ATTENTION! Ford Owner
t
Do you realize how cheap you can have your car repair
ed? Compare these prices with prices one year ago.
Labor charges are also 25 per cent less.
Nov. 1921 Prices
Nov. 1920 Prices
Motor Overhaul . $25.00
$31.25
T o p s ................... 25.00
44.00
Motor Blocks
$25.00
Connection Rods .....
Crankshafts ....
Fenders ..................................
H oods.....................................
$30.00
1-25
10.00
3.75
5.00
2.50
15.00
6.00
8.00
R ad iato rs........... 20.00
,
30.00
Rear Springs ...........
8.50
Front S p rin g ..........................
2.75
Master Gear .........................
3.00
Pinion ...................................
125
Axles ..................................
1-60
Tinier .................
-60
Timer W ir e .............................
.65
Generator .........
16.00
S tarter ................................... 16.00
12.00
4.00
5.00
3.00
3.00
1.30
1.10
22.00
22.00 ..
Ford Battery . . . 25.00
42.00
RAKER & SON
GRESHAM
ESTACADA
PHONE 1301
REDUCED PRICES
All Implements and Machinery
UNITED STATES TIRES AND TUBES
30 x 3% Royal C o rd ............................................ $18.30 ,
30 x 3 1 ■ I Iso ....................................................... 10.90
Oliver-40 or 222 wood or
steel beam plow, $20. 50-
tooth spike tooth harrow,
for $22.10.
8-16 Disc Harrow, with tongue tru c k ,............... $49.00
All other implements reduced accordingly. Get
our prices before you buy, you’ll get the implements or
machinery to do the work required, at less.
H essel’s Farm M achinery
Reliability
Service
Gresham,
Drag Sates, $128
Water Systems
RETREADING PAYS!
TWn* t o He lira*
Bring in your Cord casings if not too bad
ly worn and let us tell you whether or not
they are worth retreading. Nearly every
cord casing can be retreaded and occasion
ally a fabric is worth a retread. A retread,
cooked on and made as much a part of the
tire as the former tread was, is the only sat
isfactory method.
GRESHAM TIRE CO.
Pow ell Street.
Phone 37
Opposite Brown’s Market
For Your Thanksgiving Dinner
Our stocks are all fresh and complete
Celery
Izrttuce
(Fimiatoes
C ranberries
Heinz
Sw eet P o ta to es
P u d d in gs
Bananas
F ig and P lum
Sw eet P iek les
S lutted Olives
The joy of the feust depends on co rrect tab le appo in tm en ts as
well as good cooking.
A new W inchester carving set
for T hanksgiving W ouldn't you
enjoy using It? W ouldn't your
guests adm ire It?
Other equipment for cocking
and serving a good dinner
R oasters
B aking Pans
B utcher Knivea
Cooks' Knives
Pie Platea
C asseroles
G lassw are
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GRESHAM LOCALS
From rep o rts received at th e Dis- [
tric t F o re ste r’s office, a to ta l of 100
forest tires in Oregon and W ashing
ton d u rin g 1921 w ere due to s m o k e rs .'
These rep o rts a re from only 13 to 22 j
n atio n al fo rests b ut indicate, fo rest I
officers say, th a t a fa r g re a te r per
centage of fo rest fires are caused
each y ear by c ig arette and cig ar stubs
and m atches th a n is g en erally su p
posed.
T he O kanogan forest rep o rts th a t
39 per cent of th e ir fires were due to
sm okers, while 16 fires on th e C rater
forest which cost $225 to p u t o u t
sta rte d from
sm o k e r’s
cig arette
stu b s or u n extinguished m atches. The
W hitm an forest sta te s th a t 21 fires
on th a t forest were due to sm okers.
T he Colville fo rest rep o rts th a t it
cost $87 4 to p u t o u t 10 fires sta rtin g
from sm okers, w hile th e Olympic fo r
est had only one sm o k er's fire b u t
th a t cost $68 to extinguish.
C igars and cig arettes consum ed ev
ery single day in th e year, if placed
end to end, would reach from th e A t
lantic to the Pacific and back ag ain ;
80,777 cig arettes and 13,835’ cigars
are burned to ashes for every m inute
of th e 24 hours. T he com bined to tal
lengths of cig ars and cig arettes
sm oked h n n u ally in th e U nited S tates
ag g reg ate alm ost 2,275,000 m iles—
over six tim es th e to ta l m ileage of
th e n atio n 's railroads.
The o u trig h t dam age w ro u g h t by
fires attrib u te d
to tobacco and
m atches reached a to tal of m ore
th an $91,000,000 in th e five years
1915-1919, inclusive, according to
rep o rt of th e N ational B oard of
F ire
U nderw riters.
