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About Aurora observer. (Aurora, Marion County, Or.) 19??-1940 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1921)
Li * * 1 An Opportunity W estco For Someone Electric, The Last Chance WANTEEHN AURORA Aurora, Oregon, Sept. 22, 1921. D ea r Tankless Water System “ THE W ATER SYSTEM WITHOUT A T A N K " also Here in Aurora is an opening and a i The Vaile-Kimes system for domestic water Supply splendid opportunity fo’* a lumber yard, i A place in town where one can buy ! lumber,,Iath, shingles, brick, cement,) tile, etc. •£ None here and one wanted •Plumbing, Heating and Sheet Metal Work^ bad. Hubbard, Oregon Work Done Out of Town Phone 4103 E. S. WOLFER F r ie n d : I am agent for The Oregonian. My home is at the Observer Office in Aurora. I am 13 years old and in the 7th grade and I will make enough to buy my school clothes, if the readers will send their subscriptions for that paper to me, or to the Aurora Observer office, where I will get credit for them and it will cost you no more. The Oregonian is Oregon^ biggest, best and oldest paper. The Oregonian is going to put on a big PAUL C. FISCHER A U RO RA M EAT M ARKET ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Beaver Building BARGAIN SUBSCRIPTION OFFER Oct. 25 to 31st inclusive, 1921, If you are an old subscriber, it is the chance to save dollars by pushing your subscription ahead now. If not a subscriber at present, it is certainly a good chance to'get in on these bargain prices, but you must send me your address and money before Oct. 30th. Here they are:— „$5.00 for Daily only, for one full year $7.00 for Daily and Sunday, for one full year OREGON CITY, OREGON Jars AND KEGS Won’t you send me your subscription, or renewal to Aurora, or the Ob server Office, please, so I can get the prize? - If your subscription runs out next Jan. Feb., or any time soon you will get a full year from thq time it is paid to. Thanking you very truly, v BERTIE HELTZEL, Aurora, Ore. for Preserving and Pickling Larsen & Co. An Uptodate Sanitary Meat Market that handles every thing best in m e a t s fresh and cured. WURSTER BROS. Aurora, Oregon Groceries, Produce and Commission/ 1001-1003 Main Street OREGON CITY STRONG FOR HOME PAPER A Community Servant Subscribe Phone:' - - Pacific 70 The local newspaper is the servant “ No, I don’t take the local paper of the community in which it is pub any more,” one farmer said to an lished, but to be a good and efficient AURORA other as they were waiting at the servant it must be fed by the people creamery to unload their milk. it serves. It is an institution of the They had just been looking at a town quite as much as are the schools poster advertising ‘ ‘ Subscribe for and the churches, and quite as much Your Home Town Paper Week, Nov entitled to support. ember 7-12.” I take a daily paper, Farmers, Do You W ant Money? and th a t’s about all I need. It has a 1 will loan you money on Twenty year A Necessary Luxury. few items every week from our com- By M. V. ATWOOD. plan with privilege of paying all or pari muity, and I feel that I save two dol at any time, interest ard one twentieth The town newspaper is both a lux lars a year by not subscribing to the ury and one of the family necessities. part to be paid .each year; liberal ap Once upon a time a country editor home paper.” praising extended you. Write to me—1 had a great idea. This is not the first “ Well, th a t’s one way to look at can help .you. great idea which has been evolved in it,” said the other farmer, “ but I ’ve i country print-shop, but most of these always felt that a local newspaper LEWIS MONTGOMERY ideas in the past have been of benefit was a pretty valuable asset to any E. M. HURST 1029 E. Madison St. Portland, Ore. to some one other than the editor. Proprietor community, and if everybody took the But the idea was to benefit editor as attitude you do, there couldn’t be any well as the whole community and na Frequent trips between Aurora local newspaper. Of course we could tion. not get along without our daily pa and Portland.