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THE STAYTON MAIL
H a s the Largest „Circulation ol A n y Paper in the Santiam Valle / — It Covers the Territory Like a Blanket.
¿2nd Year, N o. 38.
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 , S E P T E M B E R 21, 1916.
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That the State Fair will be a big one
thla year la a foregone conclusion.
Everyone who can beg, borrow or
soil enough to get the price will be
there, and with Slayton's two stsges
Entire School Enrollment Will Reach Two- making two trips a day and the innum
erable other waya o f getting to Salem,
Hundred-Twenty By The First
including walking, the roads will be
O f October
crowded all the time. Honk! Honk!
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Oregon City - Frank Busch will start
construction at once o f a misiern river
dock and warehouae.
Sutherlm It ia announced that actu
Bif Enrollcnant Causa* Board T o Hira
al grading on new railroad here will
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start at once.
Sc lane a Clauai
Astoria New achool houae dedicated
in Battle Creek district.
No one would have doubted for an
Inatant that the Stayton achoola, and
more particularly the high achool was
on the high road to aucreaa. if they
had attended the opening day on Mon*
day o f thia week.
Aa had been predicted by the Mall,
the work moved off with the smooth-
neaa and regularity o f clock work.
None o f the gueaaea and indeciaion o f
laal year rauaod by lack o f room and
equipment, but the thoroughneaa o f a
well directed plan fully organised be
forehand.
Forty-two pupils enrolled in the high
school the first day, and thirty more
will l>e here in the next ten days,
which will fill every available seat in
the assembly.
The high school wilt be so full that
already the board has hired another
teacher, who will bo here next Monday
to trke charge o f the science depart
ment. The board was lucky to secure
the services o f Miss Fisa Caspar o f
Union, Ora.
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In the Commercial rooms, the twelve
new double bookkeeping desks made by
Murphy Sk I.ampman give that depart
ment a really commercial look. The
desks are made from “ all Oregon”
ma'.erial, out o f Stayton lumber by
Slayton mechanic«, and are second to
none.
In the typewriting room seven type
writers keep up a busy hum, and it is
the guess of The Mail that two more
will have to be added before three
months.
In the grades, the activity is none
leas. Mrs. Pratt has forty-four en
rolled with ten more soon to follow.
Miss Hollister, who teaches the third
and fourth, has twenty-seven enrolled
and fifteen prospective students. Miss
Marshall in room three, started out
with thirty-two and will soon add
twelve more, while Miss Crabtree, who
tenches the seventh and eighth reports
twenty-eight enrolled
with
twelve
more to come aa soon as they get home
from hop picking.
Stayton only needs a little more push
a little more encouragement to be the
leading educational center o f the east
ern hslf o f Marion and Linn counties.
Don't knock. Give that push. Go and
see the school, (one o f these fine after
noons) in full operstion, and go home
and say "T h e Best is None Too G ood"
for the children. And the pupils should
always keep this in mind: That the
patrons and taxpayers are doing their
very best to provide the best in every
sense; and to use their opportunities to
advantage all the time.
Take care o f the building.
Don’ t
break up the equipment, either in or
out o f doors. In fact live up to the
spirit o f a true "School T o w n ,"
The following pupils are enrolled in
the 'ugh school: Stayton—A. K. Gard
ner, Jr., Cacelia Mielke, Maude Fskew,
Edwin Keech, J. L. Mielke, W. M.
Smith, Henry I.ulay, Gladys Hill, Nona
Fulton, Joaephino Lambrecht, • Ixiia
Bracken, Ruth Roy, Paul Shreve
Leona Sandner, Marian Alexander, Leo
Weire, Hugh Kossell, Wanda Brown,
Vanda Seatak, June Kearns.
Outside pupils, Linn county—Bessie
Shank, Wm. E. Ryan. Margaret Schae
fer, Roy E. Follis, Verna Shank, Alice
Smith, Lynde Harold, Marie Loftier.
