Knight’s Rogue River Catsup on
the tables.
“ ‘Here’s the joke,’ he said. _ *1
Entered as second class matter March
28, 1911, at the postoffice at Aurora, like it and think it’s a fine catsup
Oregon, under the Act of March 3,1879. but I had to get another brand, a
California catsup, for so many
Geo. E. Knapp. Editor and Publisher California people refuse to eat any
other but California products.’
He said they don’t hesitate to tell
EDITORIAL you, either. He said he* started
Opinions o f the out by putting Rouge River pears
Observer
and Umpqua valley prunes on the
menu and the California p eople
Supporters of the bus and truck raised such a holler that he had to
bill, known as House Bill 413, are quit it.
“ He^s from Southel-n taltfornia,
making a strenuous fight to keep
the law bn the statute book and but. Mr. Weaver nad bougnPraose
prevent a referendum, thereby Oregon products and thought it
hoping to put the highway carriers only. fittin g ^ ) put them on the
out of business. The advertising mend the same«,s 1m does irfcRose-
is done almost exclusively in papers burg. I was talking to MrTWeav-
of the metropolis and the larger er about it and Ke tells me that
cities, evidencing a belef on their they brought a bunch of soap down
part that the fight will center al from their Roseburg hotel (made in
most entirely among the urban Oregon soap) and said you would
population. It is probable, how be surprised how many people here
ever, that the country and country called him on it, saying: ‘ Why do
towns will have something to say we have to use»Qregon soap in
about the question of depriving Califorma?’ And? one man even
them of their transportation facili went s ) far as to say he would
ties. The coming of the stage and never stay there again until Mr.
freight truck has revolutionized Weaver showed him a copy of an
business in the country, and while or^er where he had ordered soap
it has i ot been an unmixed bless from some California hou e. And
ing, yet the people are not pre the only reason they had the Ore
pared to go back, to old conditions, gon soap was Decause they over
conditions under which they might looked ordering until too late to
have to wait a week for freight, get it in time for the opening of
which under present conditions the hotel and rushed some up from
they can secure within twenty-four their Roseburg hotel.
‘ I told this steward, ‘ Why, you
hour .
can find California catsup in many
Prophets of good told us that Oregon restaurants and hotels,’
1925 would be ushered in by in and he acted rather surprised. He
creased business and better times. said, “ Why, that’j|i&nny! Why
We fail to see 'the justification for don’t they use OnJgqa catsup?
that prophecy: Business has been He said he had never been in Ore
steadily closing down and we see, gon and added, “ Binryou can’ t do
yet, no prospect of betterment. that in California.
California
This condition does not warrant us people won’ t stand for it.’
in taking a Micawberish stand,
“ Can you beat it? We in Ore
hoping for something to turn up. gon preach it, but in California
Nor are we advised that the Wil they live it. If only the Oregon
son policy of “ watchful waiting” is merchants and Oregon people took
the proper course. Nor should we that stand we sure' would have
place all our eggs in one basket and some catsup business;
sit down in the fond belief that
\
‘ ‘T F. MOSCH.”
“ FL A X ” will help us out. The
flax .mill, IF IT IS ERECTED
may eventually bring us some RAISING SHEEP ON
good, but it is a long way in the
DIVERSIFIED FARM
future. In the meantime we sit
There are three systems of sheep
quiescent while other good things
management In the United States.
more certainly within our grasp
1. Running sheep in large bands
and of immediate benefit slip by on the range.
2. Keeping small flocks on the farms.
our doors to be grabbed up by
3. Fattening of range sheep.
other communities.
The second and third are farm en
Aurora Observer
Powerful, Yet Helpless
A. S. Goss, master of the Wash
ington State Grange, says the
farmer pays three times his share
of taxes; that the middle man gets
twice as much for selling the
farmer’s stuff as the farmer gets
for raising it; that the farmer is at
the foot of the list in income tax
returns and is the poorest paid in
dividual in America. And in com
menting on this condition Mr
Goss says:
“ The wonderful thing is that the
farmer, with more capital invested
than any other three industries in
America, and with more economic
power than all the other industries
combined, is so unwilling to help
himself that he won’t take this
plain business proposition into his
daily life and spend a portion of
his time and money in building up
an organization which will do for
agriculture what other organiza
tions have done for other in
dustries.”
Can Yon Beat It?
Following is a copy of part of a
letter written March 25, 1925, on
the stationery of the Yreka Inn,
Yreka, California, to the Knight
Packing Company, Portland, by
their representative, Mr. T. F.
