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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1918)
THE STA TIO N MAIL Has the Largest Circulation of Any 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 , JU N E 6, I9J8. ¿4th. Year, N o. 23. Special Election Monday Letters From Mr. Witherrite Soldier Boys Dies Suddenly Serial N o. 1164 THE DELICACIES- • Territorial Annexation to be Voted on~PoI!s will be Open from a. m. to p. m .- * Every one Should Vote Manitau N. Y .- May 17, 1918 Barton M. W itherrite aged 55 Of the Season as well as the more Dear Mother, years died about 9:30 Monday As I have moved again I will 9 6 morning at the residence of Mrs. Staple articles of diet can always be write ^ind tell yqu where 1 am. A. J. Chance at North Santiam. found at prices that are the most Mr. W itherrite resides with his There are only eight men at this post, a Sergeant a Corporal and mother at Jefferson but was em reasonable at Perhaps the most important question ever submitted to the ployed by Dave Burnett in a pil six privates. There is no night legal voters of Stayton will be voted on next Monday, June ing camp at North Santiam. On guard at all. We have to patrol arising Monday morning he com about about ten miles every day.’ 10th. This place is just across the T M I S T O R E T H A T U N D E R S E L L S B E C A U S E IT S E L L S F O R C A S H On page 3 of this issue of the Mail will be found the no plained of not feeling very well Hudson river from the main but thought it would wear off in a tice of election which is self-explanatory. short time so went to work as us camp. We live in an old dwelling T he polls are to be open in the territory proposed to be ual but got so sick in a short time house owned by an old rich fel annexed at the George Kerch garage on the county road lead-! he was compelled to quit work so low who lives a short distance he took his^team to the barn and from our house. ing from Stayton to Sublimity. Every legal veter residing within the territory proposed to put them away and on going to There is not much town here just one store a depot and post- W e are n ow B u y in g be annexed should go there to vote. T h e polls will be open the house took to vomiting and in office. a short time passed away. at 9 a. m and will close promptly at 6 p. m. We are allowed a dollar a day lie sp( nt Sunday with his uncle T he voting place inside the corporation will be at the City Mr. Gunsauks near West Stayton for mess and buy most of our Hall across th i street from Beauchamp's Drug Store. Vjfrers and f*dt as well as ever. His groceries at the store. There are a few houses but not death comes as a shock to the residing within the corporate limits ^hould go there ttrvote. many people living in them. community. He leaves to mourn In a n y q u a n tity and paying th e Valuable rights are to be voted on at this election and I will stop my scratching before his loss his aged mother and one every voter snould make it a special point to go to the polls H ig h est m a rk e t Price. 1 spoil all my paper. brother. and vote. Your lov ing son. s fu n e ra l service were conducted Second H a n d Sacks If the questi >n of annex ition is not carried in both places by liev. O m o from the Metho Fred Henkel the residents in the territ ry pioposed to be annexed will be de dist church in Jefferson Tuesday prived of city water, lire protection, and electriw lights, which afternoon, interment was in the ('amp Lewis Wash.—May 23, 1918 Dear friend Miss Crabtree, are now furnished by the town, and the people residing within Jefferson cemetery. At last the mystery is w.lved. the corporation wiil be obliged to pay the entire city tax in the I received the sweater but there STAYTON OREGON future, therefore it is entirely a mutual proposition that the being no name on the return I measure should carry in both places. did not kno v who to write to and All voters who are not certain as to whether they live thank for it. Your good letter French horses and we couldn’t came^oday and it sure relieved do much with' them, they were, within the territory proposed to be annexed or within the cor The Howell Bee Hive club are my to know who the good people poration should make it a special point to find out before the wilder than jack rabbits as they making elal>orate preparations were. day of election. have been up to the front before for a grand picnic on Flag «lay. 1 wish to thank you and the and had awfully bad tempers so which is Friday June 14. to b? t good people of Stayton for their I got out as fast as I got in. I Notice is hereby given to the son is aged two and a half, and given at the Howell school house. generosity. told you in my other letter that voters i f School district his joyous, ¡spontaneous acting, There will be patriotic addresses, 1 want to say here that if fifty I had transferred to the 147th I ~7 Marion County, State which to him is no more than a Director Donald Crisp, who new game he is playing, has dedication of the community ser per cent of the United States think. We couldn’t go back to of Oregon, that the annual school the our old outfit. supervised the making of Geerge brought him already into screen vice flag and amusements of dif were as patriotic a s meeting of said district will be ferent kinds. Two