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Records of Whitman County
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19. 1914
Read Mortgages
Trustees of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church, Colfax, Wash., to
the Board of Home Missions and
Church Extension of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Philadelphia,
lets 6 and 6. blk 8, Colfax, $5000.
Chattel Mortgages
James P. Campbell and wife t«
Ed Cole ot al., live stock, $775.
John V. Mayer to Aultman & Tay
lor Machinery Co., machinery, $865.
Releases
E. A. Kampen to Augustus M.
Durkee, real mortgage.
Miscellaneous
Standard Lumber Co. vs. F. C.
Potter and wife, lot 7. blk 32, Re
survey of Steptoe, lien, $145.
Standard Lumber Co. vs. C. O.
Hand and wife, tract 12, Throop s
First add'Steptoe, lien, $73.
City of Colfax vs. Sarah Davidson,
a minor, by her guardian, M, J. Da
vidson, et al., part of lot 3. blk 50,
Colfax, lis pendens.
THURSDAY, AUG. 20, 1914
Deeds
John F. Davidson to Saraa David
son, lot 3, blk 50, Colfax, $1.
William T. Nance to Sadie E.
Nonce, tract in Garfield and part
loth 3 and 4. blk 5, Garfield, $1.
J. W. Cox and wife to Claude H.
R'ce, lot 2, blk i. hantford A. Man
ring's add. Garfield, $900.
Frank Foy to Bessie Foy, wh seq
at.d eh swq and nwq swq and swq
*wq 12-17-44 (ex), lots 9. 10. 11,
-2. blk 1, Second add t.- Elberton,
love and affection.
Chattel Mortgages
N. M. Swansot. c. al. to J I. Case
Threshing Machine Co., threshing
machinery, $976.
Releases
Charles Roberts to Geo. J. Scha
degg, chattel mortgage.
Pullman State Bank to W. W.
Stoddard, chattel mortgage.
Conditional Bills of Sale
National Cash Register Co. to
Students' Book Co., cash register
$62.
Miscellaneous
William T. Nance, with Sadie E.
Nance, property agreement, real es
tate In Garfield.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21. 1914
Deeds
S. A. Nixon and wife to W. J.
Morrell, lot 3, blk 34, Brlckner &
Nixon's add, Colfax, $1.
W. J. Morrell and wife to It. H.
Reid, lot 3, blk 34. Brlckner & Nix
on's add, Colfax, $1.
Real Mortgages
Frank Stephens and wife to Pull
man Savings & Loan Association, lot
4, blk 44, Pullman, $500.
Belle L. Green to Pullman Savings
&■ Loan Association, lot 4 and eh lot
5, blk 13, Pullman, $800.
Bills of Sale
Nancy Whltely to Martha Whitely,
live stock, $800.
SATURDAY, AUG. 22, 1914
Deeds
John Q. Anderson and wife to the
Washington Development Co., lot. i,
blk 4, Palouse Orchards, $1.
Henry V. Moore and wife to Henry-
Edward Moore, part of lot 18 of Mc-
Gee's subdivision of seq of 32-15-4
$1.
Mary I. Culp to A. O. Culp, lots 5,
6, 7, 8, blk 31, Mrs. Elizabeth Shee
han's add, Farmington, $1.
Real Mortgages
George H. Rae and wife to Harry
Lee Taft, trustee, part of seq 9-20
--45, $2800.
Chattel Mortgage**
O. A. Hodge and J. E. Davis to A.
H. Averill Machinery Co.. threshing
machinery, $943.
Releases
First State Bank of La Crosse to
Rollle Ellis, real mortgage.
J. A. Perkins, agent, to J. M.
Richardson, chattel mortgage.
MONDAY. AUGUST 24, 1914
Deeds
Eliza Rufener to Bertha E. Blake
more, lots 3. 4, 13, 14, 15, 16, blk 1.
Bell & Bailey's add, Oakesdale,
$1000.
John Hoist and wife to C. J. Hoist,
lot 12, blk 3, Shobe's Ist add. La
Crosse, $1500.
Allen M. Finch and wife to Perry
J. Clark, lots 9 and 10, blk 5, Mc-
Croskey's add, Garfield, $10.
Chattel Mortgages
C. O. Wilson et al. to Rumely
Products Co.. machinery, $400.
A. D. O'Kelley et al. to A. H. Aver
ill Machinery Co., threshing machin
ery, $960.
