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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1918)
«•ddONOHRUMF H. A. BEAUCHAMP, M.D. Physician and Surgeon OREGON STAYTON . — C. H. BREWER, M. D. P H Y S IC IA N A N I) S ta y to n , SU H CEO N O iuboon Wilbur N. Pintlcr, D.M.D. • d e n t is t Office Opp. I, «ri elfin Id Hh<M< Store Phone ¡¿162 FARM ANO CITY LOAN« If vou are |> h yI nk h ht|(li rate o f in ternal, why not refund your loan at a lower rate and more liberal terina. It la not k <* m J liualneaa to pay a higher rate o f internet than the market domanda, nor la it good huai- neaa to keep your aurplua tundaon time de|K»ita at 3 to 4 («erct. per an num when A per cent can readily lx »«•cured on drat Kurin Morlagva, If you have money to loan or wiah to refund or recur» a new one, call or write S. H. HELTZKL, Stayton, Oregon. Stavton. Ore FUNERAL DIRECTOR AMERICAN SUGAR SENT TOJRANCE American Price Rigidly Regulated by United States Food Administration. CONSUMERS HERE PAY 9c. Sugar Cost 35 Cants a Pound During Civil War— Refiners’ Profit* Now Curtailed. Kugnr la s«dllng today throughout America at from 8V4 to 9 cento a pound to tlu* consumer, even though there la a world shortage which hus LAWYER and NOTARY PUBLIC STAYTON OREGON reduced this nation'* augur allotment U> 70 per n u t o f normal. Office Room No. 0, Itoy Iildg. Through the effort# o f the United States food administration the sugar W a offer One Hundred Hollars Reward | for eny cane nf Catarrh that rnnnut be H. l i . H E L T Z B L market hua been regulated ua fur aa cured by Hall'a Catarrh Medlcloo the producer, retlner and wholesaler Hull's Catarrh Medicine has been teUen ( A ttorn ey-at-L aw - Notary Public 1 by catarrh aoffrrera for th« pael thirty- I Is concerned. The fo«xl administration 1 rive yearn, and haa becc-m* known ae the lias no power to regulate retail prices j muet rellahl« remedy for Catarrh. Hall's except by public opinion. Even though i Calarrh Medicine arts thru the Blood on < the Mucou» eurfaree. expelling the I'ol- mure than 86,000 tons of sugar have i i { non from ihe Bb>od and healing the dis been shipped to France In the last eased pnrilnae four months the ndnll grocer's sugar After you have taken Hall'* Catarrh ; M'dh In« for a ehort tlma you will sey a j price Is around 8 to 8 % cents. He ! great Improvemsnt In your general should sell this sugHr at 814 to 9 j health Start taklnr H a ll's C atarrh Medi cents, the food administration believes, cine at once rnd e el rid of catarrh. Send for teetlmonlal* fr*e GEO. A. SMITH ami usks the American housewife to r J C H E N E Y * CO.. Toledo, Ohio. pay no more than this amount ■old by all Urugglel*. Tic. Stayton, Oregon Last August when the food admin istration was organized the price of EXECUTORS NOTICE sugar rose suddenly to 11 cent» a pound, During the Civil War sugar G. F. KORINEK, V. S , B. V. Sc Notice ia hereby given that the un cost the consumer 3!> cents a pound Veterinarian dersigned by an order o f the County By regulation o f the augur market and Court o f the State o f Oregon for the reducing the price to H',4 and 9 «•ents Trenta all domeHtic ammala, alee County o f Murion, duly mode and en ami keeping It from advancing to ¡¿o applica the Tuberculin teat. cents the food administration has sav tered o f record on the 3rd day o f Janu ed the American public at least $190,- Telephone 3x7 ary, 1918, were appointed joint execu 000.0«X) In four months, according to Ottica ml Stayton Stählern tors o f the laat Will and Testament o f | a statement ma«le tiy Herbert Hoover STAYTON . . . . OKEGOf C. W. Geer, deceased, and that they the other day. have duly qualified aa such: All per. "It Is our stern duty to feed the al sons having claims against said estate lies, to mHlntaln their health and are hereby notified to preaent the same strength at any coat to ourselves," duly verified, as required by law, to Mr. Hoover ileclnred. “There has not them at the office o f S. H. Heltzel, in been, nor will be as we see It, enough Stayton, Marion County, Oregon, with sugar for even their pr«*sent meagre and depressing ration unless they send in six months from the date o f this n«>- ships to remote markets for It. If we Bath Tubs, lavatories and tiee. In our greed an.1 gluttony force them Dated this 10th day o f January, 1918. either to further reduce their rnalon all Sanitary fittings— Farm- IRA W. GEER or to send these ships we will have e r