4» If istorie»«! THE STAYTON MAIL 25th. Year, N o. 14. 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 , APRIL 10. 1919 DEPUTY ASSESSOR RECEPTION FOR THE NEWLY WEDS , GRANT MURPHY BEGINS W O RK A reception tendered in honor o f the newh wedded couple Mr. and Mra. C. P. Niebert, by the immediate neighbora o f the couple, waa held at the home of Mra. J. R. Gardner thie week. The affair waa given by Mra. C. A. Luthy, Mra. 0 . E. Gardner and Mra. J. K. Gardner. The houae waa beautifully de corated in Oregon Grape and bridal wreath. Each lady present gave a per sonal gift to the bride, while the gentlemen presented the groom with remembrances. The pre sentation speeches which all were required to make proved t ^ h entertaining and amusing. The time waa spent in playing the well known game of “ M ill." Miss Maryan Alexander favored them with several musical selec tions. and at a laic hour all were invited to the dining room. This was tastefully arranged with a large wedding bell being suspended from the ceiling, and festoons of white gracefully fal ling to the corners of the table, being caught up with a tiny bunch of mvrtle. In the center o f the table was a large Angle Food cake, which was served by the bride, togethei with punch. DIED Mrs. Myrtle Sullivan, died at the Oregon City hospital on April 7th, pf pneumonia. Deceased was born at Mehama Sept. 15. 1883. She was married in 1902 to Roy Sullivan. To this union five children were born. Be sides tr.e husband and children she leaves a father, mother and sister and one brother to mourn her loss. The funeral was held at Mill City Wednesday afternoon with Rev. Warren officiating. She was a kind and affectionate wife and loving mother. We wish to thank the many friends who so kindly assisted us in our sad hour and also for the beautiful floral efferings. Roy Sullivan and children A MID WEEK PARTY The Alexander home was the scene of a delightful party last Tuesday night, when a crowd of young people, at the invitation o f Miss Maryan Alexander, gath ered to enjoy an evening o f real fun. The evening s p e n t in music, games, etc., is one that wjll live long in the minds of those present. At a late hour a very dainty lunch was served, consisting of ice cream, cake and chocolate. Those enjoying the evening were: Misses Cacilia and Clara Mielke, Wava Brown, Silva Ses- tak. Ruth Roy, Gladys Hamman. Cary Ruble, Messrs Edwin War ren, John Clark, Edwin Keech, Caryl Ruble. Norval Fisher, Roy Follis and the hostesses, h^iss Maryan Alexander and Mrs. Wm. Perry. • * CENTENARY A Centenary Rally will be held in the M. E. Church on Friday th.* 11th, at 8 p. m. A number of urominent speakers will pres ent including Rev. T. B. Ford, D. 1).. Rev? R. Avison, D. D., of First church, Salem; Dr. H. J. Talbot, president o f Kimball Col,eg.' ond others. No charge for admission. Everybody wel- cc.ne. NINETEENTH WED SOCIAL LIFE IN DING ANNIVERSARY NEW YORK SHOWN Of MOVING PICTURE Last Tuesday night a party o f SEND ME THE BILL i will commence aeeeeehig in this district this week, and hi order that the public might be better informed about the asses sing and tax situation, I have decided to make a general state ment regarding th e. conditions surrounding this office. I presume thst most people know that the n lary paid to the deputy sserisenrs is not sufficient to induce anyone with ordinary business of their own to do the work without some public spirit in connection with it. In order thst I msy not have to take the time to explain the reason o f high taxes to every one I meet. 1 will explain the tax situation in our local com munity. You may obtain the facta in regard to the different school districts, road districts, city and town levies as well as the state at large by refering to the back side of your tax re ceipt. You will And that the fruit and berries, the bearing special school levy in district 77 and non-bearing to be listed sep Apple trees, Cherry is 16.6 mills, this together with j arately. trees, peach trees, pear trees, the county school levy o f 2.4: prune trees, walnut trees, logan mills makes a total of 19 mills berries, blackberries and rasp for school purposes in this dis berries. Strawberries and other trict. The city levy for the fruits and nuts. town o f Stayton is 3.5 mills and Any owner, lesasor or operator road district 32 is 5.7 mills. The of land the managing agent or general county levy for road officer o f any firm, corporation purposes is 4.2 mills. All the t or association, owning, leasing money raised from these levies or operating land in this state is used in our local community which is devoted, in whols or in and with the exception of the part to the commercial • gro* th county county school and county o f culture of agricultural and road levies are matters which horticultural products, who shall are passed upon by the people refuse or fail to furnish the as every year. There has been some complaint