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Newspaper Page TextE OREGON MI nn VOL. XXX. 8T. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCT. 20. 1911. NO- 48 r P Will St. Helens Mill Co. Lumber Manufacturers 1ST iVit WOOD Electric Light Service Special Attention to Local Orders .mriii;rfwinnjiwnmnniur'H)in'MUi 51 SOI IT WILL PAY 0U To come twenty' miles to trade with WHITE & WHITE at Houlton, Oregon. We can supply all your wants in the home or on the ranch and farm. You'll Have To Hurry if you get one of our present stock of Heaters as they are going rapidly. Our stock of Ranges autl Cook Stoves is slightly broken but we still have a nice selection from $15.00 TO $45.00 New goods arriving daily. Our Underwear and Hosiery' stocks are not excelled in the county, either in Quality or Price. We have our CIDER MILL left worth 1 2.50. Will close it out for $ 10.00. Money talks and wc understand its language. Highest price paid ior Eggs and all Country Prodnce at WHITE & WHITE ioaiii WHEN GOING SHOPPING H don't overlook tis-fnr the thing you want in the Grocery line. Here you may lie sure of the forg ot ottment. the bet qualities, the frenhe-t coneininent eml the lowest prices. We want your j ttade sud will earn ;t ly giving you every uiif ction in grxids, price and satisfactory service. Suppose you try us omt to give J ua clunre to prove our claims? H. JOHN & COMPANY ity a ear. lkU.HtLllULiUI.UHnL.I.iI.U.UI.lhUhg r r COBLE GRANGE HOLDS FAIR. Third Annual Exhibit by Patron of Husbandry Wall Attendad and A Decided Success. The Patron ol Husbandry el Goble held their third Annual Grange Fair at the Fedmen's Hall in Gobi laxt fr'atur day, and the ssma succe'S awarded their effort an heietofore. Th exhibit were made in the banquet room of the h ill, and there wa collection of farm pro duct, (lined fruit and vegetable, fancy work, etc., that wa , credit to I he community. Xhe Gulile fair has alway given special attention totlie exhibits of the children, and it i only for thetu that there was iilven any rab prize. The prizes were awarded lo the following school children in the order named : Rota Anliker, Nina Bluke, Jcnniebelle Link and Lloyd Seer. Mr. Jordan won the firm prize on onion and apples, II Waer on pota toes, with Win. Link wo ml Mr. J. W. Arniitrong received the first award fr canued vegetables, snd Mr. J. M. Lindsay had the first prize puwptinand the cabbage that was givi-n second. Mr. J. W. Armstrong's Hubbard squash wa t're best and she also received the second on c rn. P. Anlikt-r got a second on cbhsge.and Lee Byers bad the lent car rot at the bow. Mary Tlioma got s-vrind on carrots and first on vegetable marrow. Other pri- s were awarded on vem'shle who names we could not obtain. ' 1 be follow ing awards were made for chickens: A. 1). l-araen firnt on Buff Oiplnttton and Stuff Leghorns; Lee llyers, first on White Wyandotte; Gladys Jordan, second on Whit" Oiplngto-is. The fancy work exhibit attracted con iderahle attention and wa well (rotten up. First prii-s n tbis division were won by Mrs. A. I). Lslsen, Mis Maude Hi-Imp. (iwiui.i Fowler, Mr. 1. Link, Mr. I. Link. Mr. J. W. Armstrong, Mr. (.. C. rowlcr, Mr M. Link, Mr. K. Ntr. Mrs. A. Neer, and Mr. O .1. Lnk. while second award w. re inside to Mi Frank ltishop, Mr. I. Link, Mr. Ida Hunter, Mr. A. Neer, i.d Mr. O. J. Link. M. Link is the Ms-ter ol tie (ioble Granite, while the committee in charge of the lair was Mr. and Mr. A. I. La sen and J. M. Limine. Th-ir efforts for u good IiU le bow in 11)11 bnve met with in q'talilied t.iixvM', ami no doubt I'Jl'J will -m. the i. utile l'.itri ns plautiitig on something even better. A GOOD POSITION Cm 1 had bv ambitious young men and Indira iu the Held of "Wireless" or Railway teb wrnpiiv. ' Mure the 8 hour law lN-rame effective, and since the Wireless companies are establishing sta tions throughout the country there ie a great shortage of telecraphers. Fosition pay beginners from $70 to $!0 per month, with good I'hmctt of advancement. Tlie National Tvh irroph Instltuteol I'oitlund, Ore., operates under supervision of It B. and Wireless oflli'ials and place all graduate into position. It will pay you to write them for full details. FOR SALE One team, 15001b. wagon and ha net in good condition. Also on -1100 lb borie cheap. J. II. Lockmiller FOR SALF.