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Aurora Observer $1.50 a Year Published Every Thursday VOL. Sugar Beets Raising Obituary j K E R N E L S AND Beets beet most o f the farmproducts fos a cash profit. Jack Sadler end Geo fifclen accompanied E. R. Robinson ■ to Salem Monday night to a mass meet ing to discuss sugar beets raising in the Willamette Valley, Mr, Dodson, Manager Portland Cham ber of Commerce, gave a brief history o f the beet industry in Oregon. Mr. Lamb, of the Idaho-Utah Sugar Co., with a plant in Bellingham, Wash., gave some interesting figures. The proposition is this: They want 1000 to 1500 acres o f beets planted in the valley this year in units from 3 to 5 acres, and only under the best [conditions 10 acres. They will pay the same for the 1927 crop F O B cars in the valley that they paid in Washington this year, namely $6,00 per ton, plus a bonus, if sugar goes over $6.00 per hundred pounds. An investigation, by Portland Cham ber o f Commerce by a man sent from Portland, obtained .these facts: 29 growers investigated. 13 had suf ficient data to get reliable results. Average market value o f land raising beets, $300.00 per acre, average acreage per farm 11J acres, average tonnage per acre 17, price per ton $6.43 at sugar plant, 9 out o f the 13 farms hire no help. 4 hire some help, 12 out o f the 13 expects to continue raising beets and are well pleased with the returns. Net returns better than other crops, and is a great help in dairing from the by products. Nationality of the farmers: 10 Amer icans, 2 Hollanders and 1 Norwegian. Beet tops for cow feed causes a 10 , per cent increase in milk production. Cost of production per acre: Plow ing, harrowing, seeding, fertilizer, cul tivating, weeding, harvesting, and haul ing to factory, or depot, $56.68 per acre. This is the actual cost, hiring all ¿help, Total income per acre 17 tons, $107.31, Total cost o f production, as per above, $56.68, ^Left for prqfit, taxes anti* ground rent; $50.63, This crop is as near a sure crop as a* farmer can put in, if it is planted early, ahd attains a fair size before the dry weather. It will be more or less dorm ant during dry weather and as soon as the rain start in the fall, they will grow again and increase the tonnage per acre. The writer believes it will be a good rotative orop for flax, potatoes and clover and a great deal more remune rative than wheats or oats. It works in fine with dairing. We think enough o f it that we in the near future will call a mass meeting in Au rora for the farmers. Definite and re liable information will be furnished and contracts signed up. The Aurora Com munity Club and all the commercial bodies in the small and large cities will do all they can to help you find a pro fitable crop. The passing o f Mary Alice Bird Knapp comes as a shock to the many friends and relatives who have known and loved her for her sunny disposition and unselfish devotion to the interests of others. Less than a fortnight ago, she was apparently in her usual active joyous spirit and health. Failing to rally from a minor operation, she quietly passed away in Portland at the home o f her sister-in-law, Mrs. E. R. Morgan, Sun day evening, November 21. Born in New Haven, Vermont, she later moved to Middlebury, Vermont, where she lived until her marriage, in 1905, to George E. Knapp, of Seattle, Wash. Since her marriage she has lived in Seattle and Goldendale, Wash ington. until the family moved to Au rora, Oregon, four years ago, - - - f IS:* '. ‘«E M B ER ' .S Y S TE M ^ ) The present day means o f locomotion makes us neighbors. I Short Stories of the Town Picked up Here and There Some Serious, Others Humerous Mrs, Blane was a Canby visitor Mon H. L. Bents o f Newberg was in Au rora Monday transacting business. day. Charles Gosser was one o f the lucky Come to the Camp Fire Girls’ Novel boys of Aurora to win a nice Thanks ty sale Saturday. Dec. 4. 2 p. m. at the giving Turkey at the Turkey Shoot in Presbyterian Church. 