quilts will be ladies of Stayton it would not Bernans’ newest Paramount pict prominence at an age when most The weather is awfully cold held at Stayton High School to take us long to "make the world here as we are 3000ft. above the begin at the hour of 2 o clock p. ure. "Lost in Transit” which is future actors are still peacefully auctioned off. Dinner will be served on the safe for Democracy." to be shown at the Star theatre chewing ivory rings. sea. It rains or snows most m-on the third Monday in June grounds, refreshments will also • The life of a soldier is more on Saturday declares that "Bob every day and I will be glad being fche 1/th day of JuneA . D. be for sale, proceeds are to be than the civilian population real W hite," the youngest actor in when they take us out of here t o ; 1918. used to purchase material for the izes. A month in the U- S. army the Tank School, for it is lo ts1 This meeting is called for the the cast is one of the cleverest actors of his experience and needs Persons having hogs for sale Red Cross. Everybody come, a any fair minded man will say warmer down in the lowlands, alL Purpose of electing one school that after we have won the war the trees were leafing out when director for three years and ore far less truining than most of his or who will have soon, call or good time assured. th at young America will be better we came there and nothing has 8Cbool clerk for one year and the elders. see L. A. Thomas. Phone 344. j The Woolen Mills Co. is now mentally, morally and physically. This is perfectly natural, how . transaction of business usual at started up here y e t Subscribe for the Mail. buying Wool and Mohair. ever, for "Bob W hite" an actor’s I have been transferred from such meeting. Kieth Kenyon. Company 16, 166th Depot Brigade | Dated this 17th day of May to Infirmary No. 3. You may not J 11918. Henry Smith. know what infirmary is so I will Chairman Board of Directors.* tell you. An irfirmary is an em A ttest ergency hospital and army drug All Delineator subscribers who W. A. Weddle. Clerk. store. 1 made application for ordered their magazines through . Where Bishop All-Wool Clothes are Sold this as soon as I got here but ju st Dolls Cash Store will call a t Starrs Married. got i t 5-10-15 and 25 cent store from We are called in the morning now on and get their Delineator. Sunday morning, at 9 o’clock. by a bugle at 5:45 a. m. We In another column of the Mail | ¡n the M. E. church, the pastor, have good, well prepared food and plenty of giod practical exer will be found a petition signed by j Rev. W. J. Warren, united by cize. so there is no reason why the businessmen and residents of marriage Margaret Delia Cham- this community asking that all berlain and Benjamin Chamber- we should not be healthy All the men that I came up here business houses close from 7 to 10 |ain. in the presence of only im- with from Eugene have been p. m. Monday evenings. This is mediate friends, transferred to other camps purely a patriotic move, the way | The wedding party was served i Some went to Florida, some to signatures poured in manifested ’ an excellent dinner at the home California, Indiana and Michigan. the loyalty and patriotism of th e ! 0f Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Watters, IT ISN’T SO MUCH A MATTER OF WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD The groom is in the late army The Y. M. C. A. is sure doing business of the community. This to pay for clothes as what you can’t afford to waste. You want to is the flight the Company of the draft and expects to be called great work in the army both in be as well dressed as ever at the least possible expense. It’s a sign Oregon Guard meets. soon. U. S. and abroad. of American loyalty. Again I want to thank you and the ladi°s of Stayton and if 1 ever Here at fhts store we sell all-wool, well tailored Clothes of the get a chance at the big family of finest quility: They’ll wear a long time and keep their shape; save devils in Germany there wiU be your money. You’ll be as well dressed as you’ll care to be. They’ll no more autocracy in the world. be - Yours for the U. S. A. E. T. ifakely MARKETERS GROCERY COMPANY General Merchandise WOOL MOHAIR Good for Sale Custom Carding Done WILBUR WOOLEN MILLS CO. Howell Service Flag Picnic Notice of Annual School Meeting Young Screen Sb.r Farmers» Attention Notice [QUALITY HEADQUARTERS Buy Good Clothes, you can’t afford any others THE LATEST - BISHOP ALL WOOL SUITS $20 Our M in 's Shoes Wear TO $35, HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX $25 TO $40 SALEM WOOLEN MILLS STORE SALEM OREGON Good Shoes France- April 22, 1918 Dear Mother and Bros., 1 got your welcome letter a few davs ago and you can imagine how glad 1 was to hear from you. It was the first mail I had received since I came over. I got one from dad and four from Lenora. Those letters were more wel come to me than pay day. I would have answered sooner but I have been pretty busy as I now'belong to the Heavy Tank Co. 1 and a lot more were trans ferred from the 147th I did’nt like it there at all, as they had Did you see the line of Crepe de Chine we are showing? If not you are cordially invited to look them over. * We buy eggs for Cash or Trade. TRY W. F. KLECKER. ‘ NOBODY. UNDERSELLS US ESTABLISHED 15 YEARS -i I