ADM INISTRATOR'S NOTICE
August at the Beaches
The beach Re niton la In full swing, Go while the crowds ko .
Knjuy the pool Hen brease* now, while the heat la bo unpleasant
I m I nih I. ilathlUK. boating, hill climbing, fishing, hikea over
■leliKhtful trulla. Oregon lienchea heller prepared than ever
before to cure for the crowds. Plenty of accomodations, Lots
of fun. The water ia line!
CO VIA THE
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C o . B eaches
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TRAIN SERVICE.
S eason r o u n d -
t r ip FARES.
S p e c ia l w e e k
e n d and SUNDAY
FARES
Senti for illuatrulud hookleta about the Oregon resorts and our
special folder on "Vacation Days in Oregon.’* It tells all about
the beaches, spring», mountain resorts, etc.
l'ail on nearest Agent for information relative to fares, liter
ature, etc., or address
J O H N M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon
Say* Mr*. Good Housekeeper:
“ T lie best way to keep the hou*e
•weet and clean ana free from
odor* i* to use
Babbitt’s Lye
“O nce a week I mix up a solution
of Babbitt’» Lye and hot water. I
pour it down all the drain pipes,
sink, toilet and bath-tub. T h e lye
attacks the dirt and grease and
washes it away. I also use it to
wash pots, pans and kettles, to
cleanse the woodwork about the
house and the refrigerator too.
Th«M a rt d o irn i of w ty ito u a ¡t.-ju*t Mad
for th . Babbitt L ys book sad follow
dutA ioai
“I Mve ihe htdt-msrki bora all ike
B«bbin Pindixfii and ic h ta f r ibem lor
beautiful and uaefuJ article«. Why dea l
you do thta >'
Babbitt’s Best Soap
White Floating Soap
Naptba Soap
Babbitt’s Cleanser
Gel th* ftabkttt hmhlt
B.
P
T . B A B B I T T . IN C .
Boa 1776, New York Car
Notice is hereby given that the un-
dersigned has been duly appointed ad
ministrator of the estate of Elijah
Weddle, deceased, by order of the coun
ty court, of . he State of Oregon, for
the county of Marion, duly made and
By S A R A H L BU RTO N
»
By M ARY PA R K E R D E A N E
i entered of record on the 19th day o f
By H A R R Y C. A SH M O R E
July 1912. All persons having claims
...........
“Oh, Ned!" exclaimed young Mr*. against said estate are hereoy notified
Kuibarklug on a steamer from For-i '* r- l ’lum wa* 11 pessimist, bis wife
and required to present the same to me
tress Mouroe, where I laid taken a ,n nPtlml»t. Many were the argu- Watrous. “what did you say that Co at my office over Stayton State Bank,
Mildred
Blair
for?”
aprlng vacation, I was attracted by a I ruwnU **••/ h»'1 « * « ’
Mn.-
Staytbn, Marion county, Oregon, duly
“Say w h a tr
fttmlly who were bidding goodby to one lMum
would happen some .lay
“That you preferred your own sex verified with proper vouchers within
of their number, a young lady. Just " oth" r
l,ft
out <* P <” * « 7 .
before the boat left a geutlemau. whom 1
to live more comfortably, to ours; that you had no use for girls six months from the date of this notiea.
Dated this 26th day of July 1912.
I took to be the lady's father, hur Moth« the children lietter and make and that you had no expectation of
W. A.W ed d la
ever marrying. In short, you gave her
riedly took some bills from bis wullet t“* ,n
,jr , *’***'
In the first place, Morin,” Mr. Hum the impression that you are a woman
Administrator of the estate of Elijah
utid shoved them into her h inds. Then
Weddle, deceased.
8-22-12
all except she went ashore and we would say, “nothing ever cornea from hater."
rainbow chasing. In the second place,
“I didn't say anything I didn't meau
left them on the dock waving to her.
'"here was that about her appear if a hundred thousand dollars were or that Pm ashamed of.”
