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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1917)
lll,t„r|r„| floHety THE STAYTON MAIL Ha* the Largest Circulation of A ny Paper in the Santiam Valley 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 , 23rd. Year, N o. 23. OREGON INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Readers of this Paper Should send it to Friends in Other States with this Column Marked, Show ing how Rapidly the State is Developing, as the best way to Advertise our Resources. June 4.—Hood River— T. & L. Co., awarded $6,500 contract for road work. Portland—14 wooden government ships contracted for at Portland. The G. M. Standifer Construction corporation to build 10‘and Peninsula Shipbuilding Co., 4. Coquille Contract let on improvement of Empire to Sunset road. J U N E 7, 1917. Corvallis—Contract let for new college library, to cost $83,300 Pendleton to have a new furniture store. Portland—Men employed in local shipyards, numbering at present 5060 will draw $5,100,480 a year, based on an average wage of $3.50 a day. Itoseburg—New telephone lines will be constructed in Ump qua forests. St. Johns—Two ship plants will locate here. Preparatory work to begin without delay. Toledo— Work of diking and putting in dam with flood gates for purpose of reclaiming hundreds of acres of fertile bottom and j Fleece Twine and Wool Sacks for Saio tide lands lying along the Olalla, commenced. Phone 217 Toledo— $4,000 halibut fishing schooner launched. Salem—W ittenberg-King Co., to build evaporating plant here WILBUR W OOLEN MILLS CO., Stay ton to cost nearly $200,000. Albany—Contract let for paving Baker street. ---------------------- i dustnes. Cove—Farmers to plant rye, 20.000 acres submerged in Grand A. E. Bradshaw is moving his Ronde valley. family to Portland this week. YOU CAN BUY Shoes at $5.00 Shirts at $1.50 Neckwear at 50 cents Underwear at $1.00 Suits a t $20 here as well as elsewhere. T he question is— w here else can you buy such good looking, long service Shoes Shirts Neckwear Underwear Suits for the same money as you can here? HART SCHAFFNER & MARX (2 5 $30 Best of All Wool Suits BISHOP ALL WOOL SUITS $15 $25 MOHAIR And will pay highest Market Price for same. Miss Crabtree and Clyde Hof- fer and family chaperoned a Bandon—Clearing and grading last six miles of Bandon- bunch of the eighth grade grad Curry county coast road was begun. $40,000 estimated cost, uates on a trip over the Columbia Astoria—Standard Oil to establish distributing ¿station cost Highway, leaving here Monday ing $150,000. morning and returning Wednes Crane has building boom. Five business houses and several day evening. A good was had by the entire party. bungalows are being erected. $20 WOOL WE BUY BOTH Pendleton—Work started on Dry Creek fill, O. W. R. & N. Marshfield - Oregon Power Co., to build an extension power has crew of men engaged—will take five months to complete at wire to Coquille at cost of $25,000. cost of $50,000, Columbia City to have another shipyard. Turner—Oregon flax industry growing, first retting here by Forest Grove—Construction work on the extension of the Oregon Flax Fibre Co., yields 17 tons. United Railways line from Wilkesboro to Tillamook is under way. . , . . . Hermiston—Alfalia farm of 240 acres sold for $36,000. The demagog howls at h. c. 1.. howls at high prices and Toledo—Eddyville mohair pool of 23,000 pounds goes to Mc- scarcity of food products and then howls at admission of any cheap minnville Mill at 65 cents per pound. labor to our country. He is only happy when he howls. Roseburg $100,000 fertilizer plant to be erected here. Roseburg —Pendleton men will open new theatre here. Albany—New ladder factory here doing extensive business. St. Helens—New garage being built here. Ships 20 cars since first of year. Big increase in production of grain crops. Loss reported in Marshfield—Macleay cannery is 500 cases ahead of same date acreage in winter planting more than made up in spring wheat sow last year. ing. Liberal increase in planting of sugar beets in Washington, Idaho and Oregon during past year. iletson—Buck plant installs plant for light and fire alarm. Th >se objecting to a 15 per cent increase in freight rates say Roseburg—Pacific Highway to be improved with 400 cars of the roads do not need it because they do an increased volume of gravel to be placed on the roads in several districts. business. Whp not apply the same reasoning to other products 615,000 acres in Oregon are open to homestead entry. which have advanced in price from 25 to 400 percent, the producers Roseburg Oregon Fruit Co., may build cleaning, grading of these goods are doing a largely increased volume of business. and polishing plant here. Our country is mobilizing all it’s resources, military, indus- Pendleton—Much wool sold here at 50 cents a pound. trial, agricultural and financial. The success of each department is Roeeburg—Work will be started a t once on $6,000 dam at vital to the success of the whole and a large measure of this success will depend upon an uninterrupted stream of supplies from our in- North Umpqua fish hatchery. In the interest of the conservation of coal supplies isn’t it a good thing to advocate legislation encouraging to the development of waterpowers