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a Week. LEBANON EXPRESS, LEBANON, OREGON PAGE THREE ACTIVITIES OF THE WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB The Pestiferous Fly Was the Topic at the Meeting Yesterday The Woman's Civic Club and the public schools of Lebanon have joined forces and intend to carry on a vigorous campaign against a common foe, the housefly. They will use all methods known to science, and by staying with the proposition hope to make perceptible headway this summer, and reopen the campaign early next spring. On Monday afternoon at the open meeting of the Civic Club held in the club rooms in the Methodist church, a very interesting and instructive program was offered. It is to be regretted that more housewives did not avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing Mrs.

A. H. Ross, who spoke on the topic, "City Flies and Health." She presented her subject in a very effective manner. Her talk was interspersed with readings from scientific papers, giving the results of tests made to ascertain the deadly work done by the fly. To eradicate the fly, cleanliness must hold sway, and the speaker described the system followed in Berlin, which is said to be a flyless city.

This was followed by a talk by Superintendent Thordarson who said he was pleased to co-operate with the Civic club in carrying on a fly campaign, and outlined the work being done in the public schools to educate the children on the subject. It is by edcating the children that best results can be obtained. They not only carry their ideas into the homes, but they are forming ideals that will serve them well later in life. Mr. Thordarsen also explained the value of fly traps and told of the work being done by.

the school boys. "Do it now," should be the watchword in this campaign for ev ery day means an increase in the ranks of the enemy. Those present expressed themselves as well pleased with the program, as many helpful ideas were gained. DVORAK'S MARKET REPORT Butter on the slump. Eggs 180 Holding strong in spite of heavy arrivals.

WOOL Offerings numerous. Steady at 28c. MOHAIR All waiting for the pool. A few purchases at 33c. GET DVORAK'S PRICES Prunes in Marion Salem, April to fruitgrowers there will be a 60 per cent.

prune crop this year, but prices are said to promise well, and it is believed that these will offset the diminished crop. The failure of pollenization for a number of reasons is given AS cause for a diminished crop. Considerable of the prunes in the older orchards are falling. The young orcharde, however, will bear well, it is said. Card of Thanks We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to those who tendered us their assistance and sympathy during the sickness and after the death of our mother and grandmother.

J. H. Skinner and Wife. Frank Skinner. The plan Inaugurated about three months ago by the Portland Union Stockyards whereby the school children of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, by signing a 10-months note at six per could receive highgrade sows already bred and treated for cholera, has met with such success that it has been necessary to call a conference of the raisers of stock of that class to devise means for filling all the applications for stock.

It Is believed this campaign will be nation-wide in its effects on the industry. On July 6, Portland will entertain a distinguisbed party of business men and financiers from China who will visit this section on a general business, survey of the Pacifie Northwest. Oregon's Oriental trade in grain, lumber and manufactured products has been incrensing in importance for several years, largely as the result of a visit of prominent business men to China, and the visit here in July will be in the noture of a return call. OBITUARY Parena Elizabeth Parrish was born in Ohio, June 10, 1843; came across the plains with her parents to Oregon in 1852 married to W. H.

Reed February 24, 1859, To this union were born three children. She was left a widow in 1897 and was married to W. B. Lucas May 11, 1903. She died April 22, 1915, aged 71 years, 10 months and 12 days and is survived by her husband, W.

B. Lucas and two children by former marriage, C. A. Reed of Lebanon and Mrs. Nellie Peebler of Portland; two sisters, Mrs.

Ida Ireland of Lebanon and Mrs. Emily Sonnek of Palouse, Wash; three brothers, Alexander Parrish of Portland, Bonj. Parrish of Stayton, and Hogue Parrish of Sodaville. Also a granddaughter, Mrs. Rose Murphy of Portland and a great granddaughter, Elaine Murphy, besides a host of friends who live to mourn their loss.

She was a firm believer in Spiritualism. Was a loving wife, good mother and a loyal friend, always ready and willing to lend a hand in sickness or trouble. Though gone, she is not forgotten, and her loving deeds and acts of kindness do follow her. "There is no death! What seems 90 is transition, This life of mortal breath is but the suburb of the life elysian, Whose portals we call death. We will be patient and assauge the feelings, We may not wholly stay, By silence sanctifying, not concealing, The grief that must have way." Funeral services were conducted at the family home near Sodaville by Geo.

W. Simons, Christian minister, after which the loved form was laid to rest beneaht a mound of beautiful floral offerings in the 1 I. 0. 0. F.

cemetery near Lebanon. Card of Thanks We wish to express our appreciation and thanks to the many friends who so kindly assisted us during our recent bereavement in the loss of our beloved wife and mother. W. B. Lucus.

