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FR ID A Y
ADVERTISING RATES
BY
M0S1ER BULLETIN
ROGER W MOE
SU B SC RIPTIO N RA TES
11.50
O m Year.
Months
Three Months
MOSIER. WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 10K».
VOL. VIII
county
White River Flour
White River Flour
Every Sack Guaranteed.
FOR SALE BY
Nichol and Company
M osier, O re g o n
Christm as Is C om ing
Before you know it Christmas will be here. W hy not start
now to lay aside something each week so that you will be pre
pared to buy Christmas presents when the time comes'-' We
will keep desposits in a separate account for you if you wish.
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HOTEL MOSIER
NOW
UNDER N E W
MANAGEM ENT
Will open a Lunch Counter in near future
Your Patronage Is Appreciated
E. F. FISK E, Proprietor
E x p e r t A u to m o b ile R e p a irin g
F u lly E q u i p p e d M a c h in e S h o p
Agencies for Fords, Dodge and Buick
Automobiles for Hood River County
Columbia Auto & Machine Co., hood River
Rented
Prepare for the renting
season during "W ire
Your
Home” jmonth. ¡March
15th
to April 15th.
Electrically
equipped
houses are seldom vacant.
Vulcanizing
Auto Supplies
Sporting
Goods
Insure your
property
against undesirable tenants
or no tenants at all by hav
ing it wired for Electric Ser
vice.
The investment will
not be great and the income
will be increased.
B We have unusuaMnduce-
ments to offer if you arrange
Cates
&
Co.
The Dalles, Ore.
for the work now.
Pacific Power & M l Co.
ROAD bonds
will decrease taxes
Is c h e a p e r because it makes
m o r e loaves o f bread. Don’t
be fooled into buying the low
p r ic e d flour thinking you are
gettingsomething cheaper than
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Entered as second-class matter March 12. 190» at
the post oAce at Mosier. Oregon, under the A ct o f
March t. 187».
Mosier
Professional Cards
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The Dalles Chronicle, in a recent
editorial, comments clearly and con
cisely on the matter o f taxes, which
would be imposed if Wasco county-
should decide in favor o f the bonding
issue for good roads. Kead this over
carefully. Especially those who are
inclined to be opposed to the bonding
issue. It may present a few facts to
you that w ill convince you to vote in
favor of the bonds for good roads in
this county. The following argument
shews the wisdom o f the proposed
plan:
When ihe question o f bonding is
tiret put up to the voter it is quite
natural for hirr. to limit the considera
tion o f the subject to the $260,000
which it is prnsposed to raise and the
effect on the tax roll when it comes
time to take care o f the principal and
interest and pay those two items off
as they mature.
; Coming in a'lump sum, and appar
ently a large.sum ; then with interest
added from year to year till the bonds
are retired, the conclusion most likely
to be reached by those who have not
given the subject extensive thought is.
that it is tuo much of a burden to take
on at one tim e; taxes already high
would become oppressive by adding the
bonds and their interest charges, and
whatever arguments there may be in
favor o f bonding as a business measure
it would be unwise to do it now. Even
admitting the reasonable and unques
tioned fact that $260,000 scientifically
expended would give a permanent road
that would stand up under the summer
travel and pack tinner and become
more durable under the winter's storm,
(and most o f those who have looked
into the subject concede those facts)
still to add $260,000 as a tax harden
and $13,000 interest for fourteen years
would be out of the question now and
it will be wiser to defer bonding for s
while and raise what money we use fur
repairs and pay as we go. When the
reasoning stops at those premises the
logic seems unanswerable to those whe
feel that taxes are already too high
and their inclination is to not favor
bonding now. They see the advan
tages plainly enough and sincerely
wish they could bear the strain of tak
ing on the extra burden the bonds and
interest would impose, but they as sin
cerely believe to do so would be an in
justice to themselves.
SB
The trouble with the foregoing reas
oning and the writer has heard it in
aubstance frequently o f late, it stops
short. It doesn't cover the taxation
feature comprehensively.
