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Has the Largest Circulation of Any Paper in the Santiam Valley—It Covers the Territory Like a Blanket. ST A Y T O N , MARION COUNTY, OREGON, TH URSD AY, NOVEMBER 30, 1916. 22nd Year, No. 48. H A N K S G IVIN G ’S « ♦ V I C T I M ♦ MAN EXPIRES ON TRAIN C.K.Taylor was relied to Portland by a phone m i'isige the latter part of laid week from on old sailor fireman friend, A. fi, Grover, who had been at the hos pital for ever three weeks, suffering from asthma and a weak heart. Change of elevation and surrounding conditions being about the quickest thing to give relief in such cases, and as he hail no friends to csre for him or look after his little wants while In the hospital, he was determined to leave there and accepted Mr. Taylor’s invitation to come and stay with him until he re gained hia strength. They took the 2 p. m. S. P. Train for West Stayton, Nov. 22, and things went along fire a el he ato >d the trip well until they got near Hubbard, when he suddenly ■ Ii . The corpse was taken off the train at Woodburn and the Coroner railed, who stated the cause of death was heart failure. The brother at Lincoln, Neb., and a slater in Maine were notified of | their brotlier’a death and nis brother wired the Masonic lodge at Wiaalburn to burv him. The funeral was hell i on Pri lay afternoon, Nov. 24th. Mr. Taylor returned home Friday. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx H D a y o f D ays HIS I i the day of all our dayi When we in crowded cities sigh Tor one sweet breath of old tins« T ways That once we passed so heedless by. How roman is clotlses the stubbled mead I What glory crowns the bare I r o w * FALL TOI A LMSADY all over the land a frngriint cloud of Incense I »«-«-si I in r to the great national fenst duy la rlalug. Already In the high temple of Thanksgiv ing, the homes of the American people. Hie prtestcaecs are care fully and lovingly engaged on the multifarious mysteries that figure In the rites of this great day. Their uctivlth-s will broaden uud deepen up until the very hour of the great ceremony, uud until then mere meu are kept Jealously beyond llie pnle nml may ouly sniff and sniff und hun grily guess wlml la going on In the kitchen. A man's |»irt may he played, however. The fruits of the Held und the chase are to tic pro v Id- ed, either with sweat of the brow or bought with a price, and this much n man may do and most American men gladly do. liut, having provided these, mull's rrs|Minaihllltles cud. He has then hut to possess Ida soul with patience, carefully nurse a tremendous appetite for the ap pointed time, and then, careless and with a heart for auy fate, thoughtful only of the glorious reality of brown. Juicy, glisten ing turkey nud golden pumpkin pie, EAT ON. Hut. after all, the most Impor tant thing la not the dinner, but tbe Thanksgiving day atmos phere, the golden colors and de tails of home, the exquisite de light of merely U-Ing with those whom we love more than all the world beside, the Interchange of happy, loving talk; the quick mu tual understanding. These must all Is* supplied hy the reader from the treasure bouse of per sonal evperlcnce and sacred memory THANKSGIVING DAY IS PROCLAIMED BY THE GOVERNOR Whereas, the year lDIGhas brought to the people of the Htate of Oregon the multitudinous blessings of peace and prosperity, in which our good fortune is doubly notable because of its contrast with the unfortunate conditions prevailing in so many other portions of the war ravaged world; and Whereas, there is much In the lives of each and every ore of us for which to be greatful, and for which to ren der thanksgiving unto Him who presides over the desti nies of individuals, states and nations; Now, Therefore, I. James Withycomb, Governor of the State of Oregon, by virtue of the authority in me vested, and following the time honored custom of the governors of the several states in joining with the presi dent of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 30, 1916, as Thanksgiving Day; and I call upon the people of the state of Oregon on that day, to pause from their labors and render fittings thanks for the bounties and blessings bestowed upon them and our com monwealth. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the state of Oregon to be af fixed this twenty-third day of November, 1916, OPENING DATE CARE OF TEETH On Saturday night, Dec. 2, the Star What Every Man and Woman Should Know Theatre will open under the manage and Children be Taught ment of Jack Waltemeyer who has leased the building and equipment A million roofs i: > echoes tend i with a big 4 Act Comedy Drama en Good health and good teeth are de The lonely si o:t gives back its cryi titled: “ Pierre of the Plains.’’ This j pendent one upon the other. Its message stirs ti c city's endt realistic play deals with the Koyal Neglect of the teeth is sure to result Its vision th tis the longing eye. Northwest Mounted Police, Indians end in toothache. This means inability and We mount the c iirrser of drs.re i Half IIreeds, and is a hummer from j suffering, with impairment and loss of He wings us llirotij't November luxe start to finish. Not a duH line or a tooth structure. Food masticated with And drops us by Use farmnouse fire pause in interest from start to finish. poor teeth and diseased gums becomes With chiiuji ooJ friends of childhood The full cast as put on ly Mr. and Mrs. infected with bacteria, which taken in days Waltemeyer and the Scio Dramatic j to the stomach seriously interfere with Club will be found on another page of nutrition by disturbing digestion; ili How rose the turkey mounlai i high The Mail. Be sure und see “ Pierre of ; health must follow. The human mouth And how we sighed with i ough and the Plains.” Prices: Children 15c, presents moat favorable conditions for call Adults, 35c. As plate on plat* went passing by. grow th of dangerous germs if the de Special—With the above show will be bris from different kinds of food is al Lest aunts and uncles eat it all I run the first two reels of the astound lowed to remain, the moisture and the How biased the lo^a while tales were ing serial "The Girl and The Game.” natural warmth being exactly suited told All for the same price. And apples roasted russet brown - to their development. Do not fail to How fancy filled i s grate with gold visit the dentist every four or at least And chimney g.iotta came tumbling six months, that he may have an op down I portunity of making a careful examina tion of the teeth, removing any tartar W ell, well I I'd better rub my eyea. and being sure that everything is right I must have turned a hidden page Do not wait until there is pain. This Inch to the realm where memory tries often means loss of tooth structure, To bribe us with forgotten age. Sam H. Clark, brother of Chic. S. an 1 a trying ordeal for both patient Thanksgiving ? Why. ‘Ms everywhere. Clark, foreman of The Mail office; and and dentist. Youth may not claim it for its own. Miss Clara Johnson eloped to Chicago Much may be done for the teeth by •Tit just a little Joy to spare Nov. 21 and were married at the Hotel home treatment. They should be Out of the harvrit we have town Sherman. rinsed after every meal, and all par — Percy S lu v in New York American. Sam Clark is well known as tbe own ticles of food removed, they should al er and publisher rf "Jim Jam Jem «," ways be brushed on retiring at night of Bismarck, N. D., a spicy little mag and upon rising in the morning, care azine that trav»ls by express, being! should be taken to move the brush in a ENTERTAIN WIVES denied the U. S. mails. His bride is a ! rotary motion, rather than to much beautiful and accomplished y-rl of across the teeth, as the latter has a The ladies of The Circle were enter Grand Forks, N. D. The couple will tendency to force or cut the gums from tained last Wednesday evening hy their spend their honey moon on the battle their necks. Brush also from the gums husbands at the I. O. O. F. hall, by a front in Eurone, Mr. Clark having toward the biting edge of the teeth. luncheon of Hen lorahotl’a China nood- Mrs. Archie I’ospell entertaire I her been one of the Ford peace party is lea, aerved with chopatieks ami the Dr. G. Cyril Watson, usual trimmings. A merry time was sister, Mrs. H. H. Vandervort of Sa- anxious to see the front again, and Stayton, Oregon. will take hia bride along for fear that ¡ lem, last week. had by all present. some love-lorn young widow of Europe might kidnap him. M il How sounds ofar the ancient creed. "Oh, if we could be children still I" 0 7 'fTWIffc I ....ait MAIL FOREMAN’S BROTHER MARRIES STitWIMe 1 ,WnT% J RfPP J'TPWPK 4 (WWfflE | WWWIm j ..jr *■ .iiidit 1. ..aui 1 J 5 .u i.u A S u U M k . 1 u ttlM B Ikiu u d e 1 METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Thanksgiving Greetings -j T ü ? Woolen Mills Store [j At Salem Entends to the Public the Sincere Thanks of the Proprietors for the Thousands of Favors given us Since Last Thanksgiving. Salem Woolen Mills Store C. P. Bishop Chauncy Bishop Mli» f MUI» ' “ The Steps of a Good Man” will be the sermon theme next Sunday morn ing, and in the evening the minister will present "The Masterpiece of American Pot try" and also read Isaak Walton’s disco-, r. c on “Thankfulness” between the angler and the hunter, in piece of the usual evening sermon. To these services and the Sunday School and Lpworth League, the pub lic is invited to attend, At the recent business :■ ssion of the latter organisa tion the following officers wore elected: Mrs. Lilly, president; Mrs. Starr, first vice president; Mrs. Mabel Mack, sec ond vice president; Mrs. Pancoast, third vice president; Mrs. Foster, fourth vice president; Verda Hsmmnn, sec- treasurer. A man recently claimed to have had hia over<*'v*t stolen Ht the Stayton Ho