B R IE F N E W S O F OR EG O N
The STAYTON MAIL
Published every Thursday by
Erection ot a cannery at Junction
City ia planned by the Junction City
(range.
Oregon haa 84 national banka and
Entered as second class matter at the postoftice at Stayton,
73 appllcationa to Join the federal re
Marion county, Oregon, undo the act of Congress of March 8 , 1879.
serve association have been received
All communications -should be addressed to T hk STAYTON M a il .
Saturday will be the final day for fil
ing applications.
S U B S C R I P T I O N S , S l.fS O p e r y * e « r ir t a d v a n c e
Oregon's building at the San Fran
A d v e r t ix iiig K u te n o n «p p lto n tto n
cisco exposition is to be equipped with
C ards of T hanks $.50
O b itu a r iks -$ U W up.
furniture made by the manual training
classes in the Oregon public schools,
Positively a ll pu/ters stopftnl on exp im tio a o f subscription
aceording to announcement of Assist
ant State Superintendent E. E. Carl
ton.
Count 31 Judge Frank L. Tou Voile
has gone to Chicago, where he will
turn over to the bond buyers the $500.-
000 road bonds voted last fall by Jack-
son county for the improvement of the
Pacific highway from the California
There are some very amusing things in this world. A per
border to the Josephine county line.
cent
of-the
people*of every-vicinity has an idea in their heads that
Senator Chamberlain has introduced
a bill to allow the longevity pay claim a newspaper is a sort of "free-for-all,” in which one should be
that v u due Lieutenant George J. a b le to tell the w ork ! at la rg e not on.y their private grievances but
E. M. Olmsted
ABOUT ADVERTISING ETC.
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advertising bvsidv.
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l)r. Rebec of the University of
Oregon and Supt. W. M. Smith
will be here f o r the Parent-
Teachers meeting that is to lie
held in the Opera House Friday
evening February 20.
Grace Askew entered
fourth grade Monday.
Mrs. A. L. Shreve
school Friday afternoon.
W e ’ll Introduce You
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At Qt AiMiiyy
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visited
The pupils of Miss Olmsted’s
room are weaving rugs o f jute
and hammocks of raffia.
Gladys Hiunmon i s absent
from Miss McShane’s room on
account of illness. *
^ Thirty-seven of the pupils of
Miss Olmsted’s were neither ab
sent nor tardy during the last
, m . . . T h u v w e r e exciu cH on e
> the best Cigar
you ever smoked
if you come in
to our store
W e Carry &
full line of imported and
domestic cigars of great flavor and splendid taste,
lust a
single trial will prove this to your satisfaction.
G EM C O N F E C T IO N E R Y
J. A .
H E N D E R S H O T T
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of the claim is $5,192.84. Dr. William
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Campbell, of Portland, is a son ot the
l he editing and running o l a newspaper is a business just
The High School has made a
deceased claimant.
the same as any other-and the stock is trade is the circulation and
payment o n their piano.
The parent teacher forces of Pen- the plant. When you wish to use the circulation as a medium to They intend to give one more en-
dieton are leading a fight for the an- ro a c h t he people, we charge for it, just the same as you charge tertainment before school closes
nihilation of the cigarette in Pendle
for goods over your counter. Not only that but it is a trade and a f or ^ ¡ 9 vear
ton. The city council is expected to
profession.
I f a merchant’s clerks require a holiday or are taken
. . . .
act on an ordinance prohibiting use of t
Not so in a
t*lan'{,nK those, w h o so
tobacco in any form by boys less than sick, it is very easy to get some one to till their place,
is years old.
newspaper office. I f one of the regular force is laid off or laid up, kindly helped us with our enter-
The little town of Hoidman. Umatn how many people in Stayton do you think can step in and begin to tunment. through an oversigl t
la county, and the vicinity is in iigid
type” and do the other one thousand things necessary to we neglected to thank the Or
Hot and Cold Water Baths
quarantine, established by Dr. E. J.
chestra and Ed Blakely, we wish
McFaul, county health officer, in an get out a paper.
to take this opportunity to thank
endeavor to stop the spread of small
Did you ever think of this? I f not we invite you in at any them.
pox. an epidemic of which has reached
time and will let you try your hand at it. It takes several years
BOARD BY THE D AY OR THE WEEK
alarming proportions.
