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About Mosier bulletin. (Mosier, Or.) 1909-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1913)
PlIrtUSHKD EVERY FRIDAY ADVERTISING RATES uy BULLETIN H. G. KIBBEE, Proprietor sruscK irnoN hate » $1.50 One Y e a r....... Six M m th s.. Th ree M onili* .. .50 Entered as second c ’ass matter M a rd i Vi. The following advice regard ing the cleaning of orchards a l ter Ihe crop is harvested, is given by an exchange: When the apple harvest is over it new season’ s work be gins; it is the work o f preparing the orchard for the next crop. T h e season just closed has wit nessed the production of a good crop through all o f the apple producing sections. Nowhere w eie lhere orchards in any num ber which did not have at least a fair crop, even at harvest. In many the trees were burden ed and broken by the weight of their fruit. new year begins when the last apple is picked, and begins with the job of cleaning u p the orchard, cutting f * , , 1.00 One-qu«rt*r Column One-half Coin One Column.. 5 50 Butines- locals w ill be charged at 5 cents per lia I,e*ui ativertisementa w ill in all cases be charged CLEAN YOUR ORCHARDS , . per month $ .50 fo r each insertion. 1ÖU9 at tVif I has t «d ice at Muster, O regon, under the A c t o f March 3. 1N79. A Professional Cards. One squ are............. V O L M OSIER, I V * THUliS COST Of LldG SOON WILL TAKE ORCP ‘ T believe the high cost of living bugaboo will have disap peared two years from now.” Such was the declaration of Daniel 0. Lively, chief o f the live-stock department o f the Panama-Pacific Exposition, in the course of a discussion at the International live-stock show to day. “'This country is going to see wonders worked by the farmers and livestock raisers within the next few years,” he said. “ Everywhere 1 go and every thing I hear indicates that we are on the threshold o f an era of great prosperity.” W ASCO C O U N T Y , OREGON, SCARESJNLONOON When Cranks Predicted the De struction of the City. 1913 ^ v '» *t) paki fo r i»efore utHdavils are furnished. R E S O L V E D ' OUR, CANNED GOODS HAVE COME DOWN. V E WERE CARRYING A BIC STOCK- V E CAN KEEP 0U£ STOCK F£E5H BrKEEPJNd JT MOVING. VE C/1N In M osie s Today Than E ver Before WHAypf^YoU CAW EAT. Y ou CA n “ WHY? Bell, a Lunatic, Had the Entire Popu lation In a Frenzy ot hear Awaiting tne End by Earthquake In 1761— The River Thames Panic ot 1524. out the broken limbs and pre- paring it for the winter spraying that must be given in scale in fested localities. This work of cleaning the or chard as soon as the harvest is completed is no joke. It is a serious, necessary, important job, just as essential in fact as cleaning the dairy when butter is made. It is only secondary in importance to spraying. Com- bating the bugs and fungi is rendered much more difficult in orchards which have not had the rubbish, broken and dead limbs removed and fence rows cleaned out, than it is where the orchard is clean. Rubbish, dead leaves, brush, shaggy hark and weeds . . . . . . . . .. , &li make s p le n d id h id in g p la c e s for innumerable insects and tural colleges toward this end, were crowded with panic stricken fungi . luring the winter. T h e |bas |lelped con.ince the t e n t w l tV S S IX Z codling moth, leat miner, cur- that he’d better change and I treat*. Such as could not afford to pay cuiio, fall web worm, tent cater- reap this new field. Two y e a rs 'tor lodgings at these places encamped pillar, and oilier devastating in- VV|U see the West hack at its old ! l,,4 tl'V sn"l?,"i,tI,i.!'er."I'!,*!’ As is usimi in pnulcs, the fear be sects spend the winter under the game of cattle raising—and per- cnme contngious. ami hundreds who loose scales or bark, under fall haps the old style cowboy may bud laughed at the prediction u week en leaves'and rubbish about the come back, too.” — The Chicago before pnckisl up their goods and chat tels when they sinv others doing so orchard. A host of other insects Evening Post. and hastened away. The river was thought to he a place of great security, bury themselves just below the and accordingly all the available mer surface o f the orchard soil. vessels and barges were packed IRRIGATING DISTRICT IS OPPOSED chant Fallen leaves serve as the win wltb people, wbo passed the night be tween the 4th and 5th on board, ex tering places for many o f the Hood River, Ore., Dec. 28.