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AURORA, MARION COUNTY, OREGON; FEBRUARY 3, 1921
VOL. X.
BEN WEST LANDS ON JAW OF
WOMAN INSULTER
According to the Salem Journal,Ben
West, former Marion County Assess
or, is full o f pep yet. A man named
C. L. Phemetton made an insulting
remark about Mrs. C. K. Eslow,
W est’s daughter, while she was in
the Oregon Electric depot. West ap
peared on the scene just that moment
and hit Phemetton on the jaw. He
complained to the police but no act
ion was taken against West, but
Phemetton and L. E. Kohler who was
with him were arrested fo r disorder
ly conduct.
Phemetton
forfeited
$10 bail
money, and was then haled into court
where he plead guilty, and was fined
$25. Both Phemetton and Kohler
admitted they had been drinking, but
at first claimed they were talking
about another woman. It is clear
they got just about what was com
ing to them.
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AROUND THE WORLD
A Chines© trust controls the
dye used on firecrackers, made
from cibuca, a Philippine wood.
The same dye Is used for sealing
wax and Chinese ink.
In Holland many women find
employment in the brickyards.
They stand" out in the warmest
weather smoothing bricks and
gathering them in great piles.
A bill before the legislature pro
poses to substitute weight for horse
power in the classification o f auto
mobiles fo r license purposes. Four
states have such a law which
said to work well.
The proposed law provides fo r 8
classes. Class 1 consists o f the Ford
alone, with a license fee o f $15.
Class 2 includes the Chevrdlet
Maxwell and Overlands, license fee
$24.
Class 3 consists o f the Allen, Bris
coe, Cleveland, Crow-Elkhart, Dodge,
Dort, Dixie Flier, Essex, Franklin,
Hupmobile, and Monitor, license fee
$33.
Class 4 includes the Buiek, Au
burn, Chalmers, Chandler, Elcar, El
gin, Jordan, Moon, Mitchell, Nash,
Oakland, Oldsmobile, Reo, Stude-
baker, Veile and W ill3Ts-Knight, li
cense fee $44.
Class 5 is made up o f the Hudson,
Apperson, Case, King, Maibolin,
Paige, Premier, Standard and Steph
ens, license fee $51.
Class 6 includer the Cadillac, Cole,
Kissel Kar, Peerless, Marmon and
Stutz, license fee $60.
Class 7 includes the Pieree-Arrowr
only and the license would cost $88.
It is pointed out that under the
present system many high-priced cars
pay about the same rate as the Ford,
the lightest and most inexpensive car
used. It is estimated that the new
plan would increase revenues by
$780,000.
Hermes Lodge, Knights o f Pythios,
o f this city is making arrangemets to
observe the 57th anniversary o f the
The church service at Wilsonville
founding o f their order, on February on Sunday last were especially good.
19, 1921. The Supreme Chancellor j About twenty people from Tualatin at-
o f the Order has issued a’ pfoclama- tended and Mrs, Hughes and Mrs. Mo
tion, calling attention o f all Pythians j Farland were present from Fargo. The
to the proud standing and the mani- j interesting talk in the afternoon by Dr.
fold benefactions o f the great insti-jW . W, Youngson revealed the busy
tution.
fife he is leading and the evening ser-
The Pythian Order stands for con- mon was certainly one of the finest the
structive progress, purity o f purpose, people of Wilsonville and Tualatin have
and real universal fraternity. With I ha* the pleasure o f hearing. Mrs.
the attainment o f age and prestige, I Frank Brobst and Mrs. R. Heimbacn
its responsibilities are bound to mul- were the accompanists and the Wilson-
tiply. The richness o f its service t o ! ville choir rendered an anthem,
its members (and to all mankind), its] At the Quarterly Conference it was
marvelous benefactions, its career o f ! announced that plans are in progress to
usefulness, and its splendid ideals o f I wipe out the old church debts on the
human friendship afford abundant Wilsonville churches. About fifty par-
reasons why all Pythian Lodges took of the fine luncheon served by the
should celebrate this 57th anniver-! ladies aid, of which Mrs. Mary Seely
say.
j is the president,
J
M. Pyett o f Portland here, his
Sunday next W. J. Bishop will have
being ill at the home o f Mr. and i charge of the Tualatin Sunday School
W. H. Ortman. Mrs. Pyett and |and Rev- Alfred Bates the pastor will
Ortman are sisters.
j ? reach at 11 a. m. and at Wilsonville
| Sunday evening at 8 p. m.
