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The STAYTON MAIL Published every Thursday by EASTER Widow That Was “ailed ' The E. M. Olmsted and W. C. Parry By M. QUAD * — E n te n d a» seeded das* n .i.tU r a t the pustoffice a t Stay ton, Marion county. Ore (ten. under the act of Congress of Mareh 3, 1«T9. All communications should be addressed to T hk S tayton M ail . Copyright. MU, by AaaaeUtad lit- «•ary FT*»». SUBSCKIPTIONS, St KO per y e a r in a d v a n c e A ilvertlslng Knti s on tipplicotU-iv C ards of T hanks ^ .5 0 O biti ariks - $1.00 up. W hen they had finished the Metlio- •’.1st meeting house In the village of llatu|»shlre there w as nothing left to buy pulut. It had been hard work to get the last shingle on the roof. They on : ,i t ___ said they would leave things ns they j were for a couple of years und then finish up, but th e two y ears ran on to ten, and not an Improvement had t>een . made. T he church building had lie The tragedy in Salem last week, when Mrs. Jellison grave couie w enther beaten and dilapidated, four children poison and then took the fatal dose herself, and t h e but l>eacon U arn er und Deacon bm I th famine in China, have a peculiar significance when taken together. ere said: “T h e Lord a in 't askin’ ns to put on You may wonder what connection there is between the two; look style. He will keep track of us In a closer and you v*ill see it. Mrs. Jellison could not make a living stab le as well as In a palace." for her children and send them to school, as she must according to The on,-T kicker was the Widow Positively Jill papers stopftet! expiration o f subs*. on is the next event of importance on the calendar apd not a great way off. To be sure you want a new dress or a new suit of clothing, Shoes or Hoisery to keep in step with the busy bee known as the OFFICE SEEKER Two Tragedies our school law; and the Chinese are dying for want of sustenance. ’ There was talk at intervals of at Do you seethe connection now? j least painting th e pews, but it never Some of our beneficent wealthy men. such as the Hon Ben Sell- a ^ ¿ ‘T fe Jiilg ing gave, so we understand, $250t*> for the Chinese relief fund- that w hen the Lord got ready to have How much have thev given for the relief of the poor, the sick, the the i t w painted he would give a sign down-hearted of Portland? Yea. verily,a philanthropist is without honor except he give in large amounts and to a foreign race. thor,. „ n s no religious fervor, in nd I remember several years ago that during a famine in India ,liIl0,i to ,hu- ,he 'v,do"' Sauudere bud the grand old U. S. A. was called upon and responded as usual with stlll for a nu>nth Bt a ,lme Shp waa a whole shipload of com and wheat. Soon came back the answer: full of schemes to improve those pews, “ Don’t send any more com or w heat send money. We have plen- *Dd lt WUB * wld 've*k wh*u “he dld not call on th e parson to say: ty of wheat in the storehouses, but no money with which to buy.” “I am trying to live so that I may Simple, wasn’t it? The landlords (English) had gobbled the go to heaven when I die. but I dtinno ’ "Why. Sister Saunders, what Is It?" available supply; a short year told the rest A famine; English wonli^ asked, although the good granaries full; starving natives: call to the United States; the En man well be knew w hat w as coming. glish sell at a high figure, and are paid with American money. “It's them ¡>ews. You may have no me there Inst Sunday. I w ent to The same old game is being worked in China. There is no ticed worship the Lord, but 1 had a crick In doubt that millions are short of food stuff, but the tiaders (mostly the back, u tw ist In th e shoulders and German this time) have the rice in their warehouses. Has China n limp in th e left leg. and I w as think- called for food? No, everytime it is money, money with which ^ 0 ) ing of liniments Instead of the golden TT , , . i . . ., . ,. , shore. Parson, if I dou't go to heaven buy food, How much more beneficial if this money were diverted nieC1 prr,, wt„ bp b!;ime for