he T urner TURNER BANK OPENED 23 Mill W ill Be YEARS A60 3Y S. Rebuilt Soon M. [ TURNER, MARION COUNTY. OREGON. v » i r m í . X VI 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, sponsorcif, 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 . • O —------- «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. — 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 tian cl - 1~ - - 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.