W . G. Gooding has purchased the I
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F. W . Kracht place, where Louis |
Racette now lives. ,M r. Gooding will!
Mrs. B. R. W ° I fe f Dead
not move onto his new place until j
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fall. The Kracht farm is well locat- J
ed and a good place.
j Mrs. B. R. Wolfer died at her home
fat Wolfer Prairie about 5 o ’clock Tues-
Roy Morley o f Silverton is said toj^oy afternoon, after an illness of about
be holding oyer 200 bales o f hops for | a month. The funeral will be held
a higher, price. He sold his early j this afternoon at the family residence
hops fo r $7,000, and'was offered 75c and burial will take place in the Zim-
a pound fo r his whole crop, but re merman cemetery.
An extended
fused to sell.
obituary notice will appear in this pap
Bock Bros., o f Silverton, are en er next week.
J.
wife
Mrs.
Mrs.
gaged in pulling out the dead peach
Rolling Plains a Scene of Great Beauty trees in their orchard on the Abiqua,
Before the Advent of the
which were killed by the cold wea
Agriculturist.
The Jewish women engaged In
agricultural colonization and in
other work toward restoring the
lost industrial and commereial-
llfe- of th e H o ly L an d are prac
tically all from well-educafed
families in eastern Europe.
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ODD FACTS
Mexico has had 60 revolutions In
61 years.
A sea lion will, on occasion, attack
a person.
Quail and peacocks belong to the
pheasant family.
An ancient pearl was valued by
Pliny at $400,000.
Many streams in the interior of Ar
gentina end in trackless marshes.
The swallow has a larger mouth
In proportion to its size than any
other bird.
ther o f last wintey. They intend to
Seventy years ago . . . Indians were plant out a new orchard.
Indians, and the plains were the plains
It is announced that the Marion
indeed.
Those plains stretched out in limit county assessment rolls will be out
less rolling swells of prairie until they earlier than usual this year. Asssess-
m e t th e b lu e s k y that on eve^ y h and
bent doWn to touch them. In spring
brightly green, and spangled with wild
flowers, by midsummer this prairie
had grown sere and-yellow. Clumps
o f dark-green cottonwoods marked the
courses of the infrequent streams—
for most of the year the only note of
color in the landscape, except the bril
liant sky. On the wide, level river
bottoms, sheltered „b y the enclosing
hills, the Indians pitched their conical
skin lodges and lived their simple
lives. If the Camp were large the
lodges stood in a wide circle, but if
only a few families were together, they
were scattered along-the stream.
In the spring and early summer the
rivers, swollen by the melting snows,
were often deep and rapid, but a little
later they shrank to a few narrow
trickles running over a bed of sand,
and sometimes the water sank wholly
out of sight.—George Bird Grinnell.
Undergoes Operation
One of the only two white kan
garoos in the world has been sent to
Louis Lorenz, son o f Mr. and Mrs.
England from Australia.
Lorenz, o f Macksburg, who under
went surgical operation fo r appendi
Spaniards discovered cocoa in the
citis at the Oregon City hospital Sat
new world and lost no time in in
urday night, is improving. It was
troducing it into Europe.
necessary to operate upon the boy
On a clear day it is not possible upon his arrival, at the institution,
to go up m an airplane anywhere in Drs. Mount performing the operation.
England without being able to view Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz accompanied
the sea.
their son to the hospital, remaining
in Oregon City until Monday.— Ore
gon City Enterprise.
