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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1903)
THE STÄYTON MAIL Hy U ALEXAN D ER. A N t t W S I 'A l 'K H , N O T A E ighth Y i -. ah N OHO A S u b s c r ip tio n , $ 1 .2 6 PE ft AN N U M IM STAYTON. MARION COUNTY, OREGON. DECEMBER 2ç, 190*. Ladies and Gent’ s Fancy Purses. W rist Bags and Chattelains. A complete line of Popular Novels; also Poets' Editions rangins in price from 25c to $ 2 . 00 . See That None Are Forgotten Everyone expects a present at holiday time. If not at Christmas, then New Years. Don’t disappoint them. W e are also showing a new and popular line of Ebony Dress- Napkins, i ng Cases. Very acceptable X m as presents, consisting of 3 to Beantiful Table Spreads 15 piece sets, from $1.25 to $25.00. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Bureau Scarfs Art Squares, Kodaks, Cameras, and Photographic Supplies. Bugs, A full line of these popular pleasure makers. Carpets, Forteries, Lounge Covers. K indly call and look over the line of X m as G oods we are n ow show ing. Brewer Drug Co., Stayton. Useful Holiday Gifts 5 piece Casters, T e a Sets, Fine line of Diamond, Plain, Cake Stands, Berry Dishes, Engraved and Set Ringr. Salt and Pepper Casters, Friendship Hearts and Lockets. Soup Ladles, G ravy Ladles, ■V large niu-ortnit-lit of Cake Knives, Pie Knives, Silver and Aluminum Novelties Cake Servers, Napkin Rings, Musical Instruments, Ladies and Gents Violins, Guitars, Mandolins, Gold W atches (inara nti-i-d 2d year*, u n i . E l Banjos, Accordeons, gin iMovpinwn'a fri>tu f i t ) .V) ii |. and Harmonicas. N u m b e r ¿6. A Merry : Gladden the little fel lows heart w'ith an Xmas suit of clothing or an overcoat, a pair off shoes or a new hat. I ♦ ♦ ♦ : ♦ I ♦ Christmas Ladies Neckwear Elegant Stole Collars in latest designs. : Gloves — new shades and fine material. Pop ular prices. Fascinators, wool and Silk, 2 ÇC to $ 2 .ÇO. ♦ ♦ : : : Ladies Jackets $18.00 for $ 19.00 for $ 11.$2 1 New Year j : : Umbrellas as Gifts are very appropriate. ♦ : Mufflers, 2$c to #1.50 Neckties, $c to 7 ^c and ♦ ♦ I A Happy ♦ ♦ A Hat at any price.from ¡;oc to $.{.00. March him in and buy a good hat and he w ill be com pelled to think of you every hour he wears the hat. ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ «♦ ♦♦ ♦*♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦♦ » Fancy Purses Wrist Bags, Hand Bags. President Suspenders in cartons. Look through our large store and you will say “ Santa has certain- I 11 V V I ly \j *>n here.’ ” ’ rin llc ( w ilr c o r j m .t rattl^c /-»«-r\c drums, c f.im X v/ X C/ been Dolls, books, games, rattles, K horns, steam, Silver plated K nives and Forks, different brands, $2.75 up, a set. spring and motor engines, auto street cars, the kind that w on ’t wear out in a day, 25c up. I 11 V V ^ Vf A Cy Before selecting your gifts come and examine our large stock and see our prices. Remember, we engrave all our ‘ r . r o v , H IGH W AY ▼ H t R n w ¿lax KING PLAN FOR IMF ROVING DIRT ROADS. l i t «* 1 W « r l % llrru M t A C iG I X U I« M r t h « » « ! — ! > r n it l ( * * « l (•00U Hour und %«*«’ «• m | » l I » t i e « ! II um cl ■ b? W hat lin i» A l«*«?« In 4 «»»»«I l l I o n . Iti mi artide In u recent nuintx-r of tue Munlclpal Journal unii Engl licer I). V». King ni Mnltlnml, Mo.. givi*» noni» iiew r.i.-tM of Interest sbout hi» metbtxl \if liutiroriiig illrt mini» by tbc use o f » mali tlrug. Mr King anya: "T he uhi - o f tln- Hpllt log ilrng I» no it.tiui-r 1111 cxjierlmcnt In MI »noli ri ima «nljolnlng »taira. I t*’gun «Irngglng In lutai unti bave draggiil regulnrly t-ver alni»-. I dragged n luiIf inlle »tri-li-li of mml for four yi-ura before «ny o f m.v TX'lglibom iH-gnii, liut nfti-r th»-y »tnrti»! iln-y cauta wlth 11 ruali. Now tln- i - oiiii - ty Ima n atiiitdlng otTi-r to funilali tI h * luntrrlnl to any faruu-r w bo wlll umke ani! ute 11 ilrng. T o show tln- allupile- Ity o f tlila ilmg tificeli were umili’ Innt »prlug ut olii* cmaamaila hlackauilth almp Iti olii* wi-i-k. 'J'In* MlHHimrl stute In ni ni o f agricolture Ima umile roril «Irngglng 11 «nature o f Ita fiirim-ra' lu- Mltute» tln- pnat vi-nr and wlth tini- re- aulta. A poatmaatiT reported ISO milee o f remi dragged wltbln a wei-k after (A. apllt Inn 1* fi-i-t lung. 10 to 12 Inches ttil. k. Hi-t on rilgi- 211 im hi-» »part. Iiotli rim »id.» to the front; U, strong oak or hrilgp Imra, thi- enda of whlrh «re wedg- ... 1 In two Ineh auger holea horad throuati the log» or alalia; ilotteil llna, chalna or »IrnnK wire; I), Dl. D2, rtnga to con* nect double tri-e elevla lllteh at I>1 mid atand nt O, on u plank lit lit >>n the croas- Imra for ordinary work, or hitch at L>2 anil alanil at K for ditch cleaning or to make the drag throw more dirt to the 1. ft. To move dirt to the right reverse position of driver and Inst hitch. If working a clay road put Iron, old wagon tire or something of the sort on lower edge of drag at the end of »1* months; for softer still at the end of twelve months. | nur meeting. Another la imklug for a muti meeting thla year anya last year'a meeting did more for the betterment of the ronda than nnytlilug In the history o f tli«* community. -T h e drag la not Intended to replace the mad machine nor will road drag ging do away with the neceaalty o f macadamising the main thoroughfares as soon as we can lie educated to see stayton, ore. flie wisdom o f «pi-n-’ .ig i uttle money eut-li year In crushing, »pmaiding and rolling ati.