C. A. Reid. Nellie Peebler. NOTICE The American Central Insurance Co.

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Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (cause by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. F.

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The buildings are ready and the machinery and the materials are at hand from which to make a high grade of cement. It stated that recent sales of stock have been made amounting to over $300,000 and that the company has $50,000 on deposit. It the plant is put Into operation it will be the only cement mill between Bellingham, Washington, and points in California. Meritol Rheumatism Powders The unusually large sale of this remedy in the best evidence we coul offer you to prove its merit. It la made of effective Ingredients, and is guaranteed to give permanent relet for rheumatism.

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REPLY TO THE CRITERION Editor you kindly grant me space in the columas of your paper to reply to a thrust of the In the first place I shall explain what gave rise to the first criticism which appeared in the Criterion. I think it was in the issue of the 9th inst. The question before the council at that time was, shall we continue the survey cf outlaying streets grades and making profiles of the same, or shall we discontinue the work until we are ready for permanent improvements? Dr. Kimmell and I took the position that owing to the fact that the people were laboring under heavy taxation, having the highest mill tax of any town or city in the state that we knew anything about, and also as the work if done would be largely preliminary and would all have to be done over if we' undertook any permanent improvements. So in the above named issue of the Criterion, the editor undertook to criticise the mayor and two of the councilmen for their so-called economy, as he would make it appear, and concluded 1 his article by saying that Mr.

McArthur is entitled to a vote of thanks from the taxpayers of the city for the good work he has done instead of condemnation which seems the purpose of the councilmen. At the last meeting of the council I took occasion to criticise the Criterion man for making what he knew to be a false statement. We did not condemn Mr. McArthur, which I am satisfied he will tell you himself, and I further believe that every councilman present will say the sam thing, but in the interest of the taxpayers we were opposed to spending the people's money unnecessarily. I didn't condemn the Criterion man for not being a taxpayer, but I said not being a taxpayer, he could well 1 afford to advocate the useless expenditure of the people's money hoping thereby he might get some of the drippings from the city funds.

Refering to the charge that the records falled to show that I had paid any tax for the years 1913 and 1914, I can only refer you to the First National Bank, the medium through which I paid my taxes. For the year 1913, I gave them my personal check for $29.00 and for the year 1914, I gave them my personal check for $34.43. What difference would It make if I didn't pay any tak at all? I was elected by the taxpayers of my ward and also by some who paid no tax at all perhaps. I am in favor of all necessary improvements at the least possible cost but am opposed to the unnecessary expenditure of any money at all. As to my veracity, I am willing that the people may decide that question- -the people among whom I have lived for a fourth of a century.

Had had the masterly mind and the forethought of the Criterion man and gone into the newspaper bustness as I did, I might have been worth a half a million. See what he has made in his fifty or more years time. Coming to Lebanon from somewhere (nobody knows and buying a bankrupt paper (tor charity sake, of course, for ne doubt he could have owned the Oregonian just as well, reasoning from his own view point.) He has been doing the City's printing; his bills have all been paid. But in order to show the people how small he is, I will state a little Incident that occurred in the Council Chamber. The City Recorder had advertised for bids for the printing of some improvement bonds.

When the bids were opened, the council found the bid from the Criterion to be $50.00 and the bid from the Express was $45.00 for the same work. On motion of bellman Ingram, the council unanimously voted to let the contract to the Express. After the council adjourned, Mr. Criterion man jumped onto Mr. Ingram with both feet and ripped the whole council up the back because he didn't get the job.

When I was down to the state fair last fall I heard what appeared to be the voice of giant; 80 1 rushed down to 500 the man, but when I got there I found a little bit of a midget talking through a megaphone. So it is with this man: nothing but a midget in newspaperdom hiding behind the megaphone of his little paper and howls and wonders, and then howls and wonders again why the people don't Iterally fall over each other to buy his paper. S. O. WALLACE.

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Prof. A. W. Grater A FIERY DOSE By JOHN Y. LARNED When Billy Olcott was invited to spend a week with his friend Tom Roberts he was delighted He had met Tom's sister.

Fanny, and had fallen before a pair of liquid brown eves, a pair of coral lips and a pair of dimples. one in each cheek. Since that meeting he bad thought of her by day and dreamed of her by night. He received the invitation on Monday for the following Friday. Then followed the tour longest days of Billy's life.

He counted the hours till at last the day of his departure arrived, and an hour before dinner he was under the same roof with the girl who had enthralled him. Now for the wooing. Tom's brother, Jim, was Ill in bed and did not make his appearance. On the second night of Billy's visit be went to bed at 11 o'clock and was soon asleep. He was awakened by hearing some one moving about the room.