It reasons
that the $260.000 is a very large sum
and there ia a final shiver when the
interest. $13,000 a year for 14 years
looms up in addition and the subject is
dismissed as impossible.
As a matter o f fact we can vote
these bonds and have the lump sum of
$260,000 to acientitically build more
than a hundred miles o f trunk line
highway this coming winter and sum
mer and will pay o!T this sum in the
next 14 years, and the $195,0K) of in
terest which will have accrued when
the last installment is paid, and still
raise over half a million dollars to
acientitically build lateral and connect
ing roads and not pay as heavy an
annual road tax as we have been rail-
ing from year to year and wasting
from year to year.
To amplify this statement and dissi
pate any doubt as to its accurary it is
necessary to refer to the tax state
ments. For several years past the
road taxes for Wasco county have
ranged around $75,000 per annum, to
be exact for the year 1915 they were
$77.000 Assuming that we continue
the policy to pay as we go and raise
$77,000 annually to repair the chuck
holes, washouts and mudholes for the
next 14 years; a simple multiplication
shows that $1,078,000 will have heen
raised when that period o f time has
transpired ann then as now and even
to the time when the memory o f man
runneth not to the contrary there will
be nothing more to show for
the
$1,078,000 expended but the same gen
eral character o f dust holes, mud holes
and washouts.
Assuming on the other hand that we
bond for $260,000 and lay it out in the
coming year in a trunk road o f more
than 1000 miles, that much will have
been permanently done and it will en
dure continually with a slight annual
cost for repairs under the patrol ays
tern. These bonds will draw J 13,000
interest per annum, a total o f $195,000
for 14 years. The bonds and interest
amounting to $455,000 will have heen
retired at the end o f that period. In
that same period and railing no more
by taxation year by year than at pres
ent the bond and interest will be paid
in full and there will have been raised
$623,000 in addition to build and keep
in repair the connecting and aide
roads. To put it still stronger, we can
borrow $260,000; get the use o f it;
build more than a hundred miles of
permanent road; have money sufficient
to keep side roads in better shape for
travel than they have ever been, pay
off the bonds and interest and pay less
taxes for roads and bond issue per
annum for the coming 14 years than
we have paid annually for the past
three years. To illustrate, .th e road
tax for 1915 ia $77,000. Suppose the
bond issue carries and an arangement
could he perfected to raise $65,000 an
nually for the life of the bond period.
14 years. The interest for the first
four years would be $13,000 annually
This would be paid out of the annual
levy o f $65,000 and there would still be
$18,000 to be expended on side roads.
None of this would be needed on the
hundred milea or more o f trunk line as
the bonds would take care o f it and as
a matter o f fact there would be more
money for aide roads than formerly.
The fourth year one-tanth nf the
bonds, or $26,000, and the interest
$13,000 would have to be paid, a total
o f $39,000, but here would still be
$26,000 for side roade. and each year
thereafter the amount out o f the an
nual levy for aide road eonatruclion
would increase from the $26,000, the
fourth year to $37,700, the final year.
To bond teems like a big burden at
first thouhgt but as a matter of fact,
bonds can he voted and the annual
taxation lessened.
ftteamer Dials of Washington to Tlte
Dalles every morning about 9 a in .
except Monday. To Portland every
day about 1 p. in., except Monday
Steamer Bailey ••atxert to Tlx Dalle*
shout 4 p m . daily except Friday an t
Sunday
To Portland about 6 p. m
on the sain* Java.