s -W e carry a line of GUY M. GEER done damage to our abllltle« to win pumps, leader water sys this war. S. H, HELTZEL Joint Executors. tems, etc. Gasoline engines. Attorney for E»tate. “ If we «end the ahlpe to Java for 250,000 tons o f sugar next year w* will have necessitated the em JACOB SPANIOL ployment of eleven extra ships far •n* year. These ehlpe— If ueed In The Trotter vs Young trial transporting troops ■ would taka which occupied the first four 160.000 to 200,000 man to Wrmna a." V. A. GOCOE J. M. BINGO— How’s This? — Real Estate— And Farm Loans TINWORK and PLUMBING Mr. Young Wins days of last week in the Federal STAYTON MEAT MARKET Court in Portland resulted in Hoover said, ''an examination was ma«le o f the roars and profits o f refin ing and It wss Anally determined tha* the spread between Ihe coet o f raw sinl the sale of reAne«! cane sugar should be limited to |L30 per hundred pounds. The pre-war differential had averaged about A3 cents and Increased costs were found to have been Impos ed by the war In Increased coat o f re doing. losses, cost o f hags, lalior, Insur ance, Internet and ether things, rather more than cover the difference. After prolonged negotiations the refiners »'•■re placed tto«ler agreement estate Hailing th«-»«- limits on Octal r 1, and anything over this amount to >e agreed extortionate under the law. "In the course o f those Investlga- , flons It wns found hy cnnvnsa o f the Cuban producers that their sugar had. during the Arst nine montl s o f the ' (test y«uir, sold f r nn average o f about I FI 21 |M-r hurulred f. o. h Cuba, to which duty nnd freight a«ld«*«1 to the | rentiers' r o st amount to about *6 60 | per hundred. The average sale price of granulated !>v various reAnerl«*a, ac- | co-dlng to our Investigation wns about $7.60 per hundred, or a differential of 1 $1 84. “ In reducing tbe differential to ?1 ” 0 | there «vita n saving to flic public o f '4 cents per hundred. Had such a dlf- feren'lnl been In use from the 1st of fanuarv. 101T. tbe public would have ■’ In t!"> flr*t n'ne months o f the rear about *t>* « w o n 't ” Next Year. With a view to more efficient organ ization of the trade in liii|x»rtad sugars next year two committees have been ! formed by the food a«lmlnlstratlon: - 1. A committee comprising repre- | « t.'.atlves o f all of the elements «if American cane refining groups. The prln« l|iul duty o f this committee is to j divide tho sugar import» pro rata to I their various capacities and «we that 1 ub-olut« Justice Is done to every re- | finer. 2. A committee <*ouiprising three rep resent it lives o f the English, French and Italian governments; two repre sentatives o f the Amerbuin refiners, with a member of the food administra tion. Only two o f the committee have arrived front Europe, but they repre sent the allied governments. The du ties o f this committee are to determine the most economical source# from a truns(s«rt |xdnt o f view o f all the al ii«-» to arrange transport at uniform j rate#, to distribute the foreign sugar between the United Statea and alllea, subject to the approval of the Ameri can, Kngtiih, French and Italian gov ernments. This committee, while holding strong views as to the price to be paid for Cuban sugar, has not bad the Caul voire. This voice has rested In the governments «•onoemed, together with the Cuban government, and I wish to state emphatically that all *f the gen tlemen concerned as good commercial won have endeavored with tho otmoet patience and skill to secure a lower price, and their persistent's has re duced Cuban demands by 13 centa per hundred. The price agreed npon la about $4.80 per hundred poumls. f. e. b. Cuba, or equal to about $8 duty paid Now York. Reason far World Shortage. Aa Mr. Hoover pointed out. the Unite«! States. Canada and England Mr. Y oung’s favor. were sugar Importing countries before Mr. Trotter brought suit for the war. while France end Itely were $10,000 damages for injury to his very nearly aelf supporting. The main reputation and business. RThe sources o f tha world's sugar supply P ro p rie to rs . “This price should eventuate,” was Germany and neighboring powers, Mr. Hoover said, “1# about $7.39 jury didn’ t think the charges the West Indies end the Rest Indies. per hundred for refined sugar from German sugar Is ns loager available, were proven. tha refiner* at seaboard potato er as It Is used entirely In Germany, should place sugar In tbs bond* ef