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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1913)
1 Intermountain Tribune ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY BY T. L. DUGGER, EDITOR aND PROP SUBSCRIPTION, IN ADVANCE... .. .$1.25 AT END OF YEAR .......................... .... 1.50 SIX MONTHS ..................................... ......... 75 ADVERTISING RATES: 5c Display advertising, per inch..... 10c Display advertising, long time, see manager. Extended marriage or death notices per line..... ...... ............... ...... 3c Special rates on long time display advertising. T.neal advertising. ner line MAIL ORDER HOUSES There are a number of families in Sweet Home and vicinity, who are, occasional, patrons of mail order houses. Now in all candor, the Tribune believes that in so doing, you are making a serious mistake, both against yourself and your neighbor. In the first place, every dollar you send to the mail order house, espec ially if it be to Portland or Chicago, takes a dollar out of circulation in the Sweet Home country. Next, none of these mail order • houses you patronize pay a cent of taxes in Linn county. They do not help keep up roads, schools nor churches. If anybody in this locality is unfortunate and needs assistance, these people never contribute a dollar. If some public convenience which has to be created by public donatipn, the mail order house is never a contributor. Then, you are not treating your home merchant fairly, by thus send ing your cash away to another state. True, they cannot keep all the goods you require, because they do not have demand for them. Our home merchants will keep all the goods required, if they can sell them. Again, when you have the cash and order goods from Sears & Roe buck, you are cheeky to ask your home merchant to credit you when your cash is gone. As a matter of fact, the better trade our home merchants get, the better and more extensive stock of goods they can handle and the bet ter price they can pay for your farm produce. We take it for granted that eyery man and woman in Sweet Home and vicinity, dosire that Sweet Home shalb grow and become a better market for your butter, eggs, gar den truck, etc. It never will be un less one and all concentrate their efforts to build up trade in our • town. Of course mail order houses can and will sell a few cents cheaper than the home merchants. They can well, afford to. They require the cash strictly in advance and you have to take the goods they send you, be they good, bad or indiffer ent. They have no bad accounts, pay no money for charity, roads, schools or churches, except in their own towns. Besides, they do such an immense amount of business that they can afford to sell on a closer margin. If it pays you to buy from the mail order house, it will pay your neighbor to do the same and if everybody should follow your exam- ple, the home merchant would be forced to close his doors. Then you would be compelled to ship your own produce and buy all your family supplies from the same source. Of course, this would com pel you to have the cash when you order the goods and this is not al ways convenient. Figure it out anyway you can and the' patron of the mail order house is an enemy to his home community. He is doing something which blocks progress in all lines of business, holds down the price of his land and detracts from the building up 'of schools and churches. Think about these matters neigh bor! Of course the cheap prices offered by the mail order house, is tempting. You may think your purchase is small and of no conse quence. But, suppose' all of your neighbors do likewise. Cannot you see what will be the logical result? Patronize home farmers, mechan ics and merchants, should be the motto of every citizen in every community, Do not, for the sake of saving a few cents, do otherwise. If you do, you are simply working against your own interest, in the end. 1 the Interstate Commerce Commission has lead the railroad managers into the belief that the Commerce Com mission wants practically to run the land transportation lines, as evi denced by regulations provided for the parcel post, and the fixing of express and railread rates, as well as the investigations of wrecks. The complaining railroad companies are telling Washington that the methods of the Commerce Com mission point entirely to eventual government ownership. One of the new inventions that came along just ahead of the auto mobile and the moving picture and a few other common necessities of the time, was the cigarette. From government statistics it appears that over fourteen billion cigarettes were consumed in the United States during the last fiscal year. The HAPPY NEW YEAR revenue tax on cigarettes is con siderably over a million dollars a It is not necessary to say that the year. By the same figures it ap Tribune wishes its readers a happy pears that the use of whiskey in and prosperous New Year, to ex the United States has doubled in tend throughout the year. the last fifteen years. While the past year ' has been fairly prosperous to most people of No New 50 Cent Coins Sweet Home, the year just ahead promises to be more so than the More than $5,000,000 worth of past, if the weather should be bright new gold and silver pieces of reasonably favorable. 