47-Stc Canby Sunday. Mrs. McAllister and son are spending Anna Howe was visiting Mrs. Albert Thanksgiving with Mrs. McAllister’s Yoder Sunday. mother in Seattle. Mr, Gee. Ehlen was a Portland visitor Friday. What a difference it makes in our feeling toward each other. We are not only close in distance, but in personal interest and in sympathy with the things that are of benefit to you. We are striving every day to improve our services and be o f greater benefit to our own Mr. Sadler, Geo. Ehlen and E. G. Robinson attended the Commercial Knights of Pythians have Card Party meeting in Salem Monday evening in interest o f the beet raising. “ The Knight o f Pythians, after the regular routine of business Friday ev ening last week, enjoyed the evening Help yourself and the Camp Fire playing cardb, twenty-five members be Girls by coming to their novelty sale. ing present. Mr. Schwab captured the 47-2tc prize. Light refreshments were served. Adam Steinback. nephew o f Wm. Next Friday there will be another ev Miiey, was in town last week from ening o f amusement. Be sure and come Portland, shaking hands with friends out. and relatives. Your satisfaction is our effort. Peter Sannes spent Sunday afternoon in Portland. OF AURORA Mrs. Clarence Thompson and Mrs. Waldo Brown are entertaining the Wo men’s club and their husbands at a “ 500” party at the country home o f Mrs. Brown. These club card parties have bocome a feature o f the social part o f the club work and are meeting with a hearty response from the memb ers. The woman’s Improvement club met at the home o f Mrs. E. Erickson Wed nesday afternoon, the following memb ers being present: Mesdames Mack, Cleave, Garland, Smith, Marsten, Gimps, Thompson, Carl, Pimbler, Mil ler, Erickson and de Lespinasse. Three membars were added at this meeting, Mesdames Cassidy, Jackson and Cole man, making the club membership 32. The program response to roll call names o f famous women authors and an in teresting talk was given by Mrs. Cleav er on King >Tut, Tbe library committee chairman, Mrs. Garland, reported that arrangements had been made with the mayor, Dr. de Lespinasse, to address the community at a public meeting on Monday, November 29, when the parent- teacher association will sponsor an ev enings program for the purpose o f arousing interest in a community hall and library. It is hoped that the town hall will be filled to capacity that night. The next club meeting will be held at the home o f Mrs. Julius Stauffer on December 9. Mrs. Ericksen was as sisted by Mrs. Marsten in serving re freshments. 301 2 3-4 Mrs. Clara Viel and Florence Viel were visiting Henry Ziegler's Sunday. ©ttv SUrat National Sank The writer of these lines arrived in this community only a few months ago. It has been my destiny to wander far and wide on tllis earth, from the time I as a young man left my home in Nor way, traveling first through many of the countaies o f Europe and then over the Atlantic and across this continent, stopping in several places for a shorter or longer period, until I finally located here. On our journey through “ life’s dreary path” we meet with people of far different dispositions and conditions o f most unequal variety, some people happy and satisfied under [prosperous surroundings, some restless and pessi mistic uuder unfavorable environments, all striving to obtain Fortuna’s favor, to attain life’s fanciful affiuence. The first thing that impressed me af ter my arrival here was the sentiment o f some of the people o f the locality to ward the ultra-conservative tendencies of some o f the individuals o f the com munity. They told me, this is an old religious colony site, and that the lead er,of the colony had warned his follow ers against intruders and “ not let the wolf in among the sheep,” And this admonition had so taken hold o f the people in the early days that it became a veritable community spirit, and that this community spirit still lingered and served as an obstruction to progress. It is a very commendable truism in a religious sense not to let the “ wolf m among the sheep,” but when it comes to building up a community, precon ceived ideas about what is best for the people o f the community should retract and let an unprejudiced sentiment to ward new ideas and possibilities govern the people o f Aurora. M orri ^ O ptical C o . Aurora Lutheran Church home people. Hubbard Notes The Hubbard band orchestra com posed o f Dr, de Lespinasse, Clarence