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B R IE F N E W S O F OREGON The STRYTON MAIL Ht. Pleasant Published every Thursday by Delightful Newport ‘T ried and True” is this old reliable outing resort The Basket dinner and church Th* Oregon Banker*' association with a wealth of natural scenery, healthful drives, a held Its convention a t Medford. was well attended Sunday, every T he free text books question was splendid beach and numerous near-by points of inter one reported a very interesting snowed under a t th e school election Entered as second class matter at the postoffice a t Stayton, est: Lighthouse. Devil’s Punchbowl, Seal Rooks, etc. time. In t’ortland. Marion county, Oregon, under the act of Congres» of March ¡1, 1879. Special Low Round-Trip Season Pares A. F. McCully and son Claude A ty pew riters' speed contest was All com munications should be addressed to T h i S tayton M a il . Week-End Fares to All Points and Sunday held a t A storia T hursday. A silver of Halsey motored down to the | Excursion Pares from Albany and Corvallis loving cup was the prise. S U B S C K I P l 'I O N S , # 1 .0 0 p e r y e t i r i n a d v a n c e H Shank home Saturday even vie llie P lans have been com pleted for hold A i t v e r t i a i t i i x K a te s * o n a p p l i c a t i o n ing. ing the first Chautauqua a t Pendleton C ards of T hanks - ! .60 O b it u a r ie s - $1.00 up. Frank Habermun and wife of July 5 to 10. Andrew J. Dufur, Jr., first mayor Munkers were guests at the M. P ositively »11 pu/K-rs stop/H»! on exp iratio n o f subscription and one of th e founders of Dufur, died F. Ryan homo Sunday. in Portland. Several of the young folks of Monroe adopted a new city ch a rter this vicinity attended church at w ithout much opposition. Out of 13 votes cast only seven w ere opposed Kingston Sunday evening. to th e charter. ««•« Mrs. Ed Smith was an Albany T hom as M cParland of Banks caught Th« B x p o iltlo n L in e 1913 visitor last week. Eola will have a $5000 church. a yearling deer in his back yard, to which place th e anim al had strayed. The 1914 wool crop brought Oregon $2,080,000. Edith McK night and son Lio- Leave Albany, daily.......................... ................ 7:30A.M. H e will keep it for a pet. nal went to Scio Sunday after- j Maupin is to have a new $15,000 bank building. Leave Albany, daily except Sunday ............. 1:00P.M. The ashes of H urley Lutx, ex-county noon after spending a few weeks, Lane county hop crop this year will be $850,000. clerk, w ere sc attered in the bay at Leave Corvallis, daily ......... 8:00A.M. with home folks. Toledo, by the lodge of Elks, in ac Leave Corvallis, daily except Sunday ... 1:40P.M. Dallas voted fair grounds and septic tank bonds. cordance w ith the m an's re q u e st Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Semaine Connections made at Albany and Corvallis withS. P. trains. Albany loganberry drier handled 8000 pounds a day. A big stre e t dance th e last night of Portland motored up to the Special Excursion Train will leave New port every of th e Salem cherry fair to be held Albany will have a $50,000 school erected this year. J. Huber home Saturday even- i Sunday evening at 6:00 p. m., arrive Corvallis 10:16 July 25, 26 and 27 will be one of the Cottage Grove has lowered its school tax 5 1-2 mills. ing and returned to their home j p. m. Albany 10:45 p. m. features of the celebration. Eugene is laying 21,600 feet of water main extensions. Josephine county residents turned Monday morning accompanied by out in force to atten d the Cave Day Marshfield voted $15,000 for a high school gymnasium. Grandma Huber. celebration, which was held under the At Elk City, Morrison, Toledo and along the the Ya- Force of laborers doubled on the Hill terminals at Flavel. Misses Mabel and Ada Thayer auspices of th e G rants Pass com mer quina river, also on the Breitenbush and Santiam Cannery, cannery, is the cry of the Albany business men. cial club. of Scio visited in different parts rivers, on the East End. Richard W illiams, form er m em ber o f this neighborhood Saturday For Folders describing Newport ss an outing place call on our nearest Agent Sellwood is to have the first wing of a large hospital built of congress from Oregon, school di and Sunday. John M. Scott. Oeneral Passenger Agent, rector of P ortland and the oldest prac Bandon fire losses amounting to $200,000 are to be rebuilt. Portland, Oregon Miss Mabel Townes returned titio n er before th e Oregon bar, died Portland millers are to be allowed to bid for army supplies. back to her home Thursday after at Portland. T he Oregon national guard, th e Ida Mercy hospital, Eugene, will build a $15,000 training school. spending the winter in Portland ho national guard and the regulars Astoria is to have the most powerful wireless telegraph attending school. from V ancouver barracks. Wash., will meet in