STÄYTON
S T A Y T O N , M ARION C O U NTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 30, 1911.
i 7th Year, No 43.
Serial No. 826
ARE MADE IN MARION PIONEER “8000 BY 1915”, WILL
WEDDING DATE CHANGES
BE LEBANON’S SLOGAN DEATH BY POISON " » E E L ,
“PROGRESSIVE" TICKET
BARELYAVERTED ,H0S“ T™EGI)#SE!
IS LAIDTO REST
IS CELEBRATED
Campaign of Expansion Is Mapped Ont-
Nominees Fail to Accept, and Vacancies
Step Is Commendable and One
Judge Wilium Waldo, u Early Settler Here
are Filled By Petition—Three
Friends Surprue Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kerber
to be Copied
Pastes to Great Beyosd After
New Candidates
With Very Pleasant Reception
Loaglhosi
Sunday
"E igh t thousand population by 1915”
Owing to the fact that several o f the
THEIR NINTH ANNIVERSARY
About Fifty Gather at Kerber Home to En­
joy Festivities
men nominated at the recent "Progres­
s iv e " caucus declined the nomination,
it was found necessary to All their
places by petition.
These petitions
were filed with the city
recorder,
and
as a result the following names will ap­
A LIFE OF USEFUL ACTIVITY
surprises
o f the early winter was the reception
tendered Mr.
and Mra. I,ee
Kerber
laat Sunday, which was the ninth anni­
versary o f their
marriage.
In
the
For mayon, Dr.
for councilmen,
H. A.
T.
Grant Murphy; for
C.
Beauchamp;
Ringo; for recorder, J. B.
J.
Greer;
marshall, E. N. Teague.
banon.
Waldo Hills Named For His Family, WKi
Came io 1843
by /ailroad officials and other eminent
pansion waa mapped out.
sooner a town takes it up,
ELECTRIC BATHROBE
FATAL CONTRIVANCE
at
the
University o f Oiegon, and left guard
HOBBLES NO MORE'
HOOP SKIRT, SAYS HE
on the varsity footfall team was burn­
ed to death in an electric
Slayton Girl Weds a Dallas Business Man
at Pretty Cerimony-To Live
in Dallas
his room at the Sigma
Nu
bathrobe
in
Fraternity
last week.
No one saw the fatal accident.
He
was suffering from a slignt cold,
and
celebrated today at
high noon,
when
Miss Frances Smith, better known as
Miss Frances Foster, became the bride
o f Fred Johnson.
Rev. Mace officiated.
The bride is the daughter o f Mr. Fos­
ter o f Stayton, and was raised here.
The groom is head barber in a large
shop in Dallaa.
The couple will
leave
tomorrow for that city, where they will
make their home. Mra. Johnson's many
frienda here wiah her much happiness
was going to take a hot bath, and go to
sleep. When Noland’s fraternity broth­
ers entered the room a few hours later
the bed was ablaze.
The bathrobe was an electrical con­
trivance for the generation o f heat. It
was not equipped with a thermostat
for «hutting off the current at a certain
temperature, and the supposition is that
Noland either fainted or waa overcome
by fumes generated by the rising heat
or possibly the smoke, which threw him
Into a stupor from which the flames
could not arouse him.
and proaperity.
Special—This week in Ladies’ and
Gents' Purses and Hand Bags. A spe­
cial assortment at a Good Buy, hence
the 25 per cent discount. Brewer Drug
Company.
AUMSVILLE GIRL IS OPERATED
UPON FOR ACUTE APPENDICITIS
A severe attack o f appendicitis made
SMALL FIRE LOSS IN
THE SANT1AM FOREST
The hobble and tube akirts and other
tight-fitting garments
are
given
as
causes of tuberculosis by Dr. Heman
Spalding, chief of the Chicago Bureau
of
Medical Inspection.
Loose-fitting
clothes are, he declares, proper for
maintaining health and happiness.
Dr. Spalding recommends that coats
and underclothing be purchased about
four sizes larger than those customar­
ily worn if they have been tight-fitting.
I f a tight-fitting hobble or tube skirt
has been worn, he recommends the
styles be forgotten and the wearer or­
der a hoop skirt.
Mrs. Grace Albaugh o f Dunamuir,
Cal., is spending Thanksgiving with
her father, John A. Hunt, in the Waldo
Hills.
Ranger and Patrol Force, Though New
MARION COUNTY POULTRY SHOW
Gives Efficient Service On
IS NOW BEING HELD IN SALEM
Reservation
Although the Santiam National For­
The Marion County Poultry
Associa­
tion show opened in Salem Tuesday
necessary an operation last Friday, in est was not established as a separate
morning with a Imaghiflcent exhibition
the case o f Miss Katie Leverman, who administrative unit until July first of
on hand.
