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About The daily gazette-times. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1909-1921 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1909)
THE DAILY GAZETTE -TIMES Published every evening except Sun day. Office: 259-263 Jefferson street, Corner Third street, and 232 Second Street, Corvallis, Oregon. PHONES, 210 - 4184 Entered at the postoffice at Corvallis, Oregon, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES - DAILY Delivered by carrier, per week $ .15 Delivered bv carrier, per month so By mail, one year, in advance 5.00 By mail, six months, in advance 2 50 By mail, one month, in advance 50 THE WEEKLY GAZETTE-TIMES Published Every Friday SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance... $2.00 Six moths, in advance- 1.00 In ordering changes of address, sub scribers should always give old as well as new address. N. R. MOORE . . CHAS. L. SPRINGER, . . . Editor Business Mgr. For A Beautiful City. thority of the unwritten law and sometimes get hung should en tice their victims on a hunting trip and shoot them for deer. This is more respectable and es cape is certain. If you can hit the tip of your nose with the end of your index finger right along then you are sane. If you can't it is a sign of being unbalanced. Try it Al bany Democrat. The only difficulty with this is that if you do try it, it is abso lute proof that you are insane. Some have been kind enough to express appreciation of the Gazette-Times; others have voiced objection to certain expressions. Commendation is sometimes the source of inspiration, and criticism civen in the right spirit is ever an excellent guide. Praise and blame are equally good and neither should be withheld. However, the G.-T. is not working primarily for one or the other and is neith er puffed up when commended nor unduly cast down when reviled, The intent at this office is good: there is no quarrel with indi viduals and criticism is aimed only at conditions. This .paper aspires to be an apostle of discontent; discontent with that which is generally unsatisfactory, that which is not as good as it might be. It is the common expression that "few of us do as well as we know how to do," and the fact in this expression accounts for the neglect of officials, the "slip-shod" in public work, the civic ugli ness and dirt, the laxity of personal and civic morality, and count less other failures, not only in Corvallis, but in every other city. Most know how to do, but unless continually prodded, few will do. While the prodding is being done there is more or less resentment, but once the end is accomplished, those who object most strenuous ly to the urgings or. criticisms are the people who have the warmest praise for the forces that bring, about desired conditions. The Gazette-Times is in love with Corvallis it has faith in the people who live here, and in the city's possibilities. It desires to see Corvallis the most charming in appearance, the cleanest, bright est and best managed little city in the est, and has confidence that it can be made this. Already we have water incomparable and an efficient sewer system that only needs extension. We have residences uniformly good, some of which require only the proper paint to make them attractive. Corvallis has streets that need little grading, and only comparatively insignificant attention to make them smooth; sprinkling at a cost of scarcely more than 10 to 25 cents a week to the individual would preserve the residence streets and throughout the summer save the residences and fcliage from the unsightly, distasteful dust; a little care would keep down the weeds at the sides of the streets. This city has more sidewalks than nine-tenths of the towns this size. They are wooden, 'tis true, but many eastern and western towns this size have naught but the gravel walks away from the business districts. However, plank walks are being replaced withcement rapidly, and it only re quires that the remaining wooden walks shall be kept in good con dition. A clean Main street would help and the removal of all obstructions of every sort from side streets, especially in the busi ness district where there is constant unwarranted violation, is a necessity, if we are to be as we should be. Flowers bloom here with little care, and lawns grow surprisingly beautiful in the short est length of time. Barns and chicken pens can be placed at the rear of properties and screened with beautiful shrubbery or a hedge. All of the changes mentioned can be accomplished with little expenditure other than effort at spare times. . To secure these changes necessary to make Corvallis a little city of which any and every citizen shall be inordinately proud, the Gazette-Times pro poses to prod and gauge and kick and criticise and hammer, not captiously, not in a mean and vicious spirit, but only that all shall do as well as they know. Perhaps mistakes will be made and doubtless more than one, official and civilian, will find in this paper that which will disturb his mental equilibrium and if this fails to be the case, we shall feel that the campaign is a failure. Let's make Corvallis what Corvallis is entitled to be a college town without a peer in America. x . BREAKS PAVING TRUST. Bitulithic and asphalt pave ments at "not more than $2 a square yard, and still lower in the not far distant future," is the cheering news officially given out yesterday by Mayor ! Simon of. Portland. . Both com panies, which have been the head and front of the hitherto unbreakable "trust" in Portland, have capitulated, and the ad ministration has won a notable victory. As to Hassam, it is facing a crisis; the managers are perfectly willing to lay their material for $1.75 a square yard, if they can get any streets. In other words, they are in a des perate fight with competitors, and their brand is still untested. Both bitulithic and asphalt have been costing the property owners of that city all the way irom . a).io to 4U asquare yard, so it will be seen at a glance by the most casual observer that Mayor Simon and the administration have achieved a remarkable victory in forcing the prices! down to "not more than $2." Hassam has been costing $1.90 a square yard, but its