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BON TON BAKERY and = RES T A U R A N T The Spider And the Fly When the Deacon Cut Loose Bv HELEN BELL Copyrlaht, tilt, by Asaoi-Utsd Lit* •rnry “ Mildred, are you going to keep me dangling for over? Why not put me Preaching every Sunday at 11 a. m out of tuy misery by tolling mo you and at 7:30 p. m. by Rev. A. C. Eat won't marry mo aud have duuo with on. Sunday school a t 10 a. in., A. J i t r Caldwell, supt. B Y P U at 6:30 p. m. “l have no such idea,’’ she replied. Mrs. Baton, president. “Why not?” "Oh, It's very nice to have some one to be devoted to me, to brtug mo can Catholic dy and violets and all t h a t’’ 1 (."iiru-'ii <> k T i i s I m m a c i ' i . v i k CoMcar- This was uot the reason, at least the lion, Stayton; Rev, A. Lttigck sole reason, why she kept hint dan priest in charge. High mass second gling. The main one was—to put It fourth and Aftli Sundays 8:30 a. ni„ figuratively—be was a ripe pear hang Priest's address: Sublimity, Oregon. ing from a tree and there was anotber t . B oxisack ’ s C atholic C hurch , girl under tbe tree waiting for blm to Suhii.oity; Rev A l.ainek. n v io rj drop, lie didn't know that she knew In Stayton Hotel Dining Room l.ovx mass S a. m., high mass 10:30 about this other girl; but he did know a. m.. first and third Sundays in the he wished to drop Into the other girl's m onth; high mass 10:30 a to., see- mouth. Me was committed to the one ■ ml. f.uirtl» and tilth Sundays. Ves he was talking to aud trying to hare pars at eventide. her shnke the tree while the other girl stood ready to catch him when he fell. Christian “1 tell you what we'll do," he said. Bath Tubs, Lavatories and Services will be held every Sunday. “I ’m tired of this business. 1 can’t Preaching at 11 a. m., and 8 p. m. sleep nights. Sometimes l think you all Lanitary fittings—Farm Sunday school a t 10 a. m., Mrs. W. H. are going to make me hnppy, and some ers—We carry a line of Hobson, superintendent. Y. P. S. C. E. times I think you aren't. If 1 knew pumps, leader water sys at 7:30 p. ra., Mrs. R. I.. Dunn presi you wouldn't have me Pd try to for tems. etc. Gasoline engines. dent. Ladies Aid society meets each get you. I.et's stop this indecision aud Wednesday at 2:30 p. m., Mrs. G. D. decide the m atter by chance.’’ “How by chanceV Thomas, president. R. L. Dunn Pastor. “Well, we might play a game of JACOB SPANIOL cards for it. Make it euchre. If I beat you the best throe games In five Methodist Methodist Episcopal Church, order of you give me ’Yes’ for an answer; If services: Bible school a t 10 a. m., you beat me three out of five you say •No.’ ’’ A. S. Pancoast, Superintendent- “I don't care; get out the cards.” Preaching a t ll*a. m. and 7:30 p. m. He was not ouly an expert nt the Midweek Prayer and Bible Study, game of eur lire, but nn exiiert at deal Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. Epworth ing the cards. lie could stack them, League, Sunday, 6. p. m., Clark too, without half trying. He threw Mace, Pres. Ladies’ Aid Society, the cards for the deal and won tb Thursday afternoon, Mrs. J. R. Gard Dealing, he turned up a nine spot. She ner, Pres. Pastor of the church, E. passed, aud he turned it down. She made it spades aud won two points. Sutton Mace. He heaved a sigh from dowu In his stomach. She dealt and turned a S ubscribe/or The Stayton Mail. Yon knave. He passed. She took it up can’t invest $1.50 to better advantage. and won auother two points. He groaned. The deni being bis. he turn ed a ten spot, took it up and lost the game. “ What did you take it up on that Now h the time to order a monument* hand for?” she asked. “You had only W* can furnish two trumps, an ace nnd a queen, with Physician and Surgeon nothing back.” He looked a trifle confused. "You wer,c so near out,” be explained, "that Also build Stone or f oncrete Walls to STAYTON. OREGON I thought I'd better plunge." order. Don't fail to get prices before She said nothing, but knit her brows, you buy. then drew down the corners of her mouth. L. 1. THOMAS, The second game he won. He didn't STAYTON. OREGON. intend to win it. but she sent him for PHYSICIAN A M ) SURGEON the last box of candy be had sent her, and while he was out she stacked the card«, dealing him a hand with five M . R I N G 0 trumps in it, including two bowers and S ta y to n , O regon an ace. Undertaker a n d Embalmer He feigned merriment, but she was not deceived. Third and Marion Streets Then be won a game, nnd she won a game, nnd It stood two games for ; STAYTON. OREGON A. M , M. D. each. Beginning the deciding game, P H Y S I C I A N a n d S U R G E O N he dealt nnd turned a queen. “I don’t see any use of your turning Office at a queen from the bottom of the pack,” SUBLIMITY. OREGON FARM AND CITY BARGAINS she said, “when there was a Jack on top. ” BUY N O W -There will be To prove