One Occasion When His
Mind Worked Quickly j
D o Your Christmas
i
Shopping at the
People to Get
Acquainted W ith
Smith was a freshman, older than j
most of his class. He was tall, lanky]
and slow. His mind, like his body, i
worked slowly, and the nervous pro-|
fessor in mathematics, after a long ■
,
aad careful explanation, was wont to
say:
“ Well, Smith, If you will go over]
i
that explanation carefully and medi
will be successful If \
Dennus. the milk modi- >
tate on It, I think you will understand.
tier, is used. Doctors )
endorse
Dennos.
At |
Meditate, Smith, meditate.”
Sample on request.
So Smith became “Meditate” Smith
OREGON M AKES IT
to his fellow students.
D EN N O S FO O D C O .
One evening a party of students
Portland. Ore.
gathered in the room of one of their
Oregon
Industries
Deserve
Oregonj
number, and Smith was one of them.
Patronage
The meeting was for fun and perhaps
CHRISTMAS SEAL
Everytime you buy an article made,
mischief, and such a meeting was an
in Oregon, you are helping to employ
RESULTS ARE H JGE infringement of rules.
When the jollity was at its height Oregon people in the manufacturing |
NOTARY PUBLIC
•courge Fast Yielding to Health a warning came that th'e professor o f Oregon goods. You are keeping
FIRE INSURANCE
Through
Work _ Financed by. I was coming to Investigate. The room Oregon money in Oregon. A campaign
REPRESENTING
is
on
in
the
interest
o
f
‘
'
Oregon
Made
was cleared at once. Smith as usual
Christmas Seals.
The Christmas Seal is with us again. was the last and, hearing steps ap Goods,” and , ‘ ‘ Oregon Industries.” Pacific States Fire Insurance
Seven million of them have been dis proaching, he crawled under the bed. It is more than worthy— an idea that
Company
trlbuted throughout the state of Ore seeing no other way of escape. Here means money to you. Look at the
Springfield F. & M. Insur
gon to be sold during the month eji he sat doubled up like a jackknife label
December to finance the "Fight Tuber awaiting the event with no little ap
ance Company
-
culosis—Give Health” campaign. The prehension.
Fire
Association
of
Phila.
seal, with its bold victorious figuré,
The professor entered. looked ahout
ALL KINDS OF TRUCKING
typifies the movement which it has him, saw that the room was empty,
AURORA, OREGON ;
at Reasonable Rates
financed so successfully that within then turned to depart. As he closed
the last fourteen years the death rate the door, a thought seemed to strike
THEODORE RESCH
from tuberculosis has been out in half him; he re-entered the room and
Aurora, Ore.
Phone 1115
in the United States. Throughout the looked under the bed.
Will
pay
highest
market
price
country, one hundred thousand people
“ Hey, Smith, what are you doing
for Hogs.
are enjoying the Christmas season, there?” he cried.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
who would have perished if the dis
Smith turned his head with diffi
Oregon City, Oregon
ease were as uncontrolled as it was culty,
a decade and a half ago.
Estates, Trusts, Confidential Advice
“Meditating, professor."
In Oregon, the toll in tuberculosis
F jR . B. F. GIESY
The professor withdrew.—Youth’s
deaths In 1923 was 623, and the best Companion.
estimates indicate that about 6000
people in the state are afflicted. Tu
W , L. Mulvey
B . F. Lindas
berculosis is now characterised by Allowing “ Off and On”
leading specialists as a preventable,
Every Year Counted
curable disease, and one that need
not' menace the lives of our citizens,
A lawyer, noted for his success in
10 Hogg Bldg.
if known measures of prevention and cross-examination, found his match in Both Phones
Oregon
City,
-
-
Ore.
proper living are put Into practise.
a recent trial, when he asked a long- Office at Residence
Aurora, Ore.
The chief object of the Christmas suffering witness how long he had
Seal Sale is to finance the eduoatlonal worked at his business of tin roofing.
campaign which will help equip the The answer was |
general public with such Information
“I have worked at it off and on
Asquith & Hocken
$
about the maintenance of their health, for some time, but have- worked at
that tuberculosis shall be ultimately it steady for the last .12 years.”
DENTIST
a in t iin g
.eliminated as a destroyer of mankind.
“ How long off and on have you j Has established his Dental office in
APER HANGING
the Aurora Bank Building, where
worked at It?"
he will be present each Tuesday,
“ Sixty-five years."
|
AND MINTING
TUBERCULOSIS YIELD S
Friday and Saturday, from 9 a, m .
“How old are you?”
J,
All Work Neatly Done
to 6 p. m.