into American charities! But there's a reason why it is not—a More than one parson tried to get political reason. the congregation started on the delay- who runs across the street to extend the glad hand and ask all about your health and how old Towser is getting along. WE CAN FURNISH you with a very good supply of goods for the Easter Holiday at a closing-out price. TROTTER'S STORE, Stayton Ht. Pleasant Fox Thayer was i n Stayton Tuesday. Ada Thayer spent S u n d a y with Mabel Townes. Miss Mary Peters visited the school last Monday afternoon. the disturb»!i e of sounds Wallen stein's ta citu rn ity and love of silence th a t caused Idm to be Irritated a t the slightest n o b t was duo to his consti tutional tem peram ent. He never smiled, lie never naked advice from any one, and he could not endure to be gazed at. even when giving an o r der. T he soldier* when he crossed the cam p pretended not to see *hlm. knowing th n t a serious look would tH-ilig them punishm ent.—Exchange. C enersts St.iyt Put. i ole Continual bending backw ard and forw ard, as In w hat Is called "p a n tin g ” n holler’s end. la the most trying for steel which, according to an expert, Is "tum ultuous In youth, tru stw o rth y In middle age and beyond reproach In old ago." Qussr Nswspapsr Names. T he Hallan* aro naturally an Imagi- ’ native race, and the titles which they give to th eir newspapers, es|>eclally I In the provinces, fully confirm the f a c t ! H ere are nomo Instances of the curios- I Itiae: j At Aqul, In Fledmnnt, there le II i Bollente (the boiling one); a t Gerace. I the Circus of Nero; at Messina, the Lightning; at Lucca, the Second li g h t ning; at Mnnbercelll. the Indexible; a t Catania, the New Marionettes. Humorous publications rejolc» even stran g er titles We h a re the Contropelo ,'ih n re against the grnlnt{ st Naples, the Two of Rpades at Turin, the Map In the F are et Bo logna. tbe rtf Taf a t Palerm o, the Brush a t C attnnlasetta and the Mos quito at fin rlgtlnno Mrs, H. Senz spent Thursday Aa concrete gets older It become* hnrder and more d u rab le— thnt Is. of , . . od Im provem ents The men would afternoon with Mrs. M. F. Ryan. course. • If the concrete Is If our much-vaunted civilization had not been as cruel as a come together and talk over w hat ,„'„ Miss Grace Sljank visited with made Tbe usual m eans of wrecking Nero to the poor and the unfortunate, there would be at least five »«kht t«> be done, but at the sam e tim e find nn excuse for putting It of? Mrs. Lambert and daughter Sun a house have not th e slightest effect more happy, smiling faces in Salem today. But still these condi , a little longer. T here Is alw ays a cll- day. on concrete. T h e sledgeham m er, the drill and dynam ite m ust be used. tions exist, and Mr. Common People himself encourages them. m.-.x to everything, however, and one Acids might be used to disintegrate Church services were well at enme In this case. Of course It was This fall he will repeat the same old performance, throw his hat in the concrete, but tbe expense would the widow who brought It about, tended Sunday morning and ev be enormous. T be only thing to do Is the air and “ whooper up” for some bombastic old cuss who can though she didn’t plan to. She went to loosen th e m aterial w ith explosives look as wise as a sewer rat in a Prince Albert coat and box-toed over to Medina to visit her sister, and ening. aud then break It free from the steel ■hoes. Same old story, same old gag, same old fraud. You who 1 there was a religious revival on Her H. Senz and wife spent Sun re-enforcement with sledgeham m ers, were stirred. She made pro went to the Salem morgue to look at that sight than which no more pulses nod thnt Is a long, tedious Job.