FINAL NOTICE OF ADMINIS
"You have been very nnwise. Before
ance which Interested me. and I would <uddenly dumped u ]> oii us we wouldn't
TRATRIX.
you came to visit us I told all tbe girls
have been glad to make ber acquaint- b* a“jr
,w* »r« ,now ”
•nee, but there was no one to Introduce
^ouldn t we? I'd just like to try It wbat a line fellow you were, and 1 ex
To all whom it may concern: Notic«
..............
‘inri*’ ’
pected you to be popular with them."
me, and while In (be west the scraping
1 is hereby given that the undersigned.
“You
esu
bet
your
bottom
dollar
that
“I'll hare all the more time to spend
c f acquaintances between the sexes Is
Administratrix of the estate of George
not considered Improper, eastern girls unless I wvik bard and you run us ylth you."
Gehlen, deceased, has this day filed her
cheaply
we
won't
even
keep
np
to
what
“But
think
of
iny
disappointment
at
do not usually permit lb However,
on reaching New York, Just before we’re doing now, let alone putting on your not being taken up by my final account in said estate and that
air*."
the Honorable County Court of Marion
friends."
landing, 1 had an opportunity to do
“Do yon mean to tell me there’s noth
“My dear sister, 1 am nothing more County, Oregon, has fixed and appoint
her a favor. 8ho was trying to find a
ing In luck?"
or less than your brother. Y'ou can't ed Tuesday, September 3rd, 1912, at
“quarter” In her portemoimale to pay a
"Mighty little. At any rate, no great unmake me and make me over again.
the hour of 9 o’clock a. m. of said day
porter.
Kho took out a bill and looked piece of luck like an unexpected wind I ’m not one to dote upon women. I j at the County Court House in said
about helplessly for some one to fall will ever happen to more than one wasn’t bora so. I’m very fond of you, County and State, as the time and
person In a million.”
as you know, and If I am ever married
change It for her. She held it In her
"Hut haven't we got Jnst as good a perhaps I shall be fond of my wife. place for hearing any objections to
band folded so that a figure 5 was
such final account and for the settle
visible. From a roll of bills I gave I
th ,t ODe P*"*00 « ■» tb° But iu her case I shall expect to take 1
ment thereof.
her
as
I
find
her,
and
she
will
have
to
her four “ones" and the rest In change.
Dan Hum shrugged his shoulders, so take me. Marriage Is a great risk ; Dated July 25th, 1912.
She thanked me very graciously and j
but did not reply to this argument. lie that many persons are chary about ; Mrs. A. Gehlen administratrix o f
handed me the bill she held, which I
went to his work every day, ns usual, taking. There arc splendid men and the estate of George Gehlen, deceased.
put In my pocket without looking at it.
and hla wife pinched and saved. One
Ou reaching home and looking over day when he came home In the even women who have such a dread of mak- j Carey F. Martin, attorney forestate.
my cash I pulled o|>en a bill and was ing he found her In a wild state of op lng that Jump In the dark that they die
old bachelors and old maids. If your
very much startled to see that It was timism.
friends don't like me neither you nor I 1
of a $.7)0 denomination. Knowing that
“Ob, Dan,” she cried, “did you ever
I had not In my possession any snch hav„ u lrrandmother by thc uame of can help It."
"B u t you don’t need to say every
note when I started from tortress j prendeguat?”
»thing that Is In your mind.”
Monroe I at once concluded that some j ..Not to uiy knowleU(f„ wa, tbe ^
“No; I don't. But we are not all bora
one had given It to me in change by , l)er gldcd rpplj. ..Whj- ,,0 you M k r
with the same faults. One of mine i
mistake.
“Because there was a man here this occasionally telling the truth.
A little hard thinking brought back morning who asked me If you had.”
The day after this dialogue another
the young lady for whom I bad chang-
Semi-Weekly Oregon Journal,
“What did you tell him?"
occurred on the same subject between
ed a $5 bill and 1 concluded she had
"That I didn't know."
two
other
i<ersons.
Miss
Blair,
to
one year . .
$ 1.50
given It to me for $5. In endeavoring to
“Did he say why he wished to whom tbe objectionable remarks had
account for how she happened to hnve know ?”