Bevens, Franklin de Lespinasse, Clark Will, Marie and Mrs. de Lespinasse, played at the Clackamas county con ■Today is Thanksgiving Day, a day set vention o f the Odd Fellows and Rebek- aside by the President o f the United ahs at Needy Saturday. States to offer up thanksgiving to God The situation in the Hubbard schools for received blessings during the past is different from what it has been for year. The people o f this community have a reason to be thantcful for re some time. All the rooms are crowded ceived benefits, ^ o failuw^or disasljei'' to efrpadity an<5 jfcew enrollments iii-e1 has happened during the past year, being added Weekly. In the high school there has been an abundance o f every rooms the seating capacity has reached thing that goes to make life easy, and the limit and two more pupils are com when we consider that so many people ing in shortly. It is clearly seen that and communities in different parts of Hubbard will have to make up its mind the county and the globe are in want to build either additional class rooms or of the necessities and commodities o f a separate high school unit. In her re life on account o f crop failure and nat cent visit to the school Mrs. Mary L. ural disasters, we should indeed be ani Fulkerson, county superintendent, ex mated with thankfulnes. And let us pressed herself as being pleased with hope that the growing generation in the growth and the administration of our community ypill have an open mind the school. Hubbard is growing fast for progress and development, and may and something will have to be done to good feeling and kind regards more and take care o f the increase o f pupils. It is expected that a meeting will be cal more be manifested in our people. And led to discus the situation. let us not forget that the most essential and only enduring wealth is not dollars and cents, is not material blessings, PATRONIZE ORE ADVERTISERS but the enrichments o f the inner man, the glorious opportunities in the realm O U R 6 L A S 5 E S - of the unseen, an unstinted approach to AH that AB that Florence Preston is borne from school Him, to whom the people o f the United Science Artistry Mrs, Helen Rooklidge will leave States today gather to offer up thanks. on account o f illness. catißiye catiadiL shortly for Los Angeles where she will spend the winter and rest up. She has Mrs. E. W. Bird and Mrs. A. H. Ed White made a business trip to made all arrangements for completing - - OredonSfidg^SdletnO t Sperry, o f Spokane, are spending a few the work on the Missouri Inn. Portland Saturday. Dr.ltEM orris brAM ^ufloch days in Aurora with Margaret Knapp. G. A. Ehlen who had the misfortune Sidonie Nordhaus n attended the to have his safe stolen last week, re wedding o f Melvin Rueck and Freda covered all his books and papers Thurs Gabrick at the Artisan Hall in Canby day morning last week, a few days af Saturday night. ter the theft. The safe was found near a church close to Newberg, It had I f you need reading glasses, see Piper been broken open and the contents the jeweler at Woodburn. 39-tfc scattered. The old Studebaker car carrying a California license used to transport the safe, was found aband Mr. and Mrs. John Carpentar and oned. -The thieves had apparently run family, of Salem, were visiting Mrs. out o f gas and left that car probably Carpentar Sunday. finding one more to their liking a little way down the street. F ederal reserve Thanksgiving CRU M BS Mr. Flannery took Katherin Flan nery, Florence Preston and Hazel Stein- hoff to a Glee Club party at Monitor Mrs. Knapp is survived by her hus Theoda Gribble spent the week end Friday evening. band, George E.' Knapp, her daughter, in Portland visiting relatives, Margaret Knapp, who is a student at the University o f Oregon,, her mother, Mrs. Hockins and son o f Newport are Mrs. E. W. Bird, "her sister, Mrs, Al Mrs. Grazer was a Portland visitor -spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. bert Sperry, and her two brothers Er Sautrday, her daughter Loraine re Asquith. nest Bird and Harold Bird,—the sister turning home to spend the week end. and brothers being residents o f Spo The ; Aurora school started serving kane, Washington. hot soup Monday for