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. iuW THAT WAS PRESIDENT ANDREW OLD HICKOQV w nlGHTY PAPTICULAB ABOUT HIS TOBACCO ST. HELENS MIST, FRIDAY. QCTnHPP 26. 1917 -i -J i Li t yry I UJSL UPAVPivId CELFRRATcri f- Chewing pjU EE3 BEFORE TMF iuucJu 1 OF OUR PATENT AIR-PROOF POUCH GRAVELY PLUG TOBACCO MAOE BTRICTUY FOR ITS CHEWING OUALfTV WOULD NOT KEEP FRESH IN THIS SECrloN. NOW THE PATENT POUCH KEEP3 IT FRESH AND CLEAN AND GOOD. A LITTLE CHEW OF GRAVELY 18 CNOUQh AND LASTS LONGER THAN A BIO CHEW 7na rofp'NARY PLUO. BEFORF nil I V DOCTm GETS THROUGH, A LOT OF OTMEP PFflDi r vwii i oe GETTING PARTICULAR TOO 1 i"" ft 7l 4 SERVING TIME IN A RIVER TOWN (Continued from Page 1) Livery, Feed and Sale Stable DRAYINC AND TRANSFER All Biuineit Promptly Attended To PHONE IS RIFLE CLUBS CAN HELP TRAIN DRAFTED MEN N. It. A. OrKiinljtll.iiiH llnve Already Niipplled Many Kxrt Marksmen. WM. H. DAVIES ST. HELENS, OREGON Prop. OCEAN VOYAGES arc Comfortable, Safe and Speedy on the roilCK i S.UNE OF STEAMERS San Francisco, San Pedro and Los Angeles Weekly sailings from St. Helens For information, rates and reservations phone A-89 ST. HELENS LUMBER CO. ASK YOUR GROCER For Bread from our modern, cleanly bakery. You will like it and continue to use it. Cream Rolls, Cream Puffs, Doughnuts, Pies and Cakes WEST ST. HELENS BAKERY S. HEUMAN, Proprietor Phone B-114 West St. Helens, Oregon Fall Coats and Millinery We have just received a large line of Fall Coats and Millinery direct from New York. The styles are dis tinctive and exclusive and the prices are most reasonable WE INVITE YOUR INSPECTION M. ROSENTHAL Automobiles for Hire We are at your service for special automobile trips. Our rates are reasonable. Day and night calls answered. Auto Accessories Gasoline Oils ; Storage AJAX TIRES 5,000 mile guarantee W. J. Muckle Garage Phone A 70 St. Helens, Oregon SPECIAL SATURDAY HENS 24c lb FRYERS 26c lb SWISS CHEESE 4Sc - UMBURGER 4C lb' ST. HELENS MARKET T. II. ROY PHONK FRESH AND CURED FISH AND POULTRY o'clock in tlio morning a killing froHt descen (led on the potatoes and vege- uthles, and rarmlng on the Tenanna took a set hack. I was told that a fog saved the gardens further up the rlvor. "Too had," said "Austrian Joe." "Too late to ship in potatoes now." Tlio folders and boom literature lent out picture Fairbanks and the sui rounding country as a wonderful agricultural nectlon, yet the boats " lif t crnie up from Nome bring loads ;)f the very stufT I be folders state If !;eing raised In su I: .A.v.i.i :ice where I. Is unloaded. It Imi'I a farming country. I don't believe it ever will be. The seasons are too short and the weather too un certain. When the sun does shine on its long summer schedule, everything grows wonderfully fast, but the sud den and unexpected changes in the weather, and a killing frost, will ruin everything in an hour. In my Judg ment crop raising In Alaska is as uncertain and hazardous ns mining. There were only two places to eat in Tananna, and you could take your choice and tliLre was no choice. Two chinks had restaurants side by side, j Schools of musketry, the army poo- j and they had a closed combination on l)n call them, but nevertheless they ; competition. Meals were one dollar Hum out in short order men trained ! eacn' an(i there was no discount to In the Brt of shooting, and these men tourists. A longshoreman would sit In turn are also capable of Imparting at tlio lunch counter and order the luiitruction. In other words, each same meal as I did and pay four bits student who successfully passes a for and then the Celestial would course In marksmanship automatical-1 rinK "P one dollar for mo, at the same ly becomes a teacher. time, while I watched the figures on It Is quite a problem that the war ' tlio cash register. It appears to me a department has facing It In teaching splendid exhibition of nerve. But something llko 4 5,000 men in each tourists are considered legitimate of the sixteen cantonments scattered Prov- ,Jut 1 wl" tl,at the meals throughout