which also absorbs sugar o f surround the consumer at from $</, te t THINNEST SOAP BUBBLES. ing countries. centa per peund, depending «pen England can no longer buy 1,400,000 locality and condition* of trad*, er ifigkat Market Price Paid For Fat Stack They Almost Give Us a Sight of tho long torn o f sugar each year from at from 1 to $ cento beiew the Germany. Tha French sugar produc InvIolMo Moloouloo. price« ef August last and from one- What la a soap bubble? Nothing but tion has dropped front 730,000 te 210,- half tp a sent per peund cheaper 000 tons. The Italian production has a flbn o f water molecules belli together than today. fallen from 210.000 tops to 75.000 tons. hy the oohealre power o f aoap In eoiu- -There la now an elimination of tlon. A aoap btibbla'a alse and strength Thus three countries were thrown For upon Best sod Weqt Indian aouares speculation, extortionate profits, and depend upon the right compoaltlou o f far 1 . 925,000 tons annually to maintain In the refining alone the American the mixture that furulsheo Ita mtta- their normal consumption. people will save over $2S,OOU.UOO of rial. The colors In a soap bubble are Because o f the w«>rld'B shipping the refining chargee lost year. A part due to what la known In physics aa the Interference o f light, and depend upon shortage the allied nations started of these suvlugs goes to the Cuban, Phone or Call on the varying thickness o f the (lira o f drawing on tha Went Indies for sugar; Hawaiian, Porto Rican and Louslanlan East Indian sugar took three time# producer and part to the consumer. water. the namber o f ships, since the dis “ Appeals to prejudice against the It la a afngular fact that the lant tance was three times as great. Sud food administration have been made color to appear on a soap bubble Just denly the weat wns called on to fur because th# Cuban price Is 84 cents K in g sto n , Ore. before It breaka la a gray Cut. The nish and did furnish 1,420.000 ton* of above that o f 1917. It Is said In effect thlckncwa o f tha fllm when this tint sugar to Europe when 300,000 tons a that the Cubans are at our m ercy; ap|icara u|>oo It la leas than the one year was the pre-war demand. The that we could get sugar a cent lower. hundred and flfty-elx-thennandth o f an CHANGE OF SCHEDULE AUG. 17 allies had drawn from Java 400,000 We made exhaustive study of the cost Inch. tons before the shipping situation be of producing sugar In Cuba lust year Were a soap bubble to be magnified came acute. through our own agents In Cuba, and to the else o f the earth and the mole- “ In spite o f these shipments,” Mr. we And It averages $8.39. while many oule» magnified In pro|H>rtion, then the A U TO ST A G E Hoover stated the other day. “the prtxlucers are nt a higher level. We whole structure would be as coarae Will make regular trips every day, grained aa u globe o f small lend shot Engllab government In August reduced found that an average profit o f at the household sugar ration to s basis least a cent p«>r pound was necessary Sundays included as follows: touching one another at their aurfacee. o f 24 pounds i>er annum |f>r capita. In order to maintain and stimulate 8ALK M I 'll O N K i m In the blowing of a aoap bubble there And In September the French govern production or that a minimum price of A. M. P. M. I k presented the sp«>etarle o f the 7:40 L v .. . . K ingston... .A r 6:30 ment reduced their household ration $4.37 wns nt-cessary. nnd even this stretching o f a liquid to the extreme 7:50 ...........S tayton............. 5:00 to IS 2-10 pounds a y«>ar. or n bit over would stIAe some producers. limit of Ita capacity. In this way we 8:00 ...........Sublim ity.......... 4:60 1 pound o f sugar a month. Even this “ The price ultlmntelv agree«] was 23 come nearer to a night o f the Invisible •8:20 ...........A u m sville......... 4:30 meagre ration could not he Ailed by cents above these figures, or about on«>- 8:40 ...........Turner............... 4:16 molecules o f matter than eould be got the French gorenitnent It wns found IMth o f a cent per pound to the Ameri 9:16 A r ....S a le m ...........Lvi 3:46 In any other way no matter how elab early In the fall. Amertcn wns then can consumer, and more than this orate tho experiment.