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About Mosier bulletin. (Mosier, Or.) 1909-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1915)
PU BLISH ED EVERY AD VERTISING RATES FRIDAY BY Professional Cards....................... per month t H. G. K1BBEE, Proprietor One square............................... S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E S *• One-haif Column......................... ’** “ One Column.................................. ** One Year........ Six Months... Thre** Months j.flp J.ff “ *• i IO.IIL Business locals wilU»e eiMmredtat je s n u -f e r 'li n e for each insertion. Entered » « er.-ond class matter March 12. 1 * « at the I' .... office a: Master, Oreat.n, under the Act of March “ " One-quarter C o lu m n ....,.............. ** 1*79. - MOSIER, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8 , VOL. VI ...Grand Annual... HOW TO BRING BACK PROSPtRITY ...M asque Ball... in CROWN’S HALL M O S IE R , O R E G O N Saturday Night, Jan. 9th, 1915 Music by the Mosier Orchestra ..EVERYBODY WELCOME.. Tickets $1.00 Spectators 25c DANCING AT 8:30 M tsier Valley Bank MOSIER, OREGON C A P IT A L A N D SURPLU S $11.700 0 0 DEPOSIT YOUR SAVINGS IN A CAREFULLY M A N A G E D BANK. L. 3. M e r r i l l , Cashier. J. N. M o s ie r . Pres. MOSIER MEAT MARKET i T Î EjeSTSvS -SU FRED ULMER, Proprietor Fresh and Smoked Meats, Sausage and Fish A dean, sanitary place to do your.shopping OREGON MOSIER “ The New Christmas* An old fashioned holiday in c ‘ neu fashioned” way You can modernize Christmas in your home and, at the same time, he sure of old-fashioned d. light in the •gifts received if you make your gifts electrical. G-E Electrical Gifts will bringcomfort and pleasure into the holiday gather ing and prove a lasting benefit throughout the year. Among the most suitable gifts for the home are the chafing dish, flatiron, toaster, luminous radiator, per colator and “Uni-Set”—a complete electrical cooking •outfit. Let us show you these and other modern electrical gifts Pacific Power & Light Co. “ A L W A Y S AT Y O U R S E R V IC E .” Everybody likes it— .-<L Y W a r v ’s ^cK ocoiates Scrd to M o d e m C orfectk>ncry C om p a ry, pr>rt- lard, O reg on , S “ M o d e m Sw eet*” Mals clipped • ' re I packages oi “Modern*1 f i roducts, c r 10 cents ( stamps or c o r » for p- tage, and I fu ll sample box o f Vogan* C bocou tes will be sent you 1 fre e . THPIT*. G t’ A lA T T E F If 'or >■ r r » i " a ' ’’ f i 1 C f. g fi t i if. .>♦• • *'*«»rr *«•;«' v . « i t ; ijfio R iC d »® replace ’ beta zt their expente S E. FRANCISCO Proprietor " T H E O A K S .’ MOST ER. OREGON Leiral £uv«rtisemetitr NO. Jb 1915 in' all wweJ-bs «ct o R g d to the party ordering: them. 'R t' k*»to!'» paid for before Affidavit? are furbished. do. This brings curtailment of COUNTY COURT AIDS BOAT LANDING ROAD MAMMOTH LUMBER PI Allr CNE MILL TAX ASIW QiftM BOABS expenses, often rigid ecomomy. Servants are laid off. Purchase», Thru the efforts of the Mosier An enterprise in Wallowa 'W e’onesdajds Orepotnwn trtfttes at shops and Stores are cut down. Grange, the County Court at its County which is now well under that*the business men dflPort- Bills are allowed to run. Build session this week, appropriated wav is the erection of a mam land liavswdned the 'MiritnomMi ing and business investments the sum of $500 to be used for m o t h lumber manufacturing legislative delegation «to q are refused. All this helps to the building of the road to the plant and the construction of 20 their support to a hill providing cause dull business. boat landing. ,,,. n . . . \ miles of railroad. The grading furai-ra: levy <f 1 nfi.l fo rta “ To settle for all time the ex the Grange, at a recent meet-1 . . . . . . , * K , . , . . , . ■0,1 this railroad has been com period-of two years, to provide act status of railroad capitaliza ing, adopted resolutions asking , . . .. r . , , , pleled and several miles of stee funds to complete, the Columbia tion in this country, the govern „ the Court for $t»00 to he used tor i - i ... . ... hud. 1 lie mill will have a capac- River Highway. Tfliey claim. ment is now undertaking a com tIn« purpose, and on U ednesuay i rnn nnn f , .. , , i , „ , prehensive work of determining