the country, In the rndl-:were B0(' and wc" cooked, barring meiils of rlllo shooting. Iloforc a sin-i some fides. One of the trifles, or glo American soldier is sent to the'a pair of them, were two able-bodied bring line In Europe ho should be 1 mosquitoes floating around In my u qualified marksman of first-class ! coffee cup. I called the chink's at or better. Thoso of our soldiers whotentlon to the natatorlum and he ro cannot be taught to shoot straight marked, "Get in water." I asked for should bo transferred to some other j another cup of coffee, and he replied, branch of the service where they are "Makee no dlf, get in next cup " I not required to shoulder or Bhoot a u'fl ,lle coffee for the next man. rlHo. When tho weather cleared we slop- TIki best drilled aoldior In the Pe1 out to a little stream whero some world Is absolutely useless unless he minors were prospecting fighting knows how to use a bayonet and to the water and cave-ins and trying to shoot straight. Kel a l'ole down to bed rock. One of To teach marksmanship to 800,000 them told me there was "a prospect" or more men is a big task. The low- there. "A prospect." These two est possible estlmato would call for worl8 are heard all over Alaska. 10.000 teachers. There are more They are the miners' hope, the grub than this number of men available stakers' curse. "A prospect." Men, who aro qualified as shooting In- chaso them for years and years. They Istructors and it Is these very men Bo through hnrdshlps and suffering who are agitating the organization known nowhere else on God's earth, of schools of marksmanship In every, They work 18 hours a day at the state and in localities adjacent to hardest possible labor, live like beasts largo cities. alul llnlf starve. Skin rashes break i Tho National Hllle Association of out because of filthy bodily condi ; America claims something like 3,000 tions. scurvey sometimes follows; affiliated rille clubs. In each of these rheumatism ts common and strong clubs are many expert riflemen, and men soon break down for life, maiiv of tho clubs have already fur-' After Bcven days tho steamer Alice nished n number of officers for the came in. It arrived in tho night and Iteserve and National Guard. As these early the next morning I paid my bill clubs aro located In every section of ; and took my grip and went aboard, 'the country, already organized, it i The big gang plank was not yet does seem that the logical plan would down, only a long, limber plank, ho to call upon each club to organ- about a foot wide. It took some ... n-nltr 1 tint f uraa 1 rtunnrn t r Izo a school for the Instruction or Its " l" ""v members and of all citizens who can.; to get aboard and I made it safely, not go to the front but wish to do I The purser was Just getting up. I their bit by helping where help is presented my ticket. He looked over most needed. . . ( bis list, handed it back and re- I.ot every rifle club not wait for marked: "Nothing doing, full up. further encouragement from any In vain I argued I had a through source, but go to work at once and ticket and must go on that boa or organize schools for marksmanship. T would miss the Umatilla at St. Mich Tho mora men who are taught to aels. "Can't take you. everything Is shoot tho bettor It will be for the,'""- See the agent. to be i Again I negouaieu uio iiuiiu ! plank and found the "agent," and 1 5 4 2 in. Post Large Filler Steel Beds are strong, yet nearly as light as 0 1 brass. X bteel Bed $12-25 E. A. ROSS Bank Bldg., St. Helens 4 V li tfank Bldg., St. Helens T Finished in any wood J finish to match dresser, etc. $1.50 Extra Other Beds from $4.25 up Full line of SPRINGS, MATT T? V coco : j v u ugxij CU1U PILLOWS prices at right We Serve Only the Best Our place has gained a reputation for serving the best Meals and Lunches. Then, too, we handle Cigars, Candies and Soft Drinks. Some morning try our Waf fles ; many people tell us they are very good. MASON'S A nice lunch at any time; prices reasonable. CITY GARAGE Agency for The