her words she turned the G. F. KORINEK, V. S., B. V. Sc. first card be had dealt her. It was the a rapid increase in land val knave of clubs. Veterinarian ues and now is the time to “How stupid of me,” he said. “I B U Y . Treats all domestic animals, also thought to get an advantage and I got applies the Tuberculin test. a backset. It's no use for me to cheat.” Nothing more safe on earth “It’s no use unless yon have a softy Telephone 3x7 than earth itself. for an opponent Deal the hand Office at Stayton Stables again.” J. T . KEARNS STAYTON - - - - OREGO I He knew th at Rhe was watching The Rea (estate Man of Stayton him with the eye of a cat. There wrs no use trying to ileal himself good B etter let us do your printing - you ha nils or her poor ones. The luck j may find it cheape r than you expect. was in hU favor, or. rather, consider ing what ho was trying to do, against him. It was impossible to lose. He . M OORE'S */ was obliged to win. Jos. Sestak & Sons, Props. “Oh, my darling!” he exclaimed. “How happy I am!” But there was NEVER n c u r n v 3 0 YEARS D M U n In TAILING ft L n U U 1 mSTANDAPD no great warmth in his tone. F IL E S , C H ILB L A IN S r C LO N S , B U R N S . CTC. A V A L U A B L E H O U S E H O lO SALVE “ Do you mean to hold me after Fresh, Salt and Smoked A L L O A U G G I S r s H A V E I T O F W u . O B T A N ON * C Q . U t S r A C C E P T NO S U B 5 T .T U T C S • heating?-' r r / c c 2 5 C e sifs. “ I cheat! I mmlc a mess of that LANGLEY »MICHAELS CO " A N r p A N C 1S C Q and lost by it, though I gained In the main. Still. If you feel that I have Highest Market Price Paid for Stock and taken an unfair advantage of you’”— Hides. “Oh. no Everything Is fair in war and in love.” There was a deep mean STAYTON. OREGON ing in her tone when she said this. Me winced. He had started with that A Tonic, A Iterative en d Resolvent. T he bc?t rem edy fo r Kidneys, I*iver and Bowels, idea, but had come out nt the little x Eradicates Pim ples, E ruptions an d Disorders end of the horn. of the Skin. Purifies th e Blood and (tives “Suppose." be said musingly, “we Tone, S trength an d Vigor to th e entire system . play n single game double or quits?" “What do you mean by that?" "Either you marry me tonight or Wasted. not at all.” “I always was unlucky.” he said, She thought awhile, turning the with a weary sigh proposition over In her mind, then “Wbat’s the matter now, old man?'' said she believed she’d do It. his friend asked They played the game, but she "I've pent over $.">00 on havin’ my caught him trying to get rid of a cou SATISFACTION GUARANTEED boy taught to play the fiddle, and now ple o f bowers and Insisted on his liis hair's all out.”—Chicago 1 playing his original hand. By this Third S treet one half block south S ta y - . Record-Herald ¡time she had learned to turn n low ton S tate Bank. card In dealing from the bottom of Firsd. (he pack. These two matters, taken Goob— Joncs wn-‘ finsl out of his | ligpthor, gave him the game. house y este rd a y Boob— Was lie lie- She considered not th at she had hind in bis rentV Goob— Naw The iieaten him. but her rival. She led place burued down.—Cincinnati En- him to the slaughter a t once. lulrcr They lived a cat and dog life for a If you have property to sell come in anti Hat i t w i t h us, and we will rotiple of years, when they secured a His Car Mannsrs. find a bu^er. We already have a divorce, he paying her a fine alimony. Mrs. Knlcker— Does your husbnnd Then he married thp girl who had number of choice farm s listed. If read tbe fin per nt breakfnat? Mrs. j waited for him to drop. It was rather you desire to make an investm ent it will pay to see us. ItoekeT— Yen. and I don't know why a roondnliont way of securing hnppl- Everylvidj bas a sont.—New York Sun | ness, but In the end all were liene- We Sell the Earth fited. find the fly extricated Itself Don’t do anything till you do it. aud (from the spider's web one of the three when you vc don ■ It stop dclug It.— would have been nt a disadvantage. William Gillette ,\* It was It wea an equitable transuc- Office next to Stayton Hotel tlon. H e a ls a t all hours Baptist C. Ullom, Proprietor The best to eat at the handiest place to eat. Now T IN W O R K and P L U M B IN G F o r S a le BRICK, CEMENT, PLASTER W. A. W eddle MONUMENTS Marble, H. A. BEAUCHAMP, M.D. Granite or Bronze C. H. BREWER, M. D. J. NEIL A . O ’LEARY City Meat Market ISON MEATS H. C. Downing EXPERT WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRING Real Estate THOMAS & LEE OAK By M QUAD When the doctors told the good wife of Deacon Gray, with whom be had llTed In i>eace for almost twenty-eight years, that her lime on earth was short, she had him called lu from the Held that she might suy: "Deacon, you have never spoken an angry word to mo In ull our married life.” 