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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1914)
Lu icF u L iv . SOÑI T h e S T R Y T O N M A I L E. M. Olmsted *"d w.tcGON Published every Thursday by VflllCV ^ A new strawberry cannery U being built at Ilood River and it 1» expected the plant will be in operation In time lor the care of this year's crop. F. A. Massile and family o f Kntervd as acwmt class mailer at thè |<osto(IW at Station, Work of remodeling the statetiouse Lyons visited at the Hadley Bull at Salem is progressing rapidly and it All 1 tu' K tayton M ah . ion home Sunday. will be completed this summer, it is expected. Ed Trask and wife, Mr. and Halibut fishing at Newport promises Mrs. Mercer. Christine Shindler m to be a thriving industry this year. A C ards of T hasks $ .64 O b itu ak ih - $1.00 up. and W. K. Surry and family at number of Portland men are interest tended church at Mill City Sun V ed In boats which will be used. Positive!}' HII /-.’♦/ rrs sto/ifHrd ori c\i<inition ofsuhscription day. Randon is the scene of some acti vity on account of gold being found in Ruth Ring returned home last paying quantities in black sands. week after a n extended visit Work is returning $3 to $30 a ton. with relatives and friends i n With the stock show but little more Portland. thaa a month ahead. Union is making preparations to hold the annual event Mrs. J. H. Johnston visited her on a vast scale. • «4 * father and friends at Kingston Dumper crop of strawberries is pre dicted for the Marion county section, We have been asked by several to write somethin«! on the last week, she returned home the growers seeing no dangers ahead proposed bond is^ue of $85 V0CX> for permanent highways in Marion Saturday. aside from possibility of frosts. Rains county. We have looked overa gre it deal o ( data on the subject Ed Burnett moved into the J. have not hurt blossoms. and find nothin«: so simple, so d ir.v and so much to the point ns 0. Sandburg house last week. What is said to be a new kind of oyster has been discovered in the the article in Tuesday’s Statesmm by J. 11. Albert, President of The T- S. Townsend Creamery reefs off Newport The bivalve is the Capital National Bank o f Salem, which we reproduce on the Co., having installed a new vat, larger than transplanted eastern va first page. Head that article over carefully and then form your are now able to handle ull the riety and resembles the Japanese own judgment of the bond issue. cream received at Lyons without 1 roduct. In event the president Issues a call shipping any to Salem for militia, the Oregon militia »-ill con Miss Christine Shindler closed centrate and organise for field service a successful term o f school last at Clackamas, under plans arranged by the militia division of the war de Friday with a picnic in the grove. partment Geo. Peting has been working The damage to the prune crop in for W. R. Surry last week, help radius of 15 miles from Salem is said Bandon churches are building a revival tabernacle. ing fill some of the mud holes in to be about $300.004 as result of re cent heavy rains. If the cold weather the county road. An $8000 meat packing plant is being erected at Burns. continues the loss will be heavier Ray Fox and son and Prof. says Robert Paulus, secretary of the A new Christian church has been dedicated at North Bend. Cane were seen going fishing Salem fruit union. Representative Hawley has received The Springfield cement block factory is working a larger Sunday. by parcel post squared pieces of man force. J. H. and G. F. Johnston plant sanita of beautiful color from Ashland. The committee on agriculture plans Building docks and a seawall will enable Astoaia to fill many ed potatoes last week. giving the speaker a gavel made of streets. Lawrence Trash visited at Mill wood from the various states repre City Sunday. sented by its members. Hawley was Astoria continues its campaign for the use of wood block asked to procure the manzanita. The new teacher. Miss Estella paving. In his initiative petition, whtch was Jones will teach one month o f Washington population 1.250,000, Oregon 700,000. filed with the secretary of state April What’s school at Fox Valley, which will 24, William A- Carter, republican can matter? begin April 27. didate for governor, estimates that Flavel will celebrate driving the first piling in the great Hill caving of over $500,000 annually will C. T. Maybee and Ralph Wash be saved the taxpayers of the state dock system. attended the ball game at Mill by the abolition of certain boards and The Smith-Powers logging road is to be completed south to City Sunday. commissions and the consolidation cf others provided for in the petition. Myrtle Point. J. O. Sandburg is building a Whether the prohibition party will new house bungalow style. E. The California Oregon Power Co. is seeking franchises in put up a candidate of Its own for E. Trash and son are the archi- j governor or will indorse one of the Douglas county. tiects and builders. candidates of the other parties al E. D. Phillipi is shipping 200 calves to Silverton