C. M. Schultz was a recent business
visitor in Oregon City from bis home in
the Union district,
Mrs. Albert Ehlen and infant daugh-
ter went to Portland Saturday to visit
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kerr.
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Meridian News Notes
' corn
Residence Phone 26
c o b s a r e d ie t
OF HUNGRY CHINESE
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Go to Stoner Eros. Garage for Sound
tires.
C eorge Rosich of East Butteville was
trarsacting business here last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W, W, Sporalsky of
Union were among those shopping here
Saturday.
Paid for Eggs,
Cream and Poultry.
Carl Schmitt, Canby, Ore.
Gordon Frednkson of Needy was
among those transacting business here
the past week.
J. P, Feller, Mrs. Ernest Feller and
little son of Donald were here Thursday
for a short time.
W.
for a
Mrs.
Echo
—
Mr, and Mrs. R, Wool worth and Miss
Dodge, well known residents of Butte
ville were visitors here Saturday.
“BULL”
DURHAM
Cash
G. C. GIESY H U P
A. Giesy was home from Portland
week-end visit with his mother
Rose Giesy and his sister Miss
Giesy.
Paul Siebert, the popular janitor at
The “ traveling Library” is open to ’
the Aurora school building, made a
the public every Sunday from 2:30 to
That a steady diet of ground-up corn
business trip to Portland Saturday.
3:30 p. m. at the Meridian school house.' cobs and sweet potato vines is not
Excellent books may be obtained there. | conducive to an ideal physical condi
F. M. Coy and daughter Edna of j tion is attested by Miss Marie Rustin,
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Nelson have moved
graduate nurse, well known in Oregon,
into the apartment above the store Woodburn have been visitors at the
who is now in charge of the Taylor
formerly occupied by Sadler & Kraus. home of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Bowles.
Memorial hospital, under the manage
Several Meridian young people at-| ment of the American Presbyterian
tended a party last week given at the: mission at Paotingfu, China.
Mrs. Henry Colvin was initiated into
In a* letter written by Miss Rustin
home of Miss Cecil Dickenson,at Wood-
the mysteries of the Pythian Sisters
less than eight weeks ago to the mem
burn,
at last week's session of the lodge here.
bers of the Sangrael Christian En
Alfred Campau and Ed. Bisanz were ; deavor society of the First Presbyter
recent visitors in Oregon Cjty on busi-; ian church in Portland, Miss Rustin
tells of the appalling conditions
A. D. Yergen has been in Portland ness.
throughout North China, where 45,-
over three weeks for medical treat
Cyrus Coy and Elmer Kauffman of j 000,000 men, women and children are
ment. He is at the home of his sister. the Portland Fire department were I confronted with starvation and where
scent visitors at Meridian.
15,000 are dying daily. Miss Rustin
has been at Paotingfu for about three
Edward
Bisanz,
Ben
Bisanz,
Gerald!
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Rose of the Pana
years and for' many months past, like
ma Canal Zone announce the birth of Welch, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Bowles, and all other mission attaches and relief
Gertrude Betty Rose, Feb. 27, 1921, Miss Mary Bisanz motored to Wood- workers in China, has been concentrat
burn to attend a social meeting of the ing all efforts on the task of lessening
weight 6 i pounds.
United Artisans last week.
the suffering of the famine victims.
While Paotingfu is on the outskirts
A basket social will be given soon at
... . . . ...
, . ,
, of the great drouth-ruined famine dis
Mrs. Chris Kocher and son Eldon the Meridian school house, accoding to j trict, juBt south of Pekin, Miss Rustin.
Kocher were here on business Satur an announcement by Miss Myrtle Birt- writes that even there all the missions
day afternoon from their home two chert, teacher of the Meridian school. and relief stations are literally swamp
miles south east of Aurora,
Young ladies are advised to begin their ed with the supplications of many
thousand men, women and children
baskets.
who are half-clad in thin rags, weak
from undernourishment and struggling
The public service commission will
Miss Ida Joriès was here for the' desperately to keep alive on root»,
hold a hearing March 28 at Oregon City
to investigate the matter of a new week end from Portland, where she is j bark or anything that offers susten
now employed at the Ladd & Tilton j ance. The situation in the heart of
Southern Pacific depot for that city.
bank.
She was forifierly assistant ! the famine section, she says, is simply
beyond the imagination.,
cashier of the Aurora State Bank.
“We are doing all we can,” writes
A number of Aurora people attended
Miss Rustin, “here in our hospital try
the Masor.ic dance at Donalu Friday
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Finney of Kla ing to build up the weakened bodies
night. Dancing, cards and refresh math Falls were here this week to visit] of famine sufferers who come to us
ments occupied the attention of those Mr, and Mrs. G, R. Watt. Mrs. Watt' in frightful condition. We are getting
patients who have been trying to live
present..
and Mrs. Finney are sisters.