-u-. The drug aeviua to !'•• the connect log link between the old and the new. It kia-jia the old uiud road-in the fltii-at possible condition. "T h e operation Is extremely simple. 1 im-rcly go over the stretch o f road with u drag after every rain or wet spell. The land Is rolling prairie, part o f the soli is hlack anil part o f It Is yellow clay The drag Is made hj splitting a log. placing the tw o pieces on edge nliotit thirty Inches apart, with the Hat aides laith faring In the same direction, and pinning them together. The lower edge o f the fpuit piece Is protected with Iron. An old wagon tire will do. The log should 1 h * ten or twelve Inches thick and alumt nine feet long. A chain or heavy wire Is fasten ed a foot or eighteen Inches from each end liy which to haul It. A team Is bitched so that the drag will move the dirt toward the center o f the road. The hitch Is next In Importance to the time at which the dragging Is done. The right time Is Just as the road dries after n rain or when It Is thawed on top during tlie winter and spring. It should Is- draggi-d every time It rains. “ O f course a smooth surface for trav el Is thus produced, hut a more valua ble result Is that the road wlll shed the next rain Instead o f absorbing It. This Is the reason why the mad should be dragged after every rain so that it ul- wnys will be ready for the next. The way to make a good illrt mad Is to keep It so Hint the next rain will not go Into It. This means dragging about once a month on an average. 1 drag from my own front gate to my neigh bor's front gate, half a mile, taking about twenty minutes. I don’ t make very many trips to town before I have regained the time I expended in drag ging. to say nothing o f the gain to m.v ucighburs and to the general public. "T his methisl is very simple, as I have said, but to one who Is familiar with the ordinary illrt road under all conditions o f season and weather the results are little short o f marvelous. Teams pass here at a sweeping trot when other mads an* almost Impassa ble. When other roads are In such a condition that loaded teams must la* rested every few rods the same loads are moved over thla road St a free walk and without resting. “ This half mile stretch o f road 1» high In the center and very hard. Drag ging every time not only makes It smooth for travel, hut distributes the travel all over the road, packing It evenly Instead o f merely tinder tlit- tlrea and under the honjia In parallel beaten paths. This Increases the abili ty o f the road surface to shed water. Dragging every time It rains spreads n thin layer o f moist dirt over a moist A nice line of Vases, from 25c to $3.00 each. G. O. TROTTER, Stayton. Ore. surface, and travel pack» and pounds It together, every dragging adding Juat a little soil and the whole twins thor- •ughly iiinslgninatcil ii.nl consolidated. Aiter years o f spreading and packing I have a mad on which anything lest than » week's wet weather makes lit tle Impression. In the spring, when the I round thaws anil nnkept roads are so nii'dily and spongy that we say ’ the bottom ha« fnllen out.’ this read rs stains In fnlr condition." D rum m ers In K I iik llr n r i'a T im e. King Henry Y. had a baud which discoursed sweet music during ids e x pedition to llnrlteiir. each mendier be ing recompensed for Ids services with the sum o f 12 |N-nce per diem. When the citizens o f I.onduli were mustered in tin* thirty-first year o f the reign o f Henry V III. we hear that "la*fore ev ery standard was appointed one dnuus- laile at the least.” Kaeh company of Inn men at this time possessed a cou ple o f drummers. All the Year Round. T lie D u b lin In l-;n (!s n il. The dahlia lias become ]>optilnr among English gardeners. In the wild plant tin* flowers are single, with a dull ray and yellow disk. The varieties o f tlie cultivated forms are almost end less. The original w as discovered in Mexi co by Vincent Cervantes about 17M and was first brought to the botanic gardens o f Madrid, and the same year it was introduced Into England by the then Marchioness o f Itute. The plant became extinct in Hrltaln. It was again brought there in 1MH. and In that year Is found the earliest men tion o f the dahlia, named from Andrew Dahl, a Swedish botanist and pupil o f Llntin'us. In M exico the tubers are cultivated as food on account o f the quantity of inulln they contain, but in Europe, though many times tried, they never became popular. M other--Tommy, stop asking yonr father so many questions. Don’ t you see It annoys him? Tom m y—W hy, mother. It’s not the questions that make him angry. It’ s because he can't answer them.