A benefit show will be given
to master the details alone of a ordinary print-shop.
The Linn county grange has adopted
Monday evening Feburary 23 at
resolutions urging the submission ot
The Stayton Mail expects no more patronage than it deserves. the Stayton Theatre. The fol
an initiative measure regulating the Our circulation practically covers the North Santiam and the Waldo
courses and departments of the uni
Hills like a blanket. We personaly know o f as high as TH REE lowing program haa been prepar
versity of Oregon and Oregon agricul
Now we have no ed by the school.
tural college to prevent conflicts in famalies that co-operate in reading the Mail
objection to that in the least. Our maxim is to reach the greatest -Song, by Miss Olmsted’s pupils
studies.
Recitation, Washington, Edwin
Disapproval of the agricultural ex number of people, and ten readers for one paper is very nearly as
Keech
tension bill, is expressed by United good as five readers for two.
Patriotic Tableaux, Mrs. Pratt’s
States Senator Lane, because of the
In view of these facts Mr. Merchant you are missing a good
fact that too many agricultural ex
pupils
perts are provided positions and not a opportunity to tell the people what you have for sale.
Do you Recitation, Playing Washington,
single fanner has urged the passage think that the Royal Baking Powder Co., the Rexall Company and
Clarence Huntley
of the bill.
others send us a check every month just for love o f the Stayton Song,
Chorus five girls
The matter of getting a good road
Mail? Not by any means. These powerful corportiaons KNO W Recitation,
Darrell Down
from Wheeler to Nehalem city is be-1
ing strongly agitated in Tillamook i that it pays to advertise, and they do it freely.
Flag Drill,Miss Hollister's pupils
county. Wheeler is almost entirely
The Shadow Girl,
Mr. Merchant do you know W H Y the country weekly as a Recitation,
isolated by land, having no direct con
Alma
Fulton
rule
does
not
carry
an
ad
for
Sears
&
Roebuck
or
some
other
mail
nection with either the north or south
Dialogue,
From
Little Women,
order
house?
Simply
because
the
country
newspaper
believes
in
beaches and other parts of the Neha
M ìbs Olmsted’s pupils
lem valley, since the only outlet is a building up the home town, not because these ads cannot be gotten.
poorly constructed road leading tc
I f the Mail should come out next week with a quarter or half
Mohler.
page
ad
from a Portland or Chicago Mail order house, there would
Declarations of intention to be can
didatea for justices of the supreme be considerable howl from the merchants of this town, but the one
court on the republican ticket have who shouted loudest would be the fellow who does not spend a
been filed with Secretary of State Ol- cent with us because “ Advertising does not pay.”
cott by Chief Justice McBride and
Justices McNary and Bean. Justice
On Monday’s mail we recived a letter from a Chicago mail
Wm. MacFarland and family
Ramsey, the only democrat on the su order house offering a 12% commission in cash for all business or of Salem spent Sunday at Tur
preme court bench, haa announced
iginating in and around Stayton, if we would carry their ad. We ner.
that he will be a candidate.
wonder how many merchants would turn down an offer like this.
According to reports received by
Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie were the
Think
it over.
eastern Oregon sheepmen, R. F. Bick-
guests o f Mrs. Ritchie’s parents,
nell, a buyer of sheep and wool, is
We had very much rather have every firm in town represent- Mr. McCorkles, over Sunday,
now in Morrow county endeavoring tc
ed
by
a small ad, than a large one from one or two. Notwith
contract for the 1914 clip at prices ap
A. L. Bones made a business
standing
the fact that there is considerable pessimism in the city,
proximately 2 cents in advance of
trip to Salem Friday.
Get after your share of it.
those paid last year. Acording to we are going to have a GOOD year.
Mrs. Golden has a new wire
these reports some sales have been
made, but most of the growers are
fence around her town property.
refusing to contract.
