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D i e r o n U ' I'll m .il STAYTON 25th. Year, No. 4 f Influenza Ban to be Lifted Railroad P ro je ct B efo re T h e Peop le & Serial No. \ \1 9 STAYTON, MARION COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1919 & I ) i I Ü Í ■S5 } * HOMEWARD BOUND I j $ The Man Who Ditched Germany f From the “ S P IK E R " o f January A Bjr Hon. C K un u jr M. D “ So long!” cried the Y»nk to the little poilu, (His troop ship rode high in the offing All ready to sail, over billows as blue As the cap that his cwnrade was doffing.) “ So long, little pardner, ‘America-Bound’ Is the watchword to which I am hiking; So mitt me, old boy. for 1 never have found A pard that was more to my liking." in L m I m ’« Wonkty 11 * { i m r Tuesday evening the city coun the year. There came to my mind just The next time I saw the cil A)et in regular session. Sev The new rate« were «ranted now, a little recrllection personal Emperor was several years after- eral matters o f importance came by the Public Service Comrnis to my * , f . which might be w,rth | °' all the before the meeting. Dr. C. H. aion with the understanding that J while narrating at this time. It seven seas had been gathered the « Brewer. City Health Officer, re the lighting service was to be » was some thirty years ago at a vast fleet o f the Island Empire, ported that the influenza epi improved at once. This how- , the Mistress o f the Seas, to greet hotel at Salzburg, in Austria. demic was well under control over, has not been done, It ' One day It was announced with their Queen on the sixtieth anni “ I f I hadn’ t come over I ’ d never have known versary of her reign. Suddenly and that the public schools will seems that the only alternative g That the folks on this side of the ocean ■ great excitement in the hotel that there appeared among them a be permitted to open next Mon for the town will be to reduce < the old German Emperor was fleet of. German war vessels, and Had national notions a lot like mir own B approaching. Soon he came in everybody was deeply interested. day February 10. It developed the number of lights used for I That sounded their depths of demotion. that there had been approximate street lighting unless a satisfac- | , accompanied by his staff and the Aboard one o f them was the I f I hadn’ t come over, I ’d never have found. ly 200 cases o f influenza within tory contract can l>e secured that ^ * present ex-Emperor, then a German Emperor who at that Though they always say “ m erci" to thank me. time was arousing the curosity tr e town at one time. The heulth will leave a iiortion o f the city . I young man. The old man was There's millions of Frenchmen, who take 'em all ‘round and apprehension o f Europe. officer also reported that all case* funds for general purposes. , feeble, but. when he saw the He came with the Prince o f Wales By nature could almost out-Yank me. except a few isolated ones were ft 1 crowd he braced up like a grena- to the ship where I was guest. The matter of ex|*ending the “ The home folks are waiting; I ’m ready to go e n t i t y well. It was also de j! dier and followed the iron bed- The Prince of Wales, as always, county road funds within the Without any urging or dragging. cided that the ban on public 1) stead which was always carried was most affable, polite and cor town was also taken up and a . In trousers civilian I ’ ll swagger, although dial. The Emperor wfas very meetings would continue for an j I with him upstairs. The next day committee appointed to look into * i' . ... j. . .. . .quiet and reserved until the The knees may be bagging and sagging. additional week, and upon public the Major-domo of the party, <;aptian o f our ship said, “ Your the legal status o f the matter Soon, safely ensconced in three-dollar room and private dunces indefinitely. with the knowledge from the Majesty, here is a new gun just A proposition for the construe I ’ ll feel like a pig in the clover; The usual bills were allowed secret-service which is so precul- invented! a rapid-firing gu n ." 1 ion of a municipal railreftd to The thought o f returning don’ t fill me with gleom, except the bill for street lighting iarlv German knew everybody in a ‘ n5ia1 nt whole atmos- West Stayton was also discussed. But say, pard, I ’ m glad I came o v e r!" for the month o f January which the hotel. He came to me and &here of. th* Emperor changed. Mr. George K. Beedle, • «resident _ « . .. He was all over that Kun, examin- was n arly double former bills. I discovered that he knew ali ecj every part o f it and then gave of the Brown-Petzel Lumber Co., This was due to the ruling o f the about me, as much as I aid my- cast orders to his fleet comman- presented a proposition, wherein Public Service Commission o f thej self. He said. “ The old gentle- der for its purchase. It was the town would loan its cr«slit State of Oregon authorizing an • man is in 9 very bad way and we j plain to see his whole thought for the construction (*f the road. jb le ." And then I had minil ^ m > !it a r y ?nd every increase in lighting rates. The are in trouble body said, For what? No one old rate was based on a 16 c. p Mr. C. Oehler, a construction an opportunity o f talking to the appreciated at that time that it lamp, and was as follows: First engineer from Portland, gave an staff and o f seeing the young was for the conquest of the light $1.26, second light $1 and estimate o f the cost o f construc world. man. all others others at the rate of tion and equipment o f the mad, A few years afterwards I was Transports from overseas are Under the leadership of John Two days afterwards the in Paris. The Emperor had It is estimated there is enough .entering our seaports and lying F. Lau. Stayton is to have an Major-domo came to me and said, 75c per light. made demands of France which I hc new nUU is 40w $1.25, 60w tonnage at the present time to at their docks, and every day dis orchestra composed o f local peo “ The Emperor is leaving to-day. would have led to war, and then $1.7"). 