GRESHAM
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T h e “M o n e y S to r e ”
A modern bank Is a great deal like a general store In some
respects. Its lines are varied. It caters to everybody, and every
line of business.
We have som ething that everybody wants. We do not wrap
our goods in packages but we deliver them just the same. We do
no refer to money alone, although that is our principal stock in
trade. We can render som e service to everybody. W hether it is
financing a huge m anufacturing concern or loaning Johnnie enough
money to buy a calf, we are here to deliver the goods. We urge
you to come in and look over our lines. We can serve you well.
BANK
O F G R E SH A M
A. F. M ILLER , P resid en t.
K. A. M ILLER . C ashier.
W. E. MAKKELL, Vice President.
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A u c tio n
S a le
AT GRESHAM, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 3
All persons having articles for sale for February 3, 1917,
please mail a list of the same or see any of the merchants of
Gresham before the 30th of this month.
Produce buyers will attend and it will be a good chance
to sell your spuds, which will be sold by sample.
Any further information call or address,
0. A. EASTMAN, Sales Manager
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SANDY BLUFF
LUSTED
Fred Radford was in Portland on
business last Saturday.
Carrie Brook has been quite sick
with the grip.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Ault and chil
dren, Albert and Zaidee, spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Haworth and
family.
Mr. Hengstler has about completed
a fine new house on his place.
Mr. Ault sold som e of his cattle to
Tommie Dunn.
Most of the farm ers In this vicin
ity have sold their potatoes.
Aaron Knighton, of Gresham, Is
occupying the cottage owned by G.
Lusted. The former has a contract
of hauling wood from llie McDonald
place for a Portland firm. He is de
livering to Mabery station.
Earl
Ham ilton
and
daughter
Jean, of Portland, visited his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ham il
ton one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Matnew Rauw visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carlton in
Portland last Sunday.
Mrs. R. Neibauer is quite sick with
the grip.
Now Is a good tim e to prepare
your grain seed for this spring’s
planting. Good seed, even at a sligh t
ly higher price than that asked for a
poorer quality, is a good investm ent.
Do not plant any seed that you are
It costs just as much to sow and raise
a crop from poor seed as it does to not sure about. You are entitled to
use good seed. Any Increase in yield five purity and ten germ ination tests
of your seed at the seed testing lab
will be practically all profit.
oratory of the Oregon Agricultural
Bad H abits.
College free of charge. Make use of
Those who breakfast at 8 o'clock your opportunities. Mail a sample of
or later, lunch at 12 and have dinner your seeds to Seed Testing Labora
at 6 are alm ost certain to be troubled
with Indigestion. They do not allow tory, Oregon Agricultural College,
tim e for one meal to digest before Corvallis, Oregon, together with a
taking another. Not less than five written request for the tests desired,
hours Bhould- elapse between meals. or bring them to the office of the
If you are troubled with indigestion
correct your habits and take Cham county agent.
berlain’s Tablets, and you may rea
Fifty-five m iles in five hours is the
sonably hope for a quick recovery.
These tablets strengthen the stom remarkable record recently estab
ach and enable It to perform its lished by Slbernian huskies drawing
functions naturally. Obtainable ev
a sledge over Ice.
eryw here.— Ad.
The A. B. ELLIOTT CO.
of Powell Valley
P. 0. Gresham R, No. 2,
was Established in 1883 Thirty-three Years Ago, by A. B. Elliott.
Who expects to sell out or retire from business in the next year oi
two and has reduced prices in many lines and will continue to have
prices that will save you money.
Greatly Reduced Prices
14 lha. F ru it S ugar fo r ..............$ 1 .0 0
» lb. sack A lbers B ros. Peacock
p ure KoBed O ats.....................