About five hundred fowls
resides near Aumsville. Miss Lever- thia year, and the ranger and patrol
were entered in competition, besides a
man wna taken to Salem, where the force, with two exceptions, waa en­
number o f pigeons. The show, which
operation waa performed under the dir­ tirely new, the loss due to the two or
will end tomorrow, is being held on the
ection o f specialists. The patient ia re- tt^-ee serious fires o f last summer is
very much smaller than waa at first Masonic property at State and High
. ported to have stood the operation well,
streets. A good portion o f the same
anticipated.
and a speed/ recovery ia hoped for by
The report o f the examination o f the exhibit will be taken to Portland, to
her friends.
burned over areas, recently completed appear in the big show that will be held
in the local office o f the Forest Service,
there next week.
shows that but little over one half of
A football game will be played at
one per cent o f the total forest area
Silverton on Thanksgiving day between
waa burned over.
the high achool boys and the town team.
Thurston Thomas, fire warden, was in
from Jordan Wednesday. Mrs. Sarah
Several Silverton people have been
attending the revival meetings at Por­
Court Stayton, No. 71, o f the Forest­ Cox and M n . L. Stevens returned with
tland this week.
e n o f America, has just completed a him to visit a few days in that vicinity.
Dr. Brewer reports two more tonsil
operations, one on the six year old son
o f Albert Kiel o f near Providence, and
the other on the four year old daughter
o f J. R. Michaelaon o f the Turner
neighborhood. Both cases are doing
nicely.
successful reorganization, with the aa-
sistance o f State Organizer, C. A. Bol­
and, who has been here the paat two
weeks. The court has arranged to meet
in I. O. O. F. hall in future, and will
hold its next meeting there tomorrow
night.
FREE! FR EE— A fine brand new,
$25.00 Talking Machine at K orinf . k a
M ielke ’ s with a $50. cash purchase.
They are not toys, come and see and
hear them. They are given away ab­
solutely Free and one would make s
Jim Dandy Xmas present.
goose.
It seems that they came sud­
denly upon the bird when it was only
a few yards away, and all three emp­
They
got the goose, ail right, but the ques­
tion is, who shot it?
We wanted to re­
fer the problem to some modern Solo­
mon, such as S. H. Heltzel, but Mr.
Beauchamp went right ahead and ate
the goose.
The next dey Charlie Lowe brought
in two more fine geese from up the riv­
er. He went alone, so that there
could be no uncertainty about who shot
the birds he brought in.
NO HANGING DURING
TERM, SAYS GOVERNOR
YOUTH CREATES A NEW
STYLE OF AUTO TRUCK
i ■ . u -
i
. n _r .. j
Joe Korninski le ft town yesterday for
Drop Axle is Main Improvement Perfected Bend 0re
BrUi
'!
According to a Salem paper, R. A.
Shantz, a youth o f that city has com-
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GOOD CROWD PRESENT
AT SUFFRAGE DEBATE
j
pleted the working model o f a drop axle
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tionize the pattern o f auto trucks over
the worid. /his model has several new
features which promise to make it the
most useful for general purposes.
are several feet
‘An Antiquated Reminder of Dark Ages,’
Says West
In commuting to life imprisonment the
death sentence o f J. M.
W.
convicted o f w ife murder,
Hassing,
Governor
West made public the policy that he
Interesting Arguments Advanced at First
Discussion of Church Debat­
ing Society
will follow in matters o f this kind dur­
ing his administration.
Following is a
part of the Governor’ s statement:
"There will be no hanging in Oregon
while I am governor o f the state.
Up to date the beds o f all auto trucks
went to his room early saying that he
A pretty Thanksgiving wedding was
what would
very probably have proved a doable
auto truck which promises to revolu­
MetScxl Inspector Recommends Roomy
Garments as an Antidote Fir
Tuberculosis
Beauchamp, Billy Ortman and Rudolph
Miss Foster, who is here on a short
Rev. A yer o f Salem will speak on visit, waa suddenly taken with a chill,
temperance and prohibition at the
and her father secured from the me­
Methodist church next Sunday evening.
dicine chest what *>. supposed to be
A pleasant evening was spent at the
strychnine tablets, in an effort to stop
All three o f the geese were o f the
home o f L. A. Thomas, last Saturday,
gray
Canada variety, and their flavor
the
chill.
Mr.
Foster
also
took
a
tab­
the guests being, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Warford, Mrs. May Hungerford and let. T in effects o f the medicine were was pronounced just right bv those who
immediate, and both became deathly got a whack at them.