—Hoeton fession anew Evening a fte r evening day at the Nick Endre home at Advertiser. pitiful could be imagined, think of these things and ponder on the she felt her soul throPWng. n#d she Jordan. rights of an American Child to food, health, education and hap finally called on the revivalist to ask: Misfits at the Btrgaln Sale. D urability ef 8teel. Cora and Tona Ray spent Sun "B rother Bebee. do you believe that Nell—I stopped In at a bargain aale piness. E. M. 0 . Nearly all the failures of steel occur 1 Individuals have a mission for good or day with Verna and B e s s i e Belle—Did you aee anything very early In its history. A bar or n today j evil?” Shank, plate of atoel th n t lasts a year In serv th a t looked real cheap? Nell—Tea; Northwest Clips Cottage Grove n o w has the largest grange membership i n the state. The climate of Alaska is said to be changing—for the warmer, fortunately. The citizens of Lakeview are preparing for a development lea gue meeting. The southern Oregon mines are attracting the attention of many big mining men. The city of Albany ha3 passed ■ n ordinance forbidding a n y more public dances. Mrs. W. J. Baker says that the Hood River orchards w e r e set out before the Civil War. "C ertainly, sister—certainly,” w as the j reply “Do yon think a hum ble widow wo- ! man like me has one?" “ I do, and It Is for good. T here Is no telling w hat you may accomplish If \ 3 'oti set about It In th e right spirit.” "I have sometim es thought I had a i mission to paint the pews in my church over home, but I've worked for twelve yenrs w ithout accom plishing anything." keep It up—keep It up All of The 6th grade has begun the a “But sadden some day you may feel th a t study of industrial maps. you have a call, and th en you will be the w ay.” Everett Moore and Buelah shown As the widow afterw ard explained to Hasford entered school this week. her friends: “The very next night I w as awoke After a prolonged sickness. by a voice saying to me th a t I had a Miss Bessie Claw is with us call to paint them pews myself. I had w aited and w aited for others, but again. | they had fallen by tbe wayside. It The primary room is study i w as now for me to do tbe work with ing Henry Wardsworth Long my own bands. I had never used n | paint brush, but the call would guide fellow. ! my hand.” The 6th and 7th grades re The widow’s sister had a lot o f left over paint around the house. Tbe col ceived the highest average in at ors were white, red and black. She tendance last month. sym pathized w ith the mission, and she -pi , , , , „ . , . .. mixed them together and used kero- Ih e 4rd grade has finished the sene to thin the stuff down. third reader and is now review- •'" m untn next Sunday m orning did S C T iO O L Æ£> several inen w aiting for th eir w lvea.- Rev. Ketchum was entertain ing rnsy be remirded ns perfectly dura- Phlladelphla Ledger ed at the H,Shank home Saturday and Sunday. Joe Senz is home for a few days from the saw mill where he is employed. Mrs. Harold Townes is spend ing a few weeks at the T. Townes home. Mrs. R. Brenner spent Sun day at the home of her parents, P. Lambert and wife. Fred Smith was severely burn ed last week when he upset kettle of boiling water on him self. Fox Thayer, Leslie Townes, Frank Haberman and Linn Lam bert were Jordan visitors last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs M. F. Ryan and daughters, Josie, Marguerite and Anna visited at the John Huber j ing and reading a supplementary nnv one-,n ,he viII;li:e evpn "«"pect whnt had been going on. Some of the home last Sunday. Work has been commenced on reader. • , congregation hardly suspected It until Floyd Shelton and wife spent the big 2600-foot tunnel on the Rossell r e tu r n e r ! t,. thev had taken th eir seats. The paint a„ Loomis . , tK- ™ returned to hndn-t drM „ wonldn.t dry nnfII the Sunday at F. T.Thayer’s. They Oregon Eastern near Vale. school this week alter attending last trum pet blew and perhnps the West Stayton school for the then It smelled and smirched and intend to move on Mr. Thayer’s kui eared and stuck. Some got more upper ranch in the.near future. Eastern companies have placed past four months. und some less, b ut eneh and every one •n order f o r 50,000,000 feet of J carried aw ay a portion. Of course The 2nd grade has finished the Washington and Idaho iimber. SILENT MEN. prescribed work in arithmetic and (here was no sermon. T here couldn't !