to help out ready in the field will be the most Wm. Patterson returned home important step to be decided at the the dairy industry. last week after having spent the 1 state convention of the prohibition winter in California with h i s . The J. K. Armsoy Co, has up the proposition of building a party to be held in Portland May 5 sons. and 6. cannery at Roseburg. Greek drama in the original Greek Joe Peters and wife are beauti The Eugene street car system is to be equipped with $40,000 tongue for the first time in the Pa fying their home with a coat of ciflc northwest will be played in Port pay-as-you-enter cars. paint and a new lawn fence. land May 13 and 14 by th,e students The Nyssa cheese factory on the Snake river in March made arid faculty of Reed college. The An Mrs. Bodiker returned home tigone of Sophocles to the accompani 12,233 pounds of cheese. last week after a n extended ment of the special music written by A large ice manufacturing plant has been completed and is visit in Albany. Mendelssohn is the drama selected ready for business at Bend. * . for production. If a plan approved by the local The Farmer’s Union of Coos county has decided to build a school board and the local dental as co-operative store at Marshfield. sociation is carried out Pendleton will During the first two weeks of April, Coos Bay shipments of next year install a free dental clinic in her public schools for children who umber to San Francisco aggregated 6,000,000. cannot afford to consult the dentist. The Golden Star and other mines in the Bohemia group are Otto and Charley Peters and The board will equip an office, and the local dentists will donate their putting in machinery and doing development work. Harry Downing spent a f e w Services free of charge on certain D. L. Harden of Eugene has invented a drinking fountain hours at the Pat Lambert home days. Marion coi;: ty, Ortgon, ui di r thè net of Cor.gres» of Msreh 8, 1879. eommumoutions ehoukt K- ai dm-Mil lo S U B S C N I I 'T I O N S , rii t .TO p o r y e n r il » m l v n n e o A ilv c i tis in ij R n tt o n n iip lic a tii n VOTE YOUR EXACT CONVICTIONS INDUSTRIAL NEWS OF THE STATE fit. Pleasant l or home and schools that will be manufactured there. Thousands of voters of Oregon are debating the question of the effect Portland merchants are asking modification of the minimum that woman suffrage in this state will w age and eight hour law to give more girls a chance to work. have upon the prohibition election next fall. Many take the view that Home industry won out at Eugene by an order of the city the women will vote upon this propo giving all orders for sewer pipe to the Eugene Concrete work 3 - sition as their husbands and brothers Elmer Dover of the Oregon Power Co. says with cheap pow do. Others argue that the women will In many instances take upon them er the 3 Pacific Coast states will have seven million population by selves the responsibility of voting as 920. • they think best. Merchants and farmers plead the right of their sons to learn President Wilson has been asked to sanction the organization in Portland trades from which they are shut out by the apprentice ruling of of a regiment of prospectors and min the minimum wage commission. ers to take the field In Mexico. This The Vancouver bridge across the Columbia is to be on the regiment would be composed of men Who are accustomed to the outdoor draw or bascule plan to let the largest sailing vessels through and life, and their ability to give rood ac is to be built.of Oregon fabricated steel. count of themselves, either in field or May 15, Marion and Clackamas counties vote on good roads mountain, under any and all circum stances, is their chief claim for recog bind issues that will cause about a half to be expended for labor nition. on permanent highways if the elections carry. Representative Slnnott has intro Labor union and closed shop policies on the Portland water duced a bill conveying to Klamath Palis all the unsurveyed lands on front are driving shipping mpre and more to Puget Sound on ac Lake Ewauna for a public park. He count of high cost of loading and unloading vessels. has also submitted to the committee Labor Commissioner Hoff declares that under the decision of on public lands an amendment to the coal land leasing bill, providing that the Supreme Court certain laborers at state institutions must come lessees pay all the state and county under the eight hour law, if the state has to borrow money to pay taxes on leaseholds. This, he thinks, them. will tend to remove the objections to the policy of reserving such lands In Ihe grange in many parts of the state is refusing to support public ownership. the eight hour laws and other propositions emanating from Labor The secretary of the treasury In For the past ten years the two bodies have worked to- forms Senator Chamberlain that in unions. formation gathered from the depart gether. ments requiring room In the federal Fewer game laws, fewer boards and commissions, and less building at Astoria Indicates that a interference with industries, and more capital invested