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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1910)
THE M HA/C STAYTON TO HAVE AUTO GARAGE I Ht NtWo IN BRIEF . ¡»yd Robertson Will Build Two Btory Building on North Bide of Ditch. News Notes of Interest Gleaned by Mail Reporters. - Light on the Movement; of People of Stayton. Floyd Itobertaon haa purchased a * trip of ground on Third atreet ju it north of the ditch and haa commenced preliminary work on an automobile garage, which will lie 86x70 feet, two K. W. ('rumor Is horu from Portland. stories in height. This garage will C. J. Thoma* Is iluwn from Mill City. have a good machine shop in connec tion and will ba thoroughly equipped Alvin Thornuu waa a Portland visitor to make and repair every part of an I «»I | automobile, A full line of supplies P. I.. Evans went to Portland Tues will be carried. This la an institution ) that Stayton has tong needed end no day evening. Mis. Maggie Miclks of Portland is a doubt it will do a good business from the start. Mr. Robertson la a hustler Slayton visitor. and a good mechanic and no doubt will Gen. Thomas of Jonlan Valley was make a success of hia new venture. In the city Tuesday. After a time he plans to move the Albert Kay was over from the building now used by him as a moving picture show, to the rear of the lot Jordan Valley Monday. juat purchased and remodel it so that Jcaar llrnderahott and wife were it ran be used aa «dwelling. Salem visitors Saturday. LET US UNITE AND BOOST FOR STAYTON Golden Opportunities are being Missed Because We Have no Organization.—Plan to Organize Commercial Body is Suggested. There has been no time In the hie- but rather because the abundant re- tory of Stayton when a strong, sources of this locality actually defied harmonious and aggressive commercial capital longer to remain away. organization W m so much needed aa at All manner of vital municipal prob the present lime. In the past few lems could be handled expeditiouaiy and years every department of human ac- advantageously to the community by a tivit > l,i the west haa developed mar vigorous commercial body. As a busi velously. However, the Indications are ness proposition nothing could be that ihc r est five years will aee even better. The Salem Board of Trade in a more remarkable development of this 1909 spent $12,000 in advertising and region than any former period haa brought In $2,000,000 of new money. witnessed. Oregon, which has suffered In tiie name of common sense, who for a quarter of a century or more could ask more? Why stand we idle G. W. Murphy and wifa have re that time the town haa appeared almost because of lack of transportation, in here while the golden opportunities lumed from a month's outing at Detroit. like a deserted village the next few years will blossom like slip by one by one? Ellis Mill has returned to Salem A large number of Stayton people after a vialt with hia parents in .Stay- are attending the Linn county fair at the rose. Wholly on its own responsibility, The ton. The Hsrriman interests, that have so Mail desires to suggest: Scio, among them being Alva Smith Mrs. M. E. Miller has gone to Seattle and wife. Forest Mack and wife, Will long held the fate of this state in the That the Ladies Improvement Club for a visit with her daughter, Mrs O. <Tadck. Ed. Jackson, C. A. Beau palma of their handa, have a powerful be requested by J . M Ringo. president B. Rueanell. champ and wife, G. D. Trotter. nval in the great James J. Hill, who of the erstwh^e Commercial Club, to P. L. Pound was over from Auma- Joe Fisher, Gua Trask and Harry will have 10,000 miles of roadbed in vill Tuesday. Ilia son Dr. Pound Porter left Tuesday morning for this state within the next year and aeil tickets for a ''get-together" lunch to 6e served next Tuesday night. Sept. return«) with him. Marion Lake, on the summit of the who is constantly reaching out with hk 6th, in some suitable building. Mrs. J. C. Mille' ami Mm. McCabe ' ••‘'• ‘I®** •'here they will fish and hunt electric feeders to tap the yioh country st the ’ ^or * coUi,te weeks. Some of the That this lunch shall be given for the uf Portland have been visiting contiguous to hia main tinea. j party went by rail ami the others took purpose of organizing an aggressive home uf J W. Spitler. the horse-i through. An officer of the Hsrriman system commercial body in Stayton. W. H. Humphreys of the Automatic The Ladies Improvement Club will has announced that hi* corporation has That Mr. Ringo and the Ladies Com Call and Advertising Clock company, hold its regular monthly meeting at $26,000,000 to spend in building and ex was over from Salem Friday. mercial Club be requested to invite 20 the club room at the home of- Mrs. I>r. Brewer was called to Silverton in Carrie Beauchamp, Tuesday, Sept. 6, tending Oregon roads as fast as men members of the Salem Board of Trade consultation last Monday. He made at 2:30 p. m. The members are es and machinery can be secured to do to be present as guests of the live men the trip in hia Studebakcr car. pecially urged'V be present and visitors the work. and