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Ur'*; PORTLAND NEWS LETTER Portland. Or*. - One of the finest locations in Portland has been secured for th- Oregon ’Apple Tow, November 15-18. Il will be housed in the Yeon building, corner Fifth and Abler street* and there is every indication that it will be a big success. 1 he premium list has just lieen issued and is attracting a great deal of atten tion. In addition to prise* offered for the mo»: perfect apples, in almost any sized exhibit, is a special premium for 100 box Iota and another? fw ID boa open to commercial organizations of fruit growers’ unions in the Northwest. Cash amounting to *600 is offered in the first class and *275 in the second. * Aulo Sparks Dr, and Mrs Prill invited the New editor ami wife to take a little auto spin with them Sum Uy morning. A run was mad* out to the country home of Mr. ■•'argent where the doctor r« moved the splints from the broken limb of Mr. Sargent's young son. The boy has been an unusually good patient umi will soon lw able to get around on crutches. Mrs. Sargent presented the party with some fine |>ears which were much enjoyed on the return trip Mr Sargent is rapidly getting hi* -I«1 acre farm in first das* sha|>e and has already made a local reputation for the fine horses he has raided. Mr. and Mrs. Sargent came to Oregon from toe east a few years ago. The return trip was made past the home of the Great American Pie Eater and some effect* of the saver* hail storm of some weeks ago were seen. ’So destructive was the hail that all the fruit on this farm was destroyed ami had it not been possible for the owner to obtain a supply elsewhere, he would have b.-en abort OR the "makings" for some of hi* favorite pi«». The trip furnished a chance to see the condition of some of the Country roads. For moat part they were in exc. lent -ha; ■ but there were *|H,ts of which on- could not conveniently think Sunday thought*. Washington county will ’have a splendid display at poultry on exhibit ‘nt Forest i.ro.e Nov 23, 21 and 25. Experts have lieen secured to judge tile fowls. Tuesday and Wednesday of thul week marked an important occasio.i for Sherman. Morrow ami Gimmial counties The State Fish and Game commission for the tri-county convention was held has made arrangements to encourage on those dates. the raising of China Pheasant* in I captivity. The state is willing to co-nperate with Lumber tho«e who wish to raise pheasants, No matter what you build we want -ven to providing the egg», instructions to furnish the lumber, rough or dressed. a* to rearing and personal attention I.et us figure with you about prices ami when required. Reeve»' Pheasant» terms of paymanta. We also handle bring *25 for a trio, consisting of one sash, doors, brick, plaster, and cement. male an I two hens. China Pheasant* The Scio Planing Milla Co., readily sell for *2.50 for cock*and from t Scio. Oregon. *3 to *4 for female*. Pheasant* thus raised may lx* sold, if sold directly to the consumer. Full Ink' : particulars may be had of the Game The Santiam Newt one year and the I and Fish Commission. China Pheasants Hemi-Weakly Journal until February I. Keep your feet warm ami dry by get 1913 for 12. This given you the Journal 1.5 months ami the News 12 months ting your shoes and woolen' hose at This ofler is good to November 15 only. Hibler A Gills. «»OiOlOnO«» 9 0 WE WANT 0 Every customer to know that our STOCK Should we drugs is new, clean ant! pure, have in stock what yon want, tell us, and we will be glad to get it on short notice and without extra cost to you. In addition to a general stock of Drugs, we carry paints, oils, varnishes, wall paper, school books, school supplies, phonographs, We handle the best cigars. We supply you with the best gasoline for your automobile. Tn fact you will find us headquarters for quality in all lines. orchard sprays, sheep dip and stock foods. I E ! PEERY DRUG COMPANY 0REGON OUR AGED PIONEERS Sketches of the Lives oí Men and Women Who I Live Survived Mnny I I a fclshipa THE COUNTY INSTITUTE Albany, Ore., Oct. 28, 1911 Editor Santiam News. Hear Mr: In your notice of the apple fair this this week occurred a slight error which I wish to correct. The county court has mad- no appropriation for our Henton and Linn Counlit Teachers ln$hh le •I’l'1*’ f“ r ’bi* year, but recent^ they Lastly llltnded List ol • >-• 1 in making «. •* — . ontributed *350 • to assist the M illamettr valley exhibit at the Omaha Inslmclors I.anti Show, and your informant has probably got the two shows confused. I am glad to see that you are taking an interest in our apple fair, a* it certainly 1« accomplishing a great ileal The joint county teacher* institute of gootl. At the four former fairs we which closed Wednesday wa* one of the collected up samples of apples from all moat successful educational meeting* section* of our county and demonstrat ever held in Linn county. Every school ed to the people what can be done in in each county wa* cloaed and practi that line, ai d the direct result ha* been cally ever teacher wa* in attendance. that 1« tween 601*) and SKMM» acres of An excellent program had lx-en prcpai land have been Ixiught and are