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The STAYTON MAIL Published every Thursday by E. M. Olmsted According to a Babylonian tab let the earth was created by a female deity. Votes for women! Entered as second class m atter at the poatofflee at Stayton, Marion county, Oregon, under the act o f Congress o f March 3, 1879. A ll [communications should be addressed to T h e S t k \ to n M a u .. Some cases of hay fever act like the old-fashioned ague bad one day and worse the next. S U B SC K ll’TIONS, Sl.no per year it» advance Advertising Kates on npplic'titloii C a r d s o f T h a n k s - $ .60 O b it o a r ik s - $1.00 up. P ositively nil pafters s to f i/k a / <>/; Save your pennies and your I children will have dollars with which to hire irood lawyers. expiration ot subscription To the present group of w hite heavyweights Sam Langford Some fellow is always trying to beat the game. A Salem looks like a funnel-shaped cloud. man recently married a woman who had been married eight times b «fore. He must think that ho is smarter than the other fellows. A Chicago woman has been The Canby Irrigator records a five acre field of oats near fined for shooting at her hus band. There is no maudlin sym- that town that yielded 93 bushels per acre. pathy for the w ife who misses. The celebration at Monroe of the opening of the Portland Eugene and Eastern was held yesterday, September 3. W e’ re not in sympathy with The Cottage Grove Sentinel is telling a joke on a young man the idea that some men are just who took one o f his sister’s dresses by mistake for his bathing mean enough to enjoy life, no matter what happens. suit. Heavens, they must wear ’em short in Cottage Grove. Monday was Labor Day and we celebrated by laboring all day. Secretary Bryan is out copping the elusive dollar from the gullible public just the same. Thaw seems to be between the “ Devil and the Deep Sea,’ ’ the insane asylum and jail. A big ball game in Philadelphia the other bay ended in a fi rht and the umpires had to run for their lives. It is no fun to g> to a ball game unless one can yell; “ Kill the Umpire.” And Ford cars are to be sold for next years’ delivery for $550. Pretty soon even an editor may be able to own one. Silverton has an order of Owls with a membership o f seven* tv-five. about 2 a We will bet that there will be some tall hooting along .m . A I nr don newspaper is offer ing a prize for a new figure of John Bull. Nobody loves a fat man. A feculiarity o f the human m nd s t o let g o o f things th..t re good and retain a lot of rubb 3h. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON Willamette hop« r«w urn announce that the recent ruin killed the little red spiders which do great damage to the crop*. Portland Is to have A milk Ahow, (li'ptomber 31 to 37. It* prime ob ject* will be to demonatrete the arret food value of uitlk uud the dangers of unaanltnry dairying. In lieu of her flret tw o pupplee, which died a few deye After they were whelped, two orphen kttteua have been b* * to* t*»rle r belonging U> A liveryman of Salem. The 110 round trip rate from Han rrnnclaco, Sacramento and point« north to Klamath rails will be on tale September 13 and I I and wlU bo good for return within two week«. W ell known bualneee men and farm- ** oot* LINN COUNTY FAIR SCIO, O RE, SEPTEMBER, 24 - 25-26 Bring Your Exhibits to the County Fair. partments. 1913 Liberal Premiums in All D e In Cash will be distrib uted to Exhibitors. $2, 000.00 $600.00 To School Children Best Farm E x h i b i t ........................... Domestic Canned Fruit . . . $70 $40 10 8 12 8 Best School District Exhibit 25 15 And Many Premiums Equally As Good PREMIUMS $10 $15 3 3 10 The S. P. R. R. offers a $20. Silver Cup for the Best Jersey cow at the Fair. The Hill R. R. o f Ore. offers a $20. Silver Cup for the Best Farm Exnibit. New First Class Restaurant on the Grounds REGULAR MEALS. 