managers have signified a willingness to reduce this, if the Council will order streets paved with this material by resolution, as ha? been done for asphalt and bitulithic. The facts are, how ever, that Hassam is not in favor, although some of it has been laid. When Mayor Simon started out to break up the trust prices he ordered the city engineer to make up estimates for hard- surface streets at the actual cost of the work, adding only a fair profit for the contractor. It was then announced that the Execu tive .Board .would award no more contracts for hard-surface pavements unless the bids should come within the Engineer's esti mate. This the Board has full power to do. Seeing that the Mayor had "the upper hand," the trust magnates, who have heretofore virtually laughed at . all efforts to regulate their business and bring reduced prices, held conferences with the Mayor and have now come to terms. Wanted Hay And Oats Wanted Five to ten carloads of good cheet hay and two carloads of oats ' F. O. B. cars, any station on C. & E road. Write price to me. R. N. War nock, Liveryman, Toledo, Oregon. 7-29-lt-d-2t-w Bids Wanted For painting, plumbing, wiring, furn ace, chimney and plastering house. All bids separate. Hand to J. R. N.. Bell by next Saturday night, Aug. 14- AN UNSATISFACTORY SESSION This last special session of Congress has, we think, been a serious disappointment to the thinking peopb of the United States. It has seemed more like a company of merchants taking stock and putting aside the rem nants for a bargain sale than the work of grave senators and rep resentatives working in the people's interest, on great questions. The general principles of a protective tariff as understood in this country are designed, first, of course, to raise revenue, and in doing that, to guard the in terests, not of a few manufac tures or a few sheep raisers, but the consumers, who are more di rectly interested. And instead of proceeding like statesmen, to weigh this matter item by item, from the first, . many of the people's representatives, in both houses, have seemed to be act ing as attorneys to guard cer tain interests. A strong analy tical argument has not been heard during the nearly five months' session. . Of course, congressmen are expected, while serving .the whole country, to look especially after the interests of their con stituents. But they are national representatives, and while justi fied in trying to protect their constituents against oppressive foreign competition, they have no right, in addition, to work a hardship upon their own country men. Right there has been the trouble. Manufacturers have grown eloquent in beseeching that ' the standard of American- labor shall not be lowered, and the same men have weeded out their American laborers and imported from southern Europe the very cheapest order of white laborers to take their places. And when we consider the difference in the cost of living here and abroad we doubt if the ordinary factory hand in the United States can save as much as does the worker at the same task in England! When created with right motives and conducted along just lines industrial corporations are good for a country, vfiut it is the duty of the government to stand between the people' and corporations when they begin to exact unjust triute. Goodwin's Weekly. " " '.. These people who - kill by au- What the Leading Dry Goods Journals Say : Those merchants whose foresight guided them to purchase Cotton and Wool Fabrics early in the Spring will find themselves fully justified in their action and be in a position to offer their customers merchandise at a saving cf from 15 to 25 per cent, of the advanced prices, and it is up to them to ad vise their patrons of these market conditions. It's Time to Buy Blankets Our Annual AUGUST BLANKET EVENT Begins on SATURDAY We sell more Blankets in August than during any. other month of the year. Seems strange, doesn't it, that people should fill cold weather needs in mid-summer ? Must be a reason there is and a mighty good one, too. During the month of August we sell good Fresh, Sweet, Warm, Full Sized Blankets at the Lowest Prices of the year. We buy Blankets ahead of season stacks and stacks of them when manufacturers most need orders to keep their help at work, and we secure big price concessions by so doing. In turn we are able to offer our customers extraordinary price inducements to buy Blankets for Fall and Winter in mid-Summer. Here's how richly we reward you for buying Blankets now: 50 pairs Cotton Blankets, 76 inches long, 56 inches wide. Pink and blue . borders . . . -50c pair 100 pairs white, tan and gray Cotton Blankets, 76 by 56 inches: . . .75c pair 100 pairs white, tan and gray Cotton Blankets, 10-4 size. . . .$1.00. pair 50 pairs white, ' tan and Blankets', full 12-4 size. . . gray Cotton $1.25 pair 50 pairs good heavy, 11-4 and 12-4 sizes. . , fleecy Blankets, . . .$1.50 pair 50 pairs heavy Fleece Blankets, extra fullsize, in tan, white and gray.. $1.75 pair 12 pairs only, heavy gray Wool Mixed Blankets: 10-4 size $2.50 pair Early Shipment Famous NORTH STAR White WOOL BLANKETS 10 pairs fine white all wool North .Star Blankets, full size for double beds, silk bound edges, in colors pink or blue borders. $6.00 pair 10 pairs fine North Star white wool Blankets, soft and fleecy, yet very firm weave, bound edg es, full size $7.50 pair 10 pairs extra large size all wool, white North Star Blankets, made from finest Australian wool, silk binding, full weight, pink or blue borders $9.50 pair .'.LMMWM.Ua ROCK RIVER COTTON BATTS FOR COMFORTERS PEERLESS' 8 oz. Cotton Batt . . . ; . . . .12c each ' AMERICAN 14 oz. Cotton Batt, 20c each EAGLE 16 oz. Cotton Batt, 25c each ROYAL 3 lb. Cotton Batt, 75c each APOLLO 3 lb. Cotton Batt, $1.00 each J. M. NOLAN S SON'S Early Purchases Our purchase of these 400 odd pairs of Cotton and WoolJ Blankets was made as early as March last,3 and bought at old prices. We wouldf ad vise your early buying, as later ship ments will be at advanced prices, add . ed to which selections will not be nearly as liberal. To those preparing student rooms, this will be an excep tional opportunity. New Models "NEMO AND ROYAL"" WORCESTER CORSETS BROADHEAD DRESS GOODS Have Arrived v i