women of Stayton and vicinity. Titus Archer and family and hia are always welcome. Good inland towns like Stayton, that That after the banquet and speeches father Jam es Archer, have moved ont^ Have Dr, Lowe rclievi» your head have nave been ocen struggling iiru|tK""K along aiong w without iu iu u v are conciuueu iwainea# session, to ui oe concluded a business be the Gua Trask ranch near Kingston and eye arhe'tjnth * I'“,r o{ h'* superior transportation , 0 long that they have attended by Stayton men only, shall be . . . ... .... ... . . . . Dr. P. H. Thompson left Tuesday 1 glasses. They coat no more than others almost ---- * ------ *•*— immediately held, and u the project be come *---------- to accept • -i----------- their condition evening for Portland. He la to bo ; and you Khve the benefit of his skill as a natural and inevitable one, will be approved by a majority of those pres married September 8th and will not *(81 more than 19 year* experience. A* he do, * not go from house to house given new life and energy by the ad ent, a commercial organization shall be return here until after that time. donaull him when he is here Sept. 8 A 9 vent of electric line*. perfected by the election of officers, Wallace and Nello Mack and Bennie at Hotel Stayton. Railroads, steamship lines, common- the appointment of committees and the Roy are home from their outing at Mrs. Joseph Kerns haa !>ought thu ¡ties and commercial bodies are spend- dispatch of such other details as may Breitenbuah Hot Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mack will be home Monday. Joe Brown house about lwo miles frorn ing literally milliona of dollar* every come before the meeting. i town. Sho will movo it to the clty That the by-laws shall provide for Dr. Boauchamp reports two births, an and place it on her Iota in the Allen yaar to apread the fame of Oregon semi-monthly meetings. eight pound daughter st the homa of ,,r)pl„ B(Wlllon ind tho f , mily ill among the eastern states and in Ilcrt Branch at Sublimity and a ten occupy the house. That each member shall pay a fine of The building will European countries. Within the next pound son at the home of O. L. Farrrna be placed on runners and brought to 60 days tens of thousands of farmers, ¡4) cents for each meeting that he fails at Gooch. town by J. R. Miller’s traction engine. poultry-met-, dairymen, grtlsans, pro to attend. Ju st received, fine assortment of L. L. Thomas left Tuesday morning fessional workers, business men and That each member be required to pajier for fancy stationery. Cloth for the Scio fair, where he has three paste this motto in his hat: others, will come to Oregon to invest finish bund In peach, corn, blue and entries this year, via: In the standard "A dead fish floats down stream but other color«, with envelope* to match. bred class, a yearling filly. Viva Lace; their money and make their homes. How many of them will come to it takes a live one to swim up.” Get the beat. The Stayton Mail. 30tf the standard bred mare Tempest and Let us have a good feed, with plenty H. D. Patton and Alonso Gesner of King Lovelace in the races. This is Stayton? It is safe to say that if any come it of home made coffee and all the good Salem, anti Kherm Swank of Aumaville good horseflesh and should help to put act 0f providence and j th in g s th a t Stayton ladies know so candidate for Kepresentivo. were in Stayton on the map at the Linn county ^ ^ Stayton Monday. They are runing on show. not because Stayton has made any ef well how to prepare. Let us have an anti-assembly ticket ami arc con The Mail office is In receipt of some fort to get any of theae new people, plenty of Stayton made cigars—the fident of the outcome. fine sample« of peaches from the ranch best on earth-—and let us offer a re of Will Lake, caat of the city. who woukl strengthen our social and Bowen Brother* ware in the city ward for the scalp of the man who religious life and add new wealth and Tucadav and gathered up forty or The fruit is a* large as a good big isn’t yrilling to bury the hatchet and more of the young people to help in the apple, and as sweet and juicy as any- prestige to the community. start all over again with a clean slate Bowen hop ranch near Pratum. Since thing could well I k >. The peach acreage How many of the new railroad lines and a fair shake all around. in the Willamette Valley will greatly in that will be built in this state ii the United, we progress and move on to crease with the subdivision of large higher and better things; divided, we ~ \ farms. This is a highly profitable crop next year will come to Stayton? Nc man con say. but if a road should stick in a rut and move not. "G et them at Beauchamp's.’ if properly taken care of. Let us get together. come, it will not lie because the men The Central Willamette Medical Yours for a Greater Stayton. of wealth and influence in Stayton Society held a meeting today at Scio. C. D. B abcock . An open session will be held this stood back of the project as a unit, evening, among the speakers be ing Dr. Calvin S. White, whoae subject A FINE WEDDING will be "W ater