Ed Faulstlch and Burrell F.
Smith to Aultman & Taylor Co., one
set tank trucks. $138.
O. V. Bryson to L. Schmuck, fur
niture used In the "Helm Rooms,"
on sh of lot 6. and 20 feet of the nh
of lot 5, blk 7, and lot 6, blk 6, Col.
fax.
Releases
First State Bank, La Crosse, to Ed
Andrus, chattel mortgage.
Alfred Perrenaud to Edwin An
drus, chattel mortgage.
Standard Lumber Co. to Joseph
Whitehouae, lien.
Conditional BIB* of Sale'
Moueywelght Scale Co. to Albert
Gerber, computing scale. $85.
Mouoyweight Scale Co. to Barton
Bros., computing scale, $160.
Money-weight Scale . Co. to D.
Campbell, computing scale, $160.
Hills of Sale
Peter Helm to 0. V. Brysou, all
furniture used in connection with
the "Helm Rooms,'' situated on part
lot 5, blk 7, and lot 6, blk 6, Colfax,
$2500.
Miscellaneous
Link & Ochs vs. John Heldinger,
threshing wheat, $168.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1914
Deeds
Smith H. McCall and wife to E. V.
Hughes, lot 9, blk 2, Winona, $50.
T. P. Gose and wife to Potlatch
Lumber Co., lot 8, blk 2, Winona,
$90.
Cora Laird and husband to Anna
L. Smith, lot 5, blk 9, La Crosse,
$2800.
Chattel Mortgages
Oscar Van Tine to Rumely Prod
ucts Co., machinery, live stock and
an undivided one-half interest in
crops grown during the years 1914
--191 ■"> on nwq 27-17-44, swq seq and
sh swq and sh of nh of swq 22-17
--44, $2816.
P. If. and F. M. Arrasmith to
Nicholas & Shepard Co., machinery,
$870.
Ray Lamb to Anthony Schu
macher, all interest in crops grown
during the years 1914-1915 on nh
2-19-41, also one-half interest In
natural increase of live stock, $1500.
J. C. Whitehead to Addle Brown,
live stock, wagon and harness, $160.
Bills of Sale
Spokane Merchants association to
P. L. Howard, stock of groceries and
fixtures located in the Poole & Tyler
building, Tekoa, $1459.
Mac Donald Bros, to L. E. Hatch
and R. L. Smith, Palouse Garage,
Palouse, $4975.
Miscellaneous
Aultman & Taylor Machinery Co.,
with E. 10. Snyder, affidavit for re
newal of chattel mortgage.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20. 1914
Deeds
Sheriff of Whitman County,
Wash,, to S. D. Lommasson, lot 7,
blk is, Maiden, $100.
Conditional Bills of Sale
Commercial Importing Co. to Mrs.
Alice Hardy, urn and burner, $30.
Releases
Farmers State Bank of Union
town to Peter Kaufman, chattel
mortgage.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1914
Gov. Patents and Receipts
United States to John P. Sullivan,
wh neq and sh nwq 10-20-39, patent.
Deeds
John P. Sullivan to John A. Fol
som, wh neq and sh nwq 10-20-39,
I $1.00.
F. K. Godfrey and wife to Roberty
Cartv, lot 6,-blk 24, Maiden, $1.
Real Mortgages
Luella H. Smith and husband to
Mrs. M. S. Hunt, lot 5, blk 4, Rea
lty's Ist add, Pullmtn, $700.
Chattel Mortgages
H. R. Williams to First State
Hank. La Crosse, three-fourths inter
est in crop for 1915 on nwq, nh swq
and wh neq 24-13-37, $200.
W. D. Bartlett to National Bank
of Oakesdale, live stock, $260.
G. T. Childers to Rumelv Prod
ucts Co.. machinery, $400.
Releases
Laura E. Reigart to Henry Hickey,
real mortgage.
Passumpsic Savings Bank to John
A. Churchill, real mortgage.
Iteming Investment Co. to John A.
Churchill, real mortgage.
Miscellaneous
D. Fletcher Staley et al. vs. John
J. Staley et al., lis pendens.
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
FROM FARMERS' STANDPOINT
An Address Delivered by William T.
Creasy, Master of the Pennsyl
vania State Grunge
The higher cost of living is due to
various causes; it is looked at gen
erally from the angles that hit the
pocket book of the ultimate con
sumer.