Whoever it was tried to light match. It sputtered a moment aud went out, but not before Billy saw by its light the face of Fanny Roberts. "There," she grumbled, "the last match gone, and I don't know where to And another! However, I know exactly where left your medicine the closet on the third shelf from the bottom in the right band corner. 1 don't bellere in giving medicine in the dark, but I'll risk it this time." Billy beard her groping and fumbling, and Onally she came to his bedside, put glass half full of some liquid to his lips and poured it down his thront. Then she left him with a good night.

Olcott was one of the most modest. sensitive young men in the world, and he considered young girls to be even more sensitive than himself. It Fanny knew that she bad come Into his room at midnight by mistake to give him a dose of medicine she would never get over the shock. This is the reason why he had not made her mistake known to her and why he bad permitted her to pour down his thront medicine he did not need. I He lay congratulating himself on the delicacy with which he bad handled the matter and how, if she came to know of her mistake, it would set him up times in her caught by opinion.

trifles, Girls, and he were wouldn't some, wonder if this bit of sacrifice would cause her to tall in love with him. Then be felt something down in his stomach where the dose had gone that felt piled as to if his a red internals. bot poker had started. been ap- dose in the dark had been given him, and might it not bave been the wrong medieine? Another application of the hot poker. He sat up In bed, his hair stood on end and a cold sweat broke out all over him.

Fanny had been looking for a bottle in the closet in her brother's room, not Billy's. She certainly bad given bim the wrong dose. Great heavens! Could she have polsoned him? A third application of the poker. This time it seemed to Billy that some one had gripped him with redbot pincers. He sprang out of bed, ran to Tom Roberts' door and hammered on It.

Tom came out in his pajamas and asked what was the matter. "Bring me an emetic as soon you cried Billy. "I'm afraid I've swallowed Tom ran to his sister's door, called her up and told her to go downstairs and bring up some mustard and warm water. She tried to And out who had been poisoned, but Tom told her to "go on and be quick about it." When she brought up the emetic she found Billy's door open, the room lighted and her brother bending over the groaning invalid. Then for the frat time she under stood the cause of the trouble.

She dew to the closet, opened the door, took out vial and read the label. Then she pot the vial back again and gave Billy a look, but said nothing. "I took a dose of that." said Billy between groans. "WIll it kill "No," replied Fanny. is it?" "A preparation of ginger and red "Is that all?" "Yes; It won't burt you." "That's past praying for.

It's eating my vitals." heaven It's no worse." bad enough as it is." "How came you to take it?" queried Tom. This was a poser. Billy took adrantage of another Internal Grebrand to invent story. When the paroxysm had passed he said: "Just before came up here felt sick and weut to a doctor. fle said 1 had anthropomegaphose and gave me some medicine for it.

1 forgot to take it before going to bed; got up and bunted for it to the dart must have got Into the wrong place." By this time the emetic took effect, and Fanny took advantage of the fact to withdraw. While Billy was retching he thought be beard a te hee in the nest room. "Confound that he eald mentally -be WAR doing something else me trying to shield ber again. Next time she tries to give me a dose I'll torn it down ber own throat." Bet the nest morning be felt better and was doing a lot of spoouing-not with medicine either. Same time and rates De Luxe Tours to California as all Rail.

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Therefore, it la a pleasure to recommend him as a good moral man who will be a benefit to any community. Yours very truly, WARREN BROWN, County Clerk of Crook County, To Whom It May Concern: We take great pleasure In recommending the bearer, Dr. A. W. Grater who has been practicing here for several years, we know that he will make no misstatementa and cam be relied upon to do what he claims, either in the way of his -profession or in business, E.

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Grater, is personally known to me, and that have known him for the past two years, that during that time I have known him to be an upright citizen and a moral and reputable man. Furthermore, that during said time ho has practiced hie profession of healing in this county there has never been charged against him by any person any violation of law or the rules of proper conduct. That he leaves our community with the good will of its people and the best wishes of all. W. COLLINSON, County Attorney, Luous County.

C'ariton, Iowa, Sept. 23, 1912. FINAL ACCOUNT Notice is hereby given that the undersigned executor of the estate of John Janeski, deceased, has filed hid final account in said estate with the County Clerk of Linn County, Oregon, and the County Court of said County has set Monday, June 7th, 1915, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, at the County Court House in Albany, Linn County, Oregon, as the time and place for the hearing of objections to such final account, and the settlement thereof. Dated and published the first time this 20th day of April, 1916. SAM'L M.

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