he T urner
TURNER BANK OPENED 23
Mill W ill Be YEARS A60 3Y S.
Rebuilt Soon M. [
TURNER, MARION COUNTY. OREGON.
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T n i n t r ' i l.a r g a it lm iu » try W ip e d O u t
lly K ir * in E a r l y M o rn in g B la r e
S a tu rd a y .
P U T E ELIS! CRACKED
DOS IT FATHER
F o r t y - f o u r T h o u ia n d l ’.u»h»l» o f G r a in
a n d H a y C o n s u m e d ; N in a T h o u »
The first annual Father and Son
banquet, sponsorc<l by the commun
a n d B u elia t* B e in g S to re d F a r m
ity, was held in the high school audi
er»* G r a in }
lu e u r a n c e
Com pany
torium Tuesday night. The men of
S a lv a g in g G r a in s S h ip p in g to P o r t
the community who had Do sons of
la n d ; F a r m e r » to G e t P e ic a n t a g e .
their own ucted as dads to some of
the boys present. C. H. Jes.ee, super-
Fire o f unknown oiig n «1« utroycd intendent o f the Turn« r Boys’ Horn«-,
lit«- \>if, mill of Ihe Or« gon Feed St was contact man and provided the
Flour company here Saturday morn boys wth dads for the banquet. Dr
Epley o f Rab-ni ltd thi- gioup in aom<
ing ubout 1 :*I0.
The Are w u first discovered by *>l«l familiar songs after which they
Mrs. Chinn Holies, who lives iicruas retired to the dom< stic science loom
the street from the mill. Arousing where the girls o f the domestic sci-
l.er »on, Charlie, who soon spread the cnc class servc«l the ban«|uet to more
i.l.trin and i.oon the v.hole town popu than one hundred ami twenty men
lation was up rct««l to render any and and boys. The girls were assisted by
s'l assistunce in their power. But the Mrs. C. A. Bear, Mrs. L. C. Bail, Mrs.
It* at Was so intense that little could E. K. Hill und their teacher, Mrs.
b <• don«- and the whole structure w aa Ivan Hadley. A fter the banquet they
r turned to the auditorium for the
roaring furnace.
The Salem fire pumper urrive«! but program. Russell Denyer »«l i in u
not till ufU-r thi fire bad gained such humorous mnum-r o f the boy's int-
headway that it was useless to try to pri tsion o f ila«l. Harold Fowler gave
fight it. A couple o f boxcars of the his impressions of the boy in the
S. P. company were scorched, one home. This was sanwered by H. S.
b«*ing totally destroyed anil some of Bond, in his usual pleasing manner.
the ties on the track were somewhat Rob. rt Schaefer spoke from the
standpoint o f the high school boy.
burned.
A heavy freight train coming from The Boys’ Home quartet gave a num
the uorth wn i hclijjip foj> u couple of ber. Sam Smith gave a whistling solo
hours on nccount o f the train con uml Albert Jensen a viottn solo.
The climax o f the program was
taining gas tanks. The Salem pumper
played water on the fire next to the th<- address by Governor Norbbul.
track and made u clearing for the This udilress wus replete with goo«l
train which pulled out about 4 advice for the boy drawn principally
from his own «xp«*riences in life. Ev
u’clock.
eryone
wu:; well pleased and there
The mill cont.iin«’d 44 000 buahcl.i
o f grain, 9000 bushels of which be were numerous ivqu ots that this be
longed to farmers who stored it there, made an annual affair. The commit-
the rest belonged to the company. tie that had this in charge deserves
Tome of the grain was insured but much credit for the work put forth
in working >ut the p!un.> and handling
most of it was not.
{he
program.
A large quantity o f haled hay
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«tored in nn adjoining shed suffered
Mr. uml Mrs. F. B. Haworth culled
a like loss.
Farmers who 1iad grain stored in on Mr. und Mra. L. E. Peterson,
the mill were J. V. Beach, Hall Bros., Thursday evening. The evening was
Dave Burnett, Mr*. Caroline Draper, spent visiting und playing the rr.ilio.
A. D Guiro, Fred Elsci, Fred Fellers, j A very enjoyable evening was spent.
A. B. II nx, Tom Little. Walt Miller,
Albert Mud« i , Jack M i l l e t , ( I . L . Mor
ris, Ed Pow< rs, Merle Pearson, John
SchifTcrti, A. C. Strin-rruh, A. M.