tel. After he had gone, tbe coat was found under the pillow in the bed he had occupied that night. The next time he will use his trousers to bolster up his head and then if he forgets them—well some one will tell him about it. SUBLIMITY DRAMATIC CLUB DOES WELL “ The Noble Outcast,’’ Staged at the Star Theatre last Friday night, while not very well attended on account of the tremendous downpour of rain that evening, was well played and received considerable applause. These young people are putting on better shows each time, and they promise us n rip-roaring comedy in February. At the Methodist Church last Sun day night there was presented a nice Thanksgiving program, part of which was selected from the works of the English poetess, Adelaide Proctor, William Dean Howells of America and other choice spirits. Those taking part in the service, which drew a large number in spite of the rain, W. W. Elder, Dr. Eaton, Miss Minnie Poley, Mrs. Lilly, Mrs. C. D. Stayton, Mrs. A. Cain, Mrs. J. P. Wilbur. REBEKAHS MEET The Uebekahs had a social meeting I Tuesday evening and had a splendid Miss Frances Lambert has returned | time playing games and a fine luncheon | of pie, sandwiches, pickles and coffee. to her home in Loa Angeles. Would’t it be wise for our govern ment to pass a little legislation favor able to American owned ships? Our present laws are great for tbe foreign ers but they have practically wiped the American flag off the seas. Our shipyards are all busy building ships at an unprecedented rate but )f you read the newspapers, you will note that anything larger than a row boat or coastwise schooner is for a foreign country. Where is American pride Uiat it al lows this condition to continue? k'.iiiV&sVJ ILLAHEE CLUB The Illahee Club met Thcrs'ay night Nov. 23, and report a good time. The next meeting will be Thursday Dee. 7. Miss Grace Elder is ’spending a week In Portland. «f Mf X X X X X vi X X X Mf •# * x x x i j X * * THE PIONEER’8 THANKS- X X GIVING. X * ------ X * JN tbe early days In the west «f j VS and northwest, according to % X good authority. Thanksgiving X X was tbe one day In tbe whole fit X year that every living soul in it j X tbe community went to the un- X X Ion church service. X 1 X It seems that pioneer preachers X \ MIGHTY anthem, rising to X were not allowed by the rules p t X VS etiquette to diverge from the Bl- X the skies. X ble In their Sunday sermons. To X 1 X preach on politics, society and it Joined in on every hand X any similar theme would have X Where men work out the pur X been scandal. But by common it X consent tbe community preach- X poses of life, X er, who then was the'scholar of IH | X the neighborhood and Its oracle, it Resounds throughout the land. X could say anything he pleased on IS X Thanksgiving morning. The lack X We greet the boundless store of X of cbeckrein on that one sermon it ripened fields, it made it the most refreshing as X X well as the forceful of the year, it The wealth of mill and mart. X for the preacher could then “cot X But all too often naught but X loose" with every snappy com- X X ment that had been held in ator- X these give out X age during the year. The gov- X ! X ernors often recommended a gen- X Song’s keynote to the heart. it eral church atten d an t on this if j X occasion. Anticipating the treat X OR truest praise is in ti; it of the year, the populace turn- X soul of prayer, X ed out en masse. It is said. X X however, that the thoughts of it A hope of heaven’s grace, X the mothers were on the cook- X X lng rather than the sermon. it Continued ¿ove iu which me X The services were held at 11 it worldly thought it o’clock, and they were no soon- X X er over than all hands and stom- X Can have no foremost place. it achs prepared for the big feast X X Dinner usually came at 2 o’clock, it So, while the organs swell an it and there were so many things it voices rise it on the table that It required at it it least an hour to make way with it fn music’s varied torgue. Hf It all. « it Of course turkey was the piece it Thanks even truer may go up t > it de resistance wherever and it God it whenever it was available. But it it It was a scarce article in those it Unspoken ana unsung. it days, and as a result wild geese it it were substituted on many tables, it — Peter A. Uo>le in Baltimore it * Ameri.an. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Gratitude A F The Holiday Season IS APPROACHING RAPIDLY We have replenished every de partment with new merchandise AND Y o u r S election o f G ifts A T OUR STORE W IL L B E E A S Y Besides the everyday and more useful articles, our real Holiday Showing of Casseroles, Silverware, Toys of aii de scriptions, Ladies’ and Gent’s Neck wear, Handkerchiefs, Fancy and S' - pie Chinaware, Vases, etc., will complete. We also carry the LADY TORRINGTON VACUUM CLEANER T H A T W ILL M AKE SWEEPING A PLEASURE D ITTER BELL & CO. SU B LIM ITY OREGON