- pecting every moment to see St. Haul's troublesome orchard fungi, and totter aud the towers of Westminster when all o f these enemies o f the The matter o f organizing the abbey rock and fall amid a cloud of orchard are allowed to remain farmers o f the East side into a dust. But ou the following day the unmolested during the winter, bonded irrigating district, is greater part of the fugitives returned, convinced that the prophecy was a they have a far better chance to causing great interest among false one. A few months afterward continue their destructive work the fruit growers o f this section. Bell was confined in a luuatic asylum, The East side apple growers are, where lie died. the next season. Great consternation was caused in The work should luegfn with largely, the owners of matured London In I.TJ» in a prediction that on disposing, of the apples that lit orchards, ami as many o f Uietn tlie I si day of i ’ebriijiry the waters ot ter the ground. Cwlt piles afford do not fielieve in irrigating the the Thames would overflow Ihe whole city of London and wash away 10.000 excellent winter quarters for orchards, considerable opposition houses. The prophecy was implicitly codling moths. The orchard to the organization is being believed, and many families packed up should have been plowed before aroused. In bonding the dis- their goods and removed into Kent and Essex. As the time drew near the the ground froze, and let it lay trict every acre that can be numbers of these emigrants Increased, rough all winter. This buries benefited by the water must in January droves of workmen might the leaves and breaks the cham- stand its proportionate share of be seen, followed by their wives and children, trudging on foot to the vil feers o f insects which have made the assessment annually regard- lages within fifteen or twenty miles to their winter quarters in the soil. less ° f whether the water is await the catastrophe. People of a Weeds should be taken from used by the person whose prop- higher class were also to be seen in vehicles hound on a similar errand. a round the trees, and if the erty is assessed. —Journal, By the middle of January at least i 20.000 persons had quitted the doomed trunks are very shaggy w i t h ----------- *-*«----------- i city, leaving nothing hut the hare walls scales o f bark, scrape them care of their homes to lie swept away by MAKING WAR AGAINST WAR fully, not deep enough to dam the Impending floods Many of tlie wealthier class took up their abode on age the bark but sufficient to In catling upon workers of the heights of Hampstead, Uighgate remove the scales. This de every class to remain idle for a and Blnckbenth, and some erected tents stroys the hiding places o f a lot continous period o f 24 hours as far away as Waltham abbey ou the o f bugs lhen begin the prun- F rench General Federation north and Croydon od the south of the Thames. ing, o f Labor came pretty close to On the fateful morning the wonder Pruning can be done af all the great heart o f Christianity. ing crowds were astir at an early hour times during the winter when Perhaps the leaders o f French to watch the rising of the wnters. It wns predicted that the inundation the wood is uot actually frozen, workingmen see that the crush- would lie gradual. Dot audden, so that except in sections where the ing burden o f war falls most tl“U expected to have plenty o f time winters are very dry. There is heavily upon labor, which pays to escape as soon as they saw the wa- . i _ , . . , , “c ” " ......— i - " j “ ters rise beyond the usual mark. Always a tendency for the cam- m o g j Gf n ie m0ney cost o f war, The day grew older, nnd tiieThsmes mum to die aronrtd the edges o f an(j m<>st o f its terrible loss in Bowe<J on «lnietiy a* of yore. The tide af wound made in late fall or lifp _ nd ,,lfffirin„ In vipw of eb,«‘(J ■* i,!* hour- flowed to its . . , ... lire and sunxnng. view oi ,|#„a| height and tbeu ebbed again, just winter, and this sometimes pro- ¡n9ane haste o f the nations as if twenty astrologers had not piedg- gresses so far th'aft the’ bark be- “ prornote peace by preparing ,lleir word to the contrary. Comes dead for several inehes f(rr .. fh..rp ¡_ „ ton(.h ,,f Blaak their »» evening w | f-w . , . , . Iorr v^ar* ~nere is a touen OI npproacbf»cl. and as blank grew the back. Don t take this, bcfwever, sanity in the order o f the Gen- faces of the citizens to thiuk that they as an excuse for not beginning era| Federation o f Labor where 1)0(1 IDa<lt; fools ° f themselves ymtr pruning. It is only in vfefy it says: “ Only by complete ces- S f J Cold places ot the West and in sation of the means o f produc- away eveD one home out of the io,- the cold North where the winters tion and locomotion and o f work however, the people were afraid to go to sleep Many bnn are long and severe that early 0f a|j hinds can labor strikingly a r° l° P° e,, dawn of the dreds remained tu np sl,* till pruning causes any dying back demonstrate its firm determina- next day, lest