To the city consumer tho high cost
of living :s an ever-pre»eut, impell
ing fact; a painful fact, full of
worry, with no redeeming point. And
it is quite the common thing to blame
the farmer. This makes the farmer
mad clean through, for he is getting
mighty little of the increased price
the consumer has to pay. The profits
of the farmer are, in fact, so small,
that his problems, like those of the
average urbanito, is how to make
both ends meet.
How much the average farmer Is
worth is shown by the following,
which 1 have taken from a current
Issue of Farm and Fireside:
"The average armor in the Unit
ed States, according to government
figures, tills a farm of 13S acres and
has an average investment of $6443.
There is an average mortgage on this
average farm of $1715, bearing an
average interest of six per cent. His
gross income is $980.55, and out of
this he pays an average expense ac
count of $340.15. His interest on
the mortgage averages $105.00, so
that his income after all charges are
deducted is $537.50. On this he must
live, educate his family, and have
fun."
Please note this Is the average for
the entire United States and includes
all the bonanza farmers and those
optionally well to do and excep
tionally well situated for securing
large yields and top notch prices. It
Is an average profit of considerably
less than four dollars an acre.
Certainly with such a showing, it
is folly to blame the farmer for the
high cost of living. Measured by
any just standard of a decent wage
for the labor of himself, wife and
family—for they all work — the
farmer has not only no profits, but
ho has not even a decent living.
The high cost of living hits the
farmer as heavy a blow as it does the
city consumer, but in a different
way; and it is important for a full
understanding of the problem, to
note this difference clearly.
The high cost of living hits the
consumer in tho increased prices he
has to pay for the necessities of life.
The high cost of (living hits the
framer in the miserable wage and
profits he gets for his capital invest
ment and the work of himself and
family.
The consumer has the grouch, and
rightly so, because of the beggarly
quantity he can get for his money.
The farmer has a grouch, and rightly
so because of the beggarly amount
of money he can get for the pro
duce that has caused him such sweat
aid labor. But it is clear that if the
price to the consumer has gone up,
and the producer does not get it,
some one else does.
In the '.'ace of these facts it is evi
dent that the place to look for the
high cost to tho consumer and small
profits for the farmer, is somewhere
between the farmer and the con
sumer. That is to say, the problem
of the high cost of living is not one
of production but of distribution.
Between the farmer and the city con
sumer's home there are a lot of mid
dlemen who demand a profit. Seme
of these are evidently getting more
than formerly, and some of them, as
investigation will show, ought to be
eliminated, as they are of absolutely
no benefit either to the producer or
the consumer.
To illuminate this question a lit
tlt furthjr and show clearly that the
causes for the high cost of living are
found in the high cost of getting the
goods from the producer to the con
sumer, let me give you a few facts,
and ask you to consider them in their
relation to each other.
First, we have seen from the gov
ernment reports, that the farmer is
getting a very inadequate profit for
his produce. These government re
ports show that the farmers in the
rich corn belt of Indiana, Illinois and
Icwa only make three and one-half
per cent on the capital invested. Sec
ond, government bulletins show that
the number of meat animals in the
country has decreased since the cen
sus of 1910, 18,259,000. This is at
the rate of nine beef cattle, seven
sheep, and three hogs, for every hun
dred of Population. The bulletin also
announces that even at the present
prices beef raising was unprofitable
to the farmer. That the raise in
price of meat animals was more than
made up by the increased cost of pro
duction.
The third fact I want you to par
ticularly note is the announcement
that Morris & Co., Chicago meat
packers, had paid 63 per cent profits
this year.
It does not take very long for the
average brain to realize what these
facts mean. First, meats are going
to be scarcer and higher, and the
farmer is not to blame. When the
farmer finds meat raising, even at
present prices unprofitable, when he
can only make a profit of three and
one-half per cent on his investment,
while the packer who buys the farm
er's animals and slaughters them,
can make 63 per cent profit, it does
not require a Solomon to determine
who is responsible for the high price
of beefsteak. Second, if the farmer
can only make three and one-half
per cent, it requires no brain storm
to discover why the packer becomes
a millionaire and the farmer does not
have money enough to buy a wad of
gum. The Department of Agricul
ture admits that there is virtually
no competition in the purchase of
live stock. Here is the exact lan
guage used by the Department of
Agriculture. It is not the utterance
of a crank, or a socialist, but that of
government officials. It reads:
"In most of the countries of Eu
rope public abattoirs have been con
structed, to which farmers may con
sign their fat stock, the meat from
which is then sold to the consumer
without passing through the hands
of an Interminable line of middle
men, each of whom takes his toll."