-Home and vacant lota in all parts of St. Helens. Trices, terms and locations to suit the most fastidious, J, W. Allen. Registered Airdale terriers (or Hale. n.irry D. I'.urrows, R. F. 1). N. 4, Vaueouve, Wash. Cba. Muckla is tiding everything possible ti beautify his line home in this city. The house n completed and has Iwen occupied for some time, and by next summer he will have one of the prettiest yard in the country. Hund reds of loads of dirt bare been put In, and during the past week a cement walk hna been put around the yard, Hcnrv Walters came into town last Saturday with a fine five point buck in his buggy. He was diiving along the road near the logging camp at Columbia (liLv when be saw the deer Coming down the road toward liitu. The lesult wa some line venison. Mr. and Mm. W. U. Mnckle wire Portland vi-dtors on Sunday last. Letters unclaimed at the 8t. Helen, Oregon pnstofliee for the week ending October U, lflll. Harry Hughes, one U tter; W. O. Husted one letter; O. It. Mill', one tetter. letters uncalled for by October 24 will be tent to the dead letter otllce M. C. Gray, P. M. Two (irpek tangled np on the side walk near the tnill ofllce at about noon Mondny, and were gathered In by Marshal Frank Wilkin. City Recorder J, Q Unge held court in the council room on Monday evening and fined each of the iiflendefS the wm of I7.C0. ROCK THE ROADS. Some Fine Road Work Dona at Goble Crashed Rock Turnad Out Cheap - By the County Plant. The rock cru-her i back on L'nion Square in this city ami will be set up ami housed in this week, ready for the crushing lor the roads'and to sell to private parlies tbts wiu'er. The . ru-lier was taken from Houlton to (Job.'e on 'the20t!i of August, "I was in use down the river for 25 d .y. ti.erajing 91 yards a day, for the e . i- 'un. Mr. Anliker, the 8upervi" U,i the Goble diftiict. No. o, bui t ro i - ' mile of macadauirUed roud, the liikl it that dis trict, and from the way the eople talk tliey will not stop at that, us two miles will call fur more. Th cost of moving the crusher to Gobi and bringing it back was fftC, the cost to the Goble district being f 18. If they bad bought their rock at Kt. Hel en and shipped it down it would bave cost thcin $1.00 per vard, and another 25 cents to take it oH the cars, making a total coat of 1.25 loaded on wagons. By taking the crasher down from here rock ct st the Goble district 40 rent per vaid in tbelius shd about $1.00 rolled down on the road. Mr. Anliker has a rough district to build roads in, but the taxpayer seem determined to bnve good rodg. as they Voted a nire mill special tax this year, and Mr. Auliktr is cutting doan the hill and making go al grade in a way that will give the district road in a very short time that the people Cau point out witli pride. The crueher i able, if it U kept busy, t-i crush all the rock that 14 needed for the S-. Helen", Uoble and Hariier dis tricts, mid Jack Dpain, rue load boss oi tlii district, say that il a ride track wai put in to the county quairy i II the Lemont place, it could criiKU rock and load ears for the Scappo-e-e eiid Warren distiicts. I: rapacity I, we fud, if kept In good order, about lot) yards per rbiv of tiybt l.ojrs, and Mr. Ifc-ptiu siys that ho think I lie following program would 1 of benefii to the county: Set the plant up at the ljemoul quarry in he (all Vml crush for Warren and cap l k! ibronnh the wiuter and spring, ay 'i xu the first of October to th" firit of May.' Move to the Yankton quarry the liret of May, for a tnotitli, and on the lirst of June take it lo Goble ai.d Haiti ier aud in the four summ-l' monthi all lite ioi k that the will need ran be criivhed. It can le taken lon and moved to t iolile or Kainier in four days ami at a cost of about $100. The ot of the n.oving can be saved in the first two days run, as compared with what the rk would ordinarily cost if shipped in from a private plant. Mr. IHpsin ays that it i a waste to have the crusher lying idle and is s'rm'gfor rotne arrange nirnt that will keep it in operation. W. n. Tonyers, of Claskanie, wa a business viidtor to the connty S"at laftt week. , Clnnde M. Johis, of Clatskanic, was. attending court In the Interests of a client last Friday, Mr. Johns but re cently located at bis new home and is more thin pleased with Columbia County. Work on the new s-dtool bouse is pro gressing rapidly tlnring the fine weather that his been prevailing, and it seems certain that it will be ready by the first of the year it not lfore. L. It. Rutherford and family are mov ing into their new house on the hill this week . Mr. Rutherford's new Borne is one of the many fine residences erected here recently, and has one of the most sightly locations iu the city. Mr j. KettenholTen, of Matoitowac, Wis., a sister of Mrs. A. Ketcl, ii visit ing relatives in this city, The Lad ie J Aid of the M. E. Church aid mi ct at the home of Mr. Wm. M. l!os next Wednesday afternoon. M". and Mrs. Dolman, of 1'ortland were St. Helens visitors this week, com ing down for the purpose of attending the service at the Episcipal Church on Wednesday evening. The cats of Tarter vs. Duly was tried in the Circuit Court Tuesday and re sulti d in a decision tor the defendant. This