lunch. This makes She became a member o f the Con Let Piper fix your watch. He will it necessary for parents to see that the gregational church when a girl and has make it keep time. 39-tfc children are supplied with bowl and been actively interested in women’s spoon. club work for a number o f years. At the time of her passing she was a mem Henry Ziegler was m Portland on ber o f the Aurora Woman’s Club. There will be a meeting in Wilson- business Friday. Funeral services were conducted in ville Dec, 2 at 6:30. Dinner will be Portland by the Reverend C. S, Dunn served, and a discussion o f procuring o f the Kenton United Presbyterian Miss Tillie Fry and Mrs, Carpentar a highway from Wilsonville to Aurora. Church, Tuesday, N ovember twenty- Auror4 should be interested. E. G. were Portland visitors Tuesday. third, with interment in the Aurora Robinson will attend. How about cemetery. others? Bearers were the two brothers of Mrs. George Kraus has been spend Mrs, Knapp, Edwin L. Knapp of Eu ing a few days on the farm with Mrs. Mrs. Leonard Coon is back on her job gene, and Mr. Arthur Kraus and Mr. John Kraus. at the cafe after an illness, which kept Louis W eb ertof Aurora.—A Close her in bed for three weeks. Friend. Mrs. Preston and family and Mrs. Anderson and Dan Anderson are spend . Owing to the absence „from the. office ing Thanksgiving in Bend with Mr. Card of Thanks i <. ■Mrs. • GiWjrm... f i Ibis' week" of the! editor, Mr. Arthur Kraus and Mrs, Geo. Ziegler kindly We wish to express our heart-felt helped to supply the local news, for thanks to our friends and neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Wade Robbins o f Ore which we expres our appreciation. who extended to Us their sympathy and gon City were guests o f Mr. ahd Mrs. so many acts of kindness in our great Geo. Ziegler Saturday and Sunday. bereavement, and to voice our appre Try the following addition: The year ciation of the many tokens o f esteem you was born, your age, the year you for the one we held most dear. Buy Chsistmas gifts, cakes and home was married, how many years you have G eorge E. K napp . made candy at the Camp Fire Girls’ been married. The sum will be 3852, M argaret A. K napp . sale Dec. 4, at the Presbyterian church. M rs . E. W. B ird . 47->2tc M rs , A. H. S perry . We arein recipt o f a sizeable box E rnest B. B ird . Mrs. Albert Ehlen was an Oregon of fine Dellmoor cranberries from the H arold R. B ird , marsh lands of the Clatsop County, City visitor Monday, with the compliments o f the publisher o f the Morning Astorian. These are The Aurora Health Center Miss Georgia Kraus is spending the the cranberries which make that county famous and we appreciate the chance week in Portland with her sister. to test them out this Thanksgiving Day. You should see the Health Center rooms over the post office. They have been nicely painted lately. Mr, As quith donated his services and painted wo of the rooms, and Mr. Quinn o f So watch for the announcement of Donald painted two o f the rooms. Tht our mass meeting for you Mr. Farmer. people o f the community are very grateful for this generous donation Aurora Commercial Club By E. G, Robinson, President. to so worthy a cause. « N 0.47 AURORA. MARION COUNTY, OREGON. NOVEMBER 25, 1926 XV. 26 cows will be sold at auction Tues day, Nov. 30, at 1 p. m., at Ratcliff barn, Woodburn. Ore. See classified ad. Buy your Christmas novelties at the Camp Fire Girls’ sale. 47-2te Sunday School at 9:30. Be sure S attend the acult Bible class. Teacher Peter Sannes. The Catechism class also meets of Sundays now. It is hoped that all the children will be present. Also .1 wish to give out the selections for Christmas and to have the- Sunday school practice a number o f songs. English service at 10:30 and German service at 11:30. The public is cordi ally welcome. W m , S choeler , *EMBER^ Z<FEDERAL RESER ^SYSTEM, WISE Why take risks with important documents when you can have a box in our fire and burglar-proof vault. You may have some notes that are your only security for money loaned, and if your house or office bums, you are up against trouble, as it might be difficult to prove that the makers owed you anything. AURORA STATE BANK AURORA, OREGON