last a committee composed of C. l v 1 1“ ” T '' *** » “ " ** tW<> , Littlepage, , ......... an.... with the physical valuation of all the J. Thus. Go,.dl)n G ; ,la> aml ullf **; ow,lcd a»d oper- will raise $2,000,000 Powers'uu'l a syndicate of capitalists1 the present tax of one-foarrth of property of the railroads. W. Mathews, K. G. R. W. Simpson w e n t' to* The at Kansas a mifl. willbesufficient to ^om - “ Capitalization has a hearing 1 he n ' » 3 expected to.be j plele the lughway thru CAlum- on rates. But we don’t want to Dalles and presented the petition £ ' ty' hia, Hood River and Wasoc wait until the physical valuation to the Court. Whether the argu- estimated thut jt wi|| ta|. l;c 15 f count»:.. Multnomah county of railroads is completed some merits put up by the committee years of continuous operation to pays one-third of the taxes of five years hence We want, were unanswerable and convinc- exhaust the merchantable pine ! the state and-will build its own prosperity now. i ing, or whether the court realiz-, | roads without asking state aid. “ When we I«ear in mind that ed the necessity of such a road ^wne( the company. I he railroads are owned b.\ the and had previously determined I plain people of t he United States, to grant the request, is of no| a different attitude can be as- particular importance; the ini- j MOSIER CLEANING PARLORS sumed.toward this great indus- \ portant fact is that.the Court try, ’I’here are about one and a very.generously appropriated the * J.'E. N ic h o l s , p r o p . * half million individual holders of amount asked for, and Mosier | Cleaning and Pressing done. railroad stocks and bonds, with District hereby tenders its sin-; Satisfaction guaranteed, and Prices an overwhelming proportion of cere thanks, Reasonable. them our own countrymen. One The petition for a county road Office in Sturgess Bill's. - Mosier, Ote. million more own stock in corpo- across the railroad to the boat rations depending on the rail- landing was granted several »*«■**+<*-*»■" roads. For the most part they years ago and the road ordered are folks in ordinary eircuin- opened. Efforts have been made stances. at various times to build the [ “ Nearly two million are em- road, but it was not until the ployed by the railroads, about Grange look the matter in hand one million more work for.indus-! this week that anything definite1 tries directly dependent upon and substancial has been accom the railroads for business. plished. More or less work has | “ Since the average family con-! been done on the road, and wej sists of five persons, some fifteen have a good dock boat. With I million people look to the rail- { roads for their daily bread, ltaii -1 the help of the appropriation' road prosperity then vitally a f from the Court, and the sub-. fects one out of every seven of ¡scriplions from citizens of Mosier the country s total population, iDistrict who have not yet paid, Selling transportation is like j 1(0tl, in n and |abor> we wi|| any other business. Success re- , ,, quires a fair profit. Without a ! 800,1 havt* m e r transportation profit the railroad fails. W h e n j facilities that will very materially outgo exceeds income the road reduce the freight 'rales of the '■ The following article was writ ten by Joseph Beifeld and pub lished in the Medford Mail Tri bune, which paper’s introductory remarks state a condition that is of eoii”se apparent, hut the remedy for which, according: to I the writer, may not have oc- | curved to tlie average. The ar ticle, tho exhaustive, is interest ing- reading; Joseph 'Beifeld, proprietor of the Hotel Sherman of Chicago, ! who claims to he a disinterested ¡observer, analyses the present financial depression as a business in as being due, in a large de gree, to the fact 'that the rail- j roads are hard up thru over reg ulation and that the way to re store prosperity is to grant the increase in rates asked. There I is undoubtedly merit in his plea which reads as follows; “ What then, is the concrete basic cause of the present busi ness depression? “ The private citizen answers offhand that it’s the war. But the distress dates hack long be- : fore we heard the rumblings of | Mars. Europe has simply added I hardships to a business burden ¡already heavy. Further, we are told that on the whole the big ; war is to he of great commercial ad vantage <to the United*S fates. “ The wholesales guesses that the tariff is responsible. But Ibis j is a debatai le question in'theorj and in practice as applies to the I present case— because the new tariff was not in operation long enough to have a determining influence one way or another. We must go still furt her back. “ The merchant being in direct contact with the people and their purhasing power, lias his fingers on the pulse of business life. He ,'VIpes ^ Nichol & Co., Mosier lts profi.t a,lil.n,ns ?t a shippers of Mosier District. I General Merchandise 'S i' *' ° 1 M" n' se u , lu" ’ * land point out one specific cause that overshadows all other com- plications. And his explanation follows; economies must he enforced, ¡’ iMli/lPTP121 PI HR Tfl MFPT That is the situation today. Cut- ulWMEIIulBL ulUD lu HI l l I 8— ting down expenses me-ins lav- The Commercial Club will hold i ing off men and curtailing the1 a smoker at Hotel Mosier next supplies, \\ Inch in turn compels j Monday night. Refreshments “ 'J'he railroads are hard up. Therefore they do not spend the j money they should. The lack of new capital prevents their mak- : ing many needed improvements, Between this and reduced cur- rent expenditures the effect per- y,y VlVo hiu ,T> iy H i - ti I r t>n emp oy<!^ | will he served. All'm em bers .«Vast improvements are n e e d - ! aiv requested to he present. u ( ji g,xieiiaioii£. shouhl he auueU A----- :~~T — eu to ueveiop iiiipoilaiu oecuons r, arw " . 0 ^ ave a l,arLv <lfi ricii in then resources. bieaUy Tuesday night, December 29lh, “ mrease in name requires more honor of his brother, Roy, loCO,lloL1Vt's- roiling stock, Uaciv-j who is attending High School at meates all down the line from T *!® I '* " * * ' R alph. Hazt*'\ <>f manufacturer to jobber to retail- quires a large outlay oi aUUition- Wl11 C a,l(1 Vy ,lll' ‘ Send ling er and finally to the working al capital. | er, a student at Corvallis, who nian;» “ Where to get that capital i s ! WHS at home for lhe holiday«. “ The plight of the railroads " ow a problem Dial defies solu- The evening was passed very ! should not he judged by a few 1 r Sltea,i“ y P '« « « n t ly with music and games, e «1 * 1 die <iheady so and re ivshmetits were served, conspicuous cases of flagrant 8l)iail that dividend rates are now j ------- ■ — - - abuse. True, the pirates of fi- below the market value of mon- '■ Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Burton nance have worked havoc among ey in other fields. Railroad cred- arrived home last Saturday from certain railroads. In doing so R 's therefore undermined. a t,.n (Jays' visit with relatives they have brought distrust and G*eat P*ojccts lm extension and j Eastern Oregon and Washing- . betterment are postponed. The misconception on the whole mu|tilude of w„ rker8 are denied ton. I hey were accompanied ¡structure of railway organization this chance of employment. Ma- home by Mr. B. W. Doherty, a and management. The result terial concerns are paralyzed un- brother of Mr. Burton. | has been a lot of governmental til normal progress in railroad NO 33. regulation— some wise and some building is resumed. “ This country is fundament ¡decidedly unwise. No discrim R E PO R T ally sound, for we have had ination is shown between honest wonderful crops and these are Of th<- condition of the ly conducted railroads and the bringing good prices. The nation MOSIER V A L L E Y BA N K Other kind. is at peace. Foreign trade op- At Mosier, in the State o f Oregon, “ In addition to federal super- portunities are opening up. The at the close o f business, Decembs.- vision the states individually ii,ia,ic'al system has passed thru 81.1914: the cornili ties war and legislative have taken a hand in regulating . . . . ... .. ,, crises in fine shape. N o national rbsoiircbs do u . ars cts the railroads. Likewise the djgafiter has occured and our Lwn.sn.i.iiMnunt. ......... tss.c» ra stales have snaked the railroads naturai resources are unimpaired ovenimtu-, Mcnredanri unsecured ... mu 27 Mon I and warrants 2,«M 97 good and plenty for taxes— the ‘“ The weakness of the business Stocks and other securities ........ 