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STAYTON, MARION COUNTY, OREGON, MARCH J& 1910.
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DELAY TENT Barth and 6om et
J. HASSLER
SHOW TO to Plunge Swiftly DROPS IN
but Safely by One
MONDAY
FIELD
Another on May 18
Out
o f courtesy to Homer
o f Silverton, the
famous cartoonist, the Stayton
Commercial Club has postponed
its Big Tent Show tw o days, or
until after Sunday, Mr. Daven
port will lecture and draw at
the ()j>cra House Friday and
Saturday nights, March 18-19;
the Commercial d id ) show and
benefit, in Mr. F. A. Rolnrrtson's
Electric Theatet, next M onday
evening, March 21, commencing
I at 7:30. Biggest show yet.
| Davenport,
H err/ Wirth, of Stayton, a Member of Gonrt Stayton No. 71.
FGRESTIC CAMPAIGN
COMPELS ATTENTION
IN FRATERNAL FIELD
His name is Henry Wirth. He is
Henry Wirth, therefore. In working
signing up new members for the for the Forester» In the Stayton dis
Forest« rs o f America, in the Slayton trict, in soliciting members for Court
district.
j Stayton No. 71, has behind him not
Henry Wirth needs no Introduction to ' on|y hi» own personality and past suc-
................ . t i B U y to a , in which c m -
but the worth of the F. of A..
munity he has been a sterling citizen ! ** W*H- In «rder to become organiser
for the past six years. Altho much o f ; for the Foresters, he had to resign hia
his time has l»een spent in other towns j (K)silion as assistant grand master with
o f the Willamette valley, in the in -1 the Artisans, no little sacrifice in itself.
terest o f fraternal orders, yet he has And when a man holding such a position
!>crn in Stayton often enough, has caUad . in a contem|sirary order gives it up
Stayton home long enough, to be known j for the Forestlc work o f benevolence,
it speaks very highly for the Foresters.
o f men in this part o f the country.
For fourteen months, ending March \ Work o f Foreatic organization can be
H, liMO, he organize»! and worked for | safely carried on, as above stated,
the tJnite<l Artisans in the States o f without in any manner jeopardizing the
Oregon and Washington. On March 8, friendship o f other orders, as it stands
he visited Portland, the head offices o f apart by itself, in its own field, and
both orders, resigned hiB commission occupies a unique position in the world
with the Artisans and accepted a com fraternal. In doing this work, then,
mission with the Foresters, for whom as he has done like work in the past,
alone he is busy.
Mr. Wirth will in no sense antagonize
While with the United Artisans. Mr. I ai.y other fraternity, the while he
Wirth won a name for himself not sur booms Forestry.
passed or equalled by any organizer in
Associated with Organizer Wirth in
the field. Not only that— he set a new the presenr Foreatic campaign is Mr.
high mark for fraternal organizers in H. J. Jennings, who arrived in town
this State. In one day at Airlie, he got Tuesday to make Stayton his home.
40 persons to join the order, and in i Mr. Jennings has been an insurance
many other places the fraternal uplift solicitor, and a very successful one,
has felt the weight o f his tireless, im working only for leading companies
pressive energy. What he has accom and those which can deliver the goods.
plished for the Artisans, he will repeat He comes with the highest credentials.
for the Foresters o f America. And as
A Kentuckian by birth, Mr. Jennings'
men grow wiser and better as they labors have been largely on the Pacific
grow older in years and experience, so slope during the past few years. He
it may be said o f Henry Wirth that he is a man who circulates in the best
will accomplish more for the Foresters society, a man o f unsullied character
than for any other order for which he and reputation, and a man who will
has ever worked.
i shake hands with anybody and look
In swelling the already large mem him straight in the eye. He is o f pleas
bership o f the Foresters o f America, ing appearance, weighing well above
Mr. Wirth will in nowise hurt the the average, and is built to match.
fraternal orders for which he has or
In making Stayton his headquarters,
ganized in the past. The reason for Mr. Jennings has affiliated himself
this must he obvious when it is realized with Court Stayton No. 71, which he
that the Foresters is unlike fhe Artisans joined at the last meeting.