Mosch:
“ This is a'new hotel and run by
the Weaver boys who also have the
Umpqua Hotel at Roseburg. On
my last trip here .(while the hotel
was still under construction) I
talked Knight’s Rogue River Cat
sup to M r. Weaver and he bought
5 cases through Mason, Ehrman
Company. So, tonight, after fin
ishing my dinner, I introduced my
self to the steward and told him I
was very much pleased to see
M AN NEAR PERFECT
“ STATE OF H EALTH ”
Notice of Final Account
Turbans and Nests
The turban is a fashionable head
dress in Burma, and each girl eagerly In the County Court of the State
of Oregon for the County of
looks forward to the time when it will
Marion.
Mortality Rate Steadily Be be her privilege to swathe her head in
yards and yards of dark cloth. But Jn the Matter of the Estate of
ing Lowered.
Laura Ann Beeler, deceased.
until she has found a young man who
is willing to build her a bamboo house
Notice is hereby given that the
It Is probable that civilized man In and to raise rice for her, she cannot
undersigned,
as administratrix of
FEEDING COLTS ON
the Twentieth century is not only wear this coveted headdress. Because
the estate of Laura Ann Beeler,
GRAIN IS FAVORED healthier than any other human be among the Kachins unmarried girls deceased, has filed her final account
ing that ever lived, with the possible are not permitted to wear a turban
That young colts to do their best exception of a few happy-go-lucky sav nor do they let their hair grow long. in the County Court of the State
must be fed grain, has frequently age tribes living in lands of plenty, They wear bobbed hair and have done of Oregon for Marion County, and
been advised In these columns. Re but that he is the first civilized man so for centuries. But the day a Kachln that, Monday, the 11th day of May,
cently it was our pleasure to visit one who ever attained anything like a girl la married she lets her hair grow 19z5, at the hour of 9:30 a. m. in
of the large stock farms located In state of health, is the comment made and binds it up with the turban, whicn the forenoon of said day and the
the central portion of the state, writes by Robert L. Duffus, in the Century she wears with pride. For the turban court room of said court has been
marks her as a married woman.—Fam appointed by said court as the
an expert in the Farmer and Breeder. Magazine.
The proof is in death and mortal ily Herald.
On It we saw a splendid herd of
time and place for the hearing of
Shorthorn cattle and also large York- ity rales. At the beginning of the
objections thereto and the settle
century,
in
the
United
States
regis-
shire swine, but what pleased us most
ment thereof.
Alm ost Unanimous
was the twenty-three grade and pu rei tration area, the death rate was 17.8
Date of first publication, April
“
Why
are
you
always
bragging
about
thousand, in 1921 it was 11.6 and
bred Shire colts which we saw in the
9th, 1925.
box stalls at their dams’ sides in the though it rose to 12.6 during 1923, its yourself?” "You don’t ever brag about
Date of last publication, May
yourself, do you?” “ I certainly never
horse bams. They were an excellent general tendency is still downward.
In New York city the rate dropped do.” “ Well, I've never heard anybody 7th, 1925.
lot of colts—as good as we have seen
M IN N IE B. RUPARD,
from 20.26 in 1898 to 11.72 in 1923. In else bragging about you, either.”—Cin
on any farm for a long time.
*
Administratrix.
We visited at the farm for several fant mortality in New York city was cinnati Enquirer.
hours with the herds and In the fields, reduced during the same period from
Oliver M . Hickey, Atty.,
Early Advertisement
observing the results of breeding 205 a thousand to 63. Death rates
826 Northwestern Bank Bldg.,
which had been practiced In the for are, of course, an average between ex
In 1649 there appeared in a sheet Portland, Oregon.
mer and the methods of management tremes; In the cities of Mississippi in called Modérate the first-known Eng
which were being practiced about the 1923 the rate was 20.3 a thousand; lish newspaper advertisement. It was
Aurora: 50 minutes from Salem;
farm. We chanced to go Into the in the rural districts of Iowa 6.5 a an Inquiry for a stolen horse and the
horse barns just as the caretaker was thousand; among large groups of in offer of a reward for its return.
60 minutes from Portland; 30 min
feeding the mares at four o’clock p. m. surance policy holders, 8.9 a thousand.
utes from Oregon City.
before turning them, together with
As hygienic knowledge spreads, the
their col is, out to pasture for the average will naturally tend to ap
Notice of Hearing of Final Account
night.
