
The iron cross is a kaiser’s cross and
narrow is its clan;
P oints of S uperiority
The Chevrolet Valve-in Head motor
is directly responsible for the suc­
cess of this popular car. Its super­
iority is proven by the fact that
this type of motor is used exclu­
sively wherever uniforn power is
essential.
Ask For
Chevrolet
Booklets
The Chevrolet type is the most
simple of all makes of the Valve-
in-Head motor. It has no unneces­
sary parts. It is completely acces­
sible. It is fitted with a detachable
head. The entire top of the cylin­
ders can be removed. , This easy
access to the interior is worth the
whole cost of .the car, for it means
all the difference in the world in
your enjoyment of the machine.
They are now available
Price $845 F. O. B. Aurora
Shimmin
NO. 34
¡ARMY STORE WILL SELL
BED GROSS HOUSE
ARMY GOODS TO CITIES
GIVES CHEER AT LEWIS
Fellow’ s Hall tomorrow night. The one of the most up-to-date rooms in The wooden cross*'is a soldier’s cross
various committees report progress and the valley.
and mourns its partisan,
a very successful party is promised;
Plans are being formed to enter a But the Red Cross is the Cross of One
who served his fellowman.
Some friettds of the high school stud­
team in the Oregon Hieh School De­
— Edmond Vance Cooke.
ents, the members o f the board and I
their wives have been invited, and the bating League, Material for the sub-
Invest a dollar in Red Cross and cut
latter and the teachers will chaperon ! ject—a phase of the immigration ques-
the affair.
Ition—has been secured and students happiness coupons the rest of the year.
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are making preparations for a try out.
A hundred new volumes o f books w ill1
be added to the library soon. The lists
ASTORIA AMERICAN LEGION
for the various grades are about com­
John Ogle was up from Portland for
COMMENDS THE OBSERVER
plete and the order will be sent away the week-end, at the home of his par­
this week. This will make our library ents Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Ogle.
AURORA SCHOOL NOTES
A number o f high school students
visited the home o f Lottie and Hervig
Netter last Sunday. Why they went
is a profound mystery flavoring o f
Hallowe’en.
$1.25 a Year
Clatsop Post No. 12, Oregon branch
of the American Legion, at Astoria,
through its secretary, writes the Ob­
server as follows:
“ We notice in your progressive paper
an article concerning the American
Legion, and we-want to tell you that it
makes one feel' mighty good to know
that the real Americans of these Unit­
ed States are with us to the limit.
We want to assure you that this fight
is on now. tomorrow and forever until
the last one of these dirty slackers has
had a change of heart or has left this
great country of ours.
We believe
this country can get along very well
without that stripe of citizen
Those who made tjje great sacrifice
“ over there” died fighting to over­
throw a system such as these alien and
near-alien slackers would establish in
our midst. Our fight shall go on until
ah the purpose of the American Legion
are realized.”
The preamble of the American Legion
reads asfollpws:
For God and Country we associate
ourselves together for the following
purposes:
To uphold and defend the Gonstitu-
tion of the United States of America;
to maintain law and orderjto foster and
perpetuate a one hundred per cent
Americanism; to preserve the memor­
ies and incidents of association in the
Great War; to inculcate a sdhse of indi­
vidual obligation to the community,
state and nation; to make right the
master of might; to promote peace and
good will on earth; to safeguard and
transmit to posterity the principles of
justice, freedom and democracy;to con­
secrate and sanctify our comradship by
our devotion to mutual helpfulness.
HOP NOTES
The hop house on the Porter farm at
! Barlow was burned last Week. The
For the Red Cross, the war did not crcfp was baled and stored therein at
end with the armistice, and even yet : the time of the fire the loss approxi­
■ here are thirty thousand soldiers and mated
sailors still under treatment in army
and navy hospitals. The Red Cross , B. H. Pomeroy o f the state fire
convalescent house at Camp Lewis marshal’s department’ was in ..Barlow
stands next to home itself in the af­ this week conducting an investigation
fections of hundreds of boys who, sick into the origin of a fire which recently
ir wounded, looked forward to the day destroyed the Porter hop house and
when they might leave the bare and some 40 bales of hops stored therein.
cheerless ward in the base hospital
Chas. D. Winkle,a veteran hop grow­
and spend part of each day enjoying
ts easy chairs, its music, its books, er of Salem and the Pacific Coast, says
ts pictures, and its good cheer. Even if*he were a young man he would go to
iow, a year after the armistice, there China or Manchuria and grow hops for
ire overseas men, patients at Camp the American breweries about to be
jewis, not yet well enough to be dis­ established in China and other parts of
charged, who sit before the great fire­ the Orient.
place these autumn days, thankful that
The Greatest Mother is still mindful
The German hop acreage is said to
if them. The picture is duplicated in be not more than half what it was be­
irmy hospitals all over the land, and fore the war. The crop this year was
vherever throughout the world Amer- lighter per acre than formerly, due
can boys are still in Uncle Sam’s serv­ probably to the lack o f fertilizers. It
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is also said, that the German govern­
ment will restrict if not prohibit the
Proper Food Important.
exportation of hops.
“As a man thinketh so is he.” Yes;
but also: “As a man eateth so doth j One of the largest hop deals that has
he think.” For the brain, a part of ! been made in this vicinity was consum­
the body, is built o f food.—Los Angeles j
mated a few days ago when Roy Mor-
Times.
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ley sold one hundred twenty-five bales
of hops to J. C. Wolf, a local dealer,
AT IT AGAIN!
for 82| cents per lb% Mr. Morley sold
Senator LaFoliet sends us a box of j $8000 worth o f his hops previous to
late peaches from his Mission Bottom this transaction.
Having fifty-five
ranch. We do not know the name and I acres in hops the land has averaged a
variety, but they look and taste mighty j yield of about $800 per acre.—Silverton
fine.—Jefferson Review.
Tribune,
Now is the time to buy
your yarns for sweaters,
caps, and all simijar arti­
cles. We carry . Fleisch-
ners knitting worsteds,
Fleiscner’s Spanish wor­
steds, Fleischner’s Dres­
den *S a x o n y worsteds,
Fleischner’s Germantown
Zephyrs and Shetland Floss, in many colors and
shades. Whatever your wants may be
in this line, we have something
that' will be sure to please
you. Don’t fail to look
over our yarns
FOR A L L PURPOSES
You are certain to find our goods satisfactory
as to price and quality.
W1LL-SNYDER CO.
THE STORE OF MERIT
K n it G ood s S u g g estio n s
This damp cold weather that is just now putting in
an appearance may suggest to you that
now is the time to get that
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W ool Knit Hockey Caps and Golf Gloves and Mittens.
Two-piece Sets for the tiny tots are just
right for the season.
The combination and colorings are
beautifully combined, the
quality is high, the
price reasonable.
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Ladies’ Spats or Overgaiters
GRAYS, TANS AND BROWNS
Full and complete stock of Rubbers and Rubber
Boots— Men, Ladies and Children.
SADLER i KRAUS
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David Steinbach is here from Port­
land visiting at the George Kraus home,
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