The present campaign will consume
or the Woodmen or any other fraternal
insurance order because it is not a death anywhere from 60 to 90 days, and it is
benefit
body.. The
Foresters
o f the intention o f both gentlemen to make
America pays sick and accident bene Court Stayton the peer o f any Forestic
fits of $8 to $10 a week, with allowance Court in the State.
o f 50c. for the first doctor's call,
mileage, and 25c. for each successive
STAYTON SUNBEAMS.
physician's visit, or visit o f
the
Forester to the physicinn. Also, the
Now what do you know about this?
Foresters pay $50 to the member for
A member o f J. H. Rryant's own
his w ife’s funeral benefit, or $100 to family, yet the industrious agent of
the widow for the husband's funernl the North American sick and accident
benefit. Unlike the Eagles, free doctor insurance company has failed to this
and medicine is not furnished to every date to have him take out a policy.
member o f the family, because such a Ilut, bide-a-wee, there’s another day
course would be impossible with a bene coming. In the meantime, J. H. is
fit as high ns $10 a week to the member passing around the cigars in celebra
for 20 weeks disability. And all these tion o f the arrival o f a baby boy in his
benefits are to be hnd on a member home at Portland.
ship fee o f $5 (initiation) and $1 a
W. C. T. U. committee at Lyons
month thereafter.
For the nmount o f money paid, it can sends us the following: There wiil be
be said o f the Foresters that this order with us at Lyons our state president,
pays the jreatost possible benefits for Mrs. LInruh, March 25. Mothers' meet-
the least amount o f money. That this ' nK
^ p. m., and a young ladj’ will
is so is evidenced right here in Stayton t**H< to the young people and ths child-
by recent money benefits paid to Felix ; r<>n *n ^ e afternoon; Mrs. Unruh at 7:
Van Erman, $87; John Schwartz, $66,
P- m-
and lesser amounts to Ernest Schott,
Guy Kearns is expected todaj’ to
Andrew Rauscher, Frank Van Erman soend Sunday with his parents, his
and a score o f other member». Yet father accomp anying him from Ri.lem
the local lodge, Court Stayton No. 71,
Warren Richardson spent thin week
F. o f A., today has in its treasury
in Portland.
severnl hundred dollars, and hack o f
A . Hornbuckle was a caller in tqw n
it stands the order at large, with a
jnembership in the nation o f 235,000.
i uesday.
Haba, Haba! And now the home
stretch for the Commercial Club’s Big
Tent Show Monday night, March 21.
Be there.
As Old Bill would say, “ Weil, well,
well! Here I am again. Plenty o f time
before the big show commences —fully
one hour. Twenty-five cents,
two
dimes and a nick le, admits you on the
inside. Remember, ladies and gentle
men, all the living curiosities pictured
before you on canvas, by Manager
Floyd A. Robertson and the Stayton
Commercial Club, are no more and no
less than we have on the inside.
Statues of the great, notorious English
murderers, the deathbed o f Washing
ton, the dying Zulu. Plenty o f time,
as 1 said before, fully one hour before
the large show commence*.
“ Here, pictured before you on your
right, is the largest woman in the
world, weighing 1,300 pounds. You’ ll
find her interesting in her conversation.
She has a life history for sale. While
here, upon your left, is the living
skeleton. This man was born in the
State o f Maine, a carpenter by occupa
tion. You’ ll find him. also, interesting
in conversation. He hss his life history
for sale. See Nemee Brozee, the
beautiful snake charmer, who handles
the snake the same as you would a
babe; an infant o f her own, with the
greatest o f care and ease. The arm
less man, the beautiful Circassian girl,
the Siamese twins.”