Supplies and their Thus. Crabtree and family, Joe Taylor and Elsie Jeter. The personcll of Mr. Two popular Stayton young folks, Relation to Typhoid Fever.” Dr. to the hop yards you had better Frcrcs’ party and the fact that two Johnnie Thoma and Miss Aggie Kerher, Mnrill of Corvallis will speak on "Bovine supply youraalf with numerous Tuberrulosia and Tests.” Some of the of the young people have not yet re were united in the bonds of wedlock little things you’ll need while Stayton physicians expected to attend, turned, has been the cause of consider I Tuesday morning at the Catholic church able speculation, but there is nothing by the Rev. Fr. Lainck. The attend away. It seldom pays to trust A. W. Simmons, veterinary surgeon, authenic on which to base the rumor ants were Miss Rosa Kerbcr and her to luck. Here is a partial list who has been in Stayton for several that Cupid has gathered in two more brother Frank and Miss Mary Kintz of the many months at the representative of l)r. E. victims. and her brother. Ti. Chase, left Sunday for Grand P. C. Freree and father P. Freres There was a large number of friends Rapids. Mich., to complete his course and Joe Zuber left Tuesday for ten of the contracting parties present and in the Grand Rapids Veterinary Col day* outing at Wilhoit Springs. after the ceremony the crowd repaired lege. He experts to return here in the Dr. Brewer was called to Salem on to the home of the bride, where a re spring and locate permanently, This ception was held. At noon a splendid tho numerous professional business Saturday. we carry; we can furnish the will be good news to dinner was served to which full justice friends that "Doe” has made in this John Vanllandle of Sublimity spent was done. In the evening the young items in superior quality at low city and vicinity. It is expected that Tuesday in Stayton. people were serenaded by tne Stayton prices: Lotions, creams, pow one of the Korinek boys from Salem band. Mr. and Mrs. Thoma will make Henry Mutschler’s valuable female ders, Cholera remedies, head will come here to relieve Simmons. a trip to Idaho. dog. the mother of a litter of pups all ache remediea, court plaster, Among those from Stayton who went of which have been sold recently at soapa, shaving a u p p 11 e a, down to Salem Saturday to see the high prices, is dead, and the owner MAX H GEHLHAR brushes, comb*, sponges, tooth elephant were Effle Harold, Clif Harold, that the dog was poisoned Republican Candidate for County brushes, stationery, cigars, etc. Curtis f’ole, Judge Buahey and W. L. Mr Mutschler was offered $150 for the Clerk. Freres in the latter's automobile; H. dog last week. Former Deputy Clerk respectfully Mutschler, wife and non, Joe Klecker, Joe Becker, a prosperous farmer of asks your support for an economical Bessie Murphy, Guy Stoper, Muhle Fern Ridge, was in town this week. 80t4 ami efficient administration. Gardner ami Dare Slojier In Mutachler’s Cephus Hornbuckle, who hail several car; Everett Gardner, Nora Murphy, For saie—Trespass notices, printed D,.’ Plotter, Miss Hobson. Jack Jones glands removed from the ncek by Pro. and wife, Floyd Robineon and wife, Brewer and Thompson. i. doing mcely. - on cloth, at the Mail office. J ,^¡,1 r Before You Go Hop Picking Goods Beauchamp’s Drug Store _______ MAIL STA Y TO N , MARION COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER \, 1910. 16th Year, No. 30. TU ET STAYTON J Serial No. 761 EIGHTEEN YEARS IN FEDERAL SERVICE W. 8. Watters Has Been Post master 13 Years And Soldier 6. Yesterday Postmaster W. S. Watters completed practically 18 years in the service of Uncle Sam. Yesterday was his thirteenth anniversary as post master and in addition to this long term of service he served four years and ten months in the 8th Illinois In fantry, going in as a private and being mustered out ss captain of the com pany in which he enlisted. He was appointed postmaster on September first, 1897, by James A. Gary, post master general in McKinley’s first ad ministration. Me has reason to feel proud of hia long and honorable career as a servant of the government. STARTING IN WRONG C. C. Chapman Says Farmeis Must Give Easterner With Small Capital Chance to Get a Start According to the ideas of the Port land Commercial Club in general and of C. C. Chapman, promotion manager, in particular, the farmers of Oregi n have started all wrong in connection with the immigration of settlers from the East w ho desire to buy land. "The man with, say, $1000," said Mr. Chapman, "who comes to Oregon because he has received a beautiful booklet with pictures of enormous crop yields and statistics o f those who have grown rich off the products of MUTSCHLER TO CLOSE farms, finds when he gets here SHOP TEMPORARILY their that there is no place for him to go and get a share of that wealth. So he H a r d W o r k i n g M l a r t c a m i t h W i l l T a k a either stay* in Portland or goes to one T w o o r T h r a a W >*kn V aca tio n . of the well-advertised towns and W i l l (Jo t o I d a h o . becomes a drag on that town. " I t is a faet that th e population of the cities and