Wireless On The
Farm Next Step
PREACHERS WILL EXCHANGE
added interest. By elevating the vo
cation to professional rank we may yet
M. Leabo and Arthur Keil spent Sat
check the exodus from the conntry to
urday and Sunday salmon fishing on the
the town.—Oregonian,
The above is another argument for a Sanely.
big, union high school.
Education on
ail these lines will make better farm
Mrs. Grindeland o f Oregon City spent
ers, and farming more profitable.
Sunday with her daughter Mrs, E. M.
Howe,
ufmtm ©Optra
! ‘ ‘Confession” to be showed at Canby
I City Hall Sunday is an exceptionally
The Aurora district needs a fruit i &ood picture.
cannery.
; Mr. and Mrs. Stokes of
Mrs. E, G. Carpenter is reported to jspent Sunday at the home of
be quite ill.
j Mrs. Keefover.
Portland
Mr. and
Chris Giesy was reported quite sick
Henry Bents ar.d George Ehlen at-
this week.
■ tended the Masonic lodge at Canby Sat-
j urday evening.
-ill
Schwa/ was
business Tuesday.
ill
m land
John Steere and Forrest Giesy spent
j Saturday night with the Heinz boys
j riaar'Maintsburg,
on
Otis Nelson and Binger Giesy report
splendid ‘ ‘luck” fishing Sunday on the
B. J. Grimm was an Aurora business j streams west of the city,
visitor Tuesday.
Lewis Keil made this office a pleasant
Wm. Marsh has purchased a small i call yesterday while in the city from
farm at Scott’s Mills.
j his home northwest of town.
Albert Ehlen reports the fishing fair- \ E. M, Howe and A. H. W ill o f Au-
ly good at Deer Creek,
jrora and Mr, Kinney of Barlow went
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l fishing lit Rock Island last week.
Miss Inez Hilton was among those in i
Aurora Saturday shopping.
| Mr. ¡ind Mrs. Ralph Colvin and ehild-
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ren and W alter Colvin spent a few days
last week at Marshland visiting rela-
Mrs. A. Thompson and children spent tives. While there the men went fish-
the week-end at the home o£ Mrs. Fred ing and report a good catch of Steel-
Will,
head salmon.
VERLAINE VOILES
MAKE LOVELY
DRESSES
Th ere is an air o f freshness, a suggestion
of
about a dainty V o ile dress th a t is charm ing.
youth
E v e ry
wom an needs a V o ile dress, fo r w ear on a num ber o f
occasions, fo r it is appropriate,
fashionable.
cool
and
decidely
O a r unusually la rg e assortm ent o f de
signs and p attern s are inexpensive.
patterns ar a o f unusual beauty.
These exclusive
Y o u w ill
find th a t
colors in clu d e the seasons n ew est shades
binacio’ ns.
See how nicely this m aterial
and
com-
drapes and
h ow lit t l e it takes to m ake a sm art dress.
SADLERS KRAUS
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R . & G. Corsets
iv a n h o e Gloves
T h e D re w Shoes
This Friday Night
A P R IL
Sunday next at 11 a m. Rey. Fred
Royston will preach at the Tualatin
church and at Wilsonville at 8 p. m.
The day is forever passed when one Mr. Royston and Mr, Bates are ex
might hope to succeed as a farmer changing so that the Tualatin and Wil
without a scientific education. The ( sonville paBtors will preach at Keizer
advantage of knowing something about near Salem, Oregon that day. Rev.
Royston was formerly pastor of these
soil chemistry is well known. The
two churches at Tualatin and Wilson
farmer who is not also a machinist la
ville so doubtless many of the old
bors perpetually under a handicap it he
friends will be glad to hear him.
employs labor-saving devices of any
kind. Now the federal government has
arranged with the postoffiee depart
S. F. Southard of Dallas was in Au
ment to sent out daily market reports rora on business last week.
by radio from certain centers, and if
the system proves helpful it will be in
definitely extended. Co-operation of
Otto Knorr was a business visitor in
amateur wirless operators is solicited Aurora the first o f the week.
to receive'messages which will be sent
out at a fixed hour every day, preceded
by the signal “ Q. S. T .” which means
One 16 disk seeder—good as ne\y for
/Everybody listen.”
sale cheap. John Lundgren, R. 4.
No longer is the farmer to suffer loss
because of his remoteness from markets
or for want of knowledge or the latest
Highest Market Price Paid for
prices. The proposed plan will enable Mohair,—G. C. Giesy Warehouse.
him, at least in theory, to regulate the
flow of his products to points at which
they are likely to be most needed.
John Morris spent the week end at
It will be noted that the government the home of his brother Otis Morris.
makes no provision for receiving out
fits. Fortunately, there are a good
many farmers' sons ready to step into
Mrs. Albert Elliott, now living in
the breach. The radio service of our Portland, is quite sick at this writing
navy was recruited largely from the
farms. When every progressive farm
Robert and Everett Shimmin spent
er owns a wireless apparatus,in charge
o f Farmer Junior, farming will have an the weekend at home from Camp Lewis
Mrs, E. G. Robinson was an Aurora
visitor Saturday.