sessor with such a list or state about the values on real proper ment Ss is provided in this act, ty, yet I am unable to see where when called upon so to do by the we will get any relief from a assessor, shall be subject to the taxpaying standpoint by reduc same penalty for such refusal or ing our values. We will take failure as is or may be provided for example a piece o f property by law for refusal or failure to located in the town o f Stayton furnish a list or statement of valued at $100, adding together taxable property. I wish to do the assessing this all our local levies we have spec year as much to the inteiestof ial school levy 16.6 mills, county this district as possible and will school levy 2.4 mills, city levy give the work the same carefull 3.5 mills, general road levy 4.2, a attention that I have in the past total of 26.7 mills. The county May I ask your co-operation. levy is 5.9 mills and state levy Grant Murphy, is 3.1 mills, a total of 9 mills. Deputy Assessor Marion Co. On the basis of $100 valuation we i>ay $2.67 in local taxes and MT. PLEASANT ITEMS. 00c, for county and state taxes combined. It will readily be Frank Senz peturned home last seen from a close examination week from Vancouver a f t e r o f these figures that a reduction 1 spending several months with in values will not materially ef Uncle Sam. fect our taxes, as it will require Effie Ray spent the week end about so much money to run the schools, conduct our city govern with home folks, returning the ment and build our roads. A re first o f the week to her work at duction in values of say 10.25 or McMinville. even 50 per cent will mean a Mamie Laux of Albany visited corresponding increase in our lo at the H. Senz ranch over Satur cal levies. And it seems to me day and Sunday. that it is a better policy to main Marguerite Ryan returned to tain our present values which her home Sunday after visiting have been a standard for the friends and relatives at Rainier past 6 years and keep our levies and Aberdeen, Wash., the past as low as possible than to lower two months. the value? and be obliged to in Master Raymond Shank met crease our levies. with the misfortune to get one The State Legislature enacted of his hands caught in a wheel a law requiring a statement for of a car while spinning, fractur the State o f Oregon Agricultural ing the bones o f two fingers. and Horticultural statistics for D r Brewer dressed the hand and 1919, and I earnestly request all Raymond is now doing nicely. persons or firms owning or oper Mra. Roxie Shank and daugh ating a farm to be prepared to ters, and Frank Senz were Al answer the following questions: bany visitors Thursday of last State whether renter or owner, week. total number o f acres in farm Linn Lambert -purchased two and the numlier of acres In the fine Holstein cows at Portland foilwing crops: Winter wheat, Sunday. spring wheat, oats, barley, rye, Wm. and Angeline Ryan were corn, clover, alfalfa, wild or week end visitors at the Capitol marsh hay. other hay crops, po city last week. tatoes. other root crops, field Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brenner peas, teld beans, other crops, the total number o f acres of and little daughter spent Sun- Serial No. 1144 The less desirable side o f so cial life in New York—or of any great city- la shown in " A Des ert W ooing," which stars Enid Bennett and which will be shown at the Star Theatre Saturday night, April 12th. This is a Par amount picture,. another way o f saying that it ia perfect, and a Thomas H. I nee production. The heroine is a girl raised in the synical and unhealthy atmos phere o f the so-eslled smart set and only when she meets a real man from the boundless West does she develop the side o f her character that has remained hid den. the decent side. She is taimed and tried in the fire and at last conceives the overween ing passion for her husband that is born o f an actual mating. Jack Holt plaVs opposite Miss Bennett in this Aim. SELLS TWO FARMS “JOAN” THE WOMAN COMING TO THE STAR Two more farms were sold last week. The W. N. Brotherton farm of one . hundred , , „ and „ forty seven acres in Jordan-Valley was sold to Frank Rohwein, and — the Neibert farm o f one hundred and twenty-two acres north of Sublimity was sold to C. For- rette. Both sales were made by Geo. A. Smith, real estate man of Stayton. Manager Luthy, o f the Star Theatre, feels justly proud ia.be- ing the presen tor o f this, the most magnificent, the really per- fect picture, that has been pro*- duced in kinematography, one that comes to us at a time when the topic of patriotism is upper most in the mind o f every one. The amount spent in produc ing this play was tremendous, the time consumed in its filming ‘AMARILLY” OF CLOTHES LINE ALLEY X friends gathered at the home o f Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Missler, th« occation being their 19th wed ding anniversary, the 16th birth day of their son Gale, also th« birthday of Mrs. O. E. Gardner. With much solmnity a mock wedding ceremony was perform ed. reuniting the pair in the holy bonds of matrimony by J. R, Gardner. The remainder o f the evening was spent in general jollification, after which the wed ding cake was served by Mrs. Missler and the birthday cake by Mrs. Gardner. Those present were: Mr. and Mra. M. J. Crabtree. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Crabtree. Mr. and Mra. O. £ . Gardner, Mr. and Mra. J. P. Wilbur, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Elder. Mr, and Mra. C. P. Neibert, Mr. and Mra. Alva Smith and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Luthy and daughter Zelma, Hilda Trask, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Missler and family. There is much artistic talent among the students and it is ex- that there wi„ ^ a good number o f competitors in the contest. John Clark enrolled in the high school last Monday. The Domestic Science class has completed the chapter in their text on Meats. During- their study, the girls had lessons on the various ways of cooking meat, and then spent some time on how to prepare "left-overs” to make nice appetizing dishes. During Burgess F. Ford's re cent visit here, he signed the contract with the board for the principalship o f the S t a y t o n schools next year. * James Mielke visited the H. S. last Friday afternoon. Prospects are very bright for a good base ball team this spring. The high school chorus has be gun the practice o f the songs in the Opretta which it is their in tention to give before the close Mary Pickford is a scrub-girl, her mother is a washerwoman, and her brothers are newsboys. She has refused an offer o f mar riage from a gilded society youth, and is going to marry a bartender. Not in real life, o f course, but in “ Amarilly o f Clothes Line Alley.’ ’ an Artcraft picture, which is declared to be the most amusing photoplay she has ever appeared in. The society youth falls in love school Albert "R ed ’ ’ Croisant enter with Amarilly and Mary and her folks from the slums meet the ed school Monday to take up four hundred, resulting in ex post graduate work until the end of the term. tremely funny situations. Amarilla of Clothes Line Alley Mrs. Wm. Allis presented the will be shown at the Star Thea 7th and 8th grades with a beau tre Sunday night, April 13. tiful bouquet of currants, one ■ ' " ■■ hi ...... . -■■■ lstst W06k. Those attending the good roads The gth )?rade ig very bugy re_ meeting at I^ebanon last Monday vjewjn{f their physiology text from Kingston, were. H. Mont- 8in ce they are soon to take gomery. J4. C. Huber, H. Shank. the the stase gtase examjnatjon in that Joe Senz, B. F. Darby, John subject. Sandner, Jr-, n Sr dK ner’, ► Helen Richardson told the best A. McKenzie, ^ T. O. Archer a„ y o f the pupih in the O. M. Baker. Kingston people 4th grade so she had the privi are interested in gcod roads. lege o f going into Mrs. Creeche’ s Mr. C. H. Baldwin left last room and telling it over again to Wednesday for Grants P a s s , The pupils ih the first and second where he will take charge of a grades. Roy Mack has received the men’s furnishings store. Mr. most stars so far in his grade, Baldwin has had much of experi for being neither absent nor ence in that line end will no tardy this year. doubt make good in his new po The 1st grade has finished sition. their study of single sounds and are now studying words ending I in the silent " e ” and double sounds. Hilda Marking spelled down the 2nd grade without missing Cacafia — any spelling word given Febru ary and March. The primary grades are learn Roy Follis, manager o f the ing the note names in music. Senior class play that is to be The 2nd grade has just finish given in the near future, has of fered a reserved seat ticket to ed putting their cat stories in*o the high school ptudent who can note books. They alss now have present the best poster to be new number note books, with used in advertising the play. the tables and combinations. $ longer than perhaps any other picture, the number of real film stars who participa fed greater than in any other production that was ever shown, the set tings m<Jbe elaborate, etc., but not in these things lies the worth of picture. This play has .been compared with Jhe now famous address of President Wilson, made to the senate and house on April 2nd, both are a direct appeal to every living patriot to gird himself and step forth in defense of human ity. He, in a most scholarly way, DeMille in a tense and spectacular manner. day at the P. H. Lambeft home. John and Lyle Leitz were Sun day visitors at the Mrs. Roxie Shank home. Crystal Shank spent Monday at the H. A. Shank ranch. August Kloer left one day last week for Eastern Oregon. J. C. Huber. Joe Senz, H. A. Shank and Howard Montgomery attended the road meeting at Lebanon, Monday night. I SCHOOL NOTES Melke Editor