Immediately we looked Into proach the minimum. But even now
the stalls to see what the colts would medical science In the United States
CH ARLES GLAZE,
be doing while the mares were munch may be credited with saving at least
Notice is hereby given that the
DEALER IN
ing their grain. These colts ranged one-half million lives yearly that twen final account of John Edward Mills,
in age from three to eight weeks.
ty-five years ago would have been as executor of the estate of William
Were they lying down and asleep, lost.
Stauffer, deceased, has been filed in
standing back In the stall, or nursing
The baby born in 1900 had a life
Cleaning and Re-setting Mon
the mothers? Not a single one of expectation of about forty-nine years; the county court of Marion county
them. As we passed from stall to now It may count on living, with rea state of Oregon, and that the 9th
uments, and Inscriptions Cut
stall, we found every colt standing up sonable luck, seven years longer. Cer day o f June, 1925, at the hour of
on Monuments at the Grave.
to the feed boxes and enjoying its bite tain diseases, as everyone knows, ten o’clock a. m., has been duly
20 per cent Discount on
of grain with its mother. No won have been almost wiped out. The death appointed by such court for the
.Marble and Granite Purchases
der they were such fine fellows, big rate from typhoid has been reduced hearing of objections to such final
for their age, and the pictures of nearly 80 per cent, that from tuber account and the settlement thereof,
Work Guaranteed
thrift— drafters all in the making. We culosis nearly 50 per cent. Yellow at which time any person interested
Prices Reasonable
then followed the feeder from stall to fever, typhus, malaria, diabetes, the in such estate may appear and file
AURORA*
-*
OREGON
stall as he fed the remaining mares hookworm disease, diphtheria and
* jK e * jH * je j* j* j * » * + * j* * J * j* + * J * * » + *
objections
thereto
in
writing
and
with colts, and sure enough, those scarlet fever are wiped out or under
contest the same.
colts knew what was coming when the control.
JOHN ED W A RD M ILLS,
door opened and he stepped into the
Surgery of all descriptions has made
Executor of the Estate of
stall with pall in hand. They didn’t
emarkable advances. New drugs have
William Stauffer, deceased.
hesitate to be shown the way, but been found which alleviate suffering
made a bee-line for the feed box. They and promote recovery; in fact, it may
Blaine McCord,
stayed, too, until all the feed was almost be said that a new medical
Attorney for Estate.
gone.
chemistry has developed.
Date of first publication May
Medical authorities agree that 66 per
We repeat. If young colts are to do
More and more the treatment of dis 7th, 1925.
cent of ail men past middle age (many
their best, as well as they should, ease is an exact science, with predict
Date of last publication, June much younger) are afflicted with a disor
they must have grain. The colts on able results.
der o f theprostate gland. Aches.in feet,
14th, 1925.
this stock farm were getting It to
The modern physician is almost as
leas and back, frequent nightly nsings,
gether with their mothers; a mixture far ahead of the practitioner of the
sciatic pains, are some of the signs—
of bran and oats with a little corn. eighties as the latter was ahead of an
Notice of Hearing of Final Account and now a member of the American
The feed boxes were attached to the Indian medicine man. Good roads, the
Association for the Advancement of
Science has written a remarkably inter
walls In one corner of the stalls at a motor car and modern methods of san
point low enough so that the colts itary organization have made the new
Notice is hereby given that the esting Free Book that tells of other
could easily reach them and eat out knowledge accessible even in remote final account of John Edward Mills, symtoms and just what they mean. No
longer should a man approaching or
-of them. It is a good way and a very regions.
as executor of the estate of Samuel past the prime of life be. content to.
Simple one. Colts are naturally cu
Stauffer, deceased, has been fiWtl in regard theBe pains and' conditions as
rious to know what their mothers are
Bananas Grow in Favor
the county court of Marion county, inevitable signs of approaching age.
doing and to do likewise, and so soon
The import record o i 1924, says the state of Oregon, and that the 9th Already more than 10,000 men have
used the amazing method described in
learn to eat In this way.