—Exchange. nske«l for 100.000 tons o f sugar and amount has been saved by our rtxluc- •Meets Train 62northbound at Aums succeeded In sending 85,000 tons by tlon In refiners' profits. If we wish to ville. Stage leaves opposite O. E. de Was Too Partleulsr. December 1. The French request wns stIAe production In Cuba we could pot in Salem. A Boonton (N. J.) rcnl estate roan grunted because the Amerl«-an house take flint course Just nt tbe time o f nil wns trying to sell a small farm by | hold consumption wns then at lenst 66 times In our history when wq want S t a y t o n - W e s t S ta y to n mall to a possible purchaser In Man pounds per peinon, nnd It wns consid production for ourselves nnd the nt hattan. a very precise and particular ered the duty o f maintaining the ] lies. Further thnn that, the state «1««- » ,18:46 a. m. 7:00 a.m. Lv Stayton person. One day a friend nske«l him French morale nmile our course clear." partment will assure you that such a ,6:00 p.m. 4:10 p.m. how he was making out on the <le«l. Today the sugar situation may course wouhl prodtue disturbances In ,18:12 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 5:00p .m :;Ar W ' Stayton Lv|g:jg ^ be summarized by stating that If “ Oh, I’ve quit,” he sntd In a tana ; Cuba and destroy even our present America will reduce Its sugar con of marked pleasure. “ You see. he I supplies, but beyond all these material sumption 10 to 15 per cent, this wrote for so many «letalls nnd ki>pt In reasons Is one of human Justlee. This •nation will be able to send 200,000 sisting on having more that I got tired great country has no right by th«« more soldiers to France. at last and wrote telling him If he might of Its jxisltlon to strangle Cuba would pay the freight both ways I Sugar today sella nt seaboard re- "Therefore there Is no Imitosltbni would ship the dam farm down to the Anerles at $7.25 n hundred pounds. upon the American public. Charges city for him to look at. and he never I’he wholesale grocer Ims agreed to have been made before this commit limit his pr«>At to 25 cents a hundred tee that Mr. Kolpli endeavored to ben answered my letter.” — Puck. plus freight, and the retail grocer Is efit the ra il font In refinery o f whl«*hJie supitosed to take no tnore than 60 cents wns mnnager hy this 34 cent Increase Tha Old Order Passath. a hundred pounda proAt. This regu In Ctthna price. ML Rnlph did not Ax What has become o f tho old fashion Think o f the price of grain ed man who was about to solve the lation wns mnde hy the food adminis the price. It does raise the price to a n d hay. Is it insured tration, which now asks the housewife the Hawaiian farmer about that problem o f per|>etual motion? And where Is the old fashioned w o to reduce sugar consumption as much amount. It doea not raise the profit of against Fire? If not in man who wore gloves that reached 11 s possible, using other sweeteners, th# California refinery, because their sure for four or six months only halfway to the end o f her Angers? nnd also reminds her that she should charge for refining Is. like all other re T H E GOST IS S M A L L Con anybody furnish Information pay no more than 9 centa a pound for finers. limited to >1.30 per hundred pounds, plus the freight differential on eoTvornlng the wlierenlKnits o f the old sugar. Control of Can# Refiners’ Profits. the established custom o f the traile. fnsliloned boy who wore mittens which 'Tintuedhuely npon the estab'lsh- “ Mr. Ralph has not on* penny o f In •«■«•re fastened to a long string?—Cht- ment o f the taod administration.” Mr. terest In that refinery.'' cs-iO rlemld. SESTAK & THOMAS, Fresh, halt & Cured M uts Lard & Creamery Butter. If in the M arket Chevrolet or Buick Four or Six 0 . M. B aker, Agent Kingston- Stayton- Salem Hamman Auto Stage FIRE! J. W . M A Y O SKATING SKATING At the Stayton Skating Rink Every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday Evening. Pacific Coast Defense League Coast present a solid front, striv ing to influence Congress to in augurate measures at the earliest opportunity for the accomplish ment o f this necessity. In the In the present request on the course o f the next few weeks part o f spruce prodcuers o f W est every chamber o f commerce, ern Oregon to the State Highway every civic club in Washington, Commission asking that the Oregon and California will be Commiision give immediate at asked to make favorable recom tention to the building o f a high mendation to their legislative way into Tillamook, such that and congressional representives spruce for aeroplane m anufact-: regarding this military system o f ure can be gotten out immediate