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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (May 30, 1912)
fe tid i The STAYTON MAIL AN OPEN LETTER! Published «very Thursday by E. M. Olmsted and W . C Parry Kditor Muii, Entered as »ecoml class matter at the postortice at Stayton, Marion county, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March H, 187S. All eommunicatiors should be addressed to T hk STAYTON M ail . SUBSCRIPTIONS, sjtl <~0 p*»r year ir\ advance Ad vertising Kates on appllcatiori C arls of T hanks « .50 O sa r akies - $ 1.00 up. Positively nil puffers stopped on expiration o f subscription While we are talking about monuments and memorials, what s the matter with a monument to Eve? By all accounts. Eve was a great woman. iversal ancestor. back than Eve. She was our un None o f the genealogists ever get any farther And Eve was a suffragist. She was an equal partner with the “ head of the house" (let us call him so by court esy anyway) in the fruit orchard known as Eden. I f Adam didn’t feel like trving the qualities o f the apple, -or lemon, as some be lieve it to have been (while the Californians declare it was an orange), Eve invented the initiative to meet the occasion, became the first Progressive. What though both Adam and so and Eve suffered the “ recall’ ’ in consequence? Eve still deserves a monu- , w j r i i , , * .. LoK't nf oafintr f»*„iL ment at the hands of her descendants, for the habit ot tating fruit has survived to this day, and who would be willing now to forego Dear Sir: Iti last week's Mail appeared an article in regard to the pro posed railroad that 1 take excep tion to. In it, it says there are two or three parties that are reluctant to give a right of way for the line. As I am one of these, I wjs^ to state that in this you are misinformed as there are ten parties that I know of that do not see where they are benefited as much as damaged, and I un- derstand there are only sixty to eighty per cent signed up from Salem to W’est Stayton. We are not the only ones that are blind. Now I will ask what does Stay- ton give in proportion to what it asks us to give? It asks me to give more land than the town of Stayton gives. In return what Pete Blithers was caught out in the rain Sunday, while wear ing the new striped yellow suit he brought home from Portland last week. The suit shrunk like a dried apple, and Pete was near ly strangled before they could cut him out of it. His mother! will use the cloth for rosettes to i decorate at his sister’s wedding' next month. For the greatest flesh maker known. Superior to any other oil or any combination of oils. Easy to take and more easily assimilated, besides being very nutritious. No more re liable ttesh producer can be found anywhere than A Squabtown Rifle Squad was charter members. The following constitution was adopted; Arti- cle 1. -This organization shall be known as the Squabtown Rifle Squad. Article 2. In case of war, the Squad shall be immedi- ately disbanded, A rt borrowed the con- f^tion ery store’s electric piano t0 use uj9 wecJdintr Tuesday, j — -v « . * for ■- Lohen and sent to Salem N Y A L S J- Luc,fer Ludlux.Squabtown s ,itera«7 uKht- has ) ust completed a stirring novel entitled The Tap on the W r is t’ ’ A t the j psychological moment, the heroj taps the villain on the w rist, and 1 before the latter recovers, he car-1 ries the heroine to safety in his ! Brush runabout. Bud Waffles, who to reduce his weight has been taking a diet o f sawdust and charcoal, woke up Wednesday morning w i t h a charred wooden leg. Bud says it’s a regular carbon copy of the original. E M U L S I O N C OD L I V E R OF OIL An extremely valuable remedy for pulmonary diseases, coughs, colds, and general debility. Makes flesh, tissue:gives health and strength. 60c and $1.00 the bottle. BEAUCHAMP’S STORE “Bee”«* “Bee” THE (rroom In the Memorial Day parade this morning, Bill Hinks’ mule wheels, but a little slip o f paper with a state seal upon it was more ^ut ^ have to pay for all I get “ Dusty” ate a dozen wreaths of . and that is all I ask o f Mr. flowers from John Gallstone’ s than he could manipulate^_______ Mounce, for I expect nothing buggy. John hinted that next from the railroad for nothing. year we might have a chance to It is said that the apple crop Mr. Mounce says if we don’ t put w-reaths on Dusty’s grave. of Hood River this year will be give him the right of way he w-ill - Squabtown Squaw-ker from 1.000.000 to 1.250.000 box sue us. Well, by suing he will es. Hood River has 7000 acres not get it for nothing - we are Spr&gfield is soon to have new- | of planted orchards. W e s t S tayton bound to get some damages. ornamental street lights. I am in favor o f Stayton hav Two Eugene women walked | $20.000 w i l l be spent in La John Crum was a Stayton visi ing a railroad, blit it is not right sixty miles recently to reduce Grande during the n e x t few to expect us to give the land tor Saturday. I weeks in the construction o f a their weight. combination fair grounds, athlet- an(* let >t be cu* UP like it will be C. F. Loose made a business for nothing, when everybody for trip to Stayton Monday. A new sanitorium is proposed | ¡c park and race track j for Ashland, to cost not less miles on either side gets the H. B. Condit has improved the During the first six months of same benefit we do and neither than;$150.000. its existence the Idaho-Washing loses land nor is troubled with appearance o f his place by ad Roseburg has already prepared ton Development league expend the cars and railroad all the time ding a new fence and fixing his some plans for the strawberry ed $4,699,78 in advertising the lawn. he lives on the place. festival next year. resources o f the two states. Mrs. James Calavaan a n d Yours respectfully, A ndrew F ery . daughter, formerly o f this place Medford will be the scene of A committee of Klamath Falls but now of Wood bum, were the 1913 Odd Fellows grand lodge business men have decided that The above letter is self explana visiting friends about the city and R&bekahs’ assembly. a general reorganization of the tory and expresses Mr. Fery’s Monday. According to Agnes C. Laut, a city affairs, including the cham views on