No. 32
Warning is Given
PENDLETON IS IDEAL
By Fruit Auctions LOCATION FOR NORMAL
ATTACKSTEINHARDT
Nichol & Company
—D E A L E R S I N -
General
Me r c h a n d i s e
Pendleton, Ore -Pendleton's claims
for the establishment of a State Nor
Dial Sellout are based upon the unusual
advantages offered for such au Instl
tutiou
It is ideally located with re
aped to railroad facilities and in the
center of the country which It will
serve
lie health conditions are ex
celled
It has a bountiful supply of
clear, cold, pure mountain water
It offers a library of 12.000 volume*
to which are added 2000 annually
housed In a beautiful new building
erected at a cost of $40.000 The larg
eat athletic stadium iu the Northwest,
capable of accommodation 20.040 peo
pie a natatorium. modern and equip
ped for the use of men and women
built at a coat of $11.000 ample audl
torium room for lyceum courses aud
lectx.rex and a achool system that la
without equal In a city of Its sit* Its
facilities and the students necessary
for practice leaching have been guar
anteed by the city board.
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DI"I ■H - H " I " I " 1 " I " H " H I I I I I H - l l l - I d - l 4- H
I 1 1 I H i t
Don’t Neglect the Children’s Eyes
M ore—Y ou Prevent Permanent Defect
" e give e|wcial attention to the examination of children's eyes. We are
thoroughly ex|>erienoed in this work and will tell you frankly whether
glasses are required or not, and we will furnish them, properly fitted.
W . F. Laraway, Jeweler and Optician
H O O D R IV E R
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OREGON
Fruit Growers Attention
Will sell direct to planters, less agents commission, choice
lot of cherry, pear, apple and prune trees in one year old 3-4
and 4-fi ft. grades budded and grafted on best whole roots
and guaranteed true-to-name.
Please write or phone
TRUE-TO-NAMF. NURSERY, Hood River
STEAM ER
TAHOM A
PEOPLE’S NAVIGATION CO.
CHARLES NELSON, Mgr.
leaves The Malles 7:00 A. M., .Sundays, Tuesdft.vg and
Thursdays. Arrives at Mosier at 8:15. A. M.
Leaves Portland on Mondays. Wednesdays and Saturdays
from Oak Street Dock.
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Passengers and freight.
Mosier Dock in charge of W . F. Baker, who will meet all
boats and attend to transfer. Phone No. 191.
Pendleton Normal School
MOSIER FAIR IS
A BIG SUCCESS f
GOVERNOR W i l l AID
GROWERS’ AGENCY
1 1 I I H -H
Givi* attention to your chihl'g eyes in time ami you may save him or her
from the necessity of wearing glaeaeo later on.
While en route to Portland Monday
evening over the Columbia River high
way the engine in the automobile of
Dr. W. N. Morse, of Wasco, stalled
and the brakes, refusing to hold, the
car backed to the side of the bank and
turned turtle in the middle o f the
road, pinioning Dr. Morse and wife
beneath it. Mrs. Morse's left arm was
broken above the wrist and she also
received several severe bruises. Dr
Morse was bruised and lame from the
cramped position, and had endeavored
to dig his way out from the w reck««,
why the use o f his pocket knife, al
though he was able to do little as each
movement caused pain to his w ife
Local citixena jacked up the car and
freed the prisoners, and they took the
evening train to The Dalles where they 1
are recuperating in the hospital.
The big Case roadster was somewhat
damaged, although a local ritixen was
able to run it in to the garage o f J. P.
Tryon where it now stands
The vic
tims o f the accident stated that they
expected certain death and feel thank
ful that the accident waa not more
cortly.
From present indication* the previ
ously announced plan nf improving the
Kuthton hill grade on the C-olumhin
River highway in Hood River county
this year will be abandoned owing to
B R O W N 4 .“J ECO OM B, Auctioneers,
objections which have been
2 "t Fra t. k i; i g irt at, N v technical
interposed by State Engineer Lewis,
T H E F R l'IT AUC TIO N C O M PAN Y,
says the Portland Journal.
904 Franklin Street, N I ,
Following a precedent established
C O N N O LLY AU C TIO N C O M PAN Y,
two years ago when he advanced with
204 F'ranklin Street, N. Y. out interest to the State Highway Com
mission funds to construct the Howlby
tunnel at Mitchell point, S. Benson
offered a few weeks ago to make a
similar advance o f $30,000 to enable
work to proceed this fall on Kuthton
hill and in Columbia county to rom-
ilele the gap between Inglia and lie-
ena.