39 cents (damping Grounds Free I P"nes, Amusements and Attractions for Young and Old M(JSie -* MONMOUTH BAND SPEC IAL RATES ON RAILRO ADS Season Ticket, $1.25 A. G P R IL L , Pres. Old Kir, |ier cord Maple •• $¡1.10 •• S.26 Second Growth Fir coni 3.00 Vino Maple per tier 1.60 Maple or Fir “ “ 1.60 Wnod delivered in any size wanted and any amount. C. 8. L o w e . If ton Lumber company of Redding, for $100.000. The new owners w ill Im mediately begin the construction o f a $25,000 fruit box factory that ta to supply apple and pear boxes for the i entire valley. That some system should be devls- | ed to postpone the first payments of j settlers on government reclamation projects until after the land has be gun to produce and that their burdens ; should otherwise be lightened. Is the | opinion of WlU. R. King, ex-JusUc* of I th# Oregon Supreme Court, now chief | counsel for the United States recla mation service. A power and water system covering i towns from Stayton to Salem la being promoted by Idaho and Spokane men. The proposal Is to bring water from the North Fork of the Santlam with which to supply Salem, Stayton, Aums- ville and the state Institutions, also they are promoting an electric light- i Ing system and trolley line through Stayton and Aum svllle to Salem. The movement for city ownership of the w ater and lights has been renowed at Klamath Falls for two reasons. One is that the rates for water for Irriga tion prevent as free use o f water for that purpose ns would follow lower ites. This prevents the planting of trees and reduces the number of lawns, thus keeping back the work o f beau tifying the city. A movement haa been started to secure the closing o f Mill Slough, a small tidal estuary which reaches back through the center o f Marsh field, dividing tho town Into two parts and Just at this time the matter Is at- . tra d in g more attenlon that usual be cause o f the Important bearing It bas on railroad construction, and the mat ter will be taken up with the Oregon ' delegation to secure special legisla tion by congress. Notwithstanding the efforts o f Rep resentative Slnnott and other mem- j hers of the Oregon delegation te get some relief fo r settlers on lands un surveyed and unopened to entry there seems to be no re lie f for them. The general land offto* ha« ruled that th* statute governs and that If thay leave claims they must do to at their own risk. This ruling a ffect« a large num ber o f Oregon entrymen. Oswald West, gwreraor, and A. M. Crawford, attorney-general o f Oregon, have been summoned to appear In th* United States district court at Port land September 18, to answer a com plaint In th* «ult of B. J. Barnes and 61 others against the Souther« Ore gon company and th am* elves an o ffi cial« o f the state of Oregon. Tho I t complainants are people who dooire that land granted by ooacres* la 1 IM to the state o f Oregon b i d is p o s e d o f t e r m s of th* groat. Day Ticket, 50 cents RO Y V. SHELTON, S e c . l ^ ' « « ~ HOME INDUSTRY BY BUYING YOUR Notice for Publication Bread, Cakes, Píos, and Doughnut.; Department of the Interior of the U. 8. Land Office at Portland, Ore gon. August 1, 1913. N O T IC E is hereby given that John BON TON P. lUuptmun, o f Mill Citv, Oregon, who, on October 8, 1912, made Home stead Entry, No. 03666, for la>t* 1 and 2 and 8$ N KJ, Section 6, Township 9 IN STAYTON HOTEL A N M X South, Range 3 East, W illam ette Me ridian, has (lied notice o f intention to make Final live year Proof, to establish claim to the laud above duacribed, be fore the Kcgiater and Receiver, U. 8. A T T O R N E Y -A T -L A W Land Office, at Portland, Oregon, on the 16th day o f September, 1913. N O T A R Y PUBLIC Claimant namea as witnesses: Chu*. Abstracts and Piubals Work a Specially A. Ilickett, E. J. Richards, Andrew