M. Crabtree.
sick. Mr. Foster rushed to the office
o f Dr. Beauchamp where with the aid
o f a stomach pump the poison was re-
i moved. The doctor then hurried to the
Foster home, in time to save Miss
Frances from the effects o f the drug.
On examination it was found that in-
I stead o f strychnine tablets, Mr. Foster
taken a box o f bichloride o f mer­ Stale Executive Lays Down His P o k y In
Salem Boy’s Invention May Revolutionize had
cury from the medicine chest, and both
Commuting Death Sentence of
Methods of Construction of
he and his daughter had swallowed a
sufficient quantity o f the poison to have
Wife Murderer
Draying Vehicles
J proved fatal if prompt treatment had
not been secured. Dr. Beauchamp re­
ports however, that the patients are
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BARBARIC RELIC
MANY NEW AND DISTINCT FEATURES now well out o f danger.
Discovered
a freshman
Prompt action averted
the more
rapid aad far reaching will be the effects.
one time president o f the State Senate, May Lebanon have her eight thousand fatality Monday night, from the acci­
for
paaaed away at his home in Salem late by 1915; and may Stayton have three dental swallowing o f poison by Miss
Frances Foster and her footer father.
Friday afternoon after a lingering ill- thousand by the same date.
neat.
were
when C. A.
tied their guns in that direction.
prominent representative men, and at
An eight pound boy was the welcome
WMIjam Waldo waa bom in Missouri
at the Kerber home to celebrate the e-
arrival in the home o f Mr. and Mrs. April 22, 1832.
His father, Daniel
vent, and a most enjoyable time was
Pat Lyons o f Lyons, last Saturday.
Waldo,
croaaed
the
plaina in 1843, and
spent.
The pupils o f the High School are
located
on
a
claim
a few miles from
Card guinea and other amusements
giving an oyster supper to-riight for
made the time pass pleasantly, and the ! the benefit o f the school. Blackboards Stayton, in the Waldo Hills. Later he
I.aux brothers furnished appropriate j and needed supplies will be purchased removed to Salem, and William Waldo
resided in that etty almost continuously
music. Kefreshments had been previd- j with the proceeds.
ainee that date. He waa student o f the
ed for by the thoughtful friends, who
old Sulem Institute. In 1848 he served
had brought the "m akin gs" o f a good j
(n the Indian war under Colonel Waters
dinner with them. Many beautiful and
and later followed gold mining in Cali­
useful presents were received by Mr. |
fornia.
He engaged in business in
and Mrs. Kerber.
Y rekf, Cal., in 1852. The following
The party included the families o f !
winter he returned to Missouri, and in
Joe Zubcf, Nick Gehien, Joe Etzel, An­
1853 he drove cattle across the plains
dy Cornish, W. F. Klecker, Andy Etzel,
to Oregon. He became loterested in
Steve I’olreis, and Andy Rauscher, be­ Freshman Athlete at University of Orefon the Salem woolen mills gnd went to
sides a number of others.
Aostrslia in 1870 in the interest o f the
Burned to Death in Room at
Mr. and Mrs. Kerber wish to take
industry. Judge Waldo was elected to
“ Fret.” House
thla opportunity o f thanking their ma­
the State Senate as a Republican for
ny friends for this pleasant occasion,
two terms. In 1885 he served as presi­
snd assuring them of their appreciation.
dent o f the Senate, and later served as
A STAR ON VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM County Judge.
The funeral was held Sunday at the
Lee Kerber has shipped about a thou­
Odd Fellows temple in Salem, and the
sand turkeys to Portland for the
remains taken to the Waldo lot in
Thanksgiving trade, besides chickens, Victim Dead and Bed in Flames W b « Rural Cemetery.
ducks and geese innumerable.
Vergil Noland,
Swallowed Bichloride of Mercury instead
of Stimulating Tablets
men, and a plan for a campaign of ex­
present day municipal progress, and the
William Waldo, one o f Oregon's moat
local nimroda
deeply starred Sunday,
Miller came in with a magnificent wild
M.
neighborhood o f fifty friends gathered
COUPLE ARE UNITED AT
THANKSGIVING WEDDING
SAVED BY PROMPT ACTION
A big booster meeting was held
Civic work of thia kind ia in line with
Crabtree and
treasurer,
The pulses o f
ia to be the slogan o f the town of Le­
♦bore on Tuesday, which was attended
pear upon the ballots on Saturday:
On« o f the moat delightful
Three Hunters Bug One Bird— Wanted, a
Falber and Daughter Have a Close Call
Solomon to Make Division of
Ike Sooils
When Deadly Dreg is Taken
By Mistake
& m
The
old rule that bloodshed should be ex ­
the ground to
A good crowd was in attendance at
piated by the shedding o f blood is. in
is to overcome the Methodist Epworth League debate
my opinion, a relic o f barbarism, and
this difficulty of loading that the new Tuesday night, and the discussion was not in consonance or in keeping with
truck is designed.
enjoyed by all present.
