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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 .
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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
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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. On the stage he juggles with plows and cart stuck in my face, I might do so,
the benefits of the great discovery of Eve’s that
S qu ab tow n
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Quart
Half Gallon
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.
50c
75c
$1.25
T w o Gallons
Th ree Gallons
Five Gallons
$2.25
$3.35
$5.00
Our cream is made from the best materials available.
Counting ice, materials and labor, you can buy it here
more cheaply than you can make it.
The Gem Confectionery
J. A . H E N D E R S H O T T , Proprietor
Phoenix Pure Paints
N o w is the time of year to brighten up your
house and get things in readiness for the
summer. T h ere’s nothing like a fresh coat of
paint, and there’s nothing in the paint line like
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Keep out the flies with our S C R E E N D O O R S
and window screens.
W e can supply your demands in Builders’ Hard
ware. Nails in any size and quantity.
John Deere Buggies and Surreys
the kind that stay on the road. Fully guaranteed
for tw o years. W e have a good selection.
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