106w $2 60 and 200w $4.00* pay the interest on the loan and embarking a crowd of our boys ple, well known here for their There are two hunured English he demanded the dismissal o f the The first re in this hotel, and they are are all French Foreign Secretary o f for all night service. According reduce the principal some each in khaki. These young men will musical ability. Estimated increase in soon* be at their homes and the hearsal was held last Tuesday on the upper landing, each one State, something never known to this new rating for street year. Then he ask that he lights with the present number business would make it u paying question is. how shall we w el night with Miss Gladys Hamman with a bouquet, and a spokesman, before. should have bis hands free to as pianist, Dan Doll, cornetist, with an address, waiting for the o f lights in use it will require ap proposition from the beginning. come them? crush France. That was stopped With bands and parades and Roy Follis, trombon, and J. F. Emperor to come down, so they by the emphatic “ N o” o f his proximately the entire revenue A committee was appointad to o f the town from the general tax investigate the matter, and will meeting at tne town hall, if you Lau violinist. It is the inten can greet him.” There was only grandmother. Queen Victoria. will. These demonstrations of tion of this orchestra to give one other American family in But from that time to this there to pay tin- street lighting bill for report later. welcome are proper and fitting. weekly dances in the near future: this hotel beside my own, and we has never bten a moment when the French people have not look But what our young men will and to be ready to play for any had sent the old gentleman a ed with apprehension across the Soldier Returns To Farm. School Notice occasion where they are required, bouquet the day he arrived, and Rnine. There has never been a presently need is employment. I wrote a little address to accom- moment when there was not a Every man’s old job should be pany it. The Major-domo said j threat, when there was noc al- open to him whereever possible. The local schools will reopen Marion Hunt, who but recently thc ¡; nlperor was was very much most movement to cross the But as the regiments pour back, on Monday, February It), unless received his discharge front the pleased with that address, and it ^ I t l r 's c a l e ! something unexpected occurs, service and who has been visiting there-may be more work still .j___ * would be with my little part\ utterly crush Fra; The parents are earnestly re- with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, needed to fili the needs of the at the foot o f the lift, he would When I think of the Emperor quested not to start their child- j J, T. Hunt since that time, is men. And now eonr>s O. R. Hurting, there greet u§- The Emperor and what he was, and what he Each village and town#and city ren unless they are in good phy- now domiciled atfhe Beaver Glen should take stock o f its require president of tbe Oregon State was most ccrdial. The young had, an<^ what he might have sical condition. The loss of the st(>ck fa™* al Wal<1° hil>- Pre‘ Federation of Labor, asking the man. his grandson, who spoke been, having gained an economic , . , . . . . . . vious to his entering the service, mfents. both immediate and po _ , , , conquest o f almost the whole 0f shipping board to pay transport English few days o f school will be easily . . perfectly, interpreted. wor|d> and then I think how he , about three months ago, Mr. tential,, and use ev°r near ation for 5,003 men who are out I had a pleasant conversation! tarted for physical conquest offset by the more rapid gain *n Hunt was engaged in farming, instituting them at once, i f a of employment, to their homes. with him and formed a high idea and lost it all. and where he is physical strength under home He has spent his time at Fort school house o r an **n ine house These men only drew from $8 to of his ability, and then they went now, it seems below the dignity or any public building is needed, conditions. 1 Scott, California. —Statesman. $12 a day when they were work off. Half an hour afterwards o f the-occasion. but it inspires a now is the time to inaugurate it ing in the shipyards—which is the waiting English with their familiar limerick that I heard The good roads question is al many years ago: ways with us. Manufacturingof more than they ever made before bouquets discovered the royal Little Willie from the mirror in their lives and it seems to us party had gone. Licked the mercury all off, some local raw material into a that they could have saved The future of this young man j Thinking in his childish error finished product may possibly be It would cure his whooping enough ou* of their wages to buy at that time seemed very, hope undertaken. cough. a ticket ‘home. There are some less. His grandfather appeared Initiative in these directions A t the funeral W illie’s mother people in this world who have an likely to live for some time; his Sadly said to