The subject the civilization or the spirit o f the
First of ail, the truck will have a was, "Resolved: That women should Twentieth century. It is an antiquated
drop axle and the bed will be only 24 have the right o f franchise. ” All the and an uneconomic reminder from .the
dark ages."
inches from the ground. This will be speakers were well prepared and had
on a ieve 1 with many sidewalk curbings ^ e ir arguments well in hsnd, especially
and loading will be easy. Another feat- jj|ss s m;th who evidenced previous
ure o f the invention is the internal drive work along this line.
gear with a line shaft through the axle, i
The judges decided in favor o f the
This will do away with all chain trans­
affirmative, which side was upheld by
missions which are the plague o f auto
June Kearns, Miss Smith and Mr. Fos­
owners and will give a straight line
Opposed to them were Guy j QeWitt C. McCrory Passes Away at Home
drive, dust, dirt, and water proof. J. ter.
Kearns, Mr. Mace and Mr. Pancoast. 1
M. Shantz, father o f the boy, is enthu­
of Son— Interment in Stayton
This is the first o f a series o f debates
siastic over the invention and is back­
planned for the winter by the church
Cemetery
ing it with all he has.
society. The next will probably be
held in a few weeks, on a subject to be
announced later.
One o f the older residents o f this
clear the wheels.
from
It
OLD RESIDENT DIES AT
AGE OF SEVENTY-THREE
SHOOTING MATCH LAST
SATURDAY WAS SUCCESS ““ “ P*ST»R secured h > r
neighborhood departed this life lastSat-
i urday evening, when DeW itt C. McCro­
THE LOCAL BAPTIST CHURCH ry
passed into the Great Beyond.
Mr.
McCrory was seventy-three years o f
Better Averages Secured Than at the Pro- The local Baptist church has just se­
rious Shoot—Many Fine Birds
cured a regular pastor, Rev. A. C. Eat-
Were Won
j on o f Albany, having accepted this
pastorate.
The new minister will take
charge next Sunday. He is already
The turkey shoot held last Saturday ^ here with his family and expects to live
by Messrs. Davie and Lowe, proved an ¡n a cottage near the Christian church,
even greater success than its predecess
j
age and well known in this vicinity,
having farmed here for a nu.nLer o f
years. He died at the home o f hil son
near Shaw.
Mr. McCrory was universally respect­
ed. He was fraternally
prominent,
having been a member o f the Masonic
order’ for many years.
Interment at
the Masonic Cemetery, Stayton.
Rev. Eaton comes here well recom-
or. In all, sixteen turkeys, ten geese, < mended, and with a long preaching ex-
The special evangelistic services o f
and twelve, chickens were won, and perience to back him up. He is being the Christian church will close with the
some excellent marksmanship was dis­ heartily received by his congregation, Sunday evening service. The prepara-
who are glad to secure a regular Pas* ; tions being made insure an interesting
played.
tor.
program for Sunday. A t the morning
As on the previous Saturday, Adam
-------------------------- service, Mr. Dunn will speak on the
Shepherd took first, with six turkeys to
»
E- ti n
j
.
- 0 ,
. subject o f "Id o ls ".
The afternoon
his credit The race for second honors
a
r? / « " ’, ?
S,lem ’ ..and meeting will be in the Interest, of the
hibition movefT,ent. and Mr. Ayer,
was very closely contested. In one o f Ellisand Clyde H . 1 are via,ting
over Thanksgiving at the home o f A. , o f SaIem w ,„ de]iver the addre„ . T he
the matches, ten "birds” straight wera
Hill, their father.
ma,e
w i„ ging, at thia MrvjcCi
broken in shooting off a tie.
S. V. Kaser, supervison o f road dis-1 The address in the evening will
on
trict No. 15, is again doing service on the subject: "Strong Young Men.”
A ll the young men o f Stayton are in-
Thanksgiving weather is o f the finest the roads near Silverton.
The new Seventh Daw Adventist vited to attend. A ll the young ladies
ever. Bright sunshine, green grass,
church at Silverton will be dedicated are invited also, as they are more or
what would our eastern frienda think
Sunday. Many noted speakers will be less interested in the young men. Spec-
o f it if they were here.
present.
I ial music at this service also. Come.