'T in glad on't." he replied. “ We have uever quarreled.” "Noap." “I have never seen you out of tem per with the oxen, nnd when you've been stung by bumble bees you haven't said a word.” “No use getting mad.” “You've gone right nloaa, doneon. being ns placid as nn old hen and let ting me do all the Jnwlng nnd flghtiug, and now yon are to be left alone. I'm sorry for you.” “I shall hope not to have any trou ble with any one." was tbe deacon's bumble regly. “But you will have unless you spunk up. Promise me that yon'II bar* a chip on your shoulder.” “I'll kinder bnve one." The good woman departed for tha better land feellug that way, nnd tbe deacon lifted up tbe added cross and bore It along ns best he could. His wife had been right cs to what the world would do to him wheu she was gone, n e had always been considered an easy mark, even with her to defend blm, bnt now with her gone he was a rich find. They borrowed his money, his plow, hts hoe. his wheelbarrow and his old gray mare. They ehented him In buying nnd some more to selling. They got him to Indorse notes of band and left him to pay for them. If It hadn't been such a task for him to write with his stiff Angers they’d bav# bad a mortgage on his home. As predicted by the dead wife tbe Widow Brown did her fair share to ward making the widower's life miser able. She encouraged her scratching hens, she encouraged her crowing roosters, she encouraged her mean tempered dog, she threw more ashes, and she helped herself to cucumbers and squashes ns long as they lasted. Deacon Gray saw und knew all these things, but he kept light on being complacent am! placid The Widow Brown was a woman with n personality. No neighbor's chicken dared to step foot on her land. The boy that swung on her gate got a box on the car to make Ills bend ring for an hoar. One day when her old spotted cow had jumped the fence and was in the deacon's cornfield, plain to be seen by the deacon himself, she walked over to the man ami said; “Deacon Gray, you'ro a bean pod!” "Mebbe.” “You're a cucumber, a flshworm! Yon hain’t got spunk ’nnff to keep the boots on your feet. Lor* bless me. I'd marry a basswood hitching post be fore such a man ns you!” “ Yes, reckon you would.” was the weary reply as the widow rounded up her cow and drove her home without another look nt the man. Sho lind sowed a seed, however. Aft er a few nights the deacon had a dream of his dead wife. She was back on earth again and calling him names and Jawing around because ho hadn't got bis dander up yet. Her voice came to him ns plain as lie laid ever beard It when she exclaimed: “Deacon, you haln't no man to stand all this. You're nothing bat n frnxxle!" Whnt tlie widow and what the wife said started s new train of thought In the good man's mind. IVns he a fail ure? Wns lie an easy marl;? And In being so had he lost the respect of the community? Did folks say of him th at lie was a good man. hut a half fool at the same time? That new train of thought lasted the good man three days and nights, and on the morning of the fourth day lie woke up and realized that he was a changed man Before he was hardly conscious of the change lie found himself throw ing stones nt the Widow Brown's liens, nnd the widow looking right at him nt that. After breakfast he looked about for her dog nnd plumped a rock against Ills ribs. One.of the widow's roosters flew the fence to Interview tbe swill pall, nnd he didn't get home alive. “You monster!" shouted tbe widow. The answer was another rock at her dog. “You unhung vlllalnl” An old white hen was Jarred by a lump of d irt “I'll have you fn Jail within an hour!" Off came the deacon’s hat nnd cont, and with n yell he broke loose and Jumped the fence nnd had lifted the woman up to throw her Into the old tomato patch when he heard her say- |jg : “Don’t go any further, deacon! I'm In love with you!” “What!" he demanded. “If you want me I’ll mnrry you to morrow. I thought yon wns a bean pod, but yon are a man from head to heel. I thought a boy ten years old conld drive you all nround the village, but I see th at It would tnke four men Deacon, I do Just dote on you.” No; they didn't get married within three months, but they did within four, nnd If you were to ask a resident of the village today as to whnt kind of n man Deacon Gray Is the answer would be: “Mighty good man. but don't fool with the deticon He's dangerous alnce be cut loose.” [Banking Here Is Pleasant and Safe 1 Safety of your funds is not the only advantage this bank can offer. In addition to the un questioned safety that our strong directorate, business-like management, and well chosen se curités give to our depositors’ money, this is a pleasant place to do business. You’ll like t h e way you are received if you bring your account here, and we hope to see you do that soon. We’ll try to make the conrection mutually helpful. 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