40c
Corn an d T om atoes, 8 c a n s............ 25c
B on A m i and N apolio, ea c h ............ 8c
Ivory Soap, lau n d ry s iz e — ........ 8c
W h ite W onder Soap, 6 b a rs.... 26c
C rystal W hite, 6 b ars................. 2 5 c
Mt- H ood B orax, 6 b ars.............. 25c
S w ift's N ap th a Soap, 6 bars ... 25c
Happy Day Soap, 8 b ars............ 25c
G olden S tar Soap, 8 b ars____
25c
B aby K le p lia n t s o a p , 6 bars ... 25c
F els N aptha Soap, 10 b ars....... 45c
D utch C lean ser........ ......... ..............
8c
F a iry Soap, 0 b ars........................... 26c
D ew Drop W ashing P ow d er,
la rg e siz e ...................................... 15«
C itrus W ashing P ow d er, large
siz e ................................... - ............ 20«
Arm A H am m er S«>da-..................... 5c
S m all W h ite and L arge W hite
B ean s a t p ou n d .............................. 10
P en n a n t S h o rten in g , m edium
an d la rg e size p ails, 00« and $1.75
K rin k ie Corn F la k es, 3 for......
25«
3 pkgs. M agic Y e a st........ „........
lOc
O T ubular L a n te r n s ..................... 40«
B arn S h o v els ................................... 05c
Hnn«*t T acks, at paper ................... 4c
M atting T ack s, a t p a p e r ................ 4c
We have a big line of Graniteware, Hardware, Doors and Win
dows and Dishes at Greatly Reduced Prices.
N alls, a ll sizes, but L ath and
S h in g le N ails, at lb __________
4c
C arnation, H olly and Y eloban
M ilk, 8 can s 2 5 c, 1 do«----
05c
Bring your b-gaLon coal oil cans, we fill them for 5 5 c
We are selling U. S. Poultry Fence, also Pittsburg and Colorado
Fence at Price« before the advance.
Reduced prices on HEATERS, STOVES and RANGES, OLIVER
PLOWS and HARROWS.
DuPONT STVMPIMU PO W D E R $ 0 .0 0 box.
M O U N T A IN M E A D O W
BUTTER
Manufactured by
SANDY CREAMERY COMPANY
The name "Mount Hood Butter” has heretofore been
used by permission of the Mount llood Ice Cream Co., which
has all it« dairy products registered under that title. That
permission has ceased, hence the ehauge of name, which be
came effective on January 1.
‘'Mountain Meadow Butter” will be found at all the
Leading stores in the county. Ask for it.
Ol'TLOOK FRIDAY,
JAXVAKY
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1U17
MELROSE AND VICTORY.
FAIRVIEW
There will be regular church serv
ices at Iliff Sunday. The preaching
services will be at 7:30 p. m. Sun
day school at 10 a. m. Follow ing
the study of the lesson by the class
es. Capt. C. O. Branson will give a
short talk on the lesson. This is a
new feature of the Sunday school for
the coming year and the superinten
dent, Chas Tallman, has announced
that each alternate Sunday (th e one
on which there Is no preaching in
the m orning) he will have som e one
give a talk on the lesson or any part
of the lesson which needs especial
emphasis.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Conrad and
daughter Ada and Messrs. Percy and
Orie Conrad took dinner Sunday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. F.
Chase near Pleasant Home.
Announcements are being received
by the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Osburn, who were married last week,
in Portland. The announcem ents
were mailed from California, where
they are spending their honeymoon.
Their many friends wish them a
happy trip both on this journey and
also on the journey of life.
Mrs. I. T. Wood was pleasantly
surprised last Saturday when she
found on arriving at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. Alta Gentry, in Pow
ell Valley, that a birthday dinner in
her honor was waiting and other
guests beside herself were arriving
Those present beside the hostess and
son R ussell were Mr. and Mrs. I. T.
Wood, Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Wood,
Miss Mabel Wood and Miss Edith
Turner of Portland.
Mrs. Dimple Jones and her mother,
Mrs. Mary Mitzel, were callers at the
] home of Mrs. A. B. Conrad Wednes
day afternoon.