Sturcv; lit itn«l Leonard Walker, about
¡1000 bt ’u « in all; the other 3f»,000
hush'-lt, 1». 1 >itged to the company.
The building was built 53 yeurs ago
by Mr. Cockerline o f Aumsville ami
has been the main source o f business
for the town all these years. The past
Hi rv«* Ransom was remove«! from
few years the annual payrool has been
bis home at Shelburn to the Stayton
around $12,000 a year w ith an annual
i hospital Tuesday. Harve whs injured
business o f $125,000.
when he drove his car into u logging
Manager
Thiessan
immediately
train «-arly Monday morning when h«*
opened new quarters in the Earl
was on his way to Shelburn from
bunding where the company has a Lyons to get Justin Ransom's mother
stock of grain, feed, hay, Hour un«l to take her to Salem to see the boys
everything that will keep the furmers
who were in the Salem General lios-
and fcc«l men supplied with their pital.
wants.
.
The fog was so dense Harve did not
The grain is being salvaged by the
see the logging train nml although he
C. A. Babcock company o f Portland,
was not «Iriving fast the compact ren-
who have a crew o f about 25 men
dered him unconscious. He was taken
sacking the grain, which is being to the Ransom home at Shelburn by
shipped to Portland, where it will be
the train crew where it was found he
cleaned and made saleable, ami the
had suffered chest injuries by being
farmers will receive whatever it
thrown against the steering wheel.
brings, which means that those hav
He is at present recovering slowly.
ing gniin stored will not be total los
ers.
Manager Thirssen says the mill will reporte«l that when at Brooks they
be rebuilt as soon as the grain and could tell the exact location, it was so
other debris is removed. The new bright. The large windows in the
»tructure will be thoroughly modern Bones Bros, garage, which is about
and steps will be taken to make it as a block east o f th«* mill property, were
cracketl and broken by the intense
Deary fireproof as can be «lone.
The fire lit up the surrounding heat and the paint on the service
countryside. Salem people coming station and buildings was blistered
from the big prise fight in Portland which will necessitate repainting.
[RANSOM BUMPS
L
IA M K FOE
¡j. M. Lmlicott was here fiom Sa
lem la>t week renewing old acquui.i-
tames and as usual dropped in to
visit with The Tribun*- force. Wc
learn« «1 from Mr. Endicott that twen
ty years ago on Thursday, December
11, he op- ned the first bank in Tur
ner.
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Mr. Endicott said he had promised
t-j open the bank on a certain date
and he kept lira word, although his
fixtures ha«l not arrived he opened
th’' doors at promptly ten o'clock,
using u coup!«- o f empty b -rrela and
plank« for a counter.
So eager were th«- citizen.« to Iravt
the bank open« «! and also to see who
would be the first depositor a line of
people extending from the Robertson
corner up to the bank waited for
nome time till the doors were opened.
Mr. Endicott conducted the bank
for five years, tailing out to Henry
Crawfor«! of Salem; Mr. Gray suc
ceed e«l Mr. Crawford, und then E. T.
Pierce purchased the controlling in-
t reit. Mr. Pierce is also manager
o f the 1 umsville bank and divides his
tiiTi'- between the two places.
Mr. Endicott says he calls Turner
his home, has a warm spot in his heart
for our little city and would sooner
live in Turner than be doorkeeper in
the House o f the I-ord.
Mrs. Bean o f Salem spent Thurs
day here as the guest o f Mrs. Cor
nelia Davis und Miss Mary Davis. She
also attend«*«! the bazaar at the Chris
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IST I ACCIDENT CAUSES
SU IS OF (HU-TW O
II
Driver o f Second Car Said to Have
Made Wrong Turn Which Caused
Wreck.
One o f the saddest auto accidents
that has occurreil for some time in
this section happened last Sunday
evening ubout 12 o’clock, when a
Chverolet sedan tlriven by Justin Ran
som o f Shelburn, was struck broail-
si«lt* by a car driven by V. M. Gower
o f Salem at the intersection of North
Capitol nml Center streets.
In the car with Justin Ransom were
Wayne Ransom anti John Sacre of
Aumsville, Miss Blanche Hutchinson
and Verla Massey o f Salem.