- Punch. The Sort of s F i-llow Hr la. Knlppe—W hat sort o f a fellow Is Johnson? Tncqne—Oh. he Is one o f that kind of men who are always remarking. "It looks ns though we'd have a little rnlr before night.” - Syracuse Herald. Too lln n tjr. “ Jones has a new addition to hie fam ily." “ Indeed? I must congratulate him." “ Hold on It’s a son-in-law!"—Atlan ta Constitution. M E A S U R IN G HAY. A p p r o x im a t e F .a llm n lrt o f th e \ « m - bi-r o f T o n s In S i m o r S ts i-k . •bed rain, and consequently stacks are built In a form that does not afford straight lines by which to measure them. The measurer, therefore. Is obliged to assume "average lines” that, in his heat Judgment, reduce the stack to a solid square. The dotted lines in the illustration represent these, the Idea being to draw them in such » way that if they formed a box. and the hay wps thrown into It, it would fill it. Then these dotted lines are measured, and the length, breadth and height o f the stack they show are then multiplied together, and the cubic con tents are thus ascertained. The rule above given is then applied, and the number o f cubic feet is divided by 350 or 500 or any Intervening number that the condition o f the hay seems to war rant. and the result is the number o f tous contained in the stack approxi mately. When hay to be measured is In tlie mow and Is stored so that the surface is level it Is easy to ascertain the num ber o f cubic feet it contains. It is only a question o f multiplying together the length, breadth and depth o f the mass, and as It Is confined within square walls there is no trouble about finding what the length, breadth and depth are. When this has been done the measurer must exercise his judgment as to tlie quality, condition and effect o f storage on the density o f the hay. says the Iowa Homestead. Usually good timothy hay when thor oughly settled will require aliout 350 cubic feet to muke a ton. If It is only partially settled it will take from 400 to 4.">0 cubic feet, while new hay will take 500 cubic feet or perhaps more. The P .o f l t In E a r l y T o m a t o e s . same figures would probably represent Growing and marketing tomatoes is pretty closely the number o f cubic feet an important branch o f farming on necessary to weigh a ton iff the case of the garden and truck farms about clover hay or of tlie ordinary mixed Providence. The soil o f the greater grasses tf in the same condition as to purt o f the county is suitable for their length o f time o f stornrre. culture, and in some portions excep To this statement redtop is probably tionally early ones are produced. The an exception. If the lot o f hay con soil is in a large part of the towns tains much redtop It would take a bordering upon the city a light sandy larger iiumlier o f cubic feet to make a loam, such as is just right for early ton, because the same treatment will forcing crops, and this helps the to not compress It so closely or make it so mato grower. Plants started in hot dense. This difficulty about determin beds will bear as early as the middle ing with any degree o f definiteness the o f Jnly in a good season, and at that number o f cubic fee« required to make time fabulous prices are received for a ton In weight is one o f the reasons the fruit. Sometimes, as during the why tlie results obtained by measure past season, the early figure is as high ment can only be regarded as approxi as $5 a bushel, and the tomatoes that mations. are raised early are not o f surprisingly When the hay is sold from the stack good quality. T w o dollurs to $3 is a measurement is not only subject to the common price for early fruit, aud it uncertainty Just mentioned, but It Is will drop sometimes in two weeks to also a question o f judgm ent to some about $1. This year the season was extent to awertain the number o f cubic backward and tomatoes were late.— feet It contains owing to the Irregular American Cultivator. form o f the stack. T o illustrate this objection as well ns the best method o f H e n » a n d N otes. overcoming It the accompanying Illus North Carolina cotton will be largely tration is given. planted in Texas next season in the en In the Illustration the stack is a par deavor to escape the boll weevil. allelogram on the ground, and If the The department o f agriculture has in shlo lines continued upward without vented a way o f packing the nitrogen inclining inward anil the top were lev- ■ gathering bacteria In absorbeut cotton so they can be transported by mail. Louisiana “ sugar mules,” as those fed with waste molasses are called, are said to bring 20 per cent more than the cotton plantation mules that are fed cotton seed. It Is now considered that a lower cold storage temperature than was at first used is best for apples, 33 degrees M E A S U R I N G H A Y IN T H E S TA C K . being most satisfactory. el then* would be no more difficulty In Some o f the claims for the Ben Da ascertaining the cubic content* o f the vis apple are that it “ makes money for stack than there would be those o f a the grower, and the middleman like» mass o f hay In a mow. Hut stacking i* >• requires Inclination o f surface that will j