now be- ed ami a large part of the work was mg made over into commercial orchard* done in section meetings. After a A fact of very great importance to general session each morning and your {leople is that most of these afternoon, th* Inatltute divided into orchards are located in the forks of the five section* as follows Primary, inter Santiam und near Scio. This year in mediate. advanced, rural and high order to get a guod displayof fruit. school. In each section were discussed we have very materially increased our subject* of special interest to the premium list. lhe be»t tot of any teacher* of those lines of work. The -itandard variety of apple* gets a prize list uf instructor* follows: of *5 ami the secund pr.z- is *3. The I. R. Aiderman, Superintendent of best community exhibit of ten boxes Public Instruction. get* *'.0, the second *25 and the third J. H. Ackerman, President of State *15. It l* not a money making affair Normal School. at all, as we charge no entrance fee C. J. C. Bennett. Department of fur fruit ami admission is free. Our Education, University of Oregon. expenses are paid from voluntary *ub- Montana Hasting». Department Educa scriptiona from our public spirited tion, University of Oregon. citizens, from the sale of the premium R D Ressler, Department Industrial fruit and the county court has hereto Pedagogy, O. A. (’. fore assisted us to some extent. The Olive Davis, Critic Teacher. State good (teoule of Hdto and vicinity should Normal School. do their best this year to »end over Helen T. Kennedy, Oregon Library some nice fruit, and if any one would Commission. like a premium list, I will see to it E. F. Carleton. Asalatant State that they ran gel it |,y calling at the Superintendent. News office. Don't forget the dates, II M Crooks, President uf Albany Novrmtier 8, 9, and 10. College, Yours very truly, Maude Laiughcad, Primary Instructor C. W. Hoe tile her, Su|x-rintcmlent of W. STKWART Albany Schools. Sectetary. R. W Kirk, Su|>erinlcndenl C-orvallia The New* is glad to make the correc tion altliough It seems to lie merely a Schools. C. C. Baker, Superintendent la-banon matter of date ami amount. The court be boo I». will I m - called upon later. L. L. Gooding, Su|>erintendent brio Schools. M. M Gilchrist, Principal Oakville High School. J. W. Ibdin, Sufiervlaor Linn County, Joseph Benner, Supervisor Linn Co The Albanv Herald has been trying The boiling spring» with curling smoke, The following account of the crossing of the plain* was written by Mr. Miller A deep mysterious volume spoke. himself in 1886 at 74 year* of age. We Convincing all who »total »round. Of reeret mistries untier ground. am ■ lei '■ d to. Mr. H Philippi for the copy. Mr. Miller was the grandfather When next we met th- human race, of Mr. Philippi's first wife. He lived A.! " • ' t to f ■ for many years at Miller station and it , The »Ight we saw caused all to blush was in honor of him that the place was . thus named. Mr. Miller wa» a Baptist | minister an<f i widely known by the roBI| earlier settlers. ■ Snow, hail and rain, with mud to dread, I Fearing our teams could never pas«; When in my native land I dwelt. With friends who for my interest felt, We turned aside for better gras.«. I burst. thro ;gh ties that bind th Columbia's ttream we hail in view. at rung It seemed the only avenue And turned my face towards Oregon. Through which at last we hofwd to gain The ’pro meed lami, the long sought 'T was thus I lift my "atue li..m>- I lain. Through a wild desert lami to roam; And as my team moved slowly on. It rainol and stormed, ami tossed our My thoughts flew swift to Oregon boat. And when we crossed the last state O’er rock* and sand, ami wave* afloat, line. ' At length on shallow sands we found Of well armed men we numbered nine. Our flour derinp t ar . l ad ran aground. Numbers increased the way along— With young ami old five thousand The one thing needful now to do. Was pack ashore the frightet > d crew , strong; Keniaccaa soon brought us ashore, Whose snow white sheets all in a row, And set the boat afloat oi.ee more. With crooks and straight* made quite a show Ami down the stream our Ixrtitmcn Much like the swan, a passage bird; went (Except the lowering of our herd* In gaining land some time was spent I only thought of raving life. Pleasant roads made a joyful crew. My dearest care was a sick wife Who fancied Jileasutes alway through. We ate. and drank, ami went our way, O'er brush ami log* | ha-l to puck. Slept sou ml ail night, ami moved >11 Her feeble form Upon my back day While two sick children g i ar ped my coat Except the sentinel on guard. 