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S T A Y T O N , M A R IO N C O U N T Y , O R E G O N , T H U R S D A Y , A U G U S T 3J, 1916.
22nd Year, N o. 35.
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Onro in a while a strange anomaly
ariaea for whirh there la no poaaible
anawer, at leaat not with good rom*
mon *(-net*. W<- allude to the attitu<le
t tkrn hy aome (teople in regard to the
actuals of, not particularly Slayton,
but the entire country,
Kvory once in a while one heart the
expression, “ well all I learned, I got
in alKiut 3 month* a year In the little
old red aehool house." That is well
and one must thank one's stars that
there WAS a little red aehool house
twenty, thirty, or fifty years ago.
Likewise in those same days there
were horses, oxen, buggies, rarta wag
ons, etc., as means of locomotion.
Today we have autos, flying machines
express traina, and even the person
who got his education in the “ little red
school house," owns a car and never in
the world would consider advising his
son to travel by ox-tcam.
Wake up to the possibilities of the
twentieth century. Don't think that
education haa lagged behind mechanic*
or other sciences.
The people DE
MAND the best and they will get It.
One man may throw a few loose bolts
in the wheel* of progress, but it will
only retard, not stop. Slayton's High
School Is here to stay, and will be fot
lowed soon by a department of manual
training ami domestic science.
BIG CIRCUS DAY
DRAWS NEAR
The day of ali days in the calender of
the small boy has almost arrived and
the youngsters of this vicinity are anx
iously counting the hours until circus
day, It looks now as though a large
percentage of the local population,
both young and old, will be present at
one of the performances when the Bar-
num & Hailey Greates Show on Earth
exhibits in Salem on Sept. 9th.
Not in several years haa so much
local interest been evidenced in n cir
cus event as has been displayed this
season in the coming exhibition of the
Harnum A Hailey Circus. It is promis
ed that the show will display more and
novel features than ever before, in
cluding 100 new acts from Europe.
The principal feature is the new Ori
ental, spectacular pageant, “ Persia, or
the Pageants of The Thousand and
One N ights."
This gpeat display,
whirh is portrayed by 1,360 persons,
and hundreds of horses, elephants and
camels, ilepicits in pageantry the fa
mous tales of the Arabian Nights. In
New York City where this pageant
was produced for the Aral time this
spring, it was announced the most gor
geous and stupendous Oriental display
ever presented in America.
Among the foreign circus novelties
to be seen for the first time this sea
son are four troupes of wonderful
Chinese performers direct from Pekin,
the great Hanneford family of riders
Signor Hagonhi, famous dwarf eques
trian from Italy; James Teddy, cham
pion junqicr of the world; Pallcnlierg’s
two troupes of trained bears, and n
host of of other novel acts too numei-
oi's to mention individually.
The Harnum & Haily circus is travel
ing this season on five trains, made up
of 89 cars. More than 1,40« persons
are carried in the various departments
of this great show, which is also in
cluded an enlarged menagerie of 108
cages and 41 elephants.
A brilliant, new, three mile street
parade will be given on the streets
d iring the morning hours prccceding
the first performance.
WANTS OLD LAW REPEALED
WINSTON-SALEM ON MAP
Editor Mail: There are not many
measures on the ballot to be voted on
at the coming Novemlwr election and
every voter ahould consider it a patrio
tic duty to give each and every one of
them fair consideration ao thc-y may
vote intelligently on them.
I wiah to call attention to menauie
No. 312 and 313. Thia measure, If car
ried will repeal the old Sunday closing
law of 1869.
Since that old law was passed many
changes have taken place, snd the new
conditions do not Hi to the old law. It
is not wise to retain a maaa of obsolete
law* on the statute books, and this old
law that ha* been a dead "dead letter'’
for nearly half a rentury, wus invoked
in a few places in this state (notably
in Portland) and this led to placing of
the repeal measure on the ballot.
Ws do not need this law. It does
not suit our present conditions. It
seek* to establish Sunday at the Sab
bath, and the Constitution of the
United State* forbids any rebgiots
legislation.
No one is morally or physically in
jured by the present Sunday arrange
ment, and a big majority are satisfied
and many benefltted. If this old law
repealed it will be enforced and will
disturb or destroy the present arrange
ments. Not only the friends of the
old law, but also its enemies, have an
nounced their intention to see that it ia
enforced if not repealed.
It stands to reason that the wise
thing to do is to repeal this old law and
let things go on as they are, or enact
new laws suited to the present times.
So t>e sure to vote No. 312 X YES at
the November election.
W. H. ADDIS
Until recently SL Louis led all cities
as a tobacco manufacturing centre.
The forward thrust of Winston-Salem
is therefore seen to be in the nature of
phencminal.
For the year 1914 the United States
census showed that the cities of St.
Louis and Winston-Salem —the t w o
leading tobacco manufacturing cen
ters of the world- had from their com
bined tobacco manufacturers an out
put valued, respectively, at $32,207,893
and $32,273,966. From these figures it
will be seen that Winston-Salem led
•St. Lewis by $66,073 in 1914. When
they became available the figures for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916,
will show Winston-Salem’s lead to be
nothing of amazing.
