FR ID AY. FE B R U A R Y 14. 1»30
THE
BEAVERTON
ENTERPRISE
PACE 2
svas greater than the average urban
income.
Th e figures for forty-fou r farms
H. H. JEFFRIES. Pubii.h«
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! expense of $3,545 a year, und after
E d itoria l1 allowing for operator’s and family
and
Oregon
S
ta
ir
Association
Member
National Editori i l
! unpaid labor, left an income o f $2
A s s o c ia t io n
528. The same survey covered 345
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included in the income per family
ashington county end western Mult- total income for all members earn­
of
eastern
V
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Complete coverage
nomati county
ing wages and not just the head of
the family.
Th e data showed thut
of the 345 families, fifty-th ree per
PubHshed Friday of each week b, Pioneer Publishing Co. at Beaverton.
cent had incomes under $2,000 a
year and eighty-one per cent had in­
Ore.
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comes under $3,000 a year.
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a, the postoffice at Beaverton. Oregon.
Thtki
survey
ulso
covered
the
Entered as see »nd class matter at the po
equipment of farm homes o f 412
under the act of Congress of March X 1 8 * ______________
farms.
The
following
figures re-
resulted from the tabulation o f these
advance; advertising rate» on application investigations:
Subscription price, $1 50 a year in
11%
have
individual 1 i g h t i n g
I
plants.
23% have electricity
from power
Beaverton Office. Broackvay near O E tracks. Phone 7503
lines,
66%
have wtiter in the kitchen,
Portland Office, 407-408 Dekuin Building, Phone A T w a te r 5914
27% have running water at sink,
20%
have
bathroom w'ith
run­
until our present law * could be
DANGEROUS HOUSE PETS.
ning r.vater,
changed or amended we would cf-
43% have furnace heat,
Newspaprrs throughout the coun- feet quite a saving in gasoline taxes.
77% have
gasoline
or kerosene
try have been making much over the
Automobile
engineers
axe
frank
cook stoves,
discovery of the
nuv disease called in saying that there is no rtuson
3% have electric cookstoves.
“ parrot feverj;’ It is said to be to scoff at the attempt being made
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TH E BEA V ERTO N E N T E R P R IS E
« mrnvon among
parrot*,
jrct •»»*/ to b“»ld a Diesel engine
for anto
Uas 1 ax Increased
Gradually Each Year
contracted
by humans who may use. In fact they intimate that there
handle them A number of deaths are pine a n u m b e r
o f « » s o n s for
have been attributed to it in var- believing it will be successfully <!«.n«
■ „ ,,,.r ,;r,ns
within the ytar. So successful have
W e often wonder in considering experiment, along this line proven
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opts ,eaMered "n homes
if up to this time that
it really gives
house
pets scatterm in nomn,
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some of the^e anintils that
ved so us something to think about. And
some oj me i .uimwis •
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close to man do
not have diseases the figures furnished us as to the
that we know nothing about which cost o f such power, once it I, in
may not attract
attention and yet general use, giv e , us something
new
.
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.
In.v<‘ n" ™ o f » rlcw ta* » a1^
a <lan« frou * ,hm«- cven
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may often be necessary A ft e r
the
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ground is broken and the (tax is laid
. a tendency to Increase it
M
uf
th
%
increaHes
’
im|||)sed This |# indicatcd by
the
which may. when
transmitted to hu- to hope t o r . ___ _________
gasoline tax.
Rarely 10 years old. it
mans, prove serious. It is generally he-
has coni;e jnfo such tvi(le popularity
popularity
lieved among doctors that ctits carry•
Now that
iiiu i »j»»
spring is not far hway tis a means o f raising revenue than
diphtheria, and it has been proved .( mj^ht be we
to remember that today a gas tax is levied in every
that the mosquito carries the germ •■pajnt.Up vVeek
was not intended state in the union.
of yellow fever into the huuim
solely for the flappers.
; In 30 states the rate is now 4c a
body, and also the germ o f ague.
