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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1918)
Foreign Advertising Represented by The American Press Association Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Stayton, Marion «County, Oregon. under the Act o f Con press of March 3, 1871*. Address all Communications to The Stayton Mail Country Correspondence From All Over The Valley Victor Point War Aspect at 0. A. C. Noticeable Another dance was given by the Victor Point Red Cross aux- j 0. A. C..Corvalli8, July, 10- A iliary at the F. A. Doerfier barn war aspect will be taken on by Saturday evening July 13th. A the Oregon Agricultural College large crowd was present. An next school year. Not only will other dance, the last for the sea the college give instruction to son will be given at the same hundreds of enlisted men sent to place Saturday evening the 20th. the institution by the government Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Jones and for special industrial training, family called on relatives at Un but students who enroll will be ion Hill Sundav evening. given an opportunity to prepare Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Doer- themselves for future military fler and the latter’s mother, Mrs. service. Skiff of Astoria, spent several Men who can merely use a days at the Martin Doerfier shovei. a pick or an axe or car, home. gro m horses or wash dishes, Otr. and Mrs. Orlo Humphreys are easy to find, but Uncle Sam OTii Ethel ar.d Arnott King mo is in particular need of special tored to Salem on Sunday even ists in ttchinal lines. The col ing to hvar Dr. Carl G. D o i i p v lege will not only give this train who recently returned from ing, but students will be urged doing Y. M. C. A. work in to join a military unit and by so France, 'and who spoke on war doing become members of th1" condition»in the American army army of the United States. For service in any branch of in France, the army or navy training is ne ¡Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Fisher and cessary. Most o f it car be had "Mrs Geo. Slagel ar.d daughters in this country as well as in spent Sunday with Mrs. Fisher’s sister, Mrs. Ed. Fa me:- of near France, and much can he obtain ed in a land-grant college to bet Dallas. Mrs. P. A. Caspell and Mrs. ter advantage than in canton Fred Caspell and children are en ments. Ali students over the age of Is joying an outing at Wilhoit. will be encouraged to join the Mrs. Roy Savage and little military unit which will be under daughter spent several.days of the direction of competent army : ast week at the W. N. Savage officers, although enlistments home. ^ will be voluntary. The men will Mrs. Phillip Fischer spent a be liable to active duty at the part o f last week in Sil vert on at call of the President. The policy tne Kleinsorge home, with her of the government, however, will daughter Miss Elva, who has be not to call the members of the been quite ill. She was sufficient- training units to active duty un recovered to return home Sun- til they have reached ftTlir age of 21 unless urgent military neces sity compels an earlier call. Students under 18 will be encour aged to enroll. Provisions will be made for co-ordinating the work of this unit with the re Miss Myrtle McLane is visit serve officers’ training corps ing Miss Ethel Schnaekenberg. system. The Mission dass will have a Mah^,mallow toast on the river- after' the lecture at the M. E. Rogue river canneries getting church Thursday July 18.' big salmon catches. Mr. and Mrs: J. O. Sandberg Eastern Oregon farmers cry and Miss Emma motored to Stay- ing for help to save harvests. ton Monday evening. Philomath to erect school ftev. R. M. Gatke returned to; house. Lyons Monday. He was accom North Bend shipyard foreman panied by a friend. has plans for a combination wood Ah:, and Mrs. G. D. Colby spent concrete ship. the week end in Salem visiting Salem —Highway commission relitfiVes. to pave 18 miles between here i r \Aoinay Gates motored to Sil- and Aurora. verjon one day this week. Southern farm hoy-club mem A|yrtle McLane. Ethel Schna- bers produced in 1917 food and cke|l)erg, Isabella and Dora Sur feed valued at $4.019,121, the de ry failed on Mrs. R. Trask the partment of Agriculture reports the/irst of the week. A totai of 115,745 boys were en F? A. Marriels is able to go to rolled in regular clubs in 14 States. t o work again. Mrs. L'ster Smith who visited There was a meeting held in the latf r part o f last week at the ttneiM. E. Church by the Amer Henry Smith hon e returned to ican Red Cross. There was an Eugene Monday, and left there account given of all the money