Marion county -Melvin Nipple, Iterl
Mack, Lynn Neal, Hugh Hurt, Adeli-
ade Steward, Guaaie Condit, Harvey
Scofield, Laurence Mulkey, Beryl Mc
Laughlin, Philip Weraenberger, Wal
lace Smith, Beaaie Steward,
Meral
Mulkey, Iva Baldwin.
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North Bend Porter mill ahuta down
to make extenaive improvementa in
cluding a big steel refute burner, the
addltion o f one-third atpry, a large
machine ahop, band aawa, planer, etc. j
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Pending satisfactory legislation to be
passed Congress allowing private capi
tal to levelop water powers in the
west, a 1160,000,000 electric project on
the Columbia river is being held up.
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Banka—Prospects for a new lumber
mill here.
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Pendleton will make a hard fight to
locate a normal achool there.
Prineville voting $100,000 bonds to
aid in financing construction o f railroad
from main line o f Oregon trunk to that j
city by a vote o f 35fi to one, is the
greatest advertisement it can give the
world that it wants capital to come j
there and invest and that it is willing *
to back its invitation with an invest
ment of its own.
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| MILLINERY OPENING
Benjamin Brick, Director o f the
Publicity Department o f the Salem
Commercial Club, has resigned his po
sition, although he will remain as sn
active member o f the ciub.
Mr. Brick in his statement, says that
the Club has been hampered by a spirit
o f non-progressiveness that does not
become a city the size and importance
o f Salem.
Let the Commercial Club get down
in their pockets and boost lo r their
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Mrs. Dena Mack will have her
F A LL MILLINERY OPENING
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Washington, Sept. 2 0 -T h e destruc
tion o f one o f the largest, if not the
largest, federal bird reservation in the
United States ia threatened, according
to an announcement made, here, today,
by T. Gilbert Pearson, o f New York
City, secretary o f the National Asso
ciation o f Audubon Societies, Thé res
ervation threatened is at Lake &alheur
in southeastern Oregon, and is a breed
ing place for hundreds o f thousands o f
wiki ducks, wild geese and other water
fowl.
Application has been made t o the
federal authorities for permission to
drain the lake in order to secure the
lane! it covers. The lake ia six miles
wide, by fifteen miles long, and t a
about six feet deep.
It supplies an
ideal breeding place for wide water-
fowl, Mr. Peargon says, and therefore,
it attracts wild geese and ducks from
Canada in large numbers. Ita destruc
tion, he declares will leave thousands
o f young water-fowl without a hame.
Secretary Pearson has taken t h e
matter up with the officials o f the
General Land office, who have promised
to investigate. It is understood that
those who plan the destruction o f the
bird reservation have already secured
the cooperation o f the state land board
o f Oregon. For that reason, Mr. Pear
son regards the situation as immnent
and believes it will require quick and
earnest appeal to the Secretary o f the
interior from those who believe in the
protection o f wild birds to prevent the
destruction o f the colony.
“ There are about five million guns in
the United States” said Mr. Pearson,
“ and the only way to preserve our
migratory game birds is to have these
sanctuaries—areas in which they can
never be killed, under a n y circum
stances.
ANOTHER NEW STAR
IN MUTUAL FOLD
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Come and register early as
a Hat will be given away
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Patrons o f the Hammnn Stage Line
tjill please take notice that the stage
will make two tripe every day during
the fair:
Leave Stayton
Leave Salem
7:46 a. m.
Fair Grounds 4:10 p. m.
12:00 noon
Electric Depot 4:30 p.m.
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BANK STATEMENTS
ISSUED THIS WEEK
The quarterly statements o f the
Stayton hanks are in this week’s issue
o f the Mail, and show a considerable
gnin over the onea o f a year ago.
This goes to ahow that notwithstand
ing the fact thac literally hundreds o f
autoa have been bought in and around
Stayton in the past twelve months,
there is a little money left.
WILL START ON
HUNTING TRIP
NEW FORDS
Fielder ’ Spills Some Description Of T b .
Happy Tines Had In FuiUiiing
The Threshing
ALL IS NOW HAPPILY 0VEÏ.