The party had been visiting rela
tives in Salem anil were on their way
home, when Justin fail«*«! to see the
stop sign, owing to the «lense fog anil
drove into the mi«l«llc o f the street.
The Gower car came onto them and
it is sai«l Gower turned the wrong
way striking the Ransom car causing
it to run to the curb, striking a tree
with such force as- to completely
wreck the car.
Blanche Hutchinson receive«! fatal
injuries an«l dieil at the General hos
pital a couple o f hours later without
regaining consciousness. Wayne Ran
som receive«! a bail cut over the right
eye that took several stitches to close.
John Sacre was cut on the right cheek
and was badly shaken up. Both boys
suffered from shock.
Justin Ransom said he was driving
in exeses o f the speel limit and was
fined $10.00 by Judge Poulsen.
The Gower car was somewhat dam
aged, the glass being broken ami Mr.
Gower received slight injuries.
At the General hospital where both
Wayne and Johnny arc being treated
the report comes from Dr. Hobson
that they are getting along nicely and
will be out in a few days.
R1BUNE
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 i, I 9 &
NUMBER 10
T H IR T Y -T H R E E Y E A R S
U- S. M AIL S E R V IC E
Tl'c- following writeup is taken ’ day or two later Postmaster Tlioma.-
from the- Portland Journal and is showed n. a letter from one o f the
from the p«n o f Fr«-«l Lockley, who inspectors in whic hhe said he ha .
write«« “ Impressions and Observations recommended George E .Judd, Phi!
W. Pearson an dmyself as rural car-
} f th«- Journal Man” :
While in Turner recently 1 inter , Tiers at Turner. We three were ap-
viewed Fred C. Gunning, v/ho, in pointed, and, as you know, this was
point of service, is probably the oldest the first rural free delivery service in
rural free delivery mail carrier in the Oregon.
“ i took out my ft st mail on Octo
United StaU-s. He has served con-
tinuously a*. rural free delivery car ber 16, 1897, carrying my mail on
rier ut Turner since October 16, 1897. horseback. I carried 1700 pieces o f
nenth. I didn’t worry
This m'-ans he ha3 been a rural car mail the
ried for 33 years. When I ar.kfc«l him about the cost o f gasoline in those
to tel! me about himself and his job days, but it did take quite a slice out
o f my salary to buy oats for my horse
he said:
“ I was born at Omra, Wis., May 9, at 25 cent .«a bushel and baled hay
1874. My father, Felix C. Gunning, at $4.30 a ton.
“ On January 1 oui salary was
wai born in Pennsylvania. When I
wa.: a little chap, 4 years old, we : boosted from $300 to $4G0 a year.
.loved to Kansas, where 1 lived until Within a year or so our salary v.a,
< was 19. V.'e came to Oregon in nc«ca*ed to $50 a month. Judd vork
893, living fer a year and a half at cd about a year and resigned. Pearson
Stayton. From Stayton we moved to worked for 10 years before resigning.
Calem, when my p ;m t s ran a board My route «a s 24 tniles in length and
ing house cn Court street between in v. inter 1 would sometimes get stuck
Commercial and Front. I worked at in the mud even on horseback. A fter
the boarding house for a v.'hile and 18 months 1 bought a cart for sum
Inter worked at Westacott & Irvin’s mer delivery. Later 1 bought a rubber
restaurant. Later I worked in a dairy- tired buggy and still L te r I purchased
in North S. lc*m owned by Judge R. P. a rural mad wagon. From that I grad
uated to a Victor bicycle for summer
Boise.
“ From Salem wc moved to Turner. use.
“ In 1907 I went to Portland and
Father and mother leaseih the hotel
here, liy job was to meet the passen purchased for $250 a second-hand
ger tre.’ns and carry bn"?mge to the tiller steer Olds car. 1 bought my gas
hotel. One day two men got off the at the hardware store in 5-gallon cans.
train. R. O. Thomas, who was station When the winter rains set in I had to
agent ami postmaster here for many lay up my car. I sold it next spring
years, to«.!: one o f these men to his and bought a motorcycle for $190. I ,
home, while the other went to our used the motorcycle for the next sev
hotel. I Lam ed from the man who en summers and my horse and cart
accompanied me to our hotel that h® in the « ’inter. It took me about 10
and his friend were postal inspectors. | hours to cover my rout«: with a horse
Next morning at th® breakfast table 1 and cart. In 1916 1 boue-ht e model
this inspe ctor asked me what I plan 1T Ford. Last Octobc r I bought a
ned to do. 1 told him 1 had taken the model A Ford. My route u> now 41
railway mail examination and was on miles in length and for the past two
year3 1 have been able to use the car
the eligible list. He said:
“ ‘ You are the very man we are both winter and summer.