annual encam pm ent a t Gear station. Crystal Shank visited w i t h h art P ark July 12 to 20. home folk Saturday evening and Milwaukie will get a one dollar gas rate from the Portland An agate, containing a half-moon Sunday. and showing the “Man in the Moon" Gas Co. has been found by Mrs. N. J. Moore, Roxana Shank spent Tuesday Clackamas county will establish a sand and gravel plant at of A gate Beach. It is one of th e most ir ii with Angeline Ryan. New Era. rem arkable agates ever found. An out-of-doors display representing H. Senz and wife were Sunday i The Langreel, Baker county, sawmill will be located on Oregon life will be one of the a ttra c visitors at the H. Shank home. Burnt river. tive features a t th e Panam a-Pacific Lula Downing spent last week exposition at San Francisco. T he ex Hood River county will vote on a $75,000 bond issue for the with Mrs. Floyd Downing. • hibit will cost about 310,000. \ Columbia highway. The following officers were elected Neva Thayer was a guest at Iddependent bar pilots have reduced rates from $1.50 to $1.00 by th e Oregon Pioneer association. For the Entire Family the W. R. Ray home Saturday President, T. T. Geer. 1851; vice-pres per foot draft for vessels. and Sunday. ident, Charles B. Moores, 1852; sec Portland municipal dock No. 1 will be enlarged to hold two Cool, refreshing drinks at all times. Standard bands retary, George H. Himes, 1853; trea s Everyone reported a very en urer, C harles E. Ladd, 1857; directors, large ships at the same time. joyable time at the singing given of Cigars and Tobaccos. Newspapers and John W. Minto, 1848; H enry L. Pit- Mrs. Hogue will build a $200,000 hotel at Eleventh and at the Fax Thayer home Sunday tock. 1,853; N athan K. Bird, 1846 Magazines. Call and see our stock T he Oregon apple box will become Washington streets, Portland. evening. the standard apple box for th e entire The Oregon Power Co. has 100 men at work extending its Pearl Lindheart of Portland is United S tates, if congress can find intake.for the Springfield water supply. visiting with Mrs. Fax Thayer tim e to pass th e R aker bill, which was favorably reported recently to Chas. Bordeaux of the American Brewing Co. of Baker has this week. the bouse by the com m ittee on coin been looking up a location at Fort George, B. C. age, w eights and m easures. Labor Commissioner Hoff had a meeting of officials of labor In an opinion asked by C. C. Spen cer, of Oregon City, Attorney-General boards at Portland to consider needed labor legislation. Crawford has held th a t the bonds of The State Grange bulletin says not one person in a hundred school clerks m ust be double the am ount of money it is estim ated they will pay anything but a land tax if the $1500 exemption passes. Luther Stout and wife went to will handle. The bonds m ust be ap Salem Saturday a n d returned The manufacture of logan berry juice and sawdust bricquets proved by th e school boards and the Sunday. are new industries being considered in various parts of the state. county school superintendents. Com m issioner Campbell has an C. A. Mulkey went to Albany The new quarter of a million feet a day electric sawmill of nounced th a t the sta te railroad com the Booth-Kelly Co. at Springfield was given a trial the past week. Saturday. mission henceforth would insist upon Born to Mr. and Mrs. Roger all com m ission m erchants in the state Porter Bros, expect to add 800 men to their force on the observing th e com mission m erchant Tsiltcoos lake section of the Willamette Pacific, south of Florence. Montgomery a daughter June 19. act enacted by the last legislature. Wm. Mulkey was on the sick By a vote of 12 to 1 Port'and voters defeated free textbooks. T he secretary of th e in terio r has designated a tra c t of 284,000 acres of The industry of state published textbooks is to be established next list last week. land in Oregon for entry under the en year. Rue Drager went t o Salem larged hom estead law. Most of the Monday. lands em braced In this designation lie A franchise has been granted the Pacific Power and Light In the Deschutes and John Day river Co. to build 4 miles of streetcar lines in Clatsop county running Mrs. Hays of Salem is staying basins. from Astoria. at the Lewis Stout. D ental w ork to th e estim ated value of 32000 was perform ed on prisoners The Portland Central Labor Council is agitating an initative at the sta te penitentiary during the bill to annul the franchises of the Portland Gas and Coke company la st week by applicants for licenses which the legislature refused to repeal. to practice d entistry in Oregon who S layton R esident* A re L earning H ow appeared for exam ination a t th e regu The publication of the proposed eight hour law for this state T o E xchange th e O ld Back lar sem i-annual session of the Oregon is being hastened that the people may know just how drastic the F o r a S