Cricket«, Pigs and Chicken« Now Held
Court in the Abandoned
Stubblefield«
How t h e Happy Hollow farmers
came within a few hours o f gettii g
their grain crop threshed before the
recent rainstorm is told below.
On the 28tb o f August their entire
crop was in the shock and the Kelly
Bros, began threshing it on the date
mentioned, with the following crew :
B. Dennv, C h a s. Rossiter. C. H.
Downey, Edwin Keech, Simoir Boe-
digheimer, J . W. Phillips, J. M.
English a n d Andrew Kintz, bundle
haulers; J. Kintz, R. P. Phillips, Clar
ence English a n d Leonard Phillips,
pitchers, while Amos Williams, Ben
Short and Milton Williams did tbe sack
ing act.
A fter a run o f foyr and a half days
the threshers book showed they had
threshed 2673 bushels o f wheat and
3051 bushels o f oals.
Besides this
another machine threshed in the’ h o!-
low 1200 bushels o f wheat and over
three thousand bushels o f oats.
We were on our last job and feell: g
jubilant over our record and the pr<s-
pect o f finishing without rain, when
a small cloud about the size o f a man’ s
hand was seen approaching from tl e
direction ot Drinkw ater's Butte. A d
in less time than it takes to v, .;te this,
that little cloud took on alarming pro
portions, red lightning rippltd serosa
ita inky bosom, while m ighty' thundeia
shook the ground.
The threshers barely hrd time to
furl their strawbltrwer before the de
luge was upon us.
dome burly harvester whese < eep
toned voice was heard above the roar
o f the storm shouted " L e t ’tr c o n e ” ,
rand we did.
Ten days later the harvest days are
ended i n the Hollow, and the only
sounds that come from ihe whitening
Stubblefields are the chirp o f the old
brown cricket and the happy grunt of
the pugnosed Berkshire as he basks in
the mellow autumn sunlight.
Fielder.
Iva Shepard, who makes her stellar
i debut in the Mutual Masterpicture, De
' Luxe Edition, "T h e Haunted Manor,”
which comes to the Star Theatre on
I Saturday night, is recognized through-
fo u t screendom as without a peer in tbe
ON TH AT DAY.
YOUR CHOICE OF ANY HAT IN THE SHOP
portrayal o f adventuress types. Miss
Shepard has had a long and varied ex
perience both on the legitimate stage
and in motion picture depicting char
acters o f unquestionable reputation.
Miss Shepard, in “ The Haunted
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who has bewitched an East Indian
Rajah. She lives happily at the court
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o f this powerful ruler until the arrival
1 o f Craig Pitcairn, an American artist.
The Rajah’s jealousy becoming unbear
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lieves is the Rajah spying on her and
escapes to America, followed by her
artist lover. These East Indian scenes
were filmed at St, Augusiine, Fla.,
where
the street o f a village was simu
Everyone sympathizes with Mr. and
AT THE MILLS
lated absolutely.
Mrs. R. J. Hendricks o f <he Oregon
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Statesman over the untimely death of
their son Leland by drowning in the
Willamette last week.
W e are Manufacturers of and Headquarters for
Young Hendricks was a 1915 gradu
ate o f the Willamette College and had
already taken a prominent place on the
staff o f The Statesman.
F r e n c h M illin e ry S h o p
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STAGE SCHEDULE
DURING FAIR WEEK
H. J. Mutsehler, Geo. Tate, Geo.
Davie, Wm. Petzcl and Joe Fisher will
start today on a hunting trip to South
ern Oregon. They will make the trip
in Mr. Mutaehler’s car, and will stop
at Riddle, Ore., from which place they
will go into the monntaina for 26 miles.
They expect to be gone about two
N ew port-P ortland A West Coaat weeks or more and no doubt will bng
R. R. Co. announced that they intend the limit.
to begin field operations soon.
Harrisburg—9 cars o f cattle, 4 o f
hay and 2 o f vetch seed left here in
one day for different parts o f t h e
country.
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North Bend—Bay Park mill atarta1
with a crew o f 00 men.