D uring
th is
sam e period forest fires b u rn ed over
some sixty m illion acres an d
in
volved a loss of approxim ately $100,-
000,000. A considerable per cen t of
these fires, sta te F ed eral fo rest of
ficers, w ere due to “ ta ilo r-m ad e"
cig arettes carelessly th ro w n aw ay
in th e woods.
N early two years ago fo rm er Sec
retary of A g ricu ltu re M eredith w rote
to seven of th e leading tobacco com
panies of th is co u n try asking th e ir
help in en listin g sm okers in a cam
paign against careless use of fires in |
th e forest. T his le tte r, a fte r calling
a tte n tio n to th e serio u s loss caused
by forest fires, suggested in e rt slips
in cig arette and tobacco packages as
an effective m eans of fire w arning.
The re su lt was d isap p o in tin g — one
firm answ ered.
T his year like cooperation in fire
prevention was requested of 35 of
th e leading tobacco m an u factu res by
the N ational B oard of F ire U nder
w riters
B ut not a single reply was
received.
W ednesday evening a Thanksgiving
service will be held a t the Methodist
church, to which all are cordially in
vited. No plan for a formal program
has been arranged, but a sp irit of
friendship and fellowship will prevail.
PLEASANT HOME
"No more high school th is week,”
Mrs. A. E. DeHaven has retu rn ed
th is is the verdict of Principal Cannon
from a trip to Spokane where she
and the high school board. Flood w at
spent three weeks visiting with a sis
ers came into the furnace room and
ter and th e ir m other before the la tte rs’
put out the fires and the light wires
return to her home in Nebraska.
are down so th a t no artificial light
A little d au g h te r was born F rid ay
can be obtained. It is expected th a t evening to Mr. an d Mrs. C larence J
school will be resum ed on Monday, , B ettis. Mrs. B ettis will be re m e u t-!
November 28.
bered as M ildred F ord.
Holiday service will prevail at the
P leasan t Home is h ard h it also by
post office on Thanksgiving day, th e sto rm th a t sw ept over th e coun-j
there being no ca rrie r service and ty S atu rd ay and Sunday. T he tele
windows will be open from 9 to 10 o' phone lines are down and som e sec
clock. The lobby will be open all day. tions have lots of w ater sta n d in g on
th e gro u n d . No serio u s dam age was
Students from the various higher done, however.
in stitu tio n s of learning are beginning
P ro fesso r Reed, who was elected
to arriv e for the T hanksgiving holi by th e school board to fill th e place
day. Melvin Brugger is at home from of A. L. B urlingam e, who was rec en t
I O. A. C.
ly killed in an au to accident, has re
Thanksgiving services will be held signed and the board has secured a
at Zion Evangelical church in Gresh Mrs. G raham of P o rtlan d who will
am at 10:30 in the forenoon. They will have ch arg e of th e school for a tim e
u n til a p erm an en t te ac h er is secured. ’
be in the German language.
T he Sunday school te ach ers and
Miss Helen Hisey celebrated her 14th officers of th e M ethodist Sunday
birthday by en tertain in g the Camp Bchool have been called for an es
F ire girls In the League room on pecially im p o rta n t m eeting W ednes
Friday evening.
day evening a t th e hom e of Mrs. M.
L ennartz.
MEAT BUYERS ENCOURAGE
YOUNG CLUB MEMBERS
POWELL VALLEY
The Ladies Aid of the Mission
Twelve fat hogs w ent to m a rk e t
w hile a t th e stock show , but they church will hold a bazaar next Sat-i
still live In each boy’s m em ory be urday evening. November 26, at t h e ,
cause th e re hangs at hom e blue and church. Refreshm ents will be served, j
red ribbons, and fat checks a re being Everyone is welcome.
A big T hanksgiving d in n er w ith '
received which signify a p roject ca r
ried th ro u g h successfully w ith a neat all trim m in g s will be served at th e j
Powell Valley L u th e ra n church from
profit In th e balance.
6 to 8 p. in., T h anksgiving day. T here
T he m eat com panies gave 14 cents will be a sm all ch arg e for th e d in
for the in dividual hogs.
Leslie ner. The receipts will be fo r the
Lynch received 14 «4 cen ts for his fat benefit of th e L u th e r League. A fter
pen and A lta D ah lh am n tar 13 cents. th e d in n e r a varied program will be I
T his d in n er and e n te r
T hese prices w ere 5 cents above m ar ren d ered .
ket q u o tatio n s and were given to en ta in m en t will be given by th e losing
side in a recent cam paign fo r new ,
courage th e boys and girls.
In th e fat pens raised fo r the m em bers of th e L u th e r League.
Union Stock Y ards Special, A lta
LUSTED
D ah lh am m ar won first prize of $40.