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gallon or more, and from $1(K).(XK),-
W e love pets, and (we feel that
Broadcasting sessions o f Congress ' 000 raised in this manner in 1925.
there is something fine missing out
would be a good way to make us the total tuken from the pockets of
of the makeup o f anyone who does better satisfied svith our present motorists rose to $500,000,000 in 1929
not. But cven our regard for them rtidio programs.
W e hear no specific complaints from J
cannot blind us to the fact that
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! motorists
around this
vicinity be-
they should he wtitchcd more closely
The difference between a w ife and cause they
believe the taxation of
S P E CI A L TRAVEL B A R G A I N
ST. V A L E N T IN E ’S
DAY
Portland
to
Here is an unusual opportunity to save
money. This ticket is good for travel on
day coaches and in tourist sleeping cars.
Take advantage ot this low fare and
plan your trip to I.os Angeles now.
Enjoy Greater Speed and Comfort
Reclining chairs in day coaches pro­
vide maximum comfort. There's always
plenty o f room on the train to rest and
w alk about. Tourist sleepers give still
greater comfort, yet they are economical.
You save time, too.
Up from the south at the hit-al< of morn.
Over the enow by the south wind bor ne.
Steals like the dawn or a eweel perfume
Prom se of summer with bird and bloom.
This is ths month when the banks of snow
Gurgle in streams lo the rivers below.
Ib is is the month of the mating moon.
Brooding new U.'e that shall wake in June.
C !5 Portland to
San Francisco
For further information and reserva­
tions phone or call at a..’dress below,
or see your lucal in hel agent.
Down on the shores ot the southern atrtam
Wild bir.’s ere chanting the deathless theme.
Voices of black bird, of w.-en, and dova
Warble the song of nest snJ love,
Eo.-ne by the breath of the southern breeze.
So n they W . l l brood in the northern trees.
F.arh one will croon, from his tree or vine,
Cove-ladened lays to his ValenUne.
Southern Pacific
C. E. Allen, Agent
Come, lone’y heart, put ycur sorrows away—
This is the month of S*. Valentine's day,
Why should you pine in ycur gloom apart—
No one to love you and '.all you sweetheai« f
Catch in your bosom the spirit of Spring;
Ceme, join the chorus ot lovers who sing.
Maids In despair now in sadness repine.
Waiting tl.a call of St. Valentine.
— The Woodmen News.
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V alen tin e Custom s an d
Superstitions o f O ld
There were certain superstitious dur-
mg early times which now seem en-
tirely to have passed away. For In-
atutioe, If a young girl, on the eve of
St. Valentine day, went alone und
than they are for the appearance o f | a barbcr ¡s a barber always asks gasoline was originally justified. But waited until midnight <xi the porch of
disease, and given more careful at­ you what you’ re going to have in- the practice o f steadily increasing it, ■' church, then started for home, scat-
tention in the matter of eleanliues». stead o f telling you
whtit you’re jumping it u cent or two every year tlli|ig hempseed on the way, It was
W e htive no means o f knowing how
belleved site would see her own true
going to do.
( or so, is certain to call forth a wide- '
love In a winding sheet raking the
many cases of illness might be pre­
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and strenuous
protest.
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humpsecd behind her.
Why he was
vented if this plan was more genfc
Unly the prosperous can dispute a roads are built and paid for, and as
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supposed to be seen in a winding sheet
erally carried out, but we do know
crossing with a locomotive, but any*- the gas tax reaches the point where ,ms no( beef) exp|alne«l.
that it would be a far more senst-
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.. | b o d y can slide out where the ice is it is bringing in enough to take care
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ble thing to do than to wait until
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Another superstition was most In-
• l ,h,n*
l o f ,he'^ increases should cease. Czas-1 tereBtlnj, ,f a yuung glr, got tive buy
tin epidemic was traced to the ani- !
oliue is not always going to he as |,,aves and pinned one on each of the
mal and thin have to stage a whole
Airplanes may be as safe as autos, cheap as it is now, and when it' f,,ur corners of her pillow the remain-
PRINTING
O F E V E R Y D E S C R IP T IO N
PIONEER PR INTIN G & S T A T IO N E R Y CO.