And while you may not get all these
things at the Commercial Club’ s Big
Tent Show Monday night, yet, as
Old Bill further says: “ Ice cold lemon
ade, found 149 feet under ground by
the light o f a diamond. Stirred up by
the forefinger o f Jenny Lind and
sweetened by Tom Thumb. Made in
the shade and mixed with a spade.
Sold by Prof. Robertson and the
Stayton Commercial Club. Sweetens
the breath, smoothes the hair, puts a
•mile on the countenance and sells for
half fare; 25 cents for adults, 15 cents
for children, and all at the Big Tent
Show, Stayton, Monday night, March
21 . ”
STAYTON
SUNBEAMS.
Charles Dunagan was arrested Wed
nesday on a warrant from Eugene
telephoned to the town marshal. De
puty Marshal Davie made the arrest,
and officer Alva Smith took Mr. Duna
gan to Salem to turn him over to the
sheriff o f Marion county on instructions
o f the sheriff o f Lane county. The
charge is said to be obtaining money
under false pretenses.
Miss Elizabeth Wilson, the new
music teacher, who went to Salem
Saturday, had a coki when she left
Stayton. A letter to Mrs. Morton
states that Miss Wilson’ s cold became
worse, with the result that she could
not return to her lessons here as soon
as expected. She will probably return
Sunday or Monday.
The Oregon Moline Plow Co. gave
Korinek & Mielke o f this city a chance
to retail two Monitor drills on the
Portland floor this week, which whs
promptly done.
Clifford Harol i went to Portland
Tuesday, visiting J. H. Bryant while
there.
Curtis Cole is suffering from a wound
caused by running s rusty nail in hia
foot.
During the absence o f Henry Smith,
Alva Smith is acting marshal.
S cientific A merican .
o f Harvard. By a collision he under
On May 18th next the earth will be stands, first, that any part o f the earth
plunged Into the tail o f Halley's comet, strikes any part c f the com et’s head;
and the head o f that body will be but second, that any part o f the earth
15,000,000 miles away. It is
but •trikes the most condensed point in the
natural that a thinking man should ask; head (the core) as dist nguished from
Is there s possibility that the earth the larger nucleus. What the average
may encounter a comet and thus come size o f a visible com et’«« head may be,
we have no means o f knowing. Young
to a frightful end?
estimates that fo r a telescopic comet
Curiously enough, it was Hailey it averages from 40,100 to 100,000 miles
himself who first pointed out the possi in diameter. The head o f the great
bility. Whiston, Newton's successor comet o f 1811 was 1,200,000 miles; that
in the Lucasian chair o f mathematics j o f Holme’s comet in 1892, 700,000 miles
at Cambridge, was so alarmed at “ a and that o f naked eye comets generally
chariot of fire” which flared up in his over 10C.9U) miles.
day, that Halley was prompted to look
In the last half o f the last century
closely into its movements. His work
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comets, including returns, pene
led to the startling result that the
comet, when passing through the des trated the sphere o f the earth’s orbit.
cending node, had approached the From this Prof. Pickering infers that
earth’ s path within a semi-diameter of we should expect to be struck by the
the earth. Naturally, Halley wondered core o f a visible comet once in about
what would have happened had the 40,000,000 years, and by some portion
earth and the comet been actually so of the head once in 4,000,000 years.
close together in their respective orbits. Since comets’ orbits are more thickly
Assuming the comet’ s mass to have distriduted near the ecliptic than in
been comparable with that o f the earth other regions o f the sphere, the
(an assumption which we now know to - collisions would occur rather more
have been utterly beyond reason) he frequently than this, but hardly as
concluded that their mutual gravitation often as once in 2,000,000 years; and
would have caused a change in the since it has been estimated that animal
position of the earth in its orbit, tnd life has existed upon the earth for 100,
consequently in the length o f a year. 000,000 years, a considerable number of
This train of thought led him to con collisions, perhaps as many as fifty,
sider what the result of an actual must have taker, place during that in-
coliisaferwould have been, and he con ierYal, in IVof. Pickering’ s opinion,
cludes that “ if so large a body with so evidently without producing any very
rapid a motion were to strike the errth serious results.