—Will Haul To Any This was the idea: Whjxnot have pers, because they keep us informed Place in the Willamette Valley a “home paper week?” ^ Satisfaction Guaranteed. about w hat’s going on throughout the * We have had every kind of a “week” AURORA, QREGON from soap to electric cleaners. nation and throughout the world, hut Phone 6-52 P Taken together, argued #ttte editor, when you say that they* take care of the country newspapers are quite the our local news, I don’t think you are most important in the nation, even if sticking close to facts. They simply judged by numbers; the ten or fifteen can’t, and the publishers haven’t any thousand of them make the four hun A s k your Grocer for personal interest in our community dred big city papers and magazines the way the editor has. seem inconsiderable, indeed. “ I have always felt that I got value The reason most folks, do not real received for every dollar I ’ve paid ize the importance of the country newspaper is because they think of out in subscriptions to the local paper BRAND them individually instead of collective and I don’t have an idea that runn ly ; ’ even the Atlantic ocean doesn’t ing & country newspaper is any more look very impressive when you view it of a wealth-producing proposition merely as a cupful of water scooped than running a farm. So long as I ’ve up at the beach. got two dollars I intend that the rufal So this country editor began to talk Hubbard Creamery Co. mail carrier is going to tuck a copy about the idea and to write letters of the home paper in my box every HUBBARD, ORE. to any one who he thought might be week. ’ ’ But like all great ideas, « interested. We buy Butterfat • and Eggs at That farmer knows that the com 4 it took a long time for it to grow. W. H. ASQUITH Highest Market Prices 4 Finally a company which has done munity newspaper is a necessity in much to teach country publishers the his home; that without it his home AINTIING value of system and of knowledge of would be incomplete and his part in 1APER HANGING costs took it up, as did also the Na the community would b‘e unsatisfac tional Editorial Association ; then the AND TINTING ? tory to himself and his family.- He state colleges of agriculture saw its All Work Neatly Done knows the full value of the local possibilities because of the effect on newspaper as an institution. Oregon J community life; another great concern Aurora November 7 to 12 is National which furnishes thousands of country STUMPING POWDER papers with syndicate news and fea “ home-town paper*week.” This .week non-freezing; the fumes don’t cause tures became interested; * and, of every reader of the home paper is headache. Every user a booster. course, tb^* publishers’ trade journals kindly asked to see your neighbors fell into line. ‘From the Cheapest That’s Good, and friends on your route, in town, J. R. PITTS Thus a great chain of interest in To the Best That’s Made.” or back' east, and every reader to Phone 52-5 Canby, Oregon “Subscribe for Your Home Town Pa this paper is asked or invited to send per Week” has been stretched across WE W A N T YOUR VISIT us during the week from one to three the country, each of the thousands of new subscribers. This paper is only country.papers, of which this paper is $1.50 per year. W on’t you ask an one, a link in the chain. November 7th to 12th are the dates acquaintance or .two to subscribe? set for “Subscribe for Your Home TAILOR Town Paper Week,” and all who be 10,000 Number 1 lieve in the home town paper, .in its Aurora has the best water system possibilities for helpfulness, for creat in the world for towns- thrice heri ing community solidarity, for the cher 100J Fourth Opp. S. P. Ticket Off. size; and,pure water. ishing of the homely and sacred things Aurora has splendid roads leading P ortland , O regon of the country, are being asked to also several varieties of in all .directions. help—to help, not because the country Aurora has five rural mail routes. PLUM and PEACH TREES editor needs charity, hut because the F air prices rule at all Aurora busi country newspaper is a great service ness houses. Commerciatize Your Orchard agency, dignified, stable, worthy of Aurora has .free auto camp every cent which the community in A. B. KAMMERER ground. vests to make it possible. Aurora is a good town to live in So you are asked to help make “Sub Canby, Ore., Route 1 and there is room for you. scribe for Your Home Town Paper 1J mi[es south of town against loss by Week” the big success ih is going to be. If you do not now take your home E ID E IN THE paper, don’t delay subscribing later riiv L LARGEST than the week of November 7-12. Insurance Association in Oregon ßrthe HomeTownBiper Auto Truck Mother Hubbard Y Week THE STORY OF HOME TOWN PAPERWEEK Novem ber 7-12 PREPARE for the damp and chilly weather with A G ood H eater B U T T E R we have them in different styles and prices P G I A N T Order Your Trees Hardware d The Wide Awake Farmers’ Mutual Fire Relief Association I. Wheeler, Agent r-nran Hardware Store Mortgage Loan Co. Our mortgages are ail absolute ly guaranteed and we make all collections of principal and inter est. This collection service re lieves the investor of the annoy ance and trouble of making col lections and payment is made on time. C. 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