Trade Record of the National City
While at this farm we had an op bank of New York, shows a larger day of June, 1925, at the hour of this book to restore their youthful
ten o ’clock a. m „ has been duly health and vigor, and to restore the
portunity to further study the benefit
¿ «¡m in te d b y such court’ fo r the prostate gland to its prope rfanctioning.
of feeding the colts on grain and con number of bananas entering the
I hearing o f ob jection s to such final Send immediately for this book. I f you
tinuing to do so during their early de ed States than to any
will mail your request to the Electro
and the sum paid therefor also the
£
velopment. Out In the pastures we largest on record. The total value 0f a ccou n t and th e settlem ent th ereof Thermal Company, 657 Knapp Bidg.,
saw a number o f yearlings, two-year- the bananas imported was $22,674,000 a t w hich tim e any person interested Steubenville, Ohio, the concern that is
olds, and three-year-olds, all of which against $16,398,000 ten years ago to in such estate may appear and file distributing this book for the author, it
will be sent to you absolutely free
had been fed similarly to this year’s
the fiscal year 1914, and $7,710,000 objections thereto in writing and without obligation. Simply send name
colts. They were all big, growthy twenty years ago to the fiscal year
contest the same.
and address. But don’ t delay, for the
terprises. The third is often more or drafters, far advanced In their de
edition of this book is limited.
JOHN ED W A RD MILLS,
less a speculative business, but the velopment for their respective ages, 1904. Originally a native of the Malay
Executor of the Estate of
second—keeping a flock on the farm— compared with the general run of an archipelago, the banana was Intro
may well be considered a permanent young horses seen about the state. duced to tropical America, especially
Samuel Stauffer, deceased.
R A IL R O A D T IM E C A R D
the Caribbean countries, to the early
part of diversified farm business.
Blaine McCord,
Producing high class draft horses isn’t days o f the development of that area.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Sheep fit well into a system of farm a matter of breeding alone, but one
Attorney for Estate.
NORTH BOUND
Its Importance as a food supply at
ing because of the small Investment of good feeding, too.
Date of first publication, May No. 32 (on Flag)____ .c___ !.-.5:44 a. m.
tracted attention to the United States,
required, the quick returns, their hah
No. 16 (on F lag)___________ ,7:38 a. m.
and a very large sum of American cap 7th, 1925.
its of feeding, their benefit to the land
Date o f last publication, June No. 62 (Stop)____ ; _________ ..10:19 a. m.
Feeding
of
Tankage
on
ital
has
been
invested
to
its
develop
and their “ two-way” cash crop.
No. 18 (S top)........................ .1:23 p. m.
Any Pasture Is Favored ment, and that of the railways by 4th, 1925.
It is usually considered that sheep
No. 34 (on F lag)_______________6:47 p. m.
which It Is transported to the water’s
Working
with
growing
shotes
the
can be purchased cheaply in compar
SOUTH BOUND
edge,
the
steamships
which
bring
It
ison with other live stock. At present past summer and fall, Professor Loef-
No. 17 (Stop)__________________ 9:43 a. m.
to
our
ports,
and
the
especially
con
prices, however, an animal unit of fel of Nebraska found that where structed railway cars and warehouses
No. 61 (on F la g ) __. . . _________ 1:31 p. m.
“ No Collection, No Charge”
sheep (seven ewes), Is not so much shotes had access to alfalfa and re by which It Is distributed the country
No. 33 (Stop)___________
4:62 p. m.
ceived
only
corn,
that
the
cost
of
pro
Delinquent
accounts
collected
on
a
No. 31 (on Flag).....................9.14 p. m.
lower in price than in other classes
over.
The
number
of
bananas
con
contingent basis.
We do the work,
of live stock.
The Investment for ducing 100 pounds of pork was $8.94, sumed to the United States now ap
shoulder the expense and make no
shelter need not be large, as expensive whereas when tankage was fed with proximates .6,000,000,000, since the 47,-
charge unless collection is made.
F O R O V E R 40 Y E A R S
bams are not necessary. The fleece the corn and alfalfa, the cost was 000,000 bunches imported last year are
$100,000.00 Bad Accounts Turned In
HALL’ S CATARRH MEDICINE has been
of the sheep will prevent It from suf $7.62 per 100 pounds of gain. Further estimated to average about 125 ba
to Cash Since W e Started. Jot down
used
successfully in the treatment of
more
the
corn-tankage
pigs
weighed
fering from cold if It is kept dry and
a trial list of bad ones and let us
Catarrh.
nanas to a bunch.
turn them into actual money.
given a windbreak. Proper fencing 210 at the dose of the test, while the
HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE con
sists o f an Ointment which Quickly
will be the greatest investment neces corn-alfalfa pigs weighed 142 pounds.
Business Men’s Adjustment Co. Relieves by local application, and the
Lotto’s Esprit
Similar results were obtained where
sary.
Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts
"TiOtta left a lot o’ money.”
315-16 Masdftic Bldg.,
Phone 911
through the Blood on the Mucous Sur
It should never be but a few months Sudan grass was used as the forage.
Where com alone was fed, the cost
An actor was talking about the fa
faces,- thus reducing' the inflammation.
after sheep are purchased until a cash
SALEM, OREGON
Sold by all druggists.
per 100 pounds gain was $8.41, where mous Lotta Crabtree, who bequeathed
crop may be sold, either wool or
F . J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
as with the corn-tankage-sudan-grass her $4,000,000 estate to charity. He
lambs, either one of which will return
pigs, the cost was $7.14 per 100 chuckled and went on:
a considerable part of the purchase
pounds gain. In this test $75 profit
"Lotta was funny to the end. I
price.
was made on each ton of tankage fed asked her one day to buy some oil
A very large part of the feed for when full fed In self-feeders. Teats shares—I was interested to oil at the
sheep should be roughage.
This carried on at the Iowa station also time—and she said if she did that
makes it possible to utilize large bear out the statement that full feed she’d be as ignorant as the old lady.
quantities of grain that would other ing of tankage on any kind of pasture
“ ‘An old lady,’ she said, ‘was visited
wise have very little value. They can Is advisable for growing shotes. In by a young art student just back from
also graze profitably on waste lands, the Nebraska tests, com was figured Paris.
fields, meadows, lanes and roadways.
" ‘ “Here’ s a French franc, ma’am,”
at 98 cents and tankage at $65 per ton.
Sheep benefit the land upon which With corn at $1.25 to $1.50, tankage said the art student, “ that I’ve brought
they run, In two ways, by keeping would show even a greater saving. you from Paris as a souvenir.”
down weeds and by Increasing the fer Of course tankage might go to such
“ ’The old lady looked at the coin
tility. Their value to soil fertility figure where it would be advisable to and frowned.
has been so generally recognized that limit the amount but at prevailing
“ ‘ “Oh, shucks,” she said. ‘T d
We have funds to supply your needs for
they have been called the Golden prices such is not the case.
rather ye’d brought me one o’ them
Hoof. They have an advantage over ' Other feeds like ground oats, ground there Latin quarters.” ’ ”
new buildings, land clearing, or new and ad
other common classes of farm live barley, shorts and hominy feed will no
stock because their lighter weight does doubt be used very extensively this
Rats in Fatal Tangle
ditional equipment. Or perhaps you have a
not pack the soil and also because summer, and the com can be made to
A group of fair-sized rats was the
their droppings are distributed to go much further by adding to
mortgage maturing in the near future.
first thing that Rev. Olney I. Darling
much better advantage.
ground oats, barley or shorts. If hom of Warren saw when he opened his
iny feed is fed it should be fed along hencoop, and Instead of a mad scram
with barley or oats.
ble at his intrusion, the rats were un
We loan on first mortgage security ex
sesfe¡erorererore'-#ero ow<e'.f**o > *:* * *
Marble and Granite
A Test Ev&y Man
Past 40 Should
Make
WILLAMETTE
VALLEY
Mortgage Loan Co.
Nature’s Kindness
Asked by her school teacher to de
Transferring Pigs
scribe the backbone, a schoolgirl said:
If another sow, with a small litter
"The backbone is something that holds farrowed about the same time as the
up the head and ribs and keeps one large litter, Is available, some o f the
from having legs clear up to the neck." pigs from the large litter can often
—Boston Transcript.
be transferred to the sow with the
small litter. .Seldom will any sow
Preserving Blankets
raise more than one pig to each teat
Blankets, when they have been successfully if all are allowed to re
washed and thoroughly dried, should main with her. Attempting to raise
be well beaten. This has the effect little pigs en cow’s milk right from
of making the wool light and soft, the start is of doubtful economy,
and giving the blankets a new and It requires more work than the pig
worth.
fresh appearance.
able to get away. Upon investigation,
Mr. Darling found their tails so tan
gled together that they could not free
themselves. The rats had entered the
coop through a hole, but the last one
had not been able to negotiate the
opening. Some one ventured the sug
gestion that the rats had tangled their
tails together so they could gain more
power to pull the unfortunate one
through the hole. Before killing the
pests, the minister called his house
keeper so that he might have a wit
ness to corroborate his story.—Boston
Gldbe.
clusively and will be glad to consider your
application.
We loan for three or five years at cur
rent rates.
Office at Aurora State Bank