$ 1.50
been made, was sitting on her porch The Stayton Mail
such an amount In ber pocket l con
“No, bnt I’m sure your grandmother doing fancy work when Miss Edith
cluded that ber father In tbe burry of Is dead and has left us a lot of money.”
Total
Towne cam e along.
$ 3.00
ber departure bad given It to ber by
"Oh, Marla, you make me tired! I
“Come up,” said Miss Blair.
mistake.
couldn't hnve a grandmother much less
“I have Just a minute to spare, but I ggth P a p e rs One year,
$100
He this as It may, 1 found myself than a hundred years old, and women
with St'.i'i In my possession that didn’t of that age don't often have fortunes. will spend that with you. There’s a ‘
belong to me. Moreover, I bad taken If they hnve their descendants are matter a bout which I wish to speak to The Semi
it from a very pretty girl whom 1 ad spread out like a fan and none o f ’em you. I t ’s how 1 shall cut my new
Weekly
summer silk.”
mired Immensely. Hut how was I to gits more than a few dollars.”
Publishes the latest and most complete
Miss
'.Towne
came
up
and
seated
her
return this balance? She had gone
“I don’t care. I believe we are on self.
telegraphic news of the world; gives
from me to mingle with millions of the verge of some great blessing."
“Have you seen Mrs. Watrous' broth reliable market reports, as it is pub
p«*ople, not leaving me any trace by
“I'll tell you wlmt I'll do, Marie. I’ll
which to find her. I knew that she had j „.„gp n bnrpa|n with you. Whatever er?” she asked of Miss Blair.
Yes, and 1 don't wish to see him lished at Portland, where the market
left relnthes at Fortress Mouroe. but : this blessing is, I’ll turn It nil over to
again.’
"
news can be and is corrected to date
not their names, what hotel they stop- you on con d ign that you nevor ?ay
"W h at's the matter with him?”
lied at. or whether they were still tllc word -wlndfalr to me a(tain ••
j for each issue. It also has a page t
"H e’ s a brute.”
there.
“Done.”
special matter for the farm and hoir .
"H ew r
I wrote at once to the proprietor of
‘Remember, I give you all that comes
“ A woman hater. That's the same an entertaining story page and a page
the principal hotel nt fortress Monroe, | in this case, and If nothing comes you
or more of comic each week, and it
describing the persons I had seen with arc still bound by your skle of the thing.”
"Indeed! How do you know?”
the young lady and asked him if he agreement.’’
1
goes
to the subscriber twice everj
“H o told me so himself.”
{ could give me any information to
"That's right.”
“Tb.at'11 make him unpopular, won't
week—104 times a year.
; guide me In finding them. lie replied
They had scarcely struck this bar It? I ’ m sorry. His sister was so anx
| that since It was at the height of the gain when there was a ring at tho
ious that we should like him.”
1 season aud persons were coming and bell. .Mrs. Blum went to the door and
"T oo bad. Isn't It?”
going all tbe while he could not pos- ushered a man into tbe sitting room.
T b e news spread that Ned Worthing
1 stbly know to whom l referred with
"This Is the gentleman who called ton, thc only young man who had ever Gives all the local news and happening.«
out names. I kept watch of the per this morning,” said Mrs. Blum.
vlsl :ed the deserted (by tbe male sexi and should be in every home in this
sonals In tbe principal New York news-
"Your wife," said the visitor, Till ige of Sommcrville was destined to
! papers, but saw no advertisement in "couldn't answer the questions I asked be n disappointment to all the girls, vicinity.
The two papers make a splendid com
tended for me.
her. so I concluded to come back when each and eveiy one of whom had look
I was puzzled what to do further, you were at home. I)ld you have a ed forward to the possibility of catch bination and you save $1 i,y sen ling
your subscription to us.
i Day after day passed and I saw no grandmother named Prendegast?”
ing him. The young ladies declared
way of returning the money. I thought
We can also give our subscribers a
"Not that I know of. And I didn't th at for Mrs. Watrous' sake they would
1 of going hack to Fortress Monroe, but have a grandmother by tbe name of txeax him with civility. Since there good clubbing offer for the Daily und
j It was quite a Journey, and 1 feared Foote or Stedman or Williams or Han was no exact definition to the word Sunday, or Sunday Journal, in con
i the persons I wished to And had gone kins either."