the deluge should come bf the bark, and even theie,- tion to r e fu s e to co-operate with them like « thief in the night it* „ 1 ,, . . . . On the morrow It was seriously dle- this injury is not paiticulaily thjs prog ram nf death, which is cussed whether it would not i* »d*i» Serious. Remove the broken contrary to the ideas of progress able to duck the false prophet* in the limbs. Prune out the ttater and humanity.” I f churchmen. river Lncklly tor them they thought of an expedient which allayed the sprouts which were not rubbed ^ a d i a i i s ’ diplomats and states^ £ , ¿ £ , 7 5 I'hey asserted that by bfT while young and tender last men, now so busily handling in an error they had fixed the date of summer. Do the heaviest and gingerly fashion the problem of this awful Inundation a eentury too early The present generation of toughest pruning; and the re abolishing war, would ask the «■Orkney» were safe and l/indon would mainder may safely wait until workingmen o f the world to set tie washed »way. not In 1524. but In HJ24 — I-ondon Family Herald. Spring.” tle the matter; It Would be speed ily settled on the plan o f Him Th e re la ini witness *o terrible, no , Miss Edna Wilson returned who spoke nineteen hundred o s-user so pow erful. I ia couacleDce — last Sunday from a fortnight’s years ago for “ Peace on Earth.” S'uly blu». visit with her parents at Port- — The Public. ^knd. 10. Feed Is Cheaper TERROR RULED THE PEOPLE. M cmi , it tuts tKH»n well said. think in herds. It will he seen l li.it they nind in herds, for iiinuinenihie in- stances can he given ot n whole people suddenly shaking oft the trammels ot reason and running wild under the de iiislon ot some Impending calamity. A panle terror ol the end of the world spread over London in IT.'UJ t>> (he prophesy ot the famous Whiston. who predicted that the world would tie destroyed on 0<t 13 in that year. SA Y S F A R M E R S SOLD B IR T H R IG H T Crowds of people went out oil tlie iip- . . , i , i pointed day to Islington. lllglignte. Mr. Lively blames the undei- , , am pstead .)Ste!ld and nnd the the intervening intervening tieids production o f cattle for the to witness the destruction of London, present condition o f living costs. which was to he the “ beginning o f the end. ' He said the bulk o f western Again in the year 1701 tlie citizens of lands are best fitted for stock Loudon were plunged into excitement grazing and that the farmer sold by two earthquake shocks, and the prophecy of a third, which was to de his birthright for a mess o f cold stroy them altouethet Ihe first of turkey when he turned from the these shocks was on l et) i* and threw several chimneys; tlie second splendid beef production of t h e , down was on March 8. Public notice was old days to raising grain, directed to the fact that there was e x ‘ ‘The production of live stock actly a month’s Interval between the two shocks, and a crack brained fel ¡s going to grow in leaps and low named Bell was so impressed with hounds for the reason that the the idea that there would L>e a third iu farmer and small ranchman fi- tlie forthcoming month that he com ptetely lost his senses and ran about nally have realized theprofit there the streets predicting the destruction ¡s j„ raising livestock— espec- o f London on April 5 As the awful day approached the e x ¡a||v as contrasted against truck citement necanie intense, and great fanning,” he continued. ‘ ‘The numbers of credulous people resorted generous prices paid l ^ r S t o c k to all the villages within a circuit of j n the open market, combined twenty miles, there to await the doom - , ! of lafimton. Black heath. Islington. vvith th e work of the ¿Igricul-; Highgatc. Hampstead and Harrow F R ID A Y , J A N U A R Y to the party ordering them, at legal rates, and in te rn bat what w e can . vkv Becaiu-ea business was started devoted exclusively to Feed, fo r cing down the previous high prices. This should be appreciated by every stock owner. ? t He should show his appreeia- tiation by yatronizing such a busi ness. H.M. WEST Mosier, THE PRICE J ON Ol/R GROCERIES T U M B L E - RIGHT JN THE BEGINNING WHEN WE MARK OUR GOOD.5--BUT THE QUALITY NEVER FALL J. WE DON'T BELIEVE IN PALMING OFT .SECOND GRADE GROCERIES ONTO OUR CU5TOMER-5, AND T R Y ING TO MAKE THEM BELIEVE THEY ARE F I R J T GRADE. ON ALL OF OUR GROCERIES WE KEEP THE QUALITY UP. WE KEEP THE PRICED d o w n , l e t u j . s u p p l y y o u w i t h t h e t h i n g s YOU VSE FOR YOUR TABLE. Oregon rzESBoam. ax <♦ ^ ** ^ o ^ a a )Rock Springs j Coal-LUMP! Nichol & Co., * I ^ # ! : i : * - Heater Stoves Ì Tttm-A-Lum Lumber Co. i I ORE. \ I MOSIER E. A. R a c e , m g r . 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