BENJ. BRICK RESIGNS
CLUB POSITION
HAPPY TIMES IK
FAMED HAPPY
HOLLOW
THREATENS FEDERAL
RESERVE LAKE
FAIR WILL
THE HIGH SCHOOL STATE
COMMENCE NEXT WEEK
WILL ENROLL
MANY
HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE 72
S e r ia l N o . 1 0 7 5
DROWNS IN
I Woolen Mills Store ’
WOOLEN GOODS
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORS
GIVES RECEPTION
B la n k e ts, L o g g ers S h irts, W o o l S o c k s ,
M a ck in a w s, and K nit G o o d s, O regon
W o o l S tra ig h t, N o S h o d d y
The Christian Endeavors held a fare
well reception at the H. C. VonBehren
home near Aumsvilie in honor o f Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Putnam, Friday night,
who left Saturday for their new home
in Forest Grove. Games were played
and ice cream and cake were served at
¡ate hour.
Those attending were; E. Young and
wife, Mesdaines, Tom Ware, H. E.
; itossell, Henry Wirth, Effie Miller, Roy
Nendel, Herbert Baker and baby. Miss
es Nora CrAbtree, Wilma Ware, Veda
Young, Coral Smuek, Maude Eskew,
Lois Bracken, Ina Harold, Marie Hen
kel, Alice Smith, Alma Nendel, Messrs.
Tom and John Taylor. Paul and Ira
Kirsch, Eugene Ware, Loei Riggs, Cal-
, vin Bracken, Leo Weier and Wilkie
Yost.
UNDERWEAR FOR M E N , WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Buying direct from the Factory at Mill Prices will save
you m oney, besides you get the goods that will
give you the best of service, always
Get our prices and see our goods, before buying elswhere
Boys Mackinaw Coats and Sweaters
In all sizes in different colors and patterns
In our Dress G oods Department, the ladies will find
a splendid assortment of fast cob rcJ woolens
Serges, Flannels and Coatings,
All Piece Goods. Bring your patterns and we will cut
yardage to suit. No wiste to pay for.
Store at the Mills, alw ays open, call in and see us.
N o trouble to show goods.
Samples sent
by mail if desired
WILBUR WOOLEN MILLS CO.
P. Deidrich will have a ear o f
f new
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Harrisburg- 3923 sere farm 9 mile» Ford’s in tomorrow, Friday,
id f get
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from here aold for $70,000, $lb,000 in who have bought can come in and
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trade, balance cash.
Those f i otayton
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METHODIST CHURCH
On Sunday will be held the closing
services o f the conference year, the
pastor going to the annual conference
the following Tuesday or Wednesday.
In the morning he will take for his
theme, “ Solomon’s Wise C hoice" at d
in the evening " I Am Not Ashamed O f
The Gospel O f Christ.”
The Sunday
school meets at 10 a. tn. Toe Epworth
League service at 7 p. m. will be in
charge o f Mrs. Starr.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday even
ing. Ladies Aid meets with Mrs.Lons-
way Thursday afternoon.
Following the morning service n t
Sunday the monthly dinner and hour o f
Sabbath sociability will be held in the
league room.
Rev.Eaton o f tht Baptist church will
GOES INSANE
probably preach for the pastor during
the latter’s absence at t. ,e seat o f con
A n overdose o f excitable religion ference, on Sunday Oct '1 ir 1.
E. B. Lockhart, pastor.
caused Ed S. Johnson, a prominent
man o f Silverton to g o insane 1. st
Many candidates running for ofiVo
week. It seems the main cause was
the exhortations of a nigger preacher, have no hesitancy in saj i i : ti at tho
who was told to leave town by a bunch state has a n.ultiplu itv o f laws, the
| effect o f which is to
plic; te busi
ot indignant citizens.
No matter what comes a'ong, there ness to the point o f ; ■ efficiency and
is always someone to take them up and Ltjiat mounti ig n st of government in
d ic a t e s the need o f calling a halt.
help gather a crowd o f followers.
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