A verbal agreement was made with
The communitfy fair held in Mosier the State Highway Commission, but
Saturday afternoon brought out a good this agreement has not been formally
crowd o f farmers and townspeople. executed in writing, owing to questions
Exhibits were displayed by the local raised by State Engineer Lewis as to
grange, under whose auspices the lair the legality of the procedure.
was held, and considerable space was
As a result it can lie autbortatively
reserved for the exhibits of the loesl stated that the Hood River county work
school children in the industrisl club will not be undertaken on the lines pro
work. Members of the grange had posed by Mr. Benson.
many exhibits, both grown and manu
factured, as did the achool children.
O f the latter, Florence Kvana and
Ida Nielsen, were tied with high score
o f 87. these two girls will have their
expenses paid to the Corvallia Camp
School next June.
In the canning contest, A rts Cole
State cooperation with both the fed
was high with a score of 86, followed
by Ora Evans, with a score o f 84. A t eral government and the F'rult Grow
the Wasco county fair the order of era’ Agency is the result nf the confer
scores of these two girls was reversed. ence o f governors of the three North-
N. C, Maris, industrial Held worker western states which was held at
for the state of Oregon, who was the North Yakima last month. Governor
of
Oregon, Governor
judge o f the exhibits, said that the Withyeombe,
project report of A rts Cole was excep Alexander, of Idaho, and Govarnor
Lister,
o
f
Washington,
endorsed the
tionally good.
liowena was present with a good e x Agency and agreed to appoint an ad
hibit and a number o f pupils and visit visory board to conaiat of nine mem
ors accompanied their teachers here. bera, three to be appointed by the g o v
The function of
The teachers o f other districts were ernor of each state
alio present with good good repre this board is the suggestion o f means
whersby
the
state
governments
can
sentations.
County School Superintendent Clyde beet work with the federsl government
T. Bonney, and A. R. ( haie, county and the Ager.cy for the benefit o f the
agent, also were present from The fiu it industry o f the Northwest.
Governor Lister conferred with Pres
Dalles to assist in promoting the suc
uienl Weyraueh last week over the ap
cess o f the local fair.
A cafeteria aupper satisfied the hun pointments to be made, and the ap
ger of the crowd, and the day’s events pointments will probably be announced
were brought to a close by an enter just as soon as all three state execu
tainment furnished by the people of tive* can make their selections.
the community.
The ladies of the grange deaire to
AnD Blight Pear Found
express to the people their eernest
Pear
blight,
for years the menace of
appreciation for the patronage given
them during their supper. It netted the Bartlett pear industry, in seeking
the grange about $28 aud far exceeded a cure for which Ihe government has
their expectations
Later the grange spent hundreds o f thousands ol dollars
hall waa jammed with spectators, and so far without apparent success, soon
the turnout has stimulated the interest may be conquered
A hardy Chinese pear, now growing
of the members o f the grange who
state that a bigger and better fair la in the United Stales Plant Introduetion
Gardens, near Chico, C alif., may solve
already being planned for next fall.
An incomplete list o f pntewinners the problems o f pear blight control.
This statements was made by H P.
was received yesterday by Mrs. j . K.
Cole, who had charge nf the achool Stabler. Sotter county’s horticultural
children's exhibit, from < ounty Super commissioner.
It was found that a pear tree im
intendent Bonney. The complete list
ported from China is resistant against
will be published next week.
l* a r blight. The pear resists blight,
and it ha* been proved possible to graft
Bartlett peart onto this root
When
SUnky-Smith Kill Hosed
this is done, the peer tree will not
The big Green I'oint mill o f the have blight upon it* body and roots.