Mr. on ground-up corn cobs and sweet po
Finney is the proprietor of a meat tato vines. We have all been asked
packing house at Klamath Falls.
m to give until it hurts, and now that it
fibs grown so cold we do not dare to
t&itik o f fre e z in g , s ta rv in g th ou sa n d s
It is announced thatthe State LimA -gight at our door. In going to a sou p
Plant at Gold Hill will start up again .Kitchen where we feed 670 people
twice a day, I was surrounded so by
early m June. The lime supplied is 87 'the poor creatures that I thought they
per cent carbonate of lime. It is sold would crush the life out of me before
for cash only, in 30, 40 or 50 ton lots, at I could get in and coming out it was
cost of "production plus the freight from j the same way. They are so hungry
and cold they are desperate. Person-,
Gold Hill.
Height o f
M usical J oy
X T 'O U get the height of
musical joy when you
hear a great living artist.
B ut you get equal jo y when
you hear the same artist on
the N ew Edison.
The proof o f this is convinc
ing, conclusive and concrete.
<TK. NEW EDISON
'flit Phonograph oohh a Soul 9*
Convincing— for M r. Edison him
self said in a recent interview :
"T h e em otional effects and con
sequent benefits o f m usic are w ell
know n. Through the agency o f
m y new phonograph, I can pro
duce the sam e effects as would
result from the original m usic.”
C onclusive— for you can sc o re ,
on a M ood Change Chart, the
effects o f the N e w Edison’s realism
on you. Com e in and listen to this
test o f realism .
C oncrete— for w e w ill show a big
book o f proof, that there is no dif
ference between R e -C r e a t e d music
and the original m usic. T his proof
w ould be good in any court o f law .
Krueger Bros.
C anby, O regon
After 25 years as station agent at
Barlow, R. E, Irwin has been trans
ferred to Talent, Oregon, the Barlow
office being closed. Shipments from
Barlow north will be handled from
Canby and shipments south from
Aurora.
The Aurora school baseball team de
feated the Barlow school team at the
Aurora grounds Friday afternoon by a
score of 20 to 13. Zeno Schwab um
pired the game, passing throueh the
ordeal safely. The next game will be
the Hubbard nine on the Hubbard
grounds,
Both Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Irvin have
been seriously ill with the" grip. A
trained nurse has been caring for them.
Mrs. John Leach, Mr. Irvin’s daughter
has been here from Portland to assist
in their care.
Many friends will be
glad to learn that both patients are
now better.
ally I have gone without $3 worth of
milk a month that I used to use, do
not. eat butter at all and have only
eaten bread once a day for the last
three months, in order to give to the
famine poor. Through this personal
sacrifice I have the Joy of knowing that
three girls who might have been sold
have been saved from a life of shame
and misery and that one man will be
kept alive for five months.
“A friend sent me a check the other
day and I was able to save a girl from
being sold and she will be put in
school. Things are being started to
help these pour souls, but there is a
long, hard pull until the harvest time.
You can all help by giving to the
China famine fund and share in the
great opportunities of saving life and
opening the way for Christianity, for
the Chinese people will surely be in
terested in what we have to tell them
of the gospel if we are good to them
now in their great trouble.”
State Manager J. J. Handsaker, in
charge of the executive work for Ore
gon for the combined China-Near
East campaign, 606 Stock Exchange
building, Portland, says the situation
is no less serious jn the near east than
in China, and liberal funds must be
raised for both causes if wholesale
death by starvation is to be prevented,
or even lessened.
Among the babies that scored high
in the eugenic tests at the Portland
quarters of the parent’ s educational
bureau at tbe court house, were Amelia
M ONUM ENTS
If your monumental work is solicited,
Irene Colvin, the children of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Colvin, Route 8, Aurora. kindly ask the solicitor for our busi
Their,pictures. appeared ia the Ore ness card.
Capital Monumental Works,
gonian last Sunday. Amelia Irene is 3
2210 S. Com. St.
Phone 689. Salem
and Norma Jean is 2 years old,
FINAL NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATRIX
Notice js hereby given ¿hat the un
dersigned as administratrix of the es
tate of Jane Carter, deceased, has filed
her final account as such administra
trix of said estate, in the County Court
for Marion County, Oregon, and that
the said Court has set the time for
hearing any and all objections theieto
and the final settlement thereof for
Monday the 28th day of March 1921, at
the hour of 10 o ’clock A. M. of said day
in the court room of said Court at Sa
lem, in said County and State.
Dated this the 21st day of February
1921.
IDA J. YERGEN,|
Administratrix of the estate of Jane
Carter, deceased,
NAPOLEON DAVIS,
Attorney for administratrix.
Date of first publication, Feb. 24, 1921
Date of last publication, March 24,1921
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