the subject very clear The Misses Winifred Forrette ly. Of course we as publishers magazine writer, the Pacific ber of commerce, is necessary. and Fay Henson of Dallas, arcJ o f the Mail will stand by what coast is threatened with anarchy. The mayor o f Portland is short guests o f Miss Leona Forrette was said last week as being said It is said that in the future the ly to have framed an ordinance in good faith and on the repre this week. miping o f coal may out-rival the which will stop provision dealers sentations of Mr. Mounce. Wheth The ladies aid society met last lumber industry in the Marsh from destroying surplus vege er the right of way from Salem Thursday afternoon in the city tables in order to keep up prices. field section o f the state. to West Stayton is 80 per cent I hall and as usual had an enjoy- The Snake river, in Idaho, is secured or 10 per* cent secured \ able time, An Albany man haff built an now navigable for a distance of we have no way of determining. aeroplane which will be one of A number o f our young folks the attractions at the Fourth o f twenty miles above Pittsburg We have dug up from another attended the all-night dance at Landing. Heretofore, five miles authority however the names of July celebration in that city. A those who have signed for the Sh'lbum Saturday evening. They above this point was the record. During the last ten months 1 report a fine time. The carpenters who removed "g h t of way from West Stayton $1,600.000 have beer, paid out in - West Stayton Warbler Eugene for timberlands and pro the booths at the recent Rose-! ¡® Stayton. They are: Condit. burg festival discaided so many Mclnms Crumm Schell Perk- perty-needed by the railroads. G le a n in g s nails that the city had to put a «ns, Dively, Horn buckle.Rucker, i G a t e s The'Eugene city council has work to pick Forette and Spamol. Those un-1 passed an ordinance requiring all crew o f men at [signed are: Van Nuys, F. Fery, C. A. Bevier went to Quartz- Btreet speakers to get written them up from the streets. A. Fery, Munkers, Jeter and ville Thursday. permission from the authorities. Headed by the “ Hungry Seven Kusey. We understand however A. A. Shier o f Mehama was a A t the meeting o f the Rebekah Band,” and displaying banners that some of these will settle Gates visitor Monday. assembly of Oregon, held in imploring the erection o f a new [ rather than have condemnation Mrs. John Quinn of Lyons was Pendleton, May 21st, degrees of central school building, the stud proceedings instituted. a Gates visitor Monday. the order were conferred on ents of the Roseburg high school The fact remains however that Jack Matheny and family mov class of 213. recently paraded t h e business if there were no Stavton here ed to Wheatland Monday. streets. there would be no talk o f a rail Jhe S. P. has completed sur road, and if there were no Stay- Mrs. Harry Basley o f Macleay veys for a new line extending A t Lebanon, the other day a ton here, land that is supposed came up for a few days’ v i s i t from eastern Washington through team ran away, fell head first in ♦o be now worth $100 to $150 per with relatives Monday. eastetn Oregon, directly south to to a turntable and then turned acre would be worth approxi M ojaw , Cal. Mrs. W.H.B. Stewart went to over on their backs. To extri mately $25 per acre, therefore Albany Monday to visit h e r cate the horses it was nect.ssary Even Bellingham, Wash., is to what helps Stayton will help daughter, Mrs. Claud Rebham. have an aviation meet at which to tie their feet together and those that live near. Parmalee and Turpin, two of lift them out. Miss Rhea Bevier, who h as Anent the hitching post matter this country’s leading aviators Cape-Blanco reef is soon to we might inform our farmer been at Gates the past t w o will perform. have a new buoy weighing eleven friends that a committee was ap months returned to Albany Mon pointed by the city council to in- day. The 50th convention of the ,t0'!;S; 11 , ^®Oibinati(ii, flash this subject and as far National Education association light and whistling variety, and as we know, nothing has been Bob Munro went to Quartz- will occur July 6-12 in Chicago. will contain 400 pounds of car- done although we are well aware ville Sunday, meeting Clifford Last year the convention met in bide, enough to furnish light fo r , of the necessity o f the same, Wolfe and loanee Stewart o n a year without charging. T he E d it o r s . San Francisco. their way back to Gates. Northwest Clips Beauchamp . . . A S K . . . organized Monday, with twenty grin’s wedding march. The music people got the order twist- does Stayton gi\e me w ^en 1 j ed, and as Art led his bride to town? • Not even a the altar the piano broke out into l come *° town Not hitching post. Nearby towns get “ p|ease Don’t Take Me Home ” thousands of dollars worth of j t a pjnt to revjve the fru it.-w h eth er trade for their hitchin* P 08 ts.be- cause Stayton has none. apples, lemons, oranges, figs or what not,—are good for the sys The town gave Mr. Mounce a tem and beneficial to the complexion, besides adding to the family- franchise, but would he have gotten it if he had asked to come expense account unless grown in your own back yard? in at the southwest corner and Perhaps we have not shown Eve so much honor as she de out at the northeast? I am in serves because the earlier chroniclers did not dress up their facts dcubt. Yet that is what he asks o f us. He goes through four with as much w ealth of descriptive laudation as marks the effusions square fields o f mine and leaves on the society page of the journals of today. It is not too late to ejRbt triangles, and it is through honor Eve. Why not have Congress erect a monument to her the bottom land, the best we have. fame? Now what railroad does Mr. Mounce represent? I take it he A juggler who married a woman in Los Angeles has been ar- is asking us to give him the land rested iff San Francisco on a charge of bigamy. He was so ac- so he can sell it to some road. I f I got my land by riding around customed to juggling things that he tried it with his marriage li- in an auto with a ten cent weed cense, to his grief. 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