>e T here was an Investigation In has taken up the multiplication stead. and som ething aw ful happened Wallenstein, Who Never 8 miled, Wae Two gold-crowned teeth were a t th a t Investigation. For the first the Most D ram atic of All, found in the gizzard of a hen be tables. longing to Chas. Premof Eugene. ------- It is expected that the corner- ■tone o f t h e eastern Oregon branch hospital will be laid about tim e since he Joined tbe church Dea The 9th and 10th grades are con SmltherS swore. When the widow studying their classics, Irving’s explained th a t she had had a "eaU" to Sketch Book^by the 9tn grade paint the pews he waved his arm s In and bellowed: and Joan of Arc by the 10th! the “A air ’call’ be dom ed! By th e great grade. horn spoon, you o rter be made to lick A p r il 1. It all off!” fnose absent on account of •'Deacon Sm lthers,” replied the wld sickness this week were: Alvie ow. -th e revivalist over a t Medina Butte Falls will have a first- Myers, Delbert Shepherd, Ger sal 1 that”— elass gravity water system, hav “Durn the revivalist!” ing voted $10,000 in bonds for its trude Shepherd, Heit Pancoast For a week the affair th reaten ed to and Henry Eccleston disrupt the congregation. Then va- construction. Oregon Agricultural college is Alaskan grand jury has re now planning to send a poultry turne(^ indictments against seven- demonstration car to travel over teen business men for maintain ing a wharfage m o n o p o l y at the Southern Pacific lines. Skagway. Convinced that the accident was unavoidable, t h e United Two samples of hen fruit weigh States marine inspectors have de ing close to four ounces e a c h , cided to make no further investi produced by Cottage Grove bid gations into the groundingof ttie dies, are on exhibition 'in t h a t city. Santa Ana. * •<>ii; other people had "calls." The paint was scrubbed off as well ns pos- * 11 . le. the pew* torn o ut and rebuilt ai.o a painter hired to p ut on tw o coals of white, and. once having ta c k led the work. It w as continued nntll the outside of the building was paint ed an 1 * spire pointed to heaven. And n little later th e pew s were < u-hlon<»d. and th e Widow Saunders could ay to the m inister: n sit all through a sermon now r " , ' ’rit have a kink or tw ist, and I am bi t as sure of going to heaven ' 1 - die as I am going to have buck wheat cakes for b re a k fa st" 4 W ashington’* reserve m ade him stiff, formal an d III a t ease In com pa ny. but it also prevented his plans from being betrayed to the enemy and the country from being deceived by his promises. William th e Silent w as frugal of words, because a reserve th a t conceal ed hla deslgna, even from tboae acting w ith him, w as necessary to th e Inde pendence of th e N etherlands. T he moat dram atic of allent men waa W allenstein, th e antag o n ist of G uatavus Adolphus and the comman d er of th e em peror’a arm ies In the T h irty Y ears’ war. H e Insisted thnt th e deepest silence should reign around him. Hla officers took care th a t no loud conversation should d istu rb their general. They knew a cham berlain had been hanged for w aking him with o ut orders, and an officer who would w ear clanking spurs is the command e r’s presence had been secretly put to death. In th e rooms of W allenstein's palace th e serv an ts glided as If phan toms, and a dozen sentinels moved around his te n t charged to secure the silence th e general dem anded. Chains w ere stretched serosa tbe streets and roads_Ja order to g uard him ag ain st Select your new suit fo r E a s t e r Early and get what you want while t h e assortment i s complete. BEST VALUES ARE GIVEN HERE and the people know it for we are selling a good many more suits now than w e ever did. COME IN AND LOOK THEM OVER Our Chicago special at 20 dollars can not be duplicated anywhere. Don’t forget our full line of fan cy and fresh stock of groceries. Prices always the lowest at W. F. KLECKER’S STAYTON’S BEST STORE, Stayton, Oregon