The government erected a $250,000
postoffice building there and the re
ceipts in one week paid for it. The
largest and most important industry is
the gigantic plant of the R. J. Rey
nolds Tobacco Co., Mr. Reynolds start
ing with $754<0 cash capital in 1875 and
now the company has an authorized
capital of $20,000,000.
A BIT OF CHARITY
TO MARION COUNTY
Under a beading A Hit of Charity ”
Aurora Observer prints free of charge
to the county a notice of the meeting
of the Hoard of Equalisation .on Mon
day, September 11th, 1916, at 10 a. m.
to publicly examine the assessment
rolls and correct errors in valuation,
etc.
The county is getting pretty tight
when it cannot spend s half dozen dol
lars for the publication of what are in
reality, legal notices.
Up to June 1916, the notice and
schedule of Teachers Examination had
been sent out to the country newspa
pers as paid advertising.
Hut in June
a cog slipped somewhere. It is not
known just where it slipped, but per
haps it will be found in the Widow's
pensions that w h s so long held up by
our all-wise and omnicient county judge.
It ia a noticeable fact that the road
district proceedings are regularly and
persistently printed in the Salem pa
pers and "devil a crumb” falls to the
floor for an outsider. Of course that
is the law "as she is" an no one com
plains, but for heaven's sake gents
give the country printer a show for
his "white alley," or something may
drop with a dull and aickening thud
that can even wake up a “ Salem Hog.”
STAYTON WATER
FIRM ANSWERS
In anawer to a complaint of water
and power users of StHyton that thev
had failed to keep sufficient water in
ditches, the Stay ton Water Power Co.
Monday filed a denial of the charges
with the public service commission says
the Salem Statesman.
The company says that the Brown-
Petzel Lumber company, whose officers
joined in the complaint, have frequent-
ly filled the power ditch with logs until
the water hacked up, and they have
been obliged to hire men to break the
jams. ,
The difficulty is increased, they say,
hy the fact that logs in the Santiam
have deteriorated the dike which di
verts water into the power ditch of the
Salem Flouring Mills. As the flouring
mill ditch ia connected with the Stay-
ton power ditch by a slough, and is
slightly lower, this condition makes it
difficult to keep the Stayton ditch filled.
The company promises, however,
that repairs are to be made to the
head gates in October, when an ar
rangement with the flouring mill will
enable them to take water from the
E. Shepherd and wife, and Jess flouring mill ditch.
Shepherd, wife and baby motored to
the Wm. Brotherton home In the Jor
Sister M. Theophane of Saint Mary’a
dan country last Sunday. They report Academy of Beaverton, Ore., visited
that Mr. Brotherton threshed one field with her parents Mr. and Mrs. C. J.
of 25 acres of oats that yielded 200 Ruttegers and family In Linn county
bushel* or So bushel* to.the aero.
Thursday.
C by Fach Bros
CHARLES
EVANS HUGHES.
CH ARLES WARR EN FAIRBANKS.
A BLAMED FOOL
A wise woman once said that there
were three follies of men that always
amused her. The first was climbing
trees to shake the fruit down, when if
they would wait long enough the fruit
would fall itself; the second was going
t i war to kill each other, when if they
o ily waited they would die naturally;
and the third was that they should run
after the women, when if they did not
d j so the women would he sure to run
after them.—Ex.
WOODROW WILSON.
WOMEN CLUBS FOR
THE NORMAL SCHOOL
T H O M A S R. M A R S H A L L .
The Candidates
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A WRONG DATE
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BUYS PEERY STOCK
Stockton’s store of Salem, bought
The compositor got his wire crossed the bankrupt Peery stock and removed
last week und stated in the West Stay- it MBnday evening with an auto truck.
ton news that Ferry Bros, started The room is now for rent again.
their threshing machine on Sunday,
when it should have read Wednesday,
“ Did you observe," said the mer
Aug. 16. Mr. Fery says that he never chant to a customer, "the handsome
threshed grain on Sunday in his life, advertisement I had painted on the
nor does he ever Intend to.
railing of the bridge?" "No respond
ed the customer, "but if you will send
Mrs. M. A. Heltzel and little grand- the bridge around to my house I will
son Master Fredrick returned home trv and read the announcement. 1
Monday evening from their all sum read the papers and haven’t time to
mer’s stay visiting relatives in Salem run around from place to place to read
the bill boards.’’—Ex.
and Washington.
Mayo’s Reduction Sale
IS DRAWING EVERY DAY
The Reason Why Is Below. Read
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Pendleton, Oregon., Aug. 29—Wom
en’s clubs over the state are joining
the ranks of the' supporters of the in
itiative measure providing for the es
tablishment of a normal school at Pen
dleton. Parent-Teacher organizations
are also enlisting for the campaign.
One of the first public endorsements
received for the measure was from
Mrs. Charles H. Castner, president of
the Oregon Federation of Women’s
Club. "Believing that the time has
arrived when it is necessary to make
additional provision for the normal
training of our puohc school teachers,
she states, and that the great distan
ces in our state make it advisable that
a school be located in the Eastern sec
tion, 1 therefore most heartily endorse
the location of said normal school at
Pendleton.