M A R K E T REPORT
•Silk H ose
L isle H ose
Pum ps and O xfords
Butter Fat 35c
E gg per dozen 17c
Butter, 2-lb. roll 60 c
Broilers 35c
Ducks, 20c to 22c
Turkeys, old 30c
ieese 15c
Old Roosters, 10c
Hens, 22c to 27
Cascara, 8c
Lard, 17c
Potatoes 75c to $1.00
Wool
“ TH E
Groceries and
Dry Goods
22
P R A IR IE ROSE”
Hubbard City Hall, April 22, 8 p. m.
Genercl Admission 35c and 25c
H. H. S. Student Body Association
Hubbard, Oregon
S a vin g tim e is ju st as im portant as savin g m oney
when buying the necessaries, o f life. A n d by m ak
in g as m any o f you r purchases as possible in one
place you can accomplish both results, provided you
buy here.
For immediate Sale
Square dining table, fir, stained black,
$8.00 Bedroom cabinet, commode, $4.00
Bedroom cabinet,
commode, $3.00.
Washstand 50c. Wash bowl and pitch
er, fine, $1, Fruit jars per dozen, 60c.
High chair 50c.
Heating stove, ten
lengths, 3 elbows, $4.50.
Iron bed, $1.
DONALD ITEMS
Wash boiler 75c.
Rake, hoe, boy’s
Mrs. R. Wool worth of Butteville
spade, all 75c. I f not sold by Saturday
called upon friends here Monday.
night, Apr, 28 will be crated and ship
The recent rains have blocked the ped.
N, C, Wescott, Aurora.
timber workers, somewhat.
Our grocery departm ent is com plete in every respect
and our goods are alw ays fresh, clean and w h ole
so m e— our prices so low th at you could not afford to
trade elsewhere.
In the line o f dry goods w e can supply your wants
ju st as readily and just as satisfactorily as you could
wish. Our stock contains all the va riety you would
find in many stores sellin g dry goods exclusively.
FOR SA l LE —A ll-Wool Fluff Rug.
Madams Willis Eppers and Rube
Eppers visited their parents and other R. id. Rader, § mile north of bu tte
ville Station.
8-2t
relatives here Tuesday.
Anyone desiring agricultural know
The Aurora Rebeckah Lodge has
ledge may apply to “ Dad” Eppers and
elected
as delegates to the Grand Lodge
Pappy Aufranc for the same.
at Albany, Mrs. Jessie Gray and Mrs.
Mrs. B. S. Quinn went to Portland Corda Wiegand. The Butteville Re-
Wednesday to attend a surprise party bekahs have elected Mrs. Emma Dona-
at the home of an old schoolmate.
hugh,
The Butteville Odd Fellows’
Miss Bernice Feller spent several delegate will be A. B, Dental.
days at home this week, returning to
the Academy at Salem Wednesday.
Mr. Lr P. Swan returned from the
sanitarium in no way improved and is
quite ill at his home near Champoeg.
Buy a t H o m e — The dollar} {you spend w ith
rig h t here at home.
us
stays
W ILL-SN Y D E R CO.
T H E STORE OF M E R IT
Conditions Are Bad
Conditions too appalling for descrip
The measel patients this week are tion and misery too awful to look upon
Tim Lamb, Eldon Pendleton, Lucile were witnessed only six weeks ago in
Bixel, Walter and William Freeman the famine districts of North China by
W. A. Sellwood, Y. M. C. A. secretary
and John Groff,
and graduate of O. A. C., who has just
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Moore motored to returned from 18 months’N service in
Salem one day last week and.visited Russia and China, and who travelled
Mrs. L, K. Page,
Friends of Mrs, 10 days, covering 800 miles, through
Page are glad to hear she is improving. the famine-stricken section from Pekin
near the northern boundary, to Nan
D. B. Evans of St. Louis, Mo , and king, near the Chinese coast.
Mrs, W. E. Clark, and family of Port
“ That ten-day'journey was one long
land, Oregon visited the formers son H. horror,” said Sellwood. “ I am haunted
D, Evans Sunday. Mr. Evans Sr., has yet by the memory of the drawn, des
not visited the coast since 1914 and pairing faces and the pitiable cries for
find! many changes, especially the food of the starving, half-naked men,
women and children who crowded un- ,
highways which he admires very much.
der the train windows, lifting up their i
Says they are much superior to the arms in desperate supplication to us, |
Missouri roods.
every time the train slowed up or j
Fidelity Review No. 13, W, B. A. of stopped- There are 45,000,000 Chinese |
the Maccabees held a social meeting confronted with starvation in the
famine district, and the daily death ]
Tuesday evening with invited guests.