Guests at the home of Thos. Wiles
last Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Wiles and family, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Gundlach and family of Portland and
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Miller and son
and Rev. A. C. Bracken bury of
Gresham.
J. P. Jones, who has been quite ill
for som e tim e, is much be«ter and
able to be up a f ood share of his
time.
Miss Henrietta W iles is quite 111
and has been bedfast since Sunday.
Her many friends wish her a speedy
recovery. Mrs. Thos. Wiles, who was
quite 111 last week, is much better
now.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hopkins visit
ed the latters uncle. C. E. Holtgrleve
of Park Rose on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Drake called at
Captain Branson's one day this week.
Chris Gerig, who has been visiting
in Ohio for some time, returned to
his home in Albany this week. He
spent Sunday night at the home of
his uncle, A. B. Conrad. Mark Gerig
and family of Moutavilla were also
visitors at the Conrad home.
Mr.
Gerig reports that the weather In the
east is very cold and the thoughts of
balmy Oregon days brought hith
home sooner than was expected. It
is hard to beat Oregon weather for
we have the best of all sorts even a
fair sized blizzard once in a long
time. There is nothing monotonous
about the weather here and for a
January day Wednesday was hard to
beat.
Richard Emerson, of Portland, vis
ited for the week-end with his niece,
Mrs. Geo. Mofflt
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. W ilson, of
Gresham, visited on W ednesday and
Thursday with their son Edgar and
wife on the home ranch
Mrs B. C. Brewster entertained
the Ladles' Aid on W ednesday ifter-
noou. A good number of ladies at
tended.
Mrs. H. Donley, of Portland, visit
ed on Monday «vith her mother, Mrs
H. M. Shaw.
Mrs. Julia Snover is improving her
place by tearing down the old barn
and other buildings and fences and
repairing the house.
Clifford Burlingam e left this morn
ing for Hood River to be with his
aunt. Mrs Stone. His parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin Burliugam e, expect
to go later. The change is made for
the benefit of Clifford's health.
Mrs. J. Peterson and Mrs. Stc.ek-
tou are entertaining a sister and
brother-in-law from Minneapolis.
J. W. Townsend had the misfor
tune to lose oue of his large work
horses last Tuesday night.
The
installation
of
Fairview
grange took place at the m eeting of
the grange on Saturday. M tb . Carrie
Townsend was the installing officer.
She was assisted by Miss Ruth Shaw.
Those installed were, master, W. E.
Townsend, overseer, Ruth Moller,
lecturer, Margaret McKay ; chaplain,
the Rev. I. B. Self; steward. C. H.
Slone; assistant steward, Blaine Tur
ner; secretary, Roy Stone; treasurer,
J. W. Townsend; gate keeper, Clyde
Stone; lady assistant steward, Dora
Peterson;
musician. Gladys Bliss.
Mrs. S. B. Hall, Ceres; Mrs. J. C.
Windle. Pomona and Miss Frances
Bliss, Flora, were not present.
A contest has been started In Fair-
view grange, which promises to be of
much interest. It is one in which the
men and women are on opposing
sides. It includes the attendance of
officers, attendance of members, the
ienj|4 aqt jo .<jom.uu o; aupijtuiuoo
work of the first degree, the securing
of new members and the excellence
of programs. The contest will con
tinue for three months. The Febru
ary program will include a debate. In
which the men will debate against
the women. The March program will
be entirely by men and that of April
by women.
PLEASANT HOME
J. W. Grade of Milwaukie. Oregon,
a produce buyer front a Portland
commission house, Bpent several days
this week in this vicinity, buying po
tatoes. He was very much impressed
with the quality of the potatoes
raised here and with the great im
provements that have been made in
the county In the last few years.
While in this section, Mr. Grade was
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Lennartz.
1. G. Denney, the Pleasant Home
merchant, Is seriously 111.