TO HEALTH PROGRAM
“ Sixty-five.”
PLATES A SPECIALTY
“ Then you have been a tin roofer
| Aurora, Ore.
Phone 5012 |
Five C e n tw ^ r Capita for ChrlstmM from birth?”
AURORA, OREGON
Seale Paye for Oregon Campaign.
■“ No, sir; of course I haven’t.”
The only source
“Then why did you say you have
DR. H. O. HELMER
of funds for the
Phone 5-51 Office hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
worked at your trade 65 years?”
(VETERINARIAN)
.anti - tuberculosis,
Evenings and Sunday by appointment
“Because you asked how long off
Graduate of the Kansas City Veterin
and Public Health
and on I had worked at it. I have
ary College, 1913; Post-graduate of
work conducted
DR. S. J. LEVITT
worked at the trade 65 years—20
the Indianapolis Veterinary College,
by the Oregon
1923; Examined and Licensed by the
years on and 45 off.”
DENTIST
Tuberculosis As
State of Oregon.
j
I.
O.
O.
F.
Building
sociation and its
Molalla, Oregon Call, Phone or Write, Canby, Oregon
Room 1 and 2
seventeen affiliat
Beauties of Nature
ed. County Public • It may be observed that what we
Health Associa f call beauty of nature is mainly nega
tions, is the Christmas Seal Sale. tive beauty; that is, the mass, the
Every person who purchased seals last
huge rude background, made up of
year is entitled to the satisfaction of rocks, trees, hills, mountains, plains,
knowing that even at the small per-
: water, has not beauty as a positive
capita expenditure of 5 cents, over a i character, visible to all eyes, but af
period of a year, a long list of things
fords the mind the conditions of
was accomplished.
beauty, namely, health, strength, fit
Thousands of children were enrolled
ness, etc., beauty being an experience
in the Modern Health Crusade, and
of the beholder. Some things, on the
given the benefit of definite teaching
other hand, as flowers, foliage, bril
and practise in the performance of
habits of personal hygiene so neces liant colors, sunsets, rainbows, water
sary to good health. Public Health falls, may be said to be beautiful in
Nursing service was extended into a and of themselves; but how weari
larger number of Oregon counties dur some the world would be without the
ing the year than ever before. Free vast negative background upon which
tuberculosis clinics were held. Thous these things figure and which pro
ands of pieces of literature was dis vokes and stimulates the mind in a
tributed. Health films were circulat way the purely fair forms do not I—
ed. Supplementary material to aid in John Burroughs.
the required teaching of Health and
Hygiene was offered to every teacher
How H e Accomplished It
in the state.
Sir
Eric Geddes once remarked that
Another piece of the Association’s
work, of the utmost value, is the mak before doubting any statement a man
ing of surveys, and investigations re may make, fio matter how seemingly
garding the tuberculosis situation in Incredible it sounds, one should be
the state. The Bureau of Clinics and quite sure as to its precise meaning.
On Saturday, December 13, between 2 and 4
In order to illustrate his contention
Surveys has been able to furnish ac
p.
m., Santa Claus will be at our store. He
he
went
on
to
instance
the
case
of
a
curate and up-to-date statistics that
are fast crystalizing public opinion in friend of his who knew a little about
will be anxious to meet all the little folks; so
regard to the desperate need of addi billiards and chess, and who told him
one
day
that
he
had
beaten
the
ama
be sure to bring them in. He will make them
tional tuberculosis hospital facilities.
All this was done on 5 cents per teur champions of England at both
happy.
capita.
If every purchaser would games.
Sir Eric expressed great 'surprise
double his purchase the Association
and some incredulity, but the other
could double its service.
persisted that his statement was quite
true.
Oregon Seal Record Excellent.
“You see,” he explained, “1 took on
A record in the December Christmas
‘ •THE ST O R E OF M E R IT ”
Seal Sale was made by Oregon last the champion billiard player at chess,
of
which
he
knew
nothing,
and
I
year, which places her well toward the
AURORA, ORE.
top of the list of states in the per played the champion chess player at
capita sale of seals. Her 1923 record billiards, of which he knew less.”
was 5.6 seals sold for every person
in the state, an increase of seven-
Carlyle Is There
tenths of a seal over the 1922 mark.