suit was over forty acres cf land on the Nehalem between l'i'teburg and Vernonia. Th!s land was taken up by Daly over twenty years ago and he has a patent for it from the United States, but at about the time of the issuing oi the patent he left the land and Parker has been living on It and paying the taxes for years. A tax deed was issued to him just a little over ten years before the time of the ti lng of the suit and so Mi title to the property wsa clear. At the time of Pat ker's moving onto Ihe plnen it was worth no mure than when it wa taken up by Duly, and Tarker ha improved it and built a good house. It seem that he has Uie best title from a stand p- in! of fairness as well as In ti t law. LYCEUM COURSE LAUNCHED St., HeUna is Placed in Front Ranka of Progressive Cities by Superior -Entertainment Course. Next week will mark the beginning of augressive work 'or the s t'-cess of the first annual People's Lyceum Course. The committee ha been busy for some mouths engaging talent, .f curing sdver lining mutter, nd making other pre liminary arrangement. It i now pre pared to offer to this community one of th best courses of entertainment ever presented in a town the size of H. Helens. Am the individual members of the committee solicit the patronage of our citizens they will carry the conviction that they are pushing an enterprise of inestimable value to Ihe moral, intellect tual, social and butiness interest of this locality. A Lyceum course i admittedly one of the strongest evidvn.es of the progress! veness of any City. Its cordial support stamp the intellectual and moral grade ot its citizens. The Lyceum and ChauUuqua platform is toay recognized by our great politic ian and statesmen ,lMjtb progretsitesand conservatives, as one of the two grat factors in the wave of insurgency and reform wh'ch has swept over this coun try in the lat lew years. The o'her factor is the newspaper, und these tao institutions have, to no small extent, been traveling band in hind. The news paper, huw ever, can not take the place of the Lyceum, nor the Lyceum of the newspaper, and the town which has not beard the views of otirvrc.it public men from their own lips, and in iheir various effective stvlcs of ornt ,ry, has miseed that close touch and keen intertst In the affair- of Ihe day of which the Lyceum town boa-la. and then in every community there are young people both in and out ol hith tchool, w ho simply aaait the word riifht'y spoken, the inspiration rightly imparted, to spur them on through hard ships to a goal worth while. Not only their pireut but the community owe these young peop'e the advantages which come from listening to good tal ent. Thousands of people throughout America today owt their inspiration and present success and happiness in life to the m ssages which came to them from the Lyceum platform at just the right lime mceages not ouly to the head hut to the heart. Again, there is the great general cause of popular education to which the Lyceum and Chautauqua are the lafg et i-O lUihutori. Comparatively fuw of Anii riu.i'a millions of i; habitants g i to College. If they are to be educated they must receive through other means and other institutions what is r ghtly styled "popular education." Ol equal Importance is the maintain ing of a high. standard of entertainments in a country where everyone must in one way or another be entertained. The two gi cat sources of popular entertain ment today are the theatre and the Ly ceum course. The theatre is a very mer cenary institution, in fact is rnn wholly for money. Few Lyceum courts are run for profit and when there is a pioflt it goes into the building np of public libraries, other forms of popular educa tion, or to increase the size and quality of the entertainment course of the subse qneut year. One of the late-t advantages which baa been pointed out for a Lyceum Course is its benefit to te town' com mercial needs. The wesf is first to take definite note of these advantages. Chamber of ennin.erce in some of the towns on the Paeifie coat are lending tl eir heartiest support to the bridging into their midst in the regular Lyceum course such men as Gov. Folk, Gov. I loch, Jude lien Lindsey, Champ Clark, congressmen and senators. They ay it is an advertisement for the town and still better congressmen, and senators who have never visited the west, on their Lyceum tours are bediming familiar with the needs of that lmpoitant part of our country. Watch the Mist for full details as to the progress of the canvass for ticket. Mrs. Lydia Fry of Salem Ore, arrived iu St. Helens Tuesday. She contem plates making Iter home with her nep hew the Kcv. A. A. Heist for the winter, i They will occupy the Martin White rt sidence while Mr. and Mrs. White are. on their trip