Mrs. Brown, will be the truest welcome to our unlimited lot of nerve. Well, father was in middle life and It was a cold day for Willie men. as long as the they may get by with it and in- likely to live When the mercury went down. Let us in Stayton be in In judging the Emperor, and duce Uncle Sam to shell out. his grandfather. and yet in six Accompanying the announcement by Secretary o f the Treasury front in undertaking any new months from that time his grand we are judging him now all over Carter Glass that the last issue of Treasury Certificates of Inclebt project to supply the additional father had died, the son had the world, we must remember He Didn't Advirtise come to the throne, and then in that when he entered into this ness has been oversubscribed by $11)2,500 comes the call for sub employment as it is needed. The day- of the peddler is past. three months he had died; so with war every man in the German scriptions to a new issue o f $(5,000,000,000 dated Jananrf 30, paya The familiar figure, short and in nine months that young mar. army was for it. and the General ble July 4, 1919, and drawing interest at 4A per cent. Books will became Emperor of Germany Staff was threatening him i f he heavy legged, built close to the close on the offer February 6. * Some years afterwards I was j did not declare it. We mo3t re The Twelfth Federal Reserve District’s quota is $42,400,000. ground, with a pack on his in London, and I was to dine 1 member that every Professorin shoulders is missing From the tvith an eminent English sthtes- the German universities wras for This district failed to reach its allotment in the last issue by public highways. The one horse man, Lord Rosebery, to meet Mr. I it; we must remember that every $2,400,000. The Chicago district hail the largest oversubscription, Gladstone. As I went in I found preacher in tl.e German pulpits exceeding its quota by almost $14,000,000. Minneapolis, St. Louis, The Mail is in receipt of a let and covered wagon outfit is also my friend, the host, in a high I was for it, and we must remem Philadelphia and New York also exceeded their allotments. state of excitement, and he said. ber that every man, woman and ter from Representative Hughes missing. The results bv Federal Reserve Districts arranged in order of of Marion County wanting to Why? ‘ ‘In Punch to-day is one of the child in Germany was for it. Th'e peddler didn’ t advertise, most extraordinary cartoons that All sorts of punishments are tbe percentage of subscription of their quotas in the last issue learn the views of the voters in offered or suggested. Physical Shears and Sawbuch and Slum- ever appeared in that paper. I follows: this section regarding the b'** w d *. ( - w ffettimr I have been down and bought the ] punishments amount to little. I QUOTA SUBSCRIPTION pertaining to the bonding of the p DISTRICTS . ‘ . original sketch.” He had it! read the story of Ravaillac, the $ 20 800 0OO $ 27 7<\0 000 state and changing the automo- the trade which at one time went hanging in his library as one of : assassin o f Henry IV, and how Minneaiiolis bile license. The bill is framed to the peddler. his choicest possessions, though [on the third day he commenced 84 000 000 97 774 500 Chicago th-.t thé and the tax ! Why? it was surrounded with priceless : to laugh and his torturerers said, 24 000 000 2(5 445 500 so that the license and the tax St. Louis works o f art. It was “ Dropping “ What are vou laughing a t? " 42 400 IKK) 43 5;53 500 Philadelphia gasoline will be such as to , - . The neddler never had a right of tho Pilot- ” There waa ! He said. “ You have destroyed 203 200 000 203 609 500 care for the bond issue, thus. New York . 1 . . picture of a great German ship sensation, I don’ t feel you ativ order nouses houses___ ¿nd 1 leaning smiling and «nnfMûni confident1 more." »* w,,* But the agony ..r of tuU the 52 000 090 49 090 500 climating any direct burden on to exist, rhe mail I order Boston have no excuse fur living but the ov,> r the rail was the youthful mind never dies. The Kaiser 42 400 000 •10 000 (MX) the taxpayer. We believe it is a San Francisco 54 400 000 60 400 (XK) Cleveland step in tho right direction and only manner in which this last face of the German Emperor, has six hundred years of ancestry j evil can be combatted is for the and down at the bottom of the I that he worships, six hundred 20 800 000 18 753 500 the bill should go through with local merchants to beat them a t : steps just going into the boat w as! years o f the greatest inheritance Richmond 24'0OO 01)0 18 108 B08 out opposition. Kansns City their own game. the discarded pilot— Bismarck, that ever came to a human being. 17 600 000 12 288 00) The difference between a pod- And the English statesman said. Like a gambler it was risked on Atlanta dler and the merchant who does “ In that picture there m aybe the throw of the dice and he lost, 14 4(<0 in :> 8 043 (MM) Da'las Southern w other spent a great not advertise is indistinguishable.1 more history and }>eril to and for the rest of his life, if he 4 000 (M K ) Treasury part o f the winter in the north They are L*oth back numbers, 1 Europe than in anything that lives ever so long, he lives amidst $r»iK) 000 coo $600 101 500 this year. both are has beens. Exchange.! has occured in this generation." sorrpw, regret and bitterness. i t OUR WELCOME STAYTON WILL TO OUR SOLDIERS HAVE ORCHESTRA WANTS U. S. TO 1 DIG UP TO THEM LAST ISSUE OF TREASURY CERTIFICATE OF INDEBTEDNESS HAS BEEN OVERSUBSCRIBED A GOOD THING PUSH IT ALONG » g ffV * S to X , ’ y