—a thing by no means impossible—
The old notions o f tidal effects o f
the shock might reduce this beautiful comets were based upon an erroneous
world to its original chaos.”
conception o f cometary masses. It
Hence Halley not only dispelled the seems astonishing that a man o f
mathematical
superstition and the terror which Laplace’s wonderful
once followed (p • comet’s wake, but powers should not have concluded that
also pointed out a possibility which the a body like a comet, which can sweep
superstitious Dark Age had never through the entire solar system with
dreamed of. It seemed to Halley not out deranging a single one o f its mem
improbable that the earth had at some bers, must have a mass so small that
remote period been struck by a comet it cannot appreciably affect the waters
which, coming upon it obliquely had o f the earth. As it is, comets are
changed the position o f the axis of more likely to be captured by planets
rotation,
the north pole having (witness the comet families o f Jupiter
originally, he thought, been at a point and Saturn) than to derange a member o f
not far from Hudson’s Bay. The more solar system or to produce tidal affects.
recent investigations o f Kelvin and Sir
George Darwin completely upset any
such theory.
Since Halley’s time the chance o f a
collision between the earth and a comet
has engaged the attention o f many
astronomical mathematicians. Laplace,
for example, painted the possibility o f
a collision with the earth so vividly
that he startled his day and generation.
He drew a picture o f a comet whose
mass was such that a tidal wave some
13,000 or 14,000 feet high inundated
the world, with the result that only the
higher peaks o f the Himalayas and the
Alps protruded. I.alande created a
panic by a similar consideration of the
subject in the paper which was intend
ed for presentation before the Academy
fo Sciences, but which was not read.
Such was the popular excitement, that
he felt himself constrained to allay the
public fears as well as he could in a
soothing article published in the Gazett
de France. The masses assumed by
both Laplace and Lalande afe so pre
posterous that their theories are no
longer seriously oonsidered by any sane
astronomer.
Since the day o f Laplace and Lalande
there have been several comet "scares. ”
Biela's comet crossed the earth’s orbit
on October 29th, 1832. When that fact
was announced, Europe was in a
ferment. The orbit o f the earth was
confused with the earth itself. Such
was the popular excitement, that
Arago took it npon himself to compute
the possibilities of a conclusion. He
pointed out the earth did not reach the
exact spot where the comet had inter
sected the earth's orbit until a month
later, on November 30th, on which date
the comet was 60,000,000 miles away.
Incidentally he pointed out that a
collision was always happily remote.
He thought that the chances of a meet
ing were about one in 281,000,000.
Babinet, on the other hand, thought
that a collision was likely to take place
once in about 15,000,000 years. More
recently the entire problem has been
considered by Prof. W. H. Pickering
Joseph Hassler, fstherinlsw of H.
J. Mutxcliler of this city, dropped
dead in the fipld near his house at
Sublimity early Tuesday evening.
Heart failure is attributed ns the cause
of death.
Interment was made
Thursday at Sublimity.
About the same time that Mr.
Hassler expired, word was received
from Salem that a son,Charles Hassler
who haj been away from home for a
year or more, was dying.
It is further reported that another
member of the same family, Joseph
Hassler, is critically ill in the East.
The sympathy of everybody goes
forth to the stricken family.
Joseph Hassler was a ki.id hearted
man, and of a winning disposition,
always having a friendly word to ex
change with you whenever you met
him. Thedecen-ed has resided with
us a goodly number of years, »ml his
absence will be keenly felt by the
com m unity, and especially by hi* sur
viving family.
He has no •ma'I
children to mourn the absence of »
dear father, but it is hard indeed to
part with a beioved parent, even if
that child is grown up
If be bus
always been kind and loving to you,
you will surely remember him until
you are also chosen to answer death’s
eaH.