408 Dekuin
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W.
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started the delivery o f the telephone
bo>>ks— Portland’ s semi-annual "best-1
from ti slight attack o f pneumonia.
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Paul E. Hedcen was confined to sellers.
I he job
was
scheduled
his home Sunday and Monday with *°
be
completed
Friday.
Dick Nokes has not been able to a ** vere « M -
go to Tigard Hi since last Thursday
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Bob Davis. Darcy and Bobby Dob-
-7 7
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The t harles (S lim ) Myers family
are again located in their home on
Boones Ferry Trail Road near Jean
station Mj-. Myers wtis in the hos-
(■m ittl at McMinnville for several
months on account of his foot being
severely crushed in a logging camp.
H e thinks he will be able to work
again very soon.
*1>n iW fr*‘ among those iwho enjoyed
the D eM oss musical program in Tuu-
latin Tuesday evening
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IJie ¡.»ren t leacher association will
gise a
Founders’ Day” program at
the
school
house next
Thursikty
cven-ing.
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FARM INCOME STUDIED
Miss Ogden and Miss Parks were
dinner guests at the Dobson home
Tuesday evening.
Survey
Brings to Light
Many
Thomas
Cabe and Jessie
W illiam s
have been absent
school on account o f sickness.
Old directories are being picked up
,hls ,lmc by ,b‘‘ deliverymen, ti pre-
caution taken by the telephone com-
p.my to avoid the possible use on
the part o f customers of obsolete
telephone numbers.
Thousands o f new telephone mini-
hers and telephone changes are listed
in the new directory.
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&
survey of farm and urban in­
comes conducted by the Agricultural
Mrs. Janies Nokes and H r s C. H Experiment Station of the L'nu.r
M yers are still on the sick list.
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'* bring! to light the mi J ’
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i w t t a t fact that the average farm- o
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V,
PILES
and Associated Disorders
are a form of
VARICOSE
VEINS
which can be successfuffy treated
without surgery, pain or loss of tune
from routine activity in much the
same manner as varicose veins a n l
ulcers located elsewhere are treated
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P ortland . Oregon
V V V V W A V VW W A W W
Ti'eth
\| i>earance,
the
Cause
present
by
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M O R T IC IA N
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OF THE T IM E
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are Lower
Thompson Optical Co.
t f l “ ■ ' I M 0 04QH I
Portland, Oregon
5th and Morrison Sts
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and
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NOW
for the First Time
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Goodyear
Tire Values !
HIGH PRESSURE
BALLOON
30x3 ' 2 regular
$4.95
$6.59
29x4.40
$5.79
29x4.55
$6.55
30x4.50
OTHER SIZES IN PR O PO RTIO N
checks a Cold the first
checks H a la ru in three
days.
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$5.10
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W hen in the city take advant­
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WE
CO R D IALLY
IN V IT E
YOU
TO
INSPECT
TH E
Comfort of our R«-Furnished
Offices
Meanwhile, the pretty valentines—
a || hearts, paper lace and cupids—
seem to grow finer each year. Beautl-
fill hand-painted cards anil painted and
beautifully decorated boxes for con-
fectlons are sold In great numbers.
Not the least Interesting of the pres-
cut day valentines are the various and
numerous assortments o f packages
filled with all the pnrnphernnlla rend.v
to he naaembled Into lovely valentines
which children love to prepare for
their teachers, friends and family. A s
It bus now become more a day for
children than for grown-ups, these
packages afford much pleasure to the
semler and to the recipient.
402 Orphrum Thaatrr Bldg
BF.acon MJS
Portland
SPECIALISTS IN
AUTO WRECK WORK
AND
MOTOR OVERHAULING
PEGG
P1" '111" ’» made heeause of those fre-
quently offensive missives being sent
with malice aforethought.