highways. ly, L. J. Simpson. President o f I the Pacific Coast Defense League, Up at Mehama where they sees more vindication of the aims have 80 voters aud 110 Red Cross and objects o f the Pacific Coast members, there lives Susan Fen Defence League as it is organized ton. She is 74 years old. but she today. has knitted 11 pairs o f socks for "Tillam ook County is one of the soldiers, several pair o f wrist the most important sources of lets and made innumerable ban long grain spruce which is just dages, comforts, etc., for the now one o f the most important boys in the cantonements and at materials in the advancement of the front. She works steadily the cause o f liberty and world with her needle and scissors all freedom. Though Oregon is the time, and when some o f her thousands o f miles from the act friends told her she had done her ual scene o f conflict, it is in this part and should rest a while she way one o f the most important replied: "M y part is all I can do battlefields in the stand against for the boys in the trenches and the Kaiser” , said Mr. Simpson. for winning the w ar.” — Capital " A week ago the heavy rains Journal. made the already over-burdened EXECUTRIX’S FIRST NOTICE railroad to Tillamook practically useless. W e see in this, how the Notice is hereby given that Julia work of getting out spruce is Bach has this day been appointed ex burdened and hampered by obsti- ecutrix of the last will and testament cles which could have been avoid and estate of Peter S. Bach, deceased, ed had the work, which the Paci and has duly qualified as such, and all fic Coast Defense League is now persona having claims against said es tate are hereby notified to present the advocating, been accomplished same, duly verified, to Corey P. Mar before the war. O f course, this tin, Attorney at Law, 413 Masonic condition could not be forseen. ” Temple Building, Salem, Oregon, with " I t takes things o f this nature in six months from the date o f this to impress people with the real notice. Dated at Salem, Oregon this 29th meaning and the importance of day o f January 1918. the work that has to be done in JU L IA BACH. this connection.” Executrix o f the lost will and testa "W h e n the Pacific Coast D e ment o f Peter S. Bach, deceased. fense League began working for Corey F. Martin, Attorney for executrix. 5t5 a military highway or a system o f military highways along the entire Pacific Coast it is hardly theught that so soon would be staged a practical demonstration o f its basic idea.” "E v e n ts move quickly these days. From New York comes the story that the railroads them selves are urging manufacture, merchants and all people depend on short hauls to inauguarate motor transportation. In other words, from experiences o f war and from the actual necessity o f war are learning how entirely in adequate is our system o f trans portation under the imergency demands. The armies in the fields were the first to notice it. Now. other business and com merce finds how weak is its main support, nam ely;transportation.” "U n d e r these circumstances it is no idle dream to go a step fur ther and see what would happen in the case o f actual hostilities on the Pacific Coast. O f cou rse,' we do not face immediate danger 1 o f attack on the Pacific, yet, > must we again face the perils o f j unprepardness? W e are today doing, as a nation, what we would have done years ago had we thought the war even the slight est probability. Considering what has happened in the past year and what is happening, would it not be wisdom to look* at the sitiuation in a broader way than we have ever faced it before?” " W e are not a nation o f jingo- ists, and yet we cannot face the future with the same reckless ness and optimism which char acterised us as a nation hereto fore.” That in brief explains the why and the wherefore o f the Pacific Coast Defense League. W hat it wants is this: Immediate legis lation should be enacted author izing the survey o f a complete system of National Military High- j ways for the Pacific Coast, look-! ing to their constructic.i ns earlv 1 as consistent. Thai the cot timer- j cial organizations of the Pacific 1 ROBERT N. Stanfield O f Stanfield, U m atilla County Republican Candidate fo r United States Sena tor from Oregon. The man who be lieves in the devel opment of Oregon’s opportunities If you have not re ceived a complete copy of my princi ples write me at Stanfield. R.N. Stanfield <