The I.listed P aren t-T each er asso
Melville Richey of C lackm as second
prize of $36 and Leslie Lynch th ird ciation held Its re g u la r m eeting at
w hich gave him $25 as a prize. A lta's the schoolhouse, F riday n ig h t, No
prizes and sales check for th e y ear's vem ber 18. It was decided th a t the
association and school com bined
shows m ake up a neat sunt of $171,
would w ork th is year to get a piano
and Leslie's $154. P aul Fox, w ith for th e school. A fter th e business
Duke, won In th e county, sta te and m eeting a sh o rt program was en
stock show, a trip to O. A. C. sum m er joyed by all. A basket social and
school, valued at $25. $18 in cash and p rogram will be given a t th e next
sold his hog for $32.19 m aking a m eeting, T h u rsd ay evening, Decem
to tal of $75.19.
Add to th e cash b er 8 at the schoolhouse. It will not I
value th e tra in in g for responsibility be postponed.
of being held th ro u g h eig h t m onths
to th e task of feeding, th e Joy of a t
ten d in g th e fairs and com paring re
su lts with o th e rs and you will not
w onder why boys and g irls Join the
pig clubs
Some may ask w hat of those who
failed? All but two m em bers m ade
rep o rts th is fall
T h ere w ere th ree ,
hogs show n th a t did not win and s e v -!
oral p aren ts did not see th e value of
fairs so did not co-operate, b ut even
these received th e value of club
m eetings, to u rs an d stock Judging
Gresham Theater
At Cecil Metzger’s Grocery
Phone 1151, Don’t forget the number
We have some choice cranberries, fruits, nuts, fresh vege
tables and all kinds of prepared puddings.
First look at out Rubber Kitchen Aprons, a t................... $ .65
D a r i Made Milk, 5 cans........................................................... .55
Arm our's Milk (good as Borden’s,) 2 cans for............
.25
Del Monte Pork and Beans, 2 ^ -lb . cans, reg. 30c fo r....... .21
B arton’s Pure Leaf Lard, 5 lbs. for 90c; 10 lbs. for....... $1.75
B arton's Shortening, 4 lbs. for 70c; 8 lbs. fo r................... 1.35
Quaker Pancake Flour (none better), 2 fo r..............................25
One full pint ja r of Sweet Pickles................................................30
One full quart ja r of Sweet Pickles .........................................50
One full pint ja r Sour Pickles......................................................25
One full quart Sour Piekles............. ......................................... 40
Six pounds Peanut B utter........................................................... 55
COFFEES we carry—Diamond W, Ilill Bros., M. J. IL,
Golden West, Royal Club and American Club.
Coffee Specials
Pheasant Brands, pound ........................................................
Royal Club, 1 lb. for 42c—one large stick candy
Royal Club, 3 lbs. for $1.16—2 large sticks candy.
W e G ive lie d T rad in g Stani|>N
A <;. hm I lavcMiiM-nt.
Eleven acres 1 4 nillaa from G resh
am an a main road, tw o chtx houses i
and run»; berries and fru it. One acre |
of tim ber, good well and gasoline
pum p E lectric lights six acre» in
! vetch
A bargain. $4500.
term s.
B. W. THORNE. R ealtor,
At Bank of G resham
CHAS. RAY
is
.25
W e D eliver
N olo is the Time
— fo r —
Blankets and Comforts
Prices from
*
$2.50 to $10.00
We have the largest assortment to select from ever
shown in Gresham.
BISHOP BROS.
All Quality Goods Without Question
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BIG DANCE
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 3
Masonic Hall, Gresham, Oregon
Music by the Syncopation Kings
Dancing Starts at 8:30
ADMISSION: Couples $1, Gents 65c, Ladies 35c
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WOOD
COAL
EKSTROM TRUCK SERVICE
A Truck for Every Kind of Work
Cor. P ow ell and M aple
(.res ham
2 4 7 D avis Street
Port lami
B dw y. 9 0 8 9
ISSI
HOME PRODUCTS
PURE LARD
5 lbs., 75c
10 lbs., $1.50
. Delivered
GRESHAM MEAT MARKET
A. J. W . BROWN, Prop.
Phone 41
.
Chevrolet Service
Part» and Accessories
EXTRA
Thanksgiving Show
W inchester G enuine Stag H andle
C arving Set S terling silver m o u n t
ings
All Kinds of Fixin’s for Thanksgiving
Lee Tires
GENERAL AUTO REPAIRING
any make of car
Car Washing
Polishing and Simonizing
The Egg Crate Wallop
— Also a —
GOOD COMEDY
Sherman McCarter Garage
Phone 2331
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Latourell
Bldg.
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