Slanley-Sn.ith Lumber Co. waa closed It practically w ill be impervious to the
Monday, after about a million feet of blight.
logs remaining in the ponds at Ihe time
These Chinese roots, however, are
the concern went into receivership were scarce in thie country et present. It
manufactured.
While the plant will will be neeeesary to send to Chins for
not he started again this year it is the n e d end grow the >reee in this
likely that it will be leased and operat country
But when this it done a step
ed rest summer, the company nwning toward doing away with Ihe greateet
rich timber holdings in the southwest menace of the peer grower will have
ern part o f the county.
teen taken.
O R E G O N ;;
m o s ie r
H I M
CAR TURNS TURTLE
PINIONING TWO
RUTHTON HILL WORK
TO BE ABANDONED
paid for before affidavit» are furnished.
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CITY S R A IL R O A D , H E A L T H . EDU
C A T IO N A L A N D O TH E R F AC ILI
T IE S
ADAPT
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PO R
SCHOOL
SITE.
To the Northwestern Apple Grower:
The telegram published ia the North
western papers purporting to have been
signed by Stemhmrdt 4 Kelly regarding
a sale of a car of Uriiues Golden apples
at public auction la New York City
on Monday, September 36th, in which
they attack the auction system of sell
ing and state that the fruit in this car
was “ slaughtered,” ia grossly false and
libelous.
We publish this statemeat so you will
know the truth, for unhappily such a
telegram deceives innocent growers. One
possible explanation of aueh a telegram
is that someone is inviting a suit for
libel. We gi\e public warning that we
will accommodate them i f after this
warning the offense is repeated.
In our judgment there is in the fruit
distributing industry too great a ten
deucy to make false and libelous svate
inents with a view o f influencing the
grower. We intend that this shall atop
when aimed at the Fruit Auctioa system
The fruit referred to in the Stein
hardt A K elly's telegram was dead,
green and immature, aud would never
have ripened. It had no color character
istic o f the variety and should not have
been thioped. More than half the car
had from 163 to 200 apples in each box.
The car was sold on Monday, the best
sales day of the week. There were
present at the auction sales of the day
fully two hundred and fifty buyers with
a full representation of all classes, and
buyers from the fancy fruit buyers to
the peddlers. The fruit was sold for the
full market value and not “ slaught
ered, " n s i are prepared to establish
or erwhelmingly.
Mr. Grower, remember, that Stein-
hardt 4 Kelly buy for a profit. They
believe that the adoption of the auc
tio system of selling by the Northwest
ern appls growers will interfere with
thsir business.
We believe that the
auction system will result in giving to
th^ grower at least a part of that profit.
You are interested in net returns to
you. False statements in the end in-
jure you. We want the auction system
judged on its merits, not oa false state
meats
Do net use the auction system i f you
are satisfied with your presen. system
of selling or i f the auction system will
not serve you better than any other
present selling system
On the Chicago auction market within
ten daya Washington Grimes Golden
apples have sold up to $2.25 per box for
extra fancy and $1.96 for fancy and
Washington Jonathans have sold up to
$2.20 per box for extra fancy and $1.72
per box for fancy. Give the axetiue
system a ‘ * Square Deal.' ’
to the party order in* 'hem. at logoi ratea, and
4 I I H l l l -H -I H i-l-H -l-H b
P U B LISH E D
Proven Necessity
(C opi ed
from
Portland O r a g o m a a )
M O N M O U T H , O r a . Jane 24
T h e O re go n N orm al
school oponod this week
students enrolled 714.
largest oa record far state N o r m a l In O re go n
. . .
how to care for lar ge sliideai bodv a proble m . . . .