1913 mintage has been distributed We have fairly good prospects by the treasury department this for railway connection during the month to the banks throughout the year. If these prospects prove true country. and materialize early in the year, But there is one 1913 coin which we will have no cause to complain no one will receive. It is the 50 of business during the year. cent piece. None were minted this We have promise that a bank will year because the supply on hand be established in our town early in was sufficient to take care of all calls the coming season. We feel sure for that denomination. In this con that this promise will be realized. nection attention was called by Conditions are now such that one treasury officials to the fact that or more saloons (we are told two) the 50 cent piece is losing in popu are to be established in town. One larity and for the same reason as application is now in the hands of the $2 bill, namely, because of the •the city council. With two saloons, ease with which erroT in change is the city treasury will have, includ made, as compared with the quarter ing the city tax, near $3000. At or the $1 bill. It is believed that least $2500 of this amount can be in time the 5Q cent piece may go used for street improvement. This out altogether, as did two and three sum should place our main street in cent pieces and $3 gold coins. a fairly good condition. We are soon to have* electric Christmas Day Quiet lights. The poles from Foster to this city are now up and ready for the wires. The generating plant 'Christmas day in Sweet Home has been on the road from the east was a very quiet proposition. In for nearly one month and should be fact there is usually much more here any day. It will take but a travel on Sunday than occured on short time to install the plant, string that day. A public Christmas tree at the the wires, etc. It is hoped every body will give the plant the patron Lower church on Christmas eve and age it deserves. With the building and a dance at the hall seemed to of the railroad, a large sawmill furnish about the only cause for plant will be almost a necessity. In travel for the two days. While it is reported that there such case, it is more than probable that the plant will be located at or was plenty of booze in town, so far as the Tribune could learn, there neav Sweet Home. An adequate Water system is an was no disorder. However the Christmas spirit was obsolute necessity for Sweet Home. abroad and everybody presented a It is hoped that the new city council will take this matter up at once and happy countenance and, presumably, before the year is out, supply the they had a good time, i need. Another matter the new council should take up at once, is the build ing of a better and more uniform system of side and cross walks. Those we now have are a detriment to the progress of our town. So there is nothing discouraging in the outlook for Sweet Home. If every citizen will think progress and talk progress, and work together for progress, there is no reason why the year 1914 should not be the most prosperous in the history of Sweet Home. By pulling together, we can bring much of it about. Let us stop all contentions for selfish interests and work together for the general good of all. The Tribune extends New Years greetings with the hope that all our people will work with a . greater harmony during the coming year than in the past. We can accom plish results, if we work in harmony but nothing by oppo sing eachother Already the railroads are shaking in their boots, since the attitude of The greatest distance- at which an iceberg can be observed in clear weath er by day is eighteen miles. The av erage berg on an ordinary clear day ¿an be sighted from thirteen to sixteen miles from the ship: on a cloudy day from eleven to fourteen miles. In a slight fog bergs can be sighted at two miles; in a dense fog at 200 yards, tn bright moonlight they can be seen at two and one-half miles with the naked eye; In starlight at one mile, and at two miles distance with glasses. On a night overcast and dark, bnt with the horizon visible, bergs can be seen at a distance of one-half mile with Mortgage Loans Negotiated AHWjEYATLAW - Mortgage Leans Negotiated Lebanon, Ore. Notary Pnblic N. M. NEWPORT 'Attorney at Law (CITY ATTORNEY) LEBANON I have 30 suits of boys and clothing, retail price $7 to per suit. To close them these suits will be sold at OREGON lads $20 out just ONE-HALF THE ABOVE PRICES Now is the time to fit your boy out with school suits — We also carry a complete line oi ■ ■= General Merchandise, Groceries, Hardware, Etc. If you will come in and see me, we will do business. J. M. COWDREY Sweet Home - Oregon - Subscribe for the Intermountain Tribune AND BUY YOUR Groceries OF THE Lebanon Supply Co. EXCLUSIVE GROCERS Lebanon I I I I I s I I I I A V - - Oregon - S. C. STEWART President W. M. BROWN, Vice Pres. J. M. STEWART Vice Pres. . CLARENCE INGRAM Cash. T. D. O’BRIEN,. Assistant Cashier A V fhe Lebanon National Bank A V A V A A V A V A V A V I I I I I I I I A V A V LEBANON, OREGON A o v We do a general banking business We pay interest on time deposits We have safety deposit boxes to rent We want your business and will treat you in a manner to deserve it. 0 0 Notice of Hearing of Foal Account * Notary Poblie B. H. CHESS Office en Main St.. Slaughter in Boys Suits Notice is hereby given that the final account of Oliver McClure as Executor and of Nora Coleman as Executrix respectively of the last will and testament and of the estate of Andrew J. McClure deceased, has been filed in the County Court of Linn County, State of Oregon, and. that the 19th day of January, 1914, at the hour of 10 o’clock a. m. has been duly appointed by said Court for the hearing of objection^ to said final account and the settlement thereof, at which time' any person interested in said estate may appear and file objections .thereto in writing and contest the same. 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