Drainage demonstrations* will be
conducted on the farm of L. R. Lau-
derback Saturday afternoon, Janu
ary 20, beginning at 1:30, by Prof.
J. E. Larson, a drainage specialist
from Oregon Agricultural college and
County Agriculturist Hall. All who
are interested in this moBt vital sub
ject are invited to attend.
Rich & Wuner, Pleasant Home's
enterprising liverym en, purchased
another truck during the week, a
Republic, to help handle their grow
ing business,
W. A. Miller is hauling lumber for
a new barn on his place In Pleasant
Home.
Mrs. 8. P. Hale attended the W. C.
T. IJ. m eeting at Oresham Thursday.
Mrs. Lizzie Zahn of Ridgefield,
W ashington, has been visiting her
father, A. C. Wihlon, and other rela
tives for the past two weeks
Some wood haulers of Scenic saw
COTTRELL
I a man in the woods, who pointed a
Rev. S. F. Pitts will preach at the gun at them
They got frightened
Cottrell church nest Sunday evening and ran for help but when they came
All were invited to attend.
back with a gun he had disappeared.
Everybody Is watching for him.
FARM RECORDS
Leon Caddy visited with Mr. and
Among the projects outlined last I Mrs. W eatherwax Sunday.
Miss Anna Seaqulst has returned
month by the Agricultural Council
was the keeping of farm records. In to Portland after a visit with her
this connection County Agent Hall parents.
The Sunshine club will meet with
has secured the services of a special
ist from the U. 8. governm ent who Miss Mabie Sloop.
Rev. J. C. Tlbbits will preach at
will assist him in putting out from
I
the
Baptist church next Sunday, both
50 to 100 farm record books to those
farmers of the county who desire to morning and evening
Multnomah grange No. 71, at its
keep an accurate account of their
! next m eeting on January 27, will
business. These men will be visited
at regular Intervals and assisted In hold public installation of officers, to
which all are invited. The program
keeping the books up.
Long experience and many investi will begin about 2 o'clock. County
gations by the governm ent has led Deputy T. J. Kreuder will be the In
to the conclusion that the average stalling ofllcer.
farmer relies too much upon gu ess
S ale o f D airy Herd.
work and the size of his hank bal
ance in figuring up his profits for the
An auction sale of dairy stock,
year. The keeping of a well organ horses, farm machinery and house
ized and sim ple record of all his hold goods is advertised today in
transactions will show him beyond a another place in this paper
It will
doubt just how much he has made. be held at the farm of Powell Bros.,
Besides their value as a means of de on Gordon cm sk , four miles south of
term ining the financial results of hts Corbett on Monday. January 29th.
work the farm records will furnish rain or shins. W. 8. Wood will be
the farmer with considerable ftxxd auctioneer; A. Meyers, clerk.
for thought. He is led to give his
business more thought and means oi C ham berlain'« C ough R em edy Most
KffeetoaL
improving bis Income will often r e
sult.
"I have taken a great many bottles
The county agent is very desirous of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and
of hearing from all those who are every time it has cured me
I nave
interested in the keeping of farm rec found it most effectual for a backing
cough and for colds After taking It
ords.
a cough alw ays disappears,” writes
J. R Moore, Lost Valley, Oa. Ob
During a recent thunderstorm In tainable everyw here.— Ad.
Lansford, Pa., lightning struck a
Don't forget to read tb s want ada.
telephone pole three tlmee,
PLEASANT VALLEY
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Sager, of Yale.«
W ashington, spent a few days t h is '
week visiting with relatives in this
vicinity.
Mrs
Will Richey has returned
from a w eek ’s sojourn with her par
ents. Mi. and Mrs. Geo Robinson, o il
Portland.
T. E. Taylor transacted business
in Portland on Tuesday.
Mrs. W. V. Moore entertained the
Ladies’ Aid society on Wednesday of
this week.