»04 being crow de d ¡uto auditorium with se a lin g ca
parity of 66*
G al le ri es filled with e x tra chairs iu
aisles
M or a than 140 u n d e n t « seated on g l a t f a r a
N s w board in g bau sas completed additions to room
lug houees bulli end teats used
O u t hundred girls
sleep on upper floor of school
T h e official achool report g iv es I I * g ra d e pupilo
la Monniauth, for toachor practice
Kead what those yuu have elected to handle the
affaire of yuur alate and who are thoroughly informed
reggiUmg school condition* in Oregon have to suy
conrerniag measure 3*8 on the ballot at the cumiag
election:
By J a m a § Wlthygomtoo, Q « v « r n « r ef Oregon
“ O r e g o n Is uriqueatipr *blv in ne*d of m u r e n o r m a l
•4 hool w o r k a nd Heodletfti: la Die uh*t< at p lo r e fui a
• ■ hool o f t h is < la s « in Ras i«» i n «» regoli
By J. A Churchill, State S u p e r Intendsnt of Public
Instruction
i trust that the eat ers of «ho g i s t e wtll ansisi is
r a i s i n g the s t a n d a r d af o u r a- »tools t> • a t a M ia h ln g a
Míate N o r m a l Hi hoo at Pend l$*u»n
Hjr P L. C am p b e ll, Pre si de n t of tho U n i v e r s i t y af
Ore gon
At
west a n « a d d it i o n a l N o r m a l •<hoot Is u r g e n t i *
ciearied >fi O r e g o n
By W J Karr, Pre si den t of tho O re go n Agricultural
Ca lla ga
‘Hlrn-e tka people of P en dl et o n a re i n i t i a t i n g t i o r u u f $
for the e s t a b li s h m e n t ef a N o r m a l 0 ' h o e t at th e« pises.
It wtll g iv e me ple a su re ts s u p p o r t t hi s m e a s u r e '
By J. M Ac ke rm an, Pre si de n t O re go n N or m a l tehe e!,
at Monmouth
*‘ A care/ul a n e iy e l e ef the s i t u a t io n w ill
envines ear
oris t ha t «» ree on needs s N o r m a l K hool in fc em o rn O r e
g n n and P e n d l e t o n filia all the g o v e r n m e n t r equi » a m e n t s *’
By the County School f u g a r Intendente of Ore gon
Resolve d
that It is the sense of the « o u n f y Mohoei
Mu pe rln te r d e n t s of th e i t a t e of O i e g o n
• >i v e n t i # «
Ht ee mb led . that the heet In f o i a s t e o f the 04 ho o l« o f the
S t a t e d e m a n d lac re eo ed fa- lilti es far the t r a i n i n g ef
» e e - h e r e and that wa t h e r e fo r e endere* rhe i n i t i a t i v e
m e a s u r e to e sta bl is h a N o r m a l M hoot at P e n di ó te *
By Mrs. Cha riot H Cddtnor, Prso«dont of the Oregon
Federation of W o m e n ' s Cl ubs
I meat h e a r t i l y e nd or sa
deh eel at P e n di e r en
the lo<atton of oa d N o i s e s !
Prof
Potori C
French. Fo rm er Pres ide nt
N orm al tc ho ol Located at W es ton
of
tho
Ait i m m e d i a t e e s t a b li s h m e n t of su» h a *• hool at soma
e o t r a i outfit su» h as P en dl et o n w ou ld p ro v e a g r e a t asset
to the R i s t o of O r e g o n
0
F Muthoy, l a Pres ide nt Southern O re go n N or m a l
Itktei
I shot» s u p p o r r m e ¡ouot'en
N o r m a l M'-hool at P en di a t e#
of
on
teooiorn
Oregon
State Huurd of Hegenta of O regon N o rm a l School
d e d u rr* that “ Ihe n e c e u ity fo r uddilionu l N o rm a l
school fa cilitici in O n gun is u|i|iurrnl
P ortland C h a m b e r of C o m m e rc e endorse» nieusure
:UWt ind say Pendleton most Ingicui locution for N o r
mu I school in hustern O regon
308 X YES is a
« Hold A d « )
vote for your children
k o s te » a O re g o n arato Normal
huel C o m m it lea
I f J I f O w fn n do« y . » ’en d iet«*«. O ro