Wednesday evening for southern obtained, how spent and the California where she will remain i^Himber of articles sent in. indefinitely so she can be near <Aramer is turning out high her husband woo is stationed near San Pedro. «■•¡ass nread at his old stand. Easr End Notes Titus has another car load of Sidyscribe for the Mail. .automobiles on the road. 9 P eyton Brand ■OVER Real Gravely Chewing Plug ■TH E ! TOP 10c a pouch — and worth it C r a v t ly la s lt t o m u ch lo n g e r it c o t t t no m a rt l o c h ow Ihan ord in a ry plu g Ser^t. ArtHur Guy EM PEY P . B . G ravai« T ob acco C um pa»/ D anvilla, V ir g o la uO Be Ready For IL A n Opportunity On0 o f tan hears, " I f / only had a little money I could make a fortune . " Why not be ready when op portunity hnochn at your door ? Plan to place in the bank a certain percentage o f your sal ary or business profits. Then when the main chance comes along you’ll be ready for it. Banking in every form. STAYTON STATE i' BANK F a rm ers & M erchants B ank o f , ta n S O regon o y Capital $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 .0 0 "H u rry up, madam,” shouted the butcher, w ho didn’t want to lose time. “ But what have you done with nil the oth er peop le?" was the startling Inquiry.— Loudon Times. 4 4 4 4 4 A 4 4 -> 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 A GOOD PLACE TO TRADE We carry a large line of dry goods, shoes, notions, gents’ furnishings, hats, caps and rubber goods, etc. OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT has a large line of fancy and staple groceries, canned goods, c.molvC cl meats. In fact ev- erything you will find in a first-class Merchandise store is to be found here at prices that are right. 9 GEHLEN’S STORE A piano teacher from Seattle, W hh I i . t hn* purchase I a home at We*t Stayton r. hik ! will take a limiteli num ber o f pu- > pile at autniner rate«, Keicrencc-i* * j < f, > * •, 4 A I furnished. I A * * 4 >4 4 ' 4 4 4 4 4 4 A A 4 4 ' ^ «ÿ Advertising Rates Made Known Upon Application «fr *2» «2* <* «G » «5» Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year in Advance Real Gravely Plug has been chewed for its real tobacco satisfaction ever since 1831. I t ’s made the good old Gravely way. •£• i* *3* ••• «Î* C* C* *5"J* «5» v C* «&«& C. E. DAUGHERTY, Editor ami Mumper Below is an editorial which ap- poiretl in a roc« lit issti«* o f Dap pers weekly and it is worth pass ing on in our estimation. The American who has not felt a sorin' of pride sweep over him as he has watihed the nation Ret into its war stride these last few weeks, has a patriotism below ^rm al As a people at w ar, we have struck our Kbit. The world 1 is amazed and so are we. We are breaking precedents’ daily and doing the ‘ 'impossible" fre quently. It amounts to a wonderful dem- 1 onstration of efficiency by a great With democracy actuated by one com- j mon purpofe. Its driving force 100 million will power strong. U ( Himself ) means the certain defeat of that otner kind of efficiency, the slave Su p porla«! b y l o l l M a r o d itk . J a t u a t M o r r i s o n nn«l driven efficiency, of the iron fist. * A n AII*Stnr C n ol ¡flx months ago we were like a giant slowly awaking. Our train ing camps were not supplied, our LIBERTY T h t A I R L men were not equipped, the sub SAUM marine was sinking ships faster Thursday, Friday acd than all the world could build Saturday them. Washington was strug July 18 . 1 9 , 20 gling with a task o f such mag nitude that Europe considered its achievement impossible. And apparently we were getting no VITAGRAPH’S where with it. M A R V K I O I S rU O TO ri A T Then the president and the o r E M P f c Y‘ S people got together. Red tape W O E I iv r A H O I ’ S BO O K methods were cut. Such execu tive and administrative geniuses as Stettinius. Schwab, Goethals. Baruch and Hurley were called in. Order came nut of chaos. D E M O C R A C Y V S . F IN E W R IT IN G America’s great war engine be The L s t te ' Is. Btyor>d All Question, gan to move. Dependent Upon the Respect Six months ago we hail only o f the Former. 187,928 troops in Europe. Amer I iln ti.,t :iL'r 't* w ith th«> p«***lml*tB ica’s ’ ’contemptahly small army" * h o think thiit it i I«- i i i i c i vi l i za the Prussian war lords called it. I tion Is n,-i- — • rlly jyi cn cin y to title It is now well over a million and •A-rltlie.- f th • pu l,lie lle n r v Seidel w rites in the ( ’ n tu ry. Si«ch e riile s increasing more than 100.0J0 a U nderrate th e e h a lle lire w h ich th ese week. By January 1, we shall m illion s o f i.i'e.ds to he re a ch e d and have 3 million men under arms sou ls to !