I have been in the sheep business,
living within 30 miles of the popu
lous anthracite coal fields of Penn
sylvania, yet 1 [could find no market
for my fat ewes, and In order to dis
pose of the sheep, I had to load them
on board of cars and ship them to
Buffalo. And at the same time lots
of mutton la used in these sections.
But small abbatoirs have disappeared
one after another until hogs are the
only meat animals that are slaught
ered in the few remaining ones The
individual butcher of years ago Is not
much in evidence. He is supplanted
by the meat dealer, who buys fr )!ii
the big packing houses. In fact, in
dividual butchers who determined to
do their own slaughtering were put
out of business. Our farmers who
were raising a few head of cattle
found trouble In selling them, and
this led the farmers of the east, who
are admirably fixed for the raising of
cattle and sheep, to drop that branch
of agriculture. It will take some
time, under favorable conditions, to
return to stock raising. Strange as
it may qeem, we often receive less
for our otock than what the western
producer received who is located
from 1500 to 2000 miles away from
the point of consumption.
In this country the farmer receives
only a small fraction of the price
paid by the consumer. Enormous
packing establishments have monop
olized the meat business and there is
little or no competition in buying the
farmer's stock. The enormous fort
unes that have grown up in this
business in recent years show that
while the consumer has been forced
to pay high prices to monopoly, the
farmer has not been getting enough
to induce him to keep up the supply.
The way the farmer has been
robbed of his profits in stock raising
and discouraged from keeping up
the meat supply is largely duplicated
ii. all lines of produce, as a few ex
amples will show. O. H. C. Becker,
a farmer of Suffolk county, N. V.,
the garden truck section of Long Is
land, writing of his experience in the
American Agriculturist, said: "It is
about time that something is done
to give the farmer a fair share of
what he produces. Some city people
have an idea that a farmer gets a
great deal for his produce. Last
year on a shipment of 23 crates of
cauliflower I got net .-.oceeds of 77
cents; the empty crates cost me
$2.30, so I was out $1.73, besides
labor, fertilizer, seed, etc."
"On another shipment of four
crates and 13 barrels I got 41 cents
net proceeds; cost of empty crates
and barrels $1.81, leaving me a net
loss of $1.40, not including labor,
fertilizer, seed, etc. On another
shipment of 11 barrels I got net pro
ceeds of 11 cents; cost of empty Bar
rels $1.21, and a loss of $1.10, not
Including labor, fertilizer, seed, etc.
If this continues, subscribing for a
paper at the small price of $1 a year
will even become a luxury." An
other example somewhat similar is
that of large crops of apples, when
the price to the ultimate consumer
is about the same as when the crop
is small, fo that many producers can
net sell theii apples at any price, be
cause the consumer does not get
some of the benefits of a bountiful
harvest. I could multiply these il
lustrations indefinitely. Not a farm
er but what can give experiences of
this kind.
For every dollar the farmer gets,
speaking on the average, the con
sumer pays three dollars. Two
dollars 50 to the middlemen. Isn't
that a pretty big price for the con
sumer to pay for getting his supplies
from the farm to his home. The
farmer is naturally a wholesaler and
so the question of economical dis
tribution will not largely be solved
by him. That is a question for the
consumer. The farmer as a con
sumer has his own problems to work
out and he can not and does not ex
pect the machine man, the fertilizer
man, the feed man, and the seed
man to come among farmers and
work up a co-operative business In
order that he (the farmer) may get
the benefit of wholesale prices.
They simply put an agent in the
community and the farmer pays the
price of the agent. So, too, In the
selling of food products. Tho farm
er as a rule will not go Into the city
and seek to combine the consumers
in order that they may get fresher
food at a cheaper price. If, for in
stance, five families In the city will
go together and buy their eggs by
the 30-dozen crate, they will have no
trouble finding a good and reliable
source of supply direct, or a single
family that wants to buy direct by
parcels post. The wise thing, and
Is my judgment the only sure way of
reducing the cost of living is for the
producer and the consumer to co
operate, recognizing that both
should gain by co-operation.