in manu three story building having 8000 feet of ground area will be necessary. The facturing enterprises, is the line of development now advocated by cost of such a building, to be brick the people of Oregon. fac<’ d and fire proof thioughout, will Labor Commissioner Hoff has renewed his fight to force all be $250,000. Senator Chamberlain will Introduce a bill providing for the erec public institutions upon an eight hour day and the State Board of tion of such a building on the present Control refuses to comply, saying the legislature did not intend to Site. put the state employees under the eight-hour public works law. Sunday. Your Farm Needs this Outfit The combination of a Sterling thresher with an I H C gasoline engine, both mounted on one truck, is one of the biggest expense-reducing and Inhor-aaving combinations ever brought to your attention. W ith this outfit, you can do your threshing practically alone, so little help is required. You can also do pmall jobs (or your neighbors and in this way pay for the outfit. When threshing is over, you can dismount the thresher and mount a saw in its place. Or, you can belt the 4 or 6-horse power engine to a pump, corn shcllcr, grinder, etc., in fact, use the engine for a large variety of purposes. The Sterling thresher is so practical and easy to handle that a boy can attend to all duties connected with the thresh ing operation. IT WILL TIIHKNII W heat. R y e , Oats. H a rley, llaekvrheat. K a ffir Corn, B o r ih s a , F la x , Uraaa Need. Henn», C ow psss. Nay lleann and Peaaata. Tho Sterling is built with tho following sires of cylinder and sepa rator respectively: 21 x28*. 21x33*, 2ox33* and 30 x 37*. It is supplied unmounted; mounted on an individual truck, except 21 x2h* aud 21 x 33” : or mounted on a combination engine-threalier truck, excel* 26 x 33* and 30 x 37* sires. Get a special Sterling thresher catalogue for full partic ulars. For Sale by Blatchford Bros. Shelburn, Ore. THE SATISFYING SMOKE comes from a pipe of choice tobacco, and we arc now offering our pjtrons the finest pip: tobacco that was ever grow n. W e also carry a fine line of foreign and domestic Cigars and Cigarettes, as w ell as a goodly assortment of briar and meerschaum pipes, smokers ar ticles, etc. GEM CONFECTIONERY J. A . H E N D E K S H O T T N e w Com m ercial Hotel C. ULL0M, Prop. Best of Service To AH Commercial Trade a Specialty Cafe De Luxe IN CONNECTION Hot and Cold Water Baths STAYTO N, OREGON Mr?. Leslie Townes spent Sun day and Saturday at t h e H. Otto Peters s p e n t Sunday Alvin Burns motored to Silver- Shank home. evening at t h e I>ee Downing ton Saturday. Church was well attended Sun home. Albert Frank is hauling sand day morning and Monday even Mrs. H. Shank called on Mrs. and and gravel to build a found ing. H. Senz Friday afternoon. ation for his new barn. Mrs. Fax Thayer and Miss Effie G. H. Ray is building a new Elmer Downing of McAlpinc Ray were Jordan visitors Friday. wood shed. and Geo. Schmitt spent Sunday Miss Margaret Smith returned Miss Hazel Lambert attended at Silver Creek Falls. t o Albany Tuesday morning where she has been employed at work in the chair factory for some time. the program and basket social given at the school house on the McCully mountain Saturday i night. Mrs. H. Senz was Stayton vis Misses Bessie and Verna Shank were guests at the Ed Smith itor Saturday afternoon. home Sunday. Several of the neighbors help Fred McIntyre and wife o f ed Joe Pietrok raise his new ham Salem motored u p t O M. F. one day last week. Ryan’s Sunday. Mrs. W. H. Fuson visited the Misses Neva, Leslie and Bertha school Friday. Thayer o f Scio spent a few days Leslie Townes and Arnold Senz with their sister Mrs. Floyd helped H. Shank reroof his barn Shelton last week. last week. Lewis and Elmer Ray, Dave anfl Ernest Aeirerter and Willie C n a S e f t h e pro^am ^ ^hoThouse Alvin Burns has a new auto. Rock Point Friday and reported a very inter Mrs. L. M. White of Salem esting time. spent the week-end at the J. T. W. R. Ray is tearing down a Hunt home. part of his house which he in W. H. Downing, E. C. Down tends to rebuilt soon. ing, J. T. Hunt and B. F. Fresh Mrs. Leslie Townes and Effie motored to Salem Saturday. Ray went to Mill City Monday Mrs. T. J. Hill and son Max evening to spend a few days with spent Sunday evening at the J. Mrs. Don McKnight. T. Hunt home. School Notes The fifth grade pupils a r e studying Hofmann’s “ Christ and the Doctors,” the fourth grade pupils are studying Schreyer’s “ A Halt in the Oasis,” they are also working o n picture study booklets. The sixth and seventh grades have three hammocks, that they have made, for sale. I f any one wishes to buy one they can see them by calling at the school house. Alice Smith has quit school, she will move away. Orval Weddle, Henry Lula.v, Henry Tate and Gladys, Amelin and Itae Glover are absent from school on account of illness. Misses Katheryne McShano and June Kearns went to Ger- vais last Friday for a visit at the Finney home. Miss McShano spent Saturday in Portland; they returned t o Stayton Sunday evening.