civil this was unfortunate, liecause nection with
elsewhere. A month passed nnd I
“Did you ever hear of any of your what might mean civil to one might
beard nothiug from any one connected progenitors named McDermot?"
be equivalent to attention or even TH E STA YTO N M A I L
w-lth the adventure. My only hope- a
“MeDermot? Why, yes! My grand more t-'ian attention to another. How
\ slight one—was that some day I might mother on my father's side was named ever, it was generally understood that
: meet the young lady nnd thus be able McDermot.”
so fa r as the geutlemau himself was
| to return what belonged to her. So I
“Her name was Sarah. She mar concurned he was to l>e made to under
j pinned the note In my Inside vest ried Enoch Prendegast. They had stand t hat he was tabooed.
' pocket. Intending to keep It there that one daughter who married Thomas
The only trouble with this disposi
Physician and Surgeon
In case I ever crossed her path I might Follansbee, and they had a daughter tion of the case was that be did not
hnve It rend}-. I fancied she lived in who married Daniel Spooner Plum.”
appear to be conscious that he was ta
1 the same place ns I, New York, anil
Mr. Plum’s eyes were growing large. booed. It was summer time, and his STAYTON.
OREGON
though New York Is a big city. It was
“I've got this by searching the rec prtncip il occupation was sitting In a
poiftlblc that I might meet her.
ords of some property owned by a wicker chair on the piazza with a rug
.V year pilhstd, and the note hud been Mrs. Prendegast, who had recently under Id s feet smoking. And it must
transferred from one vest to another. died in the John Brown hospital, aged lie cent lessed that to the girls who
I Then an Iden struck me. There was a ninety-two years. I figure it that she passed 1ta looked very handsome. Be
ghost of a chance that the family I hud was your grandmother."
sides, he possessed that manly strength
I met at Fortress Monroe might go there
“If I've had a grandmother liviug I tempereo' by unconsciousness of it. aud PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
again nt the same season ns before. I didn't know It.”
Indolence* that Is liable to lie especially
j went there and looked through the ho-
"Nor she. She came to the hospital attractive In a man to women.
S ta y to n . O regon
I tels.
before you were horn to be treated for
It wns noticed by the girls that after
Vain hope! The day after I ar some disease. When she got well her
Mr. Worthington's arrival several of
rived I strolled into the fort to witness memory had left her. She didn't know
their niuntM r seemed to find occasion G. F. KORINEK, V. S , B. V. Sc.
dress parade. Who should I see seated who she was or where she came from.
to be constantly running In to Mrs.
|on one of the benches ou the parade She was allowed to stay there and
Veterinarian
Watrous ox various errands. Her
! ground with other young persons but lived more than fifty years there and
opinion as f« the trimming of a dress Treats all domestic animals.
also
i tho young Indy I was looking for.
in that condition. Ju st before she died
was needed, or she must lie consulted
applies the Tuberculin test.
I took out tbe note and, upproachiug ber memory came back to her. She
as to the mn'jiagetnent of tbe town li
Telephone 3x7
| her, linnded It to her, saying:
said she was Sarah MeDermot Preu-
brary or some united charitable move
“I beg pardon, but I think this be- degast. Deeds to property were found
O
ffice
a t S tay to n S tab le$
ment. Of enurse when In Mrs. Wn-
I longs to you.”
where she had kept them In a trunk.
trons’ honse her brother must be
STAYTON - - - - OREOOf
She drew bark, surprised, nlmost of The hospital put them into the hands
fended. I explained further:
of n Inwyer, who says they came down treated not <>nly civilly, but affably.
*’.Y year ago on arriving at New Y'orU to Daniel Plum through F.llen Fol How affably there was no one except
the family to boar witness. It was not
t changed what we both believed to be lansbee and Julia Plum.”
n five dollar bill. It turned out to be a | "How much Is It?" gasped Mrs. long before Mias Rlnlr wns openly ac
cused of making pretexts for going to
! Plum.
*500 bill.”