Instead of the middlemen getting
two dollars to the farmer's one, the
farmer should get two to the middle
man's one. The consumer's gain In
this change should be equal to the
farmer's.
Or, I would put the proposition
this way: The farmer now gets one
dollar for what the consumer pays
three dollars, the middleman getting
the other two dollars. The farmer
and the :lty consumer should get to
gether to change this so that the
farmer will get one-third moro for
what he sells and the consumer will
pay one-third less for what he buys.
This division of the consumer's dol
lar is shown In the following:
Present division —Farmer .3:'. 1-3,
middlemen .66 2-3, consumer $1.
When producers and consumers
co-operate:
(a) For the same quality of pro
duce tho consumer now pays a dollar
for — Farmer 44 2-3, middlemen.
22 1-3, consumer, .67.
(b) For a 50 per cent increase in
quantity to the consumer for $1 —
Farmer .66 2-3, middlemen, 33 1-3,
consumer, $1.00.
This would give the consumer half
as much ugain as now for his dollar,
the farmer would make a profit that
would pay him to produce, and the
middlemen would have all the mar
gin they ought to have on which to
do business.
That ihe distributing cost here
provided for is a reasonable one, Is
shown by the government investiga
tion into distributing costs in other
countries. Speaking on this subject
in congress the Hon. William Kent
said: "The findings of the tariff
commission show that in the three
typical articles of cotton manufac
ture in England, there was a margin
of from 4 0 to 70 per cent between
the factory price and the consumer's
price. The same articles show a
margin of from 90 to 150 per cent
in this country. Here is something
outside of the difference In the cost
of labor at home and abroad. It is
obvious that our distribution Is
preyed upon by parasites to a great
er extent than that of England."
(Continued next week.)
To Keep Parsley Fresh—Place the
bunch in a glass jar. screw the lid
on tight and keep it in a cool place
If cared for in this manner, parsley
will last for a week.
PAID ADVERTISING
I hereby announce my
candidacy for the democratic
nomination for county auditor
at the primary election Sep
tember 8.
Garrett G. Kincaid
Palouse, Wash.
I hereby announce my
candidacy for the democratic
nomination for county com
missioner from the First
District at the primary elec
tion September 8.
C. H. Langbehn
Tekoa, Wash.
I hereby announce my
candidacy for the democratic
nomination for county treas
urer at the primary election
September 8.
S. M. McCroskey
Colfax, Wash.
I hereby announce my
candidacy for the democratic
re-nomination for county
treasurer at the primary elec
tion September 8.
H. H. Wheeler
Colfax, Wash.
I hereby announce my
candidacy for the democratic
nomination for state repre
sentative from the Seventh
District at the primary elec
tion, September 8.
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Geo. P. Libby
Pullman, Wash.
W. L. LaFollett ~
CANDIDATE
For Re-XomioaUon for
CONGRESS
Fourth District of Washl^
Subject to RepubUcan P^
» hereby announce w
candidacy for the republic^
nomination for congress f^
the Fourth District 7
primary election. September^
Edward Parker
Naches, Wash.
I hereby announce m .
candidacy for the democratic
nomination for congress from
the Fourth District at the
primary election September 8
Roscoe Drumheller
Walla Walla, Wash.
I hereby announce my
candidacy for the republican
nomination for state senator
from the Eighth District at
the primary election Septem
ber 8.
Chas. A. Button
Uniontown, Wash.
I hereby announce my
candidacy for the republican
nomination for state senator
from the Eighth District at
tho primary election Septem
ber 8.
Chas. L. Chamberlain
Colfax, Wash.
I hereby announce my
candidacy for the democratic
nomination for state repr^
sentative from the Seventh
District at the primary elec
tion September 8.
L. C. Miller
La Crosse, Wash.
I hereby announce my
candidacy for tlie republican
nomination for state repre
sentative from the Seventh
District at the primary elec
tion September 8.
Geo. H. Watt
Pullman, Wash.
I hereby announce my
candidacy Kr the democrat!-
nomination from the Severtli
District at the primary elec
tion September 8.
Peter Triesch
Uniontown, Wash.
I hereby announce my
candidacy for the democratic
nomination for state repre
sentative from the Seventh
District at the primary elec
tion September 8.
Martin J. Maloney
Colfax, Wash.
I hereby announce my
candidacy for the democrat
rencmination for county
clerk at the primary election
September 8.
B. F. Manring
Colfax, Wash.