DISEASE CANNOT S T A R T « *
IN
A
CLEAN
MOUTH
A
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your
moving
Disease.
lnt«roatin( Facts
Jean
from
Have
Healthy
t M r V° KUe- There ls no ,loul,t th,,t
m,,ny. fr,e," 1ish,'/s 'v,‘ re *p'ered and
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BEAVERTON,
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DURHAM
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«R E G O N
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’ t,’ '! î)Ut. !cw rUr* Mroul<l co,,i(,e if thfy jumps in price the additional tax i- |ng one to be placed
In thè center, and
pin
has bad four ways in which to dodge.
going to work a hardship on millions if that night her sweetheart appeared
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| o f motorists.
W ith these considet- In her dreams they would be married
A N ew York gfrl found $2000 on ations to he reckoned with our legis- 1 before tbe end o f tbe year,
the street', returned it, and won a lators should be content to let the
It Is written of one young lady of
CHEAPER CAR FUEL.
husband. Which proves to girls that tax rest svhere it is, or lower it If those times that she confessed, tn or-
Motorists who find the purchase
can’t be too careful about what they can’ t see the wisdom of doing der to make the charm more potent,
of gasoline a lurdcn will be among 1 ,hry »>ick “ P
'*>c street.
! so, then they deserve to be kept at to having boiled an egg perfectly hard,
the most interested citucns in th e'
,
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home and others sent to the capita' removed the yolk, tilled the vacant
About the only improvement left who can look that far hhead.
place with salt and. upon going to bed,
country in a report ih
___ >t there
____ is
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I eaten the entire egg, salt, shell and nil,
early promise of applying the Diesel l>r
‘’ " r y cord^ to ^put on his cars
is spurs to help them climb tele- N e w T e l e n h n n e R o n U s
drinklnR ° r 8peaking t0 anv
principle to passenger car fueling.
phone poles
IN e w 1 e ie D n o n e BOOKS
one after she had finished the eating
of ,t_
W e read that n six-cylinder car
Put in Circulation
recently made a 792-tnilc trip on
But the really, truly way to find out
W hat would l*»ve happened if hoop
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$138 worth of fuel oil. A t that rate
the name of your owu true love was
Approximately
80,0(X1 alphabetical
a car could run from New York to skirts and rumble scats had occur-
to write the name o f all your admir­ A
listings, exclusive of the classified ers upon hits o f paper, roll them up in
San Francisco nt a cost o f $840. red in the same generation.
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' section.
T o get the same results from gas a
clay, put them In a vessel of water
Many
re-
Such are just a few o f the high- and the first one to rise to the sur-
congressmen
seeking
re -'
gallon o f it would have to run the
car 1 JO miles and w ho ever heard election this year will have to stutter I'*'*1*'' ° I
hebruary, 1930, issue of face was surely the one.
tell o f anything like that? If the w'hen they tell the farmers how lk,‘ hrown'-covered Portland
tele-
The practice of sending comic val-
Diescl principle cbn be made prac- | much they have helped them.
phone directory, being delivered this en tines is a much later one.
These
tical for all types o f passenger
cars
week by
the 1 untie Telephone and caricatures which poked fun at peo-
w r are due for nothing less
than
A fte r being
engaged 26 years,
a Tr|cgraph
company. More than 126,- pie’s personal appearance, their clothes
an
industrial revolution. For one Missouri nun married at the
age of
copies o f the
directory were nni' even the work In which they were
engaged had their greatest popularity I*
tiling, we would never have to worry 9| But you ’ll have to admit that he l'r' n,c,L
•>
Fortu- V
about u shortage of gasoline. And t put up a good fight.
I Aided by .10 trucks and a fleet o f Perh,,fa 40 or 50 ypars « 8 0 .
they now seem to have lost
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Bldg.—Third at Washington St,
PORTLAND.
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* ^ ' since
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the ease
parrot fi ver
developed.
motorcvclcs. 8.5 uniformed messengers
$ 1.50
BUSINESS
CARDS
t.. .issa Cupid In Training
♦hooting Match.
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Hit
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BEAVERTO N.
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