towns of this state is in Henry Mutschler, one of the best creasing far more rapidly than that of blacksmiths in the business and the hardest working man in Stayton, haa the country. True, it is not so to; - decided to take a vacation. This will heavy as is the cose in Washington, be hard for Henry’* friends to believe but it is bad enough, and the Com for his penchant for working night and mercial Club is to take up the task of day and doing two or three men’s work uttering a warning. "L ast week I was up the Willamette week in and week out, is so well known Valley, spreading this doctrine among that no one has seemed to think that the farmers and met with a hearty re a rest would ever be necessary in his case. But he has begun to feel the sponse. This week I sta rt up the * in and will close hia shop Saturday, valley again, probably on the West L 3, for two and possibly three Side, through Washington an i neigh ks. He will take in the State Fair boring counties. " I tell the farmers squarely that at Salem and expects to make a trip with his family to Idaho and possibly they are holding back the deeelop- ment of Oregon simply by keeping up farther east. their land at a price where it is pro hibitive to the man with small capital BUSINESS LOCALS. who comes from the East ami wants to settle here. I tell them also that the only rem Prune# for sale—W. L. Pettit, tip edy for this condition is for them to B artlett pears for sale. Call or get in touch with business m?thods phone J. E. Sloper’s. 29t2p and cut up their big farms int> smaller Lost— Black overcoat. Reward fc-r tracts. A farmer must be willing for the return to Mail office. 29t2 good of his state to see so neone else F. H. Thompson, M. D., physician settle on a part of his Itnd and develop and surgeon, Stayton, Oregon. 43 it by the means of cultivation that will Roscoe W. Ballantyne, teacher of bring the wonderful results we have seen with intensive farming in Oregon. piano and organ, Stayton, Ore. 27tf "W e have a free employment bureau Try the Stayton Mail for job print in Portland and all the time the coun ing. Up to date in every particular. try is crying for men to come there • Get a ham and a side of bacon at and work. It may come to a time Thomas’ Grocery Store before you go when a free real estate office must Le hop picking. tl maintained, so that the men wi'h After August 27 1 will not be in small means, coming from the E: t, Stayton until about Sept. 12. R. W. may get on to the soil, where they belong, and where they are nee led. Ballantyne. 29t2p "From now on this will be a promi Wool Carded and batted at Santiam nent factor in the work of the Com Carding and Knitting Mills. A. J. mercial Club. J. J. Hill has utte- s I Caldwell, Prop., Stayton Oregon. this same warning time and agw i. Get your job printing done at the Judge Lovett, when he was here a few Mail office. New type, new machinery, weeks ago, voiced the fear th at laid fine line of paper stock. Prompt work, was too high. Of course we do r >t mean to try to reduce the price of tie fair prices. 30tf land, but merely to get the laud into WANTED— C osm om litan M agazine , such shape that the man with a little requires the services of a representative money can get some of it.” in Stayton to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by Prunes for sale—W. L. P ettit, tip special methods which have proved un usually successful. Salary and com mission. Previous experience desirable but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with references. H. C. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Magazine, >» 1789 Brodway, New York City. E “ FIRST PICK Why be bothered with 2 pairs of glasses? Call at Hotel Stay- ton Thursday or Friday, jSept.'S and 9, and have Dr. Lowe show you tbe new glasses with which you caa see all dis tances, one solid piece of glass, no un- s'ffhtly lines or divisions to collect dirt or strain the eyes, no cement to blurr and come apart. To have him show these to you will not obligate you in any way. One of the bridge men received painful accident to one of his legs while working at the Lantiam bridge, and is confined to his bed at the Grand Cen tral hotel. D r.| Brewer is attending him. * TICE. The Stayton Mail’s telephone, which has been out of commission for some time owing to the building operations going on at the office, is once more connected and in working condition. Patrons and correspondents are invited to make use of it. Anton Fisher ami W. F. Blakely came up from Salem yesterday. A home made, selected stock, long filler cigar. An excell ent, high grade nmol e for 5 cents. The same grade is sold all over the west for 10 cents. Made a t home un der absolutely Clean and Sanitary Conditions Don’t send your money east to fatten the bank account of the trust when you can get better goods made right here in Stayton. We make other grades but the "F irst Pick" is our specialty. Our factory is working full time on this brand and the demand is growing so fast that we have great difficulty in keeping pace with it. Try a "Pi:'k." Made la Stayton by Joseph J. Lambrecht.