>,. to u c h 's ! HIM t p o s s e s s that w riters. Ilk.* a cto r s, n rc In sp ired b y a the finest army and the fightinest c ro w d e d h ouse, army the world ever saw. lint tin- th ou gh t end the labor and I:i the meantime, while supply (he pitin tii it Me behind good writing increasing that fast are doiiMy dllTtenlt In an atm osphere in g and o f e-a-v tolerance and go,*! natured growing army. America’s "em eonth-s -elision on the part o f the battled farmers’ ’ have sent hun rentiers o f th>* com pleted work. dreds of shiploads of w heat and The lit,vt I Is tile t'-st ease for detnrv era tie lit, rntnre. W e cannot tifTord to beef to our Allies, and G million pny its pt- t-'lfloners wltlwensh merely, pounds of food to starving Bel for cash discrim inates in tpiantlty and gium. And our great bridge of little more. Saul ami David were Judged by the numbers o f their thou l>oats across the Atlantic is car sands sla in ; Imt the test w as a crude rying bigger loads every day. one for them tintl cruder still In fiction. We are building more ships and We cannot afford to patronize these building them faster than was novelists as our nnedstors did before By New Years us. Not prizes or endow m ents or ever done before t sit eric w orship or. certainly, m ore ad a million tons a month will be vertising Is what the Am erican novel coming from our shipyards. ist requires, hut a greater res|iect for W'e are financing the ally na his craft. The Kllznhethan playwright was fre tions and ourselves at the rate quently despistsl o f the learned world, of more than 2 billion dollars and. If a favorite, not always a re spected one o f the vulgur. Strange every ¡10 days, a ratio of expendi flint learned and vulgar nl"ce should ture never before reached and repent the fallacy In dlsprulslng the maintained in w’orid history. nre-emlnently popular art o f our own Through the American Red tim es! T o Sir Francis Bacon “ H am let" w as presumably only a play nctor’s Cross, sustained by American play. If the great Am erican story humanity and supported by A-! should arrive lit Inst, would we not merican dollars, we are conduct call It "on ly h n ov el"? ing the greatest mission of mer Cares fo r W ar Dog Veteran*. cy since the Son of Man came W ar dogs d is ch a rg e '^ from active among us. strv ice with glorious w<mn»ls arc be In Berlin, in that country where I ing cured for h.v Countess Yonrkeydt h In charm ing surroundings In the Kite the blind are leading the blind, a Ohauvenu, Neully-sur-Selne, reportk a noted German newspaper recent- \ - Baris dispatch. 4 4 T h e Old Brigade Includes Pax, who ly printed this prophetic warn- 1 * fou r times saved his muster’s life ; ing; "B ew areof a war carried on 4 Dick o f the Som m e, who had a leg am with all the business calm of the * putated a fter a h eroic e x p lo it; D ick American, with all his creative of the Yser. w hose regimental officers energy, all his purpcwful cool- * Jecorated hltn with the C roix Ue Guerre. ness, and his all-embracing or- % A ltogether the countess Is caring for ganization,’ ’ -4 nearly six hundred dogs who have been This is the writing on the wall * the devoted com panions o f stretcher bearers and the friends o f the poilus. and at least one German has seen •> Already these faithful heroes are and interpreted it. fastin g as a result o f foot! restrictions It foretells the doom of militar- and with the m ore severe regim e of bread cards there are fresh cloud* isjp, the dawn of a new and bet gathering tin their horizon. ter world. The American people have had Her Horrible Suspicion. We are all in be oversusplclous. Just the vision of "the coming of the now, o f everything anti eve ryhody. An Lord.’ ’ They are "tramping out Instance o f this regrettable tendency the vintage where the grapes of Is furnished by an edifying food queue 'I hey are Hiory which Is going the rounds here wrath are stored.” A q u e u e hail form ed up outside a marching on to end all war, to butcher’s shop in a London suburb and. save a blood-soaked world! In order to make things isisier for all A Was there ever a more glorious 4 concerned, the shopman adopted the plan o f letting his custom ers in in par time to live, a more glorious her ❖ ties o f eight or ten, and o f letting them itage than simply to bean Amer 4 ♦ out from the rear n f his premises. ♦ One old woman, notlcTlg that, though ican citizen. ♦ many went In, none cam e out, marveled ♦ greatly, and, when It cam e her turn to 4 M R S. E. M . G IL B E R T enter, she hesitated about doing so, 4 Kr ALEXANDER A: DAUGHERTY, Owners nad l ‘ubhs!nrs *5» «2» *C# C* ^2* S T A Y T O N M A I L l I # ♦ V T M •-C Hitting Our Stride