SUBLIMITY SUNSHINE.
Stsvton Mail Correspondence
Miss Tillies Amort, of Shaw, wliil«
stopping to see a few of her frienil-
here, tied her pony in the shed. A m I
he, evidently thiuking time if his
mistress could stop to see her friends
he could do the same, and straightway
began tugging at I he reins, which
soon yielded and broke, leaving him
free. Not knowing which way to
proceed, lie somewhat hesitated in
his attempt to escape, when jnst then
a few boys noticed him loose in the
street.
They immediately caught
The plunging o f the earth in the tail and retied him, much to the chagrin
o f Halley’s comet naturally causes of the spirited little pouy.
many to wonder what will be the effect
With an expression on his face which
upon the inhabitants o f the earth.
Similar passages occured in 1819 and seemed to say ‘ Catch me if you can
1861, but no one was the wiser until girls,” one o f our well-to-do country
long after. Some astronomers claim to lads drove homeward last week the
have
noticed auroral glares
and proud possessor o f a fine new buggy,
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meteoric displays at the time, but which he purchased while in town
whether these were really associated is a fairly good sized buggy and wiil
with the comet or not cannot definitely easily hold 2 or 3 occupants; so now,
be stated. At all events, it may be girls, don’ t stand around to see who
safely held that on May 18th next wiil make the 3tart in this enterprise,
none o f us will be aware o f the fact but get right after it yourself.
that we are literally breathing the tail
B. Prange made business trip to the
o f Halley's cornet. From this it may
Capital and while there visited a few
well be inferred that the wild tales o f o f his friends.
the possible effects o f poisonous gases,
Don’ t forget the basket social and
tales for which the newspapers are
very largely responsible, are utterly dance March 30.
without foundation. It is true that a
E. P. Schott and Ed. Meier, two pro
comet’ s tail is composed of poisonous
minent business men o f our town,
and asphyxiating hydrocarbon vapors
made a flying business and pleasure
and o f cyanogen; but it is also true
trip to Salem last week.
that the actual amount o f toxic vapor
is so small that when the earth is
Miss Minnie Duman o f Fern Ridge
pushed by the tail o f Halley’s comet, has entered the employment o f Jacob
the composition o f atmosphere will not Frank, one o f our leading farmers.
be so affected that a chemist could de
That prospecting has not yet come to
tect it. Flammarion has drawn a vivid
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an
end in Oregon, and especially in
picture in his “ La Fin du Monde” of
the possible effect o f passing through a i Marion county, was developed recently
tail highly charged with vapors. He when it was reported that Clarence
has shown us terrified humanity gasp Hunt and an unknown assistant are
ing for breath in its death struggle still in search o f a buried treasure.
with carbon mdnoxide gas, killed off Proof o f this has been obtained, by the
with merciful swiftness by cyanogen, large and spacious excavations which
and dancing joyously to an anwathetic they dug in the neighbors fields and
death, produceb by the conversion of barnyards, in search o f the hidden
the atmosphere into nitrous oxide or treasuse.
dentist’s "laughing gas. ” No one of
any common sense should be alarmed
by these nightmares, particularly when
it is considered that so diaphanously
chin is a com et’s tail, that stars can be
seen through it withont diminution in
brightness.
One o f G. W. Cleveland’s horses is
out o f commission, and as he largely
makes his living with his team the
incident hits Mr. Cleveland very hard.
There’ s a new buzz wagon in town,
and Lee Kerber is at the propellor.
Marshall Show Co. play at Mill City
The small building which Frank
Friday and Saturday.
l,esley bought o f the Odd Fellows is
W. W. Gar.'ner ia reported quite
now in position by the Stayton hotel.
sick.
TWO SHOVELEKS W ANTED FOR
cement job ; apply to S. Card, Stiyton.
Mrs. Henline is no better.
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