rate is 15,000 a day. Typhus and j
Mrs. Minnie W, Aydelotte of Oakland, pestilence are adding their toll to that |
Cal,, Deputy Supreme Commander of wholesale starvation, and cqndi- I
gave an interesting talk on the basis tions are simply beyond any adequate
o f the order and its stability. Vocal description.
selections by Miss Feller, the flag ser
“ In Russia I have seen corpses stack
vice and floral march constituted the ed up like cordwood, and many other j
program after which ‘ ‘500” , dancing things very shocking to people who
live comfortable, well-ordered lives
and lunch were enjoyed.
here in the United States, but these
were nothing to the tragic things that
were visible on every hand all along
Read our ‘ ‘ classified” column for the 800-mile journey through the
“ wants,” sales, etc.
famine districts of north China. The
corpses were not stacked up in orderly
fashion as in Russia. The survivors
Miss Noma Yergen’s condition is re are too weak and wasted to under
ported to be much improved.
She is take any such task, and those who
able to be out again much to the delight perish are left to lie where they fall,
or are rolled into streams nearby.
of her many friends.
Almost at any time we could look
out and see bodies floating in the
streams or lying about on the ground.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ehlen and family It is a common thing for famine vic
and Mrs. Albert Ehlen and little tims to succumb while digging for
daughter spent Sunday at the home of roots to eat, and the mute evidence of
this last futile effort to secure some
Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Heinz.!
morsel that will sustain life a little
longer, is visible on every hand; the
Mrs. F. W. Settlemeier of Woodburn dead bodies of men, women and chil
spent Saturday evening with Mrs. J. dren may he seen lying beside the hole
W. Sadler. Mr, Settlemeier and Mr. in the ground that has been dug with
sticks, or with the wasted claw-like
Sadler attended lodge at Canby.
hands of the starving." Long ago all
dogs, cats and even rats have disap
peared in this land of horrors, except
Mrs. Asquith was m Portland Wed for a few wild, half-crazed dogs that
nesday to meet Mr. and Mrs. W. E, are dreaded by the emaciated human I -
Hawkins, of Salt Lake City, who are creatures because they fight so
tenaciously for food and sometimes at- |
visiting at the Asqbith home here.
tack the children in their desperate j
hunger. Everything eatable has been !
eaten except leaves, roots and grass, j
Mr, and Mrs. Earl Carver, Mr. and and these are rapidly being exhausted, i
Mrs, Loren Giesy, Mir, and Mrs. Sex- Where there are trees the hark from
smith and Mr. and Mrs, Espy of Donald these is also used, and most of the ;
attended the dance in Aurora Saturday trees are dying as a result. This vege- j
tation is ground up into a sort of meal, !
and made into a kind of cake by mix-“]
Mrs. Albert Ehjen received a letter ing with water. It is baked when !
fuel can be obtained.
Millions of j
from Seaside announcing the engage
Chinese are living on this diet alone.
ment of Miss Roberta Barrett of Sea
“ One of the most pitiable incidents
side and Mr, Lloyd Miller, formerly oc of the journey was the wild clamor
Hubbard.
all along the railroad at points where |
the garbage from the dining car was i
dumped daily. Knowing approximate- j
The “ Virgin W ool,” all wool clothes ly where to expect this garbage to be i
being advertised elsewhere in this pa dumped, thousands of gaunt, starving :
per offers the best guaranteed suits at creatures gather for hours in advance |
pre-war prices. And it is helping Ore and await the passing of tbe train.
The railroad company, to prevent the j
gon wool, An opportunity now to get
frantic people from throwing them
a good suit.
selves under the wheels in the strug- j
gle for this garbage, have built fences j
two or three feet from the train, and
You will admire the way our ads are the pails are emptied outside this
set. Notice the new ads this week and fence. Policemen stand guard along the
the various ad changes every week. fence to hold back the older and the
They are written and paid for espec better-nourished people while the chil
dren and the weaker adults are let
ially for you to read. *
through to get the first pickings.”
Sellwood also tells of a desperate
Chinese mother who tried to sell him
Adam Burkholder was a pleasant cal
her little three-year-old daughter for
ler Wednesday. Mr. Burkholder came
50 cents. Recognizing the face of an
to this district m ’70 and is acquainted American at the window of the train,
back in old Missouri around the stamp this woman crowded to the front, hold
ing ground of the editor.
ing up the child in her arms, and im
ploring him to buy it. It was explain
ed to Sellwood that all Chinese
Arrangements are in progress to mothers in the famine section are
paint the Wilsonville church and such a eager to sell their children, particular
worthy project should have the support ly to Americans, as this means that
the child will be fed and have a chance
of every citizen. From a business point
to live, also that the returns from the
of view there axe no two things "that sale will also mean a little food for
will help to advertise a town like a the children that are left and for them-
good church and a good school.
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