“ Starting wtih a saliry o f $300 a
looking for. How would you like a
job as maii carrier? I hope you will year, it has been gradually increase«!
put in ycur application. The govern until I nov/ receive $2700 a year. The
ment is about to establish rural free saalry is boic«l cn a payment o f $1800
delivery as an experiment. I can guar- a year for a 24-mi!c route, with $30 a
ant- e that you « i l l get the job if you year for each mile over 24 miles. We
will apply for it. You will receive a are also allowed an upkeep o f 4 cent-«
salary o f $25 a month, but you will per mile.
“ In 1910 I was married to Miss
have to furnish your own horse and
equipment and also the upkeep of Nellie Durfee o f Shaw.
“ Mr. Parker, one o f the carriers at
your horse.’
“ When he « ’as about to leave he Monmouth, the state president o f our
sai«l to my father, *1 want you to see association, told me recently that
that your con puts in his application there was no carrier in service in the
United States totlav who had been on
iOr rural carrier here.’
“ I figured I could take a chance, so the job as long as myself. When 1
1 told him if the job was offered me started, 33 years ago, there were only
I «-oulil take it. The inspectors left on 87 free rural delivery routes in the
the southbound train that night. A United States.”
I. EDWARDS IS MUSTÍE Œ - - I M I »
OF SURPRISE [RANEE
Miss Coelotta, eldest daughter of
Mr. anil Mrs. R. H. Hickok o f Mapl«^
ton. Oregon, and William W. Mc
Officers for the year were elected Kinney were «fU!etly married at 2
whin Surprise Grange No. 233 met in o’clock Sunday at the home o f the
regular session Saturday and are as groom’s patents, Mr. an«l Mrs. J. W.
follows: Master, Arthur Edwards; McKinney, who live west o f town.
secretary-treasurer,
Mrs.
Eleanor Rev. Earl Cochran, cousin o f the
Titus; lady overseer, Mrs. U. E. Den groom, read the marriage lines.
yer; lecturer, Mrs. W. T. Gulvin;
The bride’s sisters, Mrs. Archie
steward, Fred Steiner; assistant stew- PresnaTl and Mrs. William, Rands
ard, Mrs. U. E. Denycd; chaplain, assisted in serving the wedding din
Mrs. C .T. White; gatekeeper, Chas. ner.
Kamsdell; Ceres, Mrs. Fri*d Steiner;
The bridal couple left for a short
Pomona, Mrs. George Crume; Flora, I, honeymoon to Seattle, after which
Mrs. Chas. Rammlell.
they will be at home to their friends
Between seventy and eighty were at 2333 State street, Salem, where
present fo rthe 12 o’clock dinner and the groom is a member o f the law
o f unusual interest « ’as the fact that firm of Young & McKinney.
it «-as the wedding anniversary o f t « ’o
couples present— Mr. an«l Mrs. C. T. House Top,” Alice Titus, Evelyn Jen
White’s tenth an«l Mr. and Mrs. A. D. sen, Clarissa and Frances Clark; reci
Hale’s fifty-fifth. Mrs. Hale cut a tation, Bernadine White; violin solo,
large pink and white wedding cake Albert Jensen; Christmas song, audi
«•hich she hail bake«l and each person ence; reading, Mrs. W. F. Gulvin; ac-
cordian solo, Fred Steiner, who also
present «-as served a piece.
A splendii! impromptu program was played the music as a greeting to
presented in the afternoon as fol Santa Claus (W . F. Gulvin), who
low’s: Recitation, Rosalie White; rea«l- found a brightly trimmed tree upon
ing, Mrs. U. E. Denyer; piano solo, his arrival with a present on it for all
Clarissa Clark; song, “ Up on the present.