Wm. Lyons has moved to the
According to figures recently issued
west side of town.
by the Southern Pacific railroad, the
Rogue River valley has changed from
Mr. W. Smith has been suffer
a non-supporting to a self-supporting
ing
from neuralgia for several
community in two years. The balance
days.
of trade in favor of the valley now
totals 1175 cars. Of these, more than
Mrs. John Watson was a Salem
100 cars are of fruit, but hay, potatoes
visitor
Saturday afternoon.
onions and hogs are produced here
and sent out. Two years ago these
Harold Loony and wife of Jef
products were shipped in.
ferson
were in Turner last week
ON
Governor West states that begin
looking
after their business in
ning the first of April be will issue
terests
o
f this place.
for publication monthly statements of
the expenditures of the state fish and
J. M. Bones has had a deep
game department and comparisons of
well
drilled and is installing a
the figures with those of the corre
\
—o—o—
OF THE
pressure
system.
sponding month last year. He said
Why not use a few Booster Envelopes?
We have them
his idea was to keep the expenditures
printed like the one below. They are just the thing for your East,
down to a minimum and to show the
public that he intended to have the
em Correspondence.
department operated on the most eco
O ) / SUNSET \ ï » l
25 Envelopes.....................................15c
nomical basis.
|0G0CNftSHASTA|
ROUTES
50
”
25c
R. E. Clanton, ex-mastei> fish war
100
“
50c
den and now superintendent of hatch
eries, in his report for January, says
On sale at the Mail Office.
Miss Margaret Doerfler has re
that because of the mild weather the
turned to her home after having
propagation work at the Bonneville
spent several weeks in Salem.
The Exposition Line 1915
fish hatchery has been more gratify
ing than usual. Superintendent W il
Miss Aurora Davis was a Sa
And now is the time to see California; to live outdoors
son has on hand 14,106,790 young
lem visitor Saturday.
salmon. The fry resulting from the
and enjoy the sunshine, flowers and summer sports. It
Bertha and Sylvester Doerfler
fall Chinook eggs are all hatched.
is a trip you cannot afford to miss.
There are 1,250,000 eastern brook
spent Sunday with home folks.
trout eggs which are under differe-
Little Miss Leona Priem fell,
periods of incubation at the station.
breaking
her arm in two places.
The women of the Civic club have
THAT
inaugurated a new plan for making
The members o f the Parent-
including Shasta Limited the train o f modem service
Pendleton a better looking home town
Teacher ^lub met at the school-
Mora Untouched P o.iibilitie. Than AÄjr Other Town
with all steel'up-to-the-minute equipment.
and have announced prizes in a con
house on Friday evehing.
A
The California and San Francisco Express Trains
test between pupils of the grade
o f 1,200 Pooplo in tho Pacific North watt
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COMMERCIAL HOTEL
R. J. MOSES, Prop.
“A homelike place to stay”
Commercial Trade Solicited
S ta y to n
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&
O regon
Bargain
Price
Is Continued
T u rn er T id in g s
NEXT WEEK IS THE LAST OF THE
STAYTON MAIL’S BARGAIN RATE
Owing to the bad weather
for the past two or three
weeks, in which it was
almost impossible to get to
town, we have decided to
advance the date of our
One Dollar Bargain Rate
on the Stayton Mail to
M arch The First
You need the home paper.
Take it now when you can
get it for less than two
cents per week. Just One
Dollar for One Year
The Stayton Maul
“S afety F irs t 99 Our Motto
SHASTA ROUTE TRAINS
USE STAYTON ENVELOPES
M c A lp in N otes
AND DON’T
Three Fine Trains Daily
schools in a contest of home industry.
Four prizes will he awarded, one to
the boy or girl who makes the moat j
improvement in his or her yard at !
home,' one for the best showing of i
sweet peas, one for the best showing
of vegetables and one for the beet
showing of vines. The contest will j
last until the close of school.
Standard, Tourist and Chair Cars and dining service
that will please.
Gall on nearest S. P. Agent and let him outline a trip,
quote fares and furni-h Outing literature on California’s
fomous resorts.
John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Ore.
FORGET!
STAYTON
Valentine box and supper proved
a pleasant part of the evening
program.
A Shadow Supper will be giv
en at the school house on the
evening of February 27. Every
one is invited. A good time is
anticipated.
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