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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—
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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
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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
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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
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replace ’ beta zt their expente
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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.
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. \ 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 . . . .
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■0,1 this railroad has been com period-of two years, to provide
act status of railroad capitaliza ing, adopted
resolutions asking
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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
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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 , .. ,
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prehensive work of determining last a committee composed of C. l v 1
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, Littlepage,
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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
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to*
The
at
Kansas
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to
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“ 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 .
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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.
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Mosier, Ote.
million more own stock in corpo- across the railroad to the boat
rations depending on the rail- landing was granted several
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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-
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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
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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
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die <iheady so and re ivshmetits were served,
conspicuous cases of flagrant 8l)iail that dividend rates are now j
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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
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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
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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
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good and plenty for taxes— the
‘“ The weakness of the business Stocks and other securities ........
2 (> no
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idea being that the more a state situation must therefore be of an H
4.IH3 H4
Furniture and fixtures
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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
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2,.;»4 m
tion.
dynamo of "iir commercial ma E x p e n s e s ......................... .................
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“ 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................... ..............
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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
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. . ■ 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
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ities or lndfvidu»l». The day of 1
shier’»
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reduced wherever possible. Buy- nnfair u illfal discrimination is
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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,.......
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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.
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C arroll , F rei » E van »
“ The rich feel the effect as tion is deficient, hv all means let l>irr«*i«»r»,
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- 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«
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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
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S urf »
a t i I i n «.,
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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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C E I.K B R A T IN G COMF1.LTKWs OF TH K C A N AM A C A N A L
Panama
Pacific International Exposition
San Kmneiaco, February 2 t> to Mntrmber 4 , 1915 .
Panana-Californial
Exposition
San Oirgo, l«n»sry 1 to fiecnnbrr 81 , l 9 Ki.
They represent ih**
an
human «'l«l**avor* r th» w*»rl
e n c e am i i n d u s t r y .
S e e B<»tu
best nf
art, hc * ì -
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Them .
Tickets, irffdVrr.ittioii, etc., upon ¡^plication
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