DENTIST
Still she did not understand me. “I
“It's a house and lot that fifty years Mrs. Watrous’ for thc express purpose
of
slipping
a
noose
over
the
hend
of
! have no remembrance of any such ago was on the outskirts of the town.
Office over Deidrich’s Store
i transaction. I would prefer that you It Is now on the biggest shopping thc xvoman hater. Then Miss Blair Phone 2162
Stavton, Ore
whispered thc same accusation against
[ see my father about It, Colonel C\, com street nnd is worth a mil”—
Miss
Towne.
"You, Dan,” cried Mrs. Plum—"you
manding the post.
Mir. Worthington finished his visit
I bowed myself away nnd went to ¡ make a deed of that pro|>ert.v to me!'
And within six months lie did. But and sped away without realizing that
Colonel C.’s office. He listened to my
story with attention—indeed, with In ,he nays they must hnve dreamed It fill. he hnd been snubbed. The young la
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Thun fur the optimist him the lietter dies who had snubbed him regretted
terest- nnd when I finished wild to me:
NOTARY PUBLIC
th
at
more
drastic
measures
hHd
not
"So that's where that $500 hill wont of the argument. A hundred thousand
fin. I must have given It to my daugh dollars was dumped down upon the | been taken to let him understand how Abstracts and Probate Work a Specialty
ter without knowing Its value. I haw couple, but It remained to lie seen how 1 severely he was condemned. Miss
Office Over Stayton State Bank
in Important matter to settle nnd had much happiness was to be added to Blair deserted the malcontents nnd
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spoke so approvingly of the cnlprlt ___________
It with me to use on that occasion. Till •the l’luni family.*
this moment I never have known what
Mrs. Plum Imd always desired to as that a suspicion was roused that she
been me of It.”
sume some soctnl position. She bad had caught him.
B u t the matter passed over as a
The colonel- Invited me to call nt his some friends whose Income» were thou
CONTRACTOR a n d B U I l DER
louse, nnd I became intimately ac sands to her hundreds. They took hei | summer storm when Mrs. Watrous, a
quainted with his family. Including tils up trad Introdui-cd her. It wns tlic old week after her brother's departure,
Plana and Specifications Made and Furn*
iHUghter. Hut the rest Is another story, story of the earthen nnd Iron pot In a announced that he bad been engaged
iahed on all Contract Work.
• story that to tell I would lie obliged stream. The Hums were soon bank-' to b e married liefore he had come to
Room 4 State Bank Building
Ylslt her. Then tho henvens cleared
’o recount every action of my life sub- j rupt.
aedythe weather was calm again.
I »fluent to my making that call.
" I told you oo," said the pessimist.
jSTAYTON
:
:
OREGON
C h a n g in g a
B ill
THE
O P T IM IS T
A
R u ff le
In
Sum m er W e a th e r
A GREAT
^ C lubbing O ffer
Oregon Jo u rn al
The Stayton Mail
a t r o n iz e
The Bureau Saloon
R O Y M U L L I N 1X , Proprietor
G E T T H E B E S T and P U R E S T
L IQ U O R S O N T H E M A R K E T
H. A. BEAUCHAMP, M.D.
We make a specialty of Family Trade and will he pleased
to have you order for anything in our line.
Early BASEBALL RETURNS Received Here Daily.
C. H. BREWER, M. D.
Stayton, Oregon
Phone 2x42
N
o t ic e
WE WANT A L L
KINDS
OF
PRODUCE
CHICKENS, DUCKS, GEESE, EGGS
PORK. VEAL. LAMBS, AND HIDES
We pay the highest market prices in Stayton. If you cannot bring your
produce in, notify ua by phone, and we will send the wagon for it.
STAYTON CASH PRODUCE COMPANY
0. B Trask Manager.
S ta y to n
Oiegon
W ilb u r N. P in tle r, D .M .D .
S. H. HELTZEL
POOL ; BILLIARD PARLOR
E. T. MATTHIEU. Proprietor
A Good Place To Spend a Pleasant Hour
BEST and LARGEST LINE OF TOBACCO in TOWN
W. A. WEDDLE