J. Office Over Deldrlch’s Hardware Slurs. Taylor, Delbert II. Hill, all o f Mill Ci ty, Oregon. H. F. Higby Register. Bakery and Restaihant S. H. HELTZEL J. First Pub. Aug. 8, Lust Pub. Sept. 4. M. Rl N G 0 Undertaker a n d Embalmer Thin! and Marion Streets G. A . PRATT Photographer First Class Work FALL Done At Right Prices Matthieu Bldg, 2d S t, Stayton. OREGON FIRE RELIEF ASS’N FRAN K LESLEY, A g i Office Phone 228, STAYTO N. OREGON NEW and W INTER SAMPLES FOR OUR STRICTLY TAILOR MADE SUITS Suits $19 up. J. A . Richards for rain, and to keep on praying dewier* for aproxlmately $30.000. GENERAL AUCTIONEER Mosquitoes may not have any until i t rained, had the right A peculiar malady seem* to hava In fected the Jack rabbits of the Eastern s?nce o f humor, nevertheless idea. MEHAMA. OREGON Oregon section. Rabbits are dying by they like to work around a fe l a Specialty the thousand*. When overtaken by Farm Stock low ’s funny bone. the disease the rabbits crawl Into the Phone Farmers Line, Mehama It is no more than natural to first hole they find and die there. In O v e r T h i r t y YeaTs Experience presume that in G ift of Tongues many badger holes as many as half ' It is reported that the Mad congregation t h e women out | a dozen dead rabbits have been found. Mullah is on the warpath again. number the men five to one, as A huge tract o f timber land, lying It might be a good idea for Mr. that is about the average conver ' 30 miles north of Medford, comprising sational ratio between the sexes. 4600 acres, has been sold to the Ben Carnegie to visit him. THE GREATEST EVENT of the SEASON SPE CI AL “ *• •tr^ ‘ ln «*>•»* of the Hound up Ucket office ni Feu- dlrton. In order to be the ftret to pur chase ticket* when the tale began *t 7 o'clock last Monday morning. To be (hot at. the ehot inlssfng her but frightening her horee eo that ahe was thrown from the laddie and drag god by the (tlrrup until badly Injured woa ih* atory told by aged Mre. John Olbrlch. who came to Baker from nig “ Grin and bear it” must have Crock te report to the grand Jury. Sergeant Jamas H. Wolford, o f Ore been the slogan of the Baltimore gon's Fourth Coast A rtillery Reeervn, man who underwent two hun landed one of the 12 honor place* on the United States team that w ill de dred surgical operations. fend the Palrnn trophy In the Sep teuiber fi tight with Canada, Sweden Katydids are something like and other countries. Oregon hunter* are threatened with two men of opposing politics they argue for two hour at a a big out In their open season on duck*. g **s* and other shore birds, If time without getting anywhere. the new federal game law la approved by President Wilson as It passed oon- gre*s. Oregon sportsmen will ho al Everybody has heard a great lowed to shoot only between Septem deal about the age of discretion, ber IS and Itecemher IS. Oue of the beet fruit deals ta the but not one person in a hundred Hogue River valley for thl* year was knows how old discretion is. made by Fred Hopkins, o f Medford, when through the Producers' Fruit company he sold hie entire crop of The Kansas man who advised i Winter Neills pears, 7B0O boiee. from the people o t the State to pra\ acreil> to London and Otasgow fruit- WOOD FOR SALE PATRONIZE E X A M IN E TH E GOODS John Henkel, The Tailor Stayton . . . Oregon T IN W O R K and PLU M B IN G Ruth Tubs, Lavatories and all Sanitary fittings— Furm- ers-W e carry a line of pumps, leader water sys tems, etc. Gasoline engines. Stayton Hotel Get your House Insured in the Oregon Fire Relief Association. JACOB SPANIOL CHEAPEST and BEST Stayton . . . . Oregon It.for» «oln* to t 1 ijk s a Dr MltoW Laxative Tab 1st. Better Than Spanking Spanking will not cure children of wetting the bed, because it is not a habit but a dangerous disease. The C. H. 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