There are 1000 vacancies in Oregon
schools each year, according to the
state superintendent, and the normal
school at Monmouth turns out onlv
about 150, leaving school authorities
to select the balance as best they can.
The rural schools are shown to be the
chief sufferers because in such schools
the percentage of normal trained teach
ers is the lowest. At the same time
the need for highly trained teachers is
greatest in rural districts because of
the absence of supervision.
SUNDAY SCHOOL GIRLS
ENJOY CAMPING TRIP
The Loyal Girls of the Stayton
Christian Bible school, Mrs. A. F.
Bradshaw, teacher, returned from their
camping trip on the Little North Fork,
Thursday afternoon. That they had a
most delightful outing is putting it
mildly. In fact, they say words fail to
express the fun they had in the eight
days they were there. The girls wore
middies and bloomers. Fun —well just
ask them about if.
On Wednesday night each girl with
her blankets strapped to her back,
climed Boedeker hill and slept in a lit
tle grove on the top with the hoot owls.
Of course the kodak was used freely,
so they will have many pleasant re
minders for days to come.
Those camping were: Mable Wed
dle, Alma Nendel, Thelma Riggs,
Mary Tate, Cleo and Marie Weddle,
Madeline Wirth, Mable Bradshaw,
Viva Davie, Gertrude Shepherd, Zora
Stowell and Mrs. A. PL Bradshaw.
Serial No. 1072
STORY OF A TRIP
TO CITY OF
EUGENE
A Two-Hundred Mile Run In C k s. CUd-
ed’s Chalmers Reveals
Many Things
TEN TOWNS ARE VISITED
C rops Look Fine All A long T h e Road,
But Much H arvesting Y et
T o Be Done.
The writer, together with Char.
Ciadek, Martin Berg and W. F. Good
man took a 200 mile ride over the
southern part of the Willamette valley
on Sunday last The ride revealed the
fact that thousands of acres of wheat
and oats were still uncut; late sown
spring grain that would make immense
yields; and but very little threshing
done.
Near Eugene were seen several field*
of flax, not grown for the fibre, like
that around Salem, but grown for the
->eed. It looked like a good yield too.
In Lane county signs greeted or e
everywhere saying that peaches weie
to be bought at almost any cross road,
and made us wonder why there were
no peach orchards near Stayton in
place of so much brush land.
Most of the roads were simply fine
one unusually good stretch being from
Albany to Monroe, via Corvallis. This
road has an air line in one place of 18
miles, and Mr. Cladek’s Chalmers 6 - 30
fairly flew over ¡L
We have lived and traveled in almost
one half of the states of the union,
and surely there is no more prodigal
prospect of plenty anywhere in the
nroad land than In (he Willamette Val
ley.
While in Eugene we drove to the top
of Skinner’s Butte, and from there
could pick out every street, slley,
ouilding and farmstead in Eugene and
the surrounding country.
The automobile has opened up the
country to the whole people, as this
is a land of plains, woods, mountains
rocks, waterfalls and never ending
vistas, one should take the time and
trouble to go and take a look-see. It
will pay big returns. Try it.
ANNA MAYHALL WINS
SW1M1NG MARATHON
Anna Mayhall, of this city, won the
women’s three mile Marathon swimming
race in Portland Saturday. Little Miss
Mayhall’s time was two hours, four
minutes and fifty one and one fifth
seconds.
Twenty-two men and five women en
tered the race. Miss Mayhall led her
nearest woman competitor by thr« e
quarters of a mile and finished seventh
in the race. The fact that she defeat
ed sixteen men entries shows the
ability of the little swimmer who is
only fourteen years of age.
Miss Mayhall has received her train
ing from Don Vickers, instructor at
the Natatorium. Mr. Vickers is one
of the best swimmers in the state hav
ing won one of the Christmas swims in
the Willamette several years age.
Miss Mayhall has had a remarkable
career as a swimmer. In spite of the
fact that she learned to swim but
slightly over a year ago, her achieve
ments are unusual. She has already
won a number of silver trophies. In
addition to being a good swimmer, she
is a graceful diver and always provides
entertainment to frequenters of the
Natatorium by her diving. — Yaquina
Bay News.
SLOWLY COMING WEST
A Chicago cop was nearly scared to
death Sunday when he saw a young
ady skipping toward the bathing beach
H o p P i c k e r s G lo v e s
with a snake entwined around her left
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leg. A Chicago cop is a brave and
' gallant man, and he immediately rush
H o p P i c k e r s ’ G lo v e s
ed to the rescue but only to discover
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ficklin came over , that the reptile was pair.tel on the
from Stayton last Saturday evening bare skin. The dispatch does not state
and visited until Sunday evening at but it is supposed to have been a gar
the home of his brother-in-law, Walter ter snake.
Painted legs of all de
A ll M e n ’s W o r k G lo v e s r e d u c e d Bilyeu. Mr. Ficklin recently bought scription are now to be seen in the
the Stayton Steam Laundry, moving Windy City, but flowers, hearta and
there from McMinnville.—S a n ti a m barber pole stripes are the moat pop
ular.
News.
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