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THE APPLE SHOW
The following letter has been teceived by the
Commercial Club from the Secretary of the Oregon
State Horticultural Society, in regard to an exhibit
frome here at the Apple Show:
"We are just closing up our premium list for the
All Oregon Apple and Fruit Show to be held during
our annual meeting Nov. 15-17, and as you always
come out with a good exhibit at the State Fair,
we would like to see you represented better at the
Apple Show.
"Conld you not offer a small special prize for
your county or get the county court to do so?
Last year we had special prizes by various Com
mercial Clubs. Corvallis offered $100,Albany $50,
(repeated this year in response to letter mailed
last week.) Hood River $50, Oregon City $30,
Sandy District $50, Estacada' $25, Salem $25,
Eugene $15, Coos County $15, Portland Commer
cial Club general prizes $200. This year we ex
pect to have nearly every fruit district in the State
represented. There will be several thousand
dollars in general prizes in addition to the special
county prizes.
"Also use your influence in getting your grow
ers to attend and bring their fruit. Prizes will be
offered on apples, pears, dried prunes and dried
berries. Also a small prize on vegetables."
lnis is a place that this county should most
certainly be represented. Colbmbia has never
had the place in the fruit raising counties of the
state thats he deserves, and now is a good chance
to begin the work of getting a reputation for the
best fruit raised inOregon. There will be apple3 from
everywhere at the Apple Show, but where can any
be found that surpass those raised in this neigh
borhood? Whether or not there is any county ex
hibit it is to be hoped that some of the orchardists
take their fruit up, and come back with the prizes.
THE WILY INVESTIGATION
The solicitor of the United States Treasury was
compelled to admit before a Congressional Invest
igating Committee last week, that he had altered,
before permitting it to be published, a judgment
rendered against a food manufacturer in a Mis
souri court, by striking out the word benzoate
acid and subsituting the word caffeine. McCabe
is the fellow who is trying to secure the removal
of Dr. Wiley, the chemist, on a charge that he
exceeded his authority in employing a noted ex
pert, and yet McCabe was compelled to admit that
Wm. H. Harris, a coffee expert, is employed in the
Bureau of Chemistry under terms exactly similar
to those in the cass of Dr. Rusby, which McCabe
refused to sanction, and which brought about the
charges against Wiley. McCabe insisted there
was a difference, in that Harris was the only cof
fee expert the department could employ. The
judgment concerning which McCabe was questi
oned sentenced food manufacturer for using
"deleterious" substances, towit: Cocaine, ben
zoic acid and coal tar dyes," in a food product. He
admitted that he had ordered a change in the
court's judgment before publishing it.
Now, if McCabe were an "insurgent" instead of
an administration Republican, what a roasting he
would get. "Forger" would be one of the terms
applied to him, and it would come pretty near
being the truth. The people believe in Dr. Wiley.
They believe him to be honest and able, and that
when he tays benzoate of soda is not healthful
and should not be used (m the manufacture of food
products, he is right, McCabe, whose duty It is to
represent the people, stands with the men who are
willing, for the profit's sake, to furnish adulturated
food products, and he is so much their friend and
the'enemy of Dr. Wiley, lhathe confesses to alter
ing a court judgment in their interests. Elgin
Recorder. 1
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The ForccAstor Nupitals
No one expected that the protest of decency or
the fact of illegality would prevent the marriage
of Colonel John Jacob Astor and Madeline Force.
All that the public mind could count on for a cer
tainty was that the marriage could not be solemn
ized in New York because Astor had been divorced
in that state for violation of former marriage vows,
and within New Yorks boundaries it would be a
crime for him to marry again.
It is morally a crime for Astor Co marry within
the boundaries of anyother state, but he is one of
those who was born to that state of financial felici
tation wherein moral obligations that run counter
to sensual desires do not count. When a man of
that class chooses to be unfaithful to one wife and
marry another, he has money enougn to lay the
scene of ht3 polygamous nuptials beyond the law's
reach, while to violate moral conceptions is not
considered, becanse that sort of a man does not
have any such conceptions with regard to matri
mony. An eminent minister of the Episcopal Church
denounced this marriage, speaking of the iniquity
of it in terms of righteous indignation. But de
nunciation from the pulpit, or from the columns of
the press, will not amount to much, only as far as
these may lead to the creation of a sentiment that
will eventually bring about uniformity of state law
in the matter of divorce and remarriage.
This is one of those subjects which it was thought
the last House of Governors would take up with
practical intent. In its social effect, it is, perhaps,
the most important of them. It offers opportunity
for the Episcopal Chyruh and all other churches to
do practical work that will protect the institution
of home and family. There is not the moral dig
nity among the ultra rich which, by ostracism,
will cure this evil of meretricious juggling with the
marriage sacrament; but we do not believe there is
lack of wholesome public sentiment in this country
to that end. Telegram.
Clatsop. Columbia, Clackamas, Marion, Polk,
Benton, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Lane, Linn, and
Coos Counties will have exhibits at the State Fair
this year, and the competition for the prizes will
be stronger than ever before. If this County
comes out as well as it should, then every person
in the County, and more especially the farmers,
will have to do all in their power to aid the com
missioner. In order to get the exhibits in shape
at the start, the Board of Agriculture will give a
cash prize of $20 to every County whose exhibit is
installed by nine o clock on the morning that the
fair opens.
St. Helens to Have Station
The new school will be something for the com
munity to.be proud of, but listen to the anvil
chorus. Can anpthing be done that will please
everybody?
Officials of the Astoria and Columbia River Kail
road were in town last Monday, for the purpose of
investigating the advisability of putting in a sta
tion at this point, and the gentlemen who came
down to look the matter over say that their report
will be favorable, and as the railroad commission
has said the same there seems to be but
little doubt as to the fact that there will be a
town named St. Helens on the railroad mans here
after.
A movement is also on foot to try and get the
company to give this section a better passenger
rate. It was announced a short time ago that the
rate would be lowered on a 2 trip ticket, but as
this ticket would only be good for 90 days this
change would be of benefit to but few. A reduc
tion on a 10 trip ticket good for !X) days would be
worth something to the people of St. Helens and
would in all probability increase the amount of
travel to an extent that would repay the company
for lowering the rate.
The station will be built near the northwest cor
ner of the town, on land given for the purpose bv
the St. Helens Improvement Company. The loca
tion is first class, and if there is a switch built from
the railroad into the business part of town, as in
all likelihood there will be at some time in the not
far distant future, it will leave the main line at
this point.
A BASEBALL TOURNAMENT
And now Manager Le Dire and the Rainier fans
want to hold a tournament to last for three days
beginning on the Saturday before Labor Day. and
ending on that day, with Clatskanie,. St. Helens
and Rainier taking part. There would be two
games each day, or six in all, each team plavimr
four, and each team playing each of the others
twice. The people of this place are willing, 'and
Manager Sutherland has expressed himself as will
ing to go to Rainier if the Rainier manager will
n.uke him an offer that he can come out even fi
nancially on.
The first baseball tournament in this county was
held at St. Helens in 1002, and the next at Rainier
in the following year. The third and last one was
hold at Clatskanie in 1001, and some of the fans
say that this one should be at St. Helens again,
but Rainier will do, as they seem to have started
the movement. Wherever it is held, the business
men of that tow n can afford to dig a little, for it
will bring a lot of people and tradeto theirtown.
Everybody in Columbia County will take an
active interest in it, and there will be a crowd
follow both of the outside teams.
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