tro n g er O ne. sta te board of dental exam iners. measure is and how it will affect farmers. Does your back ache, feel weak and Interpreting the county division law for G. B. P utnam of Bend, Attorney- It is claimed that the $1500 tax exemption for “ every per painful? Do you suffer hesdaches, languor or General Crawford holds th a t if a coun son” would allow whole families to take out $1500 apiece and vir depression? ty is to be divided into three counties, tually establish the single land tax in Oregon. Is the urine discolored, passages ir each of the two new counties m ust receive 65 per cent of the vote cast The Oregon Public Utilities commission authorizes increased regular? The kidneys may be calling for help. in its proposed boundaries, and 35 per telephone rates at Newbery, and in the Eugene electric power case, Weak kidneys cannot do their work. cent of the vote ca st in the balance sustains the contention of the Oregon Power Co. Give them the help they need. of the territo ry , including the other proposed new county. In other words, During the past week the Oregon Public Utilities commis To cure kidney backache you must cure the kidneys. th e attorney-general holds th a t when sion has fixed standards of quality in water, gas, light, heat, and Use a tested and proven kidney rem two new counties a re being created edy. at th e sam e tim e out of one county the telephone service. Effect of order not yet known. Doan’s Kidney Pills have stood the percentage of th e vote th a t m ust be Under the head of a state industrial survey the water power test. obtained is th e sam e for each pro Convincing proof of merit in the fol posed new county as though only one on the Rogue river is to be investigated with a view to putting the lowing endersement: state into the business of generating electric power. county was being created. E. P. Reed, farmer, 1804 E. First "W e w ant to everlastingly kill off FIRST THROUGH CANAL H. C. Sampson of the North Pacific Fruit Distributors Ass’n. St., Albany, Oreiron, says: “ My hack single tax; th a t's w hat this m easure is for," declared T. J. Fording, of P ort says the Panama canal will bring large shipments of German beer troubled me severely at time» and of ten got so lame and sore that I couldn’t The first freight vessel to be towed land. when he subm itted a copy of a and the vessels will take fruit tonnage back with them. stoop. Doan’s Kidney Pills acted through the Panama Canal was the proposed constitutional am endm ent tc Contractors l Builders The Socialist party is initiating a bill to tax estates and cre promptly and thoroughly, removing all Grace liner Santa Clara, carrying a I > the secretary of state. T he m easure, My back was cargo of Pacific Coast products, 90 per which Mr. F ording said would be in i ate a fund for unemployed, to be administered by the State Labor signs of the trouble. | Dwelling houses a specialty tiated, bears the nam e of David M. Commissioner, authorized to build railroads and public works of all greatly atrengthened. I have publicly cent of which was loaded at Portland, ;[ Let us figure on your build- endorsed Doan’s Kidney Pills before nearly all of which will be discharged Dunne. It proposes to am end section rinds. and gladly confirm all I ever said about inK8 1 of article IX of th e constitution. The at New York. The vessel is compara !! We can save you money m easure provides th a t no property, to tively new, this being her third trip to j; [ Freak laws have had the same effect in Wisconsin as Oregon, them.” exceed in value the sum of 3300, shall 60c, at all dealers. Don’t sim the Pacific Coast. | [ A Rood job Rauranteed n both states taxes have doubled. Wisconsin went up from $2,- ply Price be exem pted from taxation, and th a t ask for a kidney remedy—get | > Phone 77 P. 0. Box 228 th is provision, when once adopted, 566,711 in 1913 to $7,655,318 in 1914. For many years they had no Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that state levy. Mr. Reed had. Foater-Milburn Co., shall never be am ended, except by 8TAY TON. OREGON. The Secretary of the Interior has :: tw o th irds vote of all th* electors who Props., Buffalo, N. Y. \\\ designated a tract of 284,000 acres of The announcement is made that by an agreement between may participate In any general o r spe »♦ ♦ « M »ee s> t t s e e » » 4 s M s land in Oregon for entry under the en cial election w herein a change in th* the department of Economics of the State University and the Cen larged homestead law. Most of these system of assessm en t and taxation la tral Labor Council, a campaign will be taken up to solve the pro Old Newspaperi— lands lie in the Deschutes and John F o r I n d lf.x tlo n uao Dr. M ils#' LatX- proposed. blems of unemployment. Big bundle for 10c a t th« Mail office. Day river basins. aUvs Tablets. E. M. 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