Miss Noma Yergen has been very
ill the past week from an attack o f
Exchange Your Bonds
neuralgia.
A trained nurse from
Portland has been caring fo r her.
All holders o f Temporary Fourth
Liberty Loan bonds may now ex
change them fo r Permanent Bonds
with all the Coupons attached. Bond
owners are requested to make the ex
change at once, through their local
banks. Temporary coupon bonds o f
all issues may now be exchanged for
permanent bonds.
Napoleon Davis o f Butteville, was
a visitor in Salem Saturday on legal
business.
The Aurora school board has at last
gotten its affairs lined out and is get
ting ready to but up a building that
will care for its high school students
instead o f being compelled to depend
upon another district as is the case
this year. Hubbard students have ex
tended a hearty welcome to the Au
rora “ bunch” and these self same
students are a credit to the school
and town from which they come and
have contributed their full share to
all the successes the Hubbard student
body has achieved this year.—Hub
bard Enterprise.
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NO. 49
CROWDS ATTEND SERVICE
WANTED TO KNOW TOO MUCH
AT WILSONVILLE CHURCH
PYTHIANS TO CELEBRATE
NEW PLAN PROPOSED
FOR AUTO LICENSES
UNMARRED BY PLOW’S TOUCH
On the theory that music ban
ishes fatigue, a building contrac
tor once introduced bagpipes to
spur his Scottish workmen on.
The men worked so speedily
that they struck for more money.
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CANBY WATER SUPPLY
BADLY CONTAMINATED
Young Financier Forgot That Bank’«
The State board o f health last
Relations W ith Its Clients Must
Be Confidential.
week reported that the city water of
Banks and bankers give much time Canby was found to contain typhoid
and attention to the training of their fever germs, and is unfit for human
apprentices. The head of a big down use. Water from the Canby city
town institution was once giving a lec
ture on the work of the paying teller mains, reservoir and wells, when ex
and, as Homer occasionally nodded, amined, showed the presence o f colon
this man felt justified in lapsing, to bacilli in large numbers. The author
ward the end of his talk, into aa in ities at once advised the people that
formal narrative of some of his early
experiences, fie told of the natural the presence o f these bacteria ren-
reluctance of a bank to refuse to cash dei-ed the use o f the water for drink
a check for one entitled to the money ing purposes very dangerous, and also
who might not be fully or regularly advising that the water be boiled be
Identified and of various ways in fore drinking.
which an experienced teller satisfies
The Canby school board at once
himself of an applicant’s good faith.
“Once a charming young woman pre stopped the use o f the* water at the
sented a small check at my window,” drinking fountains at the school
said the speaker. “ She was transpar building, and required the pupils to
ently honest, but had no acquaintance bring thir own drinking water.
The law requires that the water
in the bank nor any letters or other
papers with her. I asked her- if sh e! used in corporated cities be examined
had a handkerchief or some article of I at stated periods and should also re
jewelry marked with her name or ini- j quire that water used in schools be
tials After a moment’s-deep thought i likewise tested. While the last ex
her face brightened and she asked: | amination o f the city water in Au
“ ‘Would an Initialed garter buckle i rora showed the water pure and free
do?’ ’’
o f bacteria, frequent examinations
In the tumult that followed a bud
are execllent precautionary measures
ding financier near the back of the j
—
for both the city water and the
room raised his voice to ask, in a tone
well water used at the public school.
of detached scientific inquiry:
The city water here being o f ar
“Did she get the money?”
“Young man,” answered the great tesian origin, there is little likelihood
oue, “I have to remind you that a o f the well water being contaminated,
bank’s relations with its clients are but other wells are much more likely
often
highly
confidential.” — Wall to be contaminated through the en
Street Journal.
trance o f surface water.
Ginghams, If You Please
Mixture of Races In France.