Carlyle is sometimes as Irresistible
Portland, and Multnomah county,
Oregon, last year won a cross-country as “ The Campbells Are. Coming,” or
contest against Portland, In Cumber “ Auld Lang Syne.” He has described
land county, Maine. The race was to gome men and somé events once and
lee who would sell the highest number for all, and so takes his place with
»f seals per-caplta. A large silver Thucydides,- Tacitus and Gibbon.
oving cup .was awarded Multnomah Pedants may try hard to forget this,
sounty, which reached the record of and may in their labored nothings
1.2 against her opponent’s 6.2. Even seek to ignore, the author .of Crom
Give your hens a chance to show a nice
to, Multnomah did not reach the top well and the French Revolution ; but
imong the Oregon counties, for she as well might the pedestrian in Cum
profitfthis month by giving
iras slightly surpassed by Deschutes. berland or Inverness seek to Ignore
them plenty o f—
The 1924 Christmas Seal Sale be Helvellyn or Ben Nevis. Carlyle is
gins December 1, and continues until there, and will remain there, when
Christmas. The sale Constitutes the the pedant of today has been super
lole support of the Oregon Tubercu seded by the pedant of. tomorrow.—
losis Association, with all its health Augustine Blrrell.
md anti-tuberculosis work, and pro
vides funds for the County c Public
On the Contrary
Health Associations. Ninety-five per
Maud (newly married)'—You look
cent of the proceeds are retained with
in the state, only five per cent being very melancholy, George; are you
lent as commission to the National, or sorry you married me?
CO STS________ _ <_____ LESS
George—No, dear, of course n ot I
parent organization.
was only thinking of all the nice girls
PROFITS
__ __. _ _. _ _ LARGER
For seventeen years, Christmas I can’t marry.
Maud—Oh, George, how horrid of
Seals have been following their useful
career in the United 'States. The first you ! I thought you cared for nobody j
sale amounted to about $3000. Last but me.
IN THE GIESY BUILDING
George—That Is sb, my dear, I
year’s totaled four and a quarter mil
wasn’t thinking of myself, but of the |
lion dollars.
disappointment they have had!
Oregon for Oregon
Sadler & Kraus Store
Eighteen more shopping days be
fore Christmas. Start doing your
gift buying now and avoid the last
minute inconvenience.
Our un
usually large assortment of Gift
Goods will meet your every re
quirement.
Shop early at the
Sadler & Kraus store.
Sadler & Kraus
THE BEST FOR THE PRICE
BOTTLE
FEEDING
Ask for Oregon Products
LOUIS
W EBER!
O. D. EBY
Special Price on
Ladies and Girls Hats
9
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If yQU have anything to be hauled.
If you have anything to be shipped,
If you have anything to be transferred
to or from Portland,
Call E. M. HURST
Aurora Telephone 615
Portland Telephone East 8226
Will move into Portland Auto Freight Terminal Dec. 1st.
Baggage at Dock or Depot in Portland carefully
looked after.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
RATES REASONABLE
H. G. ZIEGLER
DEALER IN
Grain, Potatoes, Hay and Feed
SEED AND RE-CLEANING OUR SPECIALTY
ALL KINDS OF TRUCKING DONE IN CON
NECTION WITH WAREHOUSE.
AURORA,
-
-
OREGON
\>e/ore
YOU
another
DO TH IS
Ask for a M aytag Gyrafoam Washer to do
it with. N o obligation at all.
Undisputedly the world’s leading washer—
you m ust have heard about it. W om en every
where are talking o f its wonders: 50 lbs. o f dry
clothes an Ifour— a tubful o f linens, silks, wool
ens, spick-span in half the tim e required by any
other washer— never a bit o f hand rubbing
needed, even on wristbands or collars,
N o t a dolly, oscillator, or any type you’re
familiar with— but an entirely new principle—
years ahead l Its results will amaze you.
D on’t fail to try it— next washday
or sooner if you wish. Phone im
mediately.
Outstanding
M aytag Features
9
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2 — Washes cleaner.
3 —Largest hourly cap
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4 —Most compact wash
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. 5 —Cast aluminum tub.
6 —Easily adj usted to
your height.
7 —Clothes can be put in
or taken out with
the washer running.
8 —Tub cleans itself.
9 —Automatic drain-
board. Instant ten
sion release. All
parts enclosed.
Reasons for
World Leadership
9
G. A. EHLEN
Dr. C. Ammeter
F
MAKE CHRISTMAS
SHOPPING A PLEASURE
HOW?
Gall on W ill-Snyder Co. They
will do all they can to help you
select your gifts and will save
you money. Their store is full
o f seasonable goods.
COM ING
W ill-Snyder Go.
EGGS
A re Advancing in Price
EGG PRODUCER
owith cast aluminum tub ^
Hardware
Lawyers
Mother Hubbard
Gyrafoath
L
w
A
Physician
and Surgeon
Implements
AURORA
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