2 (> no . .' House....................... idea being that the more a state situation must therefore be of an H 4.IH3 H4 Furniture and fixtures .............. t,3tt 41 gets out of a raiiroad the ¡ess it industriai nature lhe American railway system Due from a p p r >• ed reserve hanks.. .. M IS 4H Checks arid other cash items GO no i will have to ask in direct taxa is the great business generating C . h on hand ................... 2,.;»4 m tion. dynamo of "iir commercial ma E x p e n s e s ......................... ................. «2 50 ■ “ All this activity of the diff chinery. It supplies current that I'remium on Bonds.......................... T o t a I. « 4M. 7*1 ^7 erent governing bodies has add revolves many other industries. ed great expense to the railroads. Speed up the railroads to normal L IA B IL IT IE S IM ILLA ILS CT8 Wage increases have gone on capacity and you speed up all Capital stock imid In .. . ».$ 10,000 on those industries directly or in Surpliis furwl ....................... ........... ........ 1,700 00 apace, but the revenue has been directly dependent. Undivided profit», le*» expense« and steadily cut. by reductions in “ We can rely on the railroads taxes paid................... .............. -*21 10 ......... rates. The railroads have passed working with the interstate corn- Dividends unpaid commission to properly Due to banks and banker» .............. the margin of safety between in- merce .... , . . ■ JV*tal saving» hank deponits ... . 722 49 equalize the advance so a» not to , K>*ita subject to check 29.199 19 come and outgo. injure either localities, commod- r. mand certificate» of deprwiit . ... .‘9)0 00 “ The number of employes is .. 10 00 . i i ,, ities or lndfvidu»l». The day of 1 shier’» . 27 75 reduced wherever possible. Buy- nnfair u illfal discrimination is -«-«•n.nnr .... Time certificate* r»f deposit ... . 1.912 74 ing of supplies is curtailed. Fm- From some angles the rat«1 Bills j.avnhle f«»r money horr«iwe«l 5,000 00 provements are tabooed. Divi- increases theoretically may or T ota î,....... #4M.7W 27 dends are cut. Thousands of **” «4. But from _____________________ the practical standpoint fi is not .small investor» suffer reduced only advisable, hut imperative. U f" nty ’ o i ’ wa ' sco ] **• incomes. Thirty railroads are “ So let us support the rate in- > (< l i ftfRRKII.I. C ash h -r now in receiver’s hands. Others crease in a broad spirit of fair o f t h .a h .v . inly HwMnr thfet i»n i..d o «..i f K U t 8 l M H t 'i i T r * lr tn tf»* h e * t <»f rny are passing dividends - a bile some play and intelligent co-operaMon th- knowledge and belief pay dividends out of surplus that for the enmmon good. L. J. M ch r K i I , C *»h ie r. “ I f it is true that our lecisla- C O R R ECT - Attrat. should go for extensions. .1 , N. M uiiikr , J. M . C arroll , F rei » E van » “ The rich feel the effect as tion is deficient, hv all means let l>irr«*i«»r», i, , ,, . - congress chance the laws at one«*, well as the p,*,r. Bassmg of Th^ , hoi M not on!v n)|ow h,n .Sübtaeribed »n d «wo rn to b e' >r« m*« th U 7th ] day of January, 1915. dividends and default of interest romiv»l ucHon ru^PMury to tHi? H. G. Ki (ih e K rejuce incomes for the vvell-to- wo!fare of the people. Notary Buhlt« » . WHEN THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW When there is a forewarning of snow in the air. and the stock linger close to theshelter- ‘ing windbreak of the barn; when the color of 'the sky foretells that Old Boreos is comint? to claim his own —then you realize the period of GOOD F U E L is at hand. But this season brings with it no amtiety, no fear and iincerLainity for the man win»«** home is flooded by the cheerful warmth of u Tum-A-Lump •fi “ See Harms About it.” Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. CALIFORNIA CALLS YOU The Land o f Su ish ne, Fruit and Flowers With SU M M E IH IME in WINTER O utd o o r aw I ndoor H po u nati so G o l f , P olo , I'KNNIS. For n-st . S urf » a t i I i n «., i n il v i n g . ru«rr»tion, California i» itelightfél Kor Ssfrty ¡1 i l Cemfort, ko via the OREGGW .SHINGTON throngli Portland. LF.QAD u MAVIGATIGO CO. RETI UN THE SAME WAY. 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