Wm. Dahlquist and Chas. Dahl- I
quist, Jr., have goue to the logging I
camps on the lower Columbia where I
they expect to secure work
The drama, which was postponed
som e tim e ago, will be played at the
grange hull Saturday evening, Janu
ary 20.
Professor Serie dism issed school
in his room Wednesday so that he
could attend the funeral of his little
nephew, Clyde Serie, whose death
occurred Monday in Portland.
LAND
W ITH
Red Cross
Explosives
T he upper view shows how-
groups of big stum ps a re blaste«!
o u t clean a t on e tim e, w ith a ll
d irt oil th e ro o ts anil «tum ps sh u t
tered it;. > k in d lin g w ood. A t th e
sam e li: ‘t.ie subsoil is thoroughly
broken , •», creating a fine hom e
for tie
v crop. Low er view
shows
!ery crop w orth $800
p er act
i m o n ta s after «tum ps
were b
1 out.
Tol«
. "v progressive farm ers
a re using «!. lam iie for rem oving
stu m p s..t 1 boultlers, p lan tin g and
cultivating irm t trees, tegeneraling
barren so il, d itch in g , draining, e x
cavating, an d road-m aking.
At the office of the county agricul
tural agent there ure several sam ples
of clover seed, from both Yamhill
and Clackamas counties. All of them
have been tested for purity and
germination, if interested in obtain
ing clover seed get into communica
tion with this office, and thus secure
it directly from the producer.
A s k f o r B o o k le t
In te ri F irm \ a m t and AJJrea» H e r*.
China Is once more offering a prof
itable market for American metals.
If your Outlook subscription has
expired renew today.
T h e H a b it o f T a k in g C o ld .
With many people taking cold Is
a habit, but fortunately one that is
easily broken. Take a cold sponge
bath every morning when you first
get out of b ed - not tee cold, but a
tem perature of about 90 degrees F.
Also sleep with your window up Do
this and you will seldom take cold.
When you do take cold take Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy and get rid
of It as quickly as possible. Obtain
able everyw here.—Ad.
A. W. Metzger
Gresham.
A u ction Sale
At Gordon Creek, 4 Miles South of Corbett, Oregon.
M o n d a y J a n . 2 9 , 1 0 a. m .
IL*gi*tei-e«l Guernsey Dull, Mar of Clover Hill, age 8 years;
R<«gihtere«l Guernsey Bull, N atom a's Puruilo. Grandson of Gov.
Chene, age 3 years; one Import«*«) Guernsey Cow, Seven Grade
Guernsey Cows. Three Heifer Calves and tw o Bull Calves 15-1(1
Pure Bred. All Cows Tuberculin Ttested
Team, 8 years old,
weight 1600 pound«.
M A C H I N E II Y
Six h. p. Gas Engine. Ensilage Cutter. Silo. Two sets Double
Harness.
Heavy Single Driving Harness.
DeLaval Separator.
Biding Cultivator. Disc Harrow.
Spring-Tooth Harrow. Two
Wagons. Top Buggy. Two W alking Cultivators. Two Plows. Two
Mowers. Baled Hay and Straw. Small Tools. Household Goods
and Furniture.
SALE HAIN G it SH IN E .
F R E E LYNCH
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TERMS-—Sums under $20, CASH. Un sums over 820, nine m onths’
lim e on approved security. Two per cent discount for Cash on
sums over 820.
POWELL
BROS,
Owners.
TRO UTD ALE, OREGON
W 8. WOOD, Vancouver, Wash., Auctioneer.
A. MEYERS, Clerk
Hoss’ Truck Service
Office with Commercial Delivery Co.
229 Pine Street Between First and Second
ALL KIND8 OF HAULING BETWEEN GRESHAM AND
PORTLAND
Farmer'« Hauling, Furniture Movlug.
Order« taken for Coal,
Briquets, Sand and Gravel
Gresham
Phone 79 x
Bert Hoss
P ortland
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