The mixture of races that have con
stituted the French people of today
has determined the principal physical
characteristics of our people. Thus
If has been found, writes the Paris
corresponddht of the Journal of the
American Medical Association, that
fcjig a v e r a g e
heigh t", f o r
m en
Is
165
Tfl»F(5"fe'et 2 inches).
tension o f the rolls are now well un
The observations indicate that 85.10
der way. A few short weeks and the per cent of the French people have
tax payer will know his fate.
chestnut hair. The blonds are next
in
order, forming only 12.32 p er cent
A charter has been issued to the
of the population. Pure black hair
First. National Bank o f Stay ton, with
Is found in 1.83 per cent—that is,
a capital, stock o f $25,000. A. D. slightly more frequently than red hair,
Gardner is president and J. W. Mayo which altogether was found In only
cashier. It is understood that the 0.72 per cent of cases.
stockholders are the same people that
Pure black hair, so rare in France,
are interested in the Farmers and is the rule in certain Mediterranean
countries (for instance, in definite re-
Merchants bank o f that city.
gions of Spain).
Very light blonds
Lee Eckerson o f Canby, wlxo has j form the majority of the population of
been engaged in the lumber business j northern Europe.
witli Ora Slyter, has disposed o f his j
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lumber interests to Mr. Slyter, thej
Sherman Clay Pianos at Moore’s
deal having closed a few days ago
¡D rugstore, Wodburn.
Mr. Slyter will continue the business,
which is located several miles be-j The funeral of S. H, Howard, seere-
yond Molalla in a big timber belt.
j tary of the board of barbers examiners
was held at Portland Monday. He was
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Gill o f Wood- I well known at Butteville, having mar-
bum spent a day at Salem last week, rje(j one Gf the grand daughters of the
attending the sessions o f the legisla- Iate F_ x> Matthieu. As mark of re-
ture at the State House. Mr. Gill is Lpect all the barber shops in Oregon
editor o f the Woodburn Independent, Qjfy were closed during the hours of
and has often been mentioned as a the funeral service.
candidate fo r representative, but has
always declined to run.
Loufs Doemsky, of Gonzalas, Cali-
¡fornia, a cousin of Mrs. G.C. Carothers
The report o f the Clackamas coun-::Rnd Mrs, E, M. Grim, left Monday for
ty clerk issued last week shows that j his home, after a week’s visit at the
the county is in debt fo r roads up to Carother’s home. He farms a ranch
January 1, 1921, nearly $360,000,! of 900 acres, 750 acres of which is now
there being outstanding warrants to | seeded in barley which is the main crop
that amount fo r the general and dis- there. He liyes not far from Daven-
trict road funds. The other depart- port where Ed. Smidt,formerly of Aur-
ments o f the -county are in good finan- 0ra, now lives. The latter wishes to be
cial condition.
remembered to his friends here.
Ginghams have been graduated from the kitchen
and are invading the drawing room without meeting
a substantial objection. And why not? Ginghams
were never so beautiful, so gorgeously colored, so
daintily designed, so altogether fascinating and fresh
looking as those o f spring 1921. Checks, stripes*
cross bars and artistic all over designs will adapt
themselves admirably to making up into becoming
dresses, aprons and childrens garments.
Left over from our January Clearance Sale you
will find some wonderful price inducements in rem
nants and other odd and end lots reliable merchandise
Daily Specials For The W eek
With every dollar purchase of merchandise, 8c will
buy can Standard Pack Peas_____________ _.Friday
15c will buy can Standard Apricots_______ Saturday
9c will buy can Standard Tomatoes_________Monday
17c will buy can Standard Peaches............. Tuesday
7c will buy can Standard String Beans_-Wednesday
19c will buy can Standard Ripe Olives-__ .Thursday
SADLERS KRAUS
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Saturday
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February ^ I I I
That merchandise prices are getting back to normal
there is no doubt.
thing you buy.
That will surely prove it to you.
This is especially true of our line of Rubber
Footwear.
When you want good rubber shoes, ask
for our Red Sole brand—unsurpassed in quality, and
reasonable in price.
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