'T was thus at length we rearbed the Whose fortune here was rather hard. boat. Just half the night one put of three, Maud rain or shine, was the ilecree. It somewhat calmed and ceased to rain Our sick were fed ami dried again; Th- buffalo looked with surprise Whose frightened herds outstrip) ed And with a light ami buoyant heart All hands got ready tor a start. our ryes— The antelope stamped as he {Hired, At such strange sight all sUxxi amazed. Soon down the stream with »peed we * Too soon alas, all pleasure fled. With full spread sail and joyful crew. The wagon was the sick man's bed Too soon ala*' we danger saw, The wilderness our only home The Cascade fall» Ix-gan to draw' Where savage men ami wild tx-a- t Just as we gave up all for lout, roam. I for some time to take the county fair A mighty wind the current cyont. away from Scio and now l)oug Hamilton Notici For Publication Our Si-reeking wheels moved slowly And drove us to the destined shore claims that some of Albany'* fair sex round In safety reached the land once more. urc casting sheep* eye* at him each Department of the Interior Where sedge and sard so much a' our.d time he gix'S over to »ee the moving U. S. I .a nd Office at Portland, Ore. Among the rocks I pitched my tent. The lieetle ami the gadfly reigns picture shows. Scio might possibly bo Ami wandering up and down I went Sole monarchs of the sa sly plains. October 14. 1911 able to get along without the fair, but To seek some (>as»age round the falla. Notice is hereby given that Fred A. if they take l)oug we may a» well close But when we left the sand behind. Five mile» o’er rock the current rolla. Strode, whose postuffiee address is l.'OVi up shop for all our glory will have Our road with ruck, or dust was lined; Rixlncy Ave., Portland, Oregon, did. on departed. O'er rapid streams Ixith deep and clear. Three-quarters of a mile or m ire. I *t day of May. 1*11, fib- in this I lugged our package down the shore, Our winding course we had to steer. office Sworn Statement and Application [O'er locky steeps and alippery ground. ONE BOY’S WORTH. No. 1)3087, to purchase the N'| of NE|, Volcanic piles on every hand. The sick, the weak 1 carried down. \\ hen I l<>race Mann macle a fa Section 24, Township 10 South, Range Oft made me think of Sodom’s land; 2 East, Willamette Meridian, and the mous «pee. h for the dedication al Ami wonder what unchristian race. As winds came howling through the a very cosily huikiing demoted to timlier thereon, under th- provision* of Had brought this region to disgrace'* rocks, lhe reformation oi bad boys he the art of June 3, 1878. anil act* The rain increased its heavy drops; Where none but reptiles lare to live; sa <1, " If all this winch has Iwen amendatory, known us th« ''Timlx-r Thq drenching torrents overhead, An-1 poisoned stream* their v -num giv«! «{>ent spoil this building results in and Stone Law,’’ at such value a* Reached all on foot, and all in bed. Of fallen man there wan no trace the reformation oi one boy it it might tie fixed by appraisement, ami God's vcngence had removed his rare. Although we’d passe I a fearful placr. money well qx-nt Somebody said that, pursuant to such application, the to him. " Mr Mann, do you think Fresh dangers he iged our only pass! land and timber thereon have been God’s curse on every thing we saw; one boy is worth all that money >“ The balance of our fearful way 1 appraised, the timber estimated 46O.UUO Hung like the Mede and Persian law, I le replied. "Ye*, il it is my boy The angry waves daihed high their I board fret at 50 cent* per M. and the The rain foreook th- barren ground; or your boy " sray’ land nothing, that said applicant will The mountains were turned upside offer final proof in support of hi» down. (Continued next week) Finding Mora Material. application and sworn statement on the "Ilow Inrga 1« »our Mammoth cavtF' .'tilth day of Decemtx-r, 1911, before the asked the foreign tourist Register and Receiver of the U. 8. ’ Nobody know* exactly," »aid the I .and Office at Portland, Oregon. native "It'* eo large, though, and Any person is at hlx-rly to protest l>eople get lost In It ao eaally. that this |>urrhaar before entry, or initiate Mis* Elsie Bartnik gave a Hallo- George Irvine, the ID-year-old son of when a man 1» about to czplore It he ween party Tuesday night, About Mr. and Mrs. I-cc Irvine, residing near makes hla will and wlabea bla WPtp a contest at any time before patent issues, by filing a corroborated affidavit forty invitations were sent out to her Thomas, was instantly kill-daliout II .W Ing friend* good by " in this office, alleging facts which would young friends asking them to join in Tuesday by the accidental discharge "Moat astonishing! I never ben rd defeat the ontry. the festivities ami game* of that night. of an old shot gun with which ha ami that before!" II. F. HKBV She was assisted by Nita Bilyeu and hüt 7 year old brother were playing in "Ob. well, of couree. It Isn't quite Register •• Lillie Simms, who dressed a* ghosts the yard at the farm home. ao bad a* that I wa* only joking received their friends ami later in the The charge of shot struck the lioy (Entry In foreign tourist's notebook: evening served cake amt pickles. near the right temple ami nearly blew "Another rnrloua custom among Amer Mamma, make me a nighty out that All gam-s appropriate to the occasion his head off. How the gun was dis lean* I* that when they tell an arnal new outing flannel at Kibler A Gill*. were engaged in and the young |>rople charged is a mystery. Ing lie they call It a joke.">—Chicago departed at an early (?) hour, having After hearing of the facta an inquest Tribune spent a delightful evening. was considered unnecessary. ABRAHAM MILLER. JR. Halloween Parly SANTIAM NEWS