east and south. W. C. Lee, a business man from Kaiuier, wa a visitor to the county seat last Widnctday. The Ladies Aid, of Houlton will erve (upper tonight at the Oddfellows Hall In Houlton, from I to 8. The public is invited.' A friend from Warren notifies the Mist that we made a mistake In the an IMuncctnent of the marrnge of Lillian llrrckc and George II. Haen. They were married on Tuesday afternoon, October 10: h, by Reverend Hollinghhead. in Portland. J. A. PENDER INDICTED. Grand Jury Return Trwe Bill Aga M.a Accused el Wekr mmm Murder. Last Friday the Grand Jury began t be work of investigating th murder of Daisy Wehrman, committed on th 4th of September, and after working on th matter Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesd i'y, a true bill was returned at fly o'clock Tuesday evening, Indicting James Arthur Pender, charging mnrder in the first degree. A mans of circumstantial evidence wa presented to the jury. L. L. Levings, the detective who ha been on th ease from the start, wa the first man called, and his testimony was probably as strong and has as much to do wltb th indict ment a that of any person who went before tlw jury. A. N. Creadick, th Portland expert who examined th Ixxlv, was also called to testify at to hit tiindings. , Chas. E. Lindloff told of going past the house on the evening of th crime and seeing no one there despite lb fact that Pender claimed to have been tbet and bad a light burning in his tent at this lime. He also corroborated th testimony of the mail clerk iu regard to the mail to a certaio extent. Elizebetb Siercka testified as to the finding of the -bodie of Mrs. Webrman and bar son. F. U. McNaughton and V. H. Poter, rerier for the Oregon ian and Tele- gram, told of the scratches that Were on Pender's face on the morning that tb crime was discovered, and also of bit actions at the cabin where it was com mitted. Mr. R. E. Bate told of pot tin a package of stenciled muslin that wa afterwards found on tht cabin floor in the community mail bos, whil W. S. Chambers and J. M. Frye were also w injects helping to make the chain of evidence in regard to the mail taken from the poatoSic and found in th cabin, complete. Guy Whitney, who works in Wntt & Price's store and gave th mail to Pen der on this day. identified th paper found in the cabiu a the on that was given to Pender. Sheriff Thompson and Deputy Sheriff Grant were among the witnesses, having a complete knowledge of the case. John II. Riley and Joe Hissoo. the two Port land men wbo have a sback in tbo vicinity of the Wehrman cabin, told - of tlie revolver that was in their cabin. and w bicb is believed to have been tb una that killed Mrs. Wehrman. At about this time th trunk containing the gun was broken into, and then at tempt made to conceal tb fact. They also testified that Peuder bad borrowed this revolver and knew of it's existence. Frank' Wehrman, ot Portland, and Mike Hansen, who lives near th teen of the crime, were called, and also Cor oner Frank Sherwood, whotpent several days and nights working on the case while it was in his charge and to who car and foresight is largely doe th fact tn.it the officers bave anything at all to work n. The last witness was F. L. Perkins, a reporter for the Telegram. The prosecution have completed their ce and clai-n that they have the nec essary evidence to secure a conviction, but it is not brobable that the ease will come to trial before the May term of court, as there will be time necessary for the defense to prepare their case. HOULTON MAN PASSES AWAY. . Abraham Crouse, for twenty years a resident of Houlton, died athla home in that city on Sstnrday last, after an illness that confined him to his bed for the past sis years. The funeral was held on Monday at the M. E. Church, toe iu ermtnt being at the Oddfellow cem etery in Warren. Mr. Crouse was born in Keswick, New Brunswick, on the tenth of November, 1S.U. At the age of eighteen be moved to Aroostook County, Maine, and was oneoftte pioneer lumber menof that settion, engaging in the lumber busi ness until hecametoColumbia County in 18:H. He located In this vicinity, and engaged in logging until a little) over six years ago when h retired from ac tive work to buy the Meeker place in Houlton, where he wa living at tbo ti ne of his death. Very shortly after giving nplogglng he was troubled with rheumatism and this was followed by piralsis, which caused his death. The ib ceased leaves a wife and twelve cluldre ., ten of whom were present at the funeral. Card of TkAwk We wish to express oor thanks to friends in Houlton and vicinity, for their kindness and sympathy is our bereavement, and for the beautiful floral tributes. Mrs. Abraham Crouse ami family. Famished room for rent, Inquire at this office. . . .