Chevrolet Sold on easy terms Hupmobile Service Station Keep a Full Line of Firestone Tires OIL, GASOLINE AND ACCESSORIES Best equipped Machine Shop in the town for Auto and Marine Work Battery Recharging St. Helens, Oregon CENTRAL MARKET RAY MORTON 1 . Phone 60 The Market of Purity and Quality of Meats both Fresh and Cured. Greatest assortment of Lunch Meats in town. Highest cash price paid for Hogs and Veal. A trial will be appreciated. Prompt Delivery yet efficiency of the troops i (tin enlnrfl To be a good soldier and obey or-!sisica ' ' " dors is one thing, to be a well drilled ; ticket and it v,as up to the company soldier Is another, but to be able to; to give mo pr.ssage. but he said the bit wDat you aim at Is everything. : best he could do was a standee. ,.et the schools for marksmanship ; This he explained was a canvas cov- erillg, Willi BUIUU UHU1BDIO, t.MM i ' passenger could hunt his place on the ! lower deck he could sleep on theK ! floor around the boiler or on tho i wood pile. It didn't do any good to come ns quickly as possible. Coming to Kelso Doctor MELLENTHIN & CO. Specialist Do not use surgery. Will bo at Rock well Ilotol Monday, November 12. Offlco Hours 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. One Day Only GEO. H. SHINN, Pres. L. R. RUTHERFORD, Sec. Columbia County Abstract Company ST. HELENS, OREGON The only complete abstract system in Colum bia County, Oregon. BEST WORK LOWEST PRICES protest that my ticket was not steer-j ige tako it or leave It. Then the purser came ashore and sang a ditty of hopo to mo. Ho said I si m ul v could not endure a "stnn- x, f- .nmlnatlnn. The dee " for lour aays ana nignis, uUl doctor In charge is a regular gradu- said the Sarah was due In three days; j ate In Medicine and Surgory and is gije Was an oil burner and didn't have licensed by tho state of Washington, i tof W00(J. ghe would g0 down S&frXnVf and wou.d not have any long: to all who call on this trip consulta-; stops, and she would make the Uma tlon and examination free, except the ; tllla wtlri tlmo to spare, expense of treatment when desired. j wont ,n t0 the agent and he mores . i appendicitis, gall stones, ulcers of my ticket and asked him If it was stomach, tonsils or adenoids. 'good on the Victoria, If the Umatilla. He lias to his credit ninny won- WRg mls8ed( nn,i he answered me it 2erTU5b0 d on either lino and pointed nerves, heart, kidney, bladder, bed-'out the printed provisions, good on, ...niiinlr rntarrh. weak lungs, rheu-' either the Alaska or Tactile Steam-, mutism, sciatica, leg ulcers and roctal gh,p Companles from St. Michael to ailments. But ho 'assured me there I. i !. nlllnir fnr nnv : BOBllie. length of tlmo and do not get any ' would be no doubt about making the better do not fail to call, as im- Umatilla, "no doubt at all." proper measures rather than disease i And r(glt ,ore j wimt to remark are very orten ne cause ui juu. , nfter ft bont ,eavog Dawgon "nemoVbp0" above date, that exam- everything Is chance. Nobody knows Inatlon on this trip will be free and anything positive. Each steamer runs that bis treatment ts different. A . to its division point and none know UrWnM. uu" i . a .i .. i i,rt n ltnn will oat in or estii nr what Us, Minn. Your Savings What are You Doing With Them? Are you letting them dribble out, a little here and a little there, for things that will be of little if any benefit to you? Or are you keeping them intact so that they may grow into a respectable sum that will count when you see the chance for a good investment? Paid Adv. Subscribe for tho Mist. time a boat will get in or out, or what connections will be made. At the same (Continued on Page 4) ASavings Bank Account keeps your money all in a lump, ready at any time you need it. And if you get the savings habit it is worth almost as much as the savings themselves. This bank solicits savings accounts, large and small. Let us help you toward success. 4 The Columbia County Bank St. Helens, Oregon Oldest in the Count Interest on Savings Deposits