on federal reserves. Serial N o. 1112 $30 Salem Woolen Mills Store C d lS U S The Importance Registration of Utilities Last Tuesday was the long ex- In his aadress to the 4)th an Pected war registration day and while all kinds of dire calamaties nual convention of the National had been foretold. there was Electric Light Association, Pres rumors and threats flying through ident H erbert Wagner pointed the air, but the day come and out the vital importance of the went just like any other day only public utility companies to the successful carrying out of war a little more so and the Ameri operations in the following lan can citizen realizing his patriotic duty and hearing the call of his guage:— “ Few outside of the public country did just as all good Amer service industry realized to w hat icans always do, went to the polls extent the industries o f the and let Uncle Sam know who he country and the entire machin was and where to find him. The registration throughout ery of production are dependent upon electric lights, power and the country will exceed ten mu- mil- -miry win ® ^ __gas. It is safe lion Stayton’s registration was r to . , say that , thero - : , . is today no class of industry, no on arriving *n Salem the kind of manufacturing enter* registrars found 8 cards th a t had prise, which is not dependent been sent in by absentees. upon electric central stations for power or light, o f both. Within the last two years the expansion of factories and mills engaged in the pro uction of Saturday evening last about munitions for war and the var ... . . . tf . . , forty-five members of the A. F. ious materials used for their & A. M. lodges of Salem visited manufacture, has resulted in ____ the local lodge. Two candidates greatly increased use of central Thursday evening the eighth were given degrees, the work grade class had their graduation being done by the Salem team in stations electric power. The public utilitie; are thus exercises in the high school au a manner th at is highly spoken standing behind the £u; ply of of by the members of Santiam ditorium and a large and appre the various sinews of war. and ciative audience enjoyed the lodge. it is of paramount, importance A fter the lodge work the vis splendid and well arranged pro itors were invited to a dinner, that ,-ervice should be continued gram. with undiminished efficiency A class of 15 are now ready which had been prepared and and reliability, and even extend for the high school and most if was served in the lower room of ed where necessary. not all have signified their inten the Masonic building by ladies of This fact simply illustrate* tion of continuing their school the Red Cross. The hall and ta again the absolute necessity of work for another four years so as bles were beautifully decorated fair and equitable legislation to complete their academic course and the dinner was highly com encouraging the development of mended by all. Besides the vis and thus prepare themselves for the millions of hor.e power now the higher duties of life. Much itors, about thirty members of running to waste on government the home lodge were present, al credit is due these young people land. So-called “ conservation so visitors and members from for the work they have already ists,” in name only have been done and great things are expect Jefferson, Gervais and Lyons. successful in holding up the ed of them in the next four years. Mrs. O. P. Harris, of Silver development of this great re The baby of the class was Edwin source of the west for 9 long Klecker who is only 13 years old Creek Falls, was trading in town years and it is high time they but is now ready for the high Saturday. were relegated to a back seat. school. J. A. Wourms, of Fern Ridge, The address of the evening was was in town Monday, Ed Blakely came from Junc delivered by Assistant State! H. J.M utchler left Tuesday for School Superintendent Welles and ; Pendleton, where he will look tion City Friday for a couple of was much enjoyed. at the country. Mrs. Mutchler days visit with home folks. He and son Harry will remain here expects to leave s> on to join the hospital corps of the army. for a time. i Masons Entertain Graduation Exercises Were Well Attended Election Returns Since the smoke of battle has cleared to some extent and re turns from the election held last Monday are complete enough to get an idea of the result of the battle waged with ballots the survivors of the terrible carnage number four the Road Bond Bill, Port Indebtedness, Uniform Tax and Simultaneous Elections. Of course there are always two sides to every question and one side or the other always has to go down to defeat, but if your side happened to be defeated don’t think the country is going to the eternal bow wows but take heart and go ahead. Ed Young and wife motored to Corvallis Monday where they a t tended the commencement exer cises of the O. A. C. They brought their daughter Vida who graduated that day home with them, JUST RECEIVED A Line o f N e w S u m m e r D re s s G oods It will please you to know that you ca ' get the latest and most up-to-date dresi goods in Stayton just as cheap, just as new , as in the large cities. HI We Win Gladly Show Item to You W ill you please co.ne and look them over. W. F. KLECKER. 1