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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1919)
THE STAYTON MAIL ELECTRIC STORM STARTS GENERAL PERSHING SAILED FROM FRANCE TUESDAY SIX NEW FIRES ON General Pershing sailed from SANTIAM FOREST Brest, France Tuesday morning The electric Htorm of Monday night in the Santiarn forest sec tion set six new fires according to a report from C. C. Hall of the Santiarn National Forest Re serve. The fires are of a dan gerous character ns they are close to a large amount of valu able timber. The big fires beyond Cascadia on the Moose Creek and Henline Mountain on the Little North Fork were Ireyond control the first of the week. Notice comes from the head office at Portland that it will be considered trespassing to build a fire within the National Forest Reserve without a permit from the government ranger from September 1st to 30th inclusive. Mr. Hall says that this is one of the nost difficult years to con trol fires known in the history of the service. I,ack of men to as sist in carrying out the plans of the management, is a great trou ble. A large amount of timber has been destroyed in Linn county, but the loss cannot be estimated ju st now for the United States and it is expected that he will land in New York on Sunday morning, Sept ember 8th. He will spend a few days in New York before going to Washington where he will con fer with the war department. jen J ohn ] P ershing General Pershing will lead the big parades in New York and Washington of the First Division that has been prepared for his welcoming. A fter the parades the General will visit his old home in Missouri. FARMERS & MERCHANTS BLACK BEAR IS KILLED BANK OF STATON TO IN JORDAN DISTRICT HAVE LARGER QUARTERS We notice the following item in the Salem Crpital Journal of Wednesday: The Farmers & Merchants bank of Stayton, has outgrown its present quarters and today F. A. I s*gg. architect, is in conference with the officers of the bank, as sisting them in drawing plans for a new bank building. A hunting party composed of Thos. Phillips, Chas. Barrett. John Shelton, and Alfred Broth- erton, all of Jordan, went out on a bear hunt Monday. The.boys soon unearth a big black one and set the dogs after him. Mr. Bruin would not tree but tackled the dogs and put up a good scrap. He finally took to the bush and was lost for a time. He was found by Alfred Brotherton who jumped right onto the bear in getting over a log. It was a standoff to see which was scared the most, Alfred or the bear. Alfred 8 coat tails snapped and the bear’s tail wiggled as they parted. The bear was finally snot by B arrett and Shelton. FRITZ' S PRAYER E. F. COLLIER It used to be, “ Der Kaiser, hoch!” “ God safe der Vaterland!” But vays and vords and veepings, too, Have changed to beat der band! 'Tiss now, “ Gott safe der vater, blease! Please, Blease!” ve groan und cry, “ For eferyding, most eferyding Ve drink ist going dry! Der kegs und barrels, nice und full, Und bowls und bottles high. Decanters, jugs, und pewter mugs. Haf alius gone, for vy? Der schooners, too, vot crossed der bar, Mit sniny foam piled high. No longer pass, fer now, alas. Der bars haf all gone dry! Most efery day I kneel und bray, “ Gott safe der life of Fritz; Und share hiss comrades. Seipp und Pabst, Hudveiser, Blatz qnd Schlitz! Yah! Share my friends, my kultur friends! Und share my brewing stock! Und safe der Rhine! Ve’II need it ven Ve hafT no barrel Bock! “ Of if to heafen I must go To lif mit jewels rare. Some Edelveiss I hope you keep On ice fer me up dere! If old Anheuser cannot come, If Pilsen should get lost, Or Schoenhofen get sidetraeked— My heafen, vot a cost! “ So ven at last I haf to leave Mv home in Milwaukee, To march my feet in Baradise, Vere Deutchers all should be— I vant a hope vine by my door, A cellar full of malt, So dot if I should haf no beer It vould not be your fault!” HE DOCTORS AUTO’S STAYTON SCHOOLS WILL UGHTSW1TH HAIRPIN OPEN SEPTEMBER 15TH A common wire hairpin in the Everything is in readiness for hands of F. M. Arnold, mechani cal genius, has given mere man the opening of the S t a y t o n schools, on Monday, September a new way out. The well known assistant cash fifteenth. A full corps of teach ier of Cusick & Co.’s bank had ers had been signed up, but one wondered away from the party of the teachers in the first and The deer season opened Mon of Albany people with whom he se« md liradM was takensickand day and a number of our local was enjoying a Sabbath outing will not be able to fulfill her part nimrods are out after the fleet and was aimlessly strolling about of the contract. This is Mrs. footed beauties. The season lasts among the denizens of the min- Stowell. Another teacher will all this month. The pheasant erally flavored natural summer be provided to take her place. season will open on the first day This year’s staff will be com Miss Bessie Clow came down resort at Cascadia when Liston of October. This will give the from Portland Saturday to spend posed of the following named sportsmen two months of hunt a few days with home folks re A. Darby of Scio drove up in his teachers: ing. Several hunting parties are turning Tuesday morning to automobile. Mr. Darby remarked that his, . Prof. Burgess , F. Ford, , , Prin- „ . now being planned for the last Portland where is employed as bookkeeper and stenograpner by lighting system was on the b u m |c,pa; ,s * graduate of the Lm- week in the deer season and for Steward Bros. Co. and Hof us of Ore*on and Willamette | | the first whack at the pheasants Equipment Co. with office it and that there was no mechanic University. Mr. Ford has taken at Cascadia. Mr. Arnold promp- Hotel Multnoma. ' in October. post graduate work at North ly performed the obvious and western University and Wash conventional task of lifting the ington State college. hood from the engine, but unlike % May Mickey, of Turner, is a most am atear auto doctors, dis graduate of Willamette Univer covered something. The fuse sity. She will be instructor in had burned ont. Nothing daunt Mathematics and Science. ed. he asked Mrs. Darby for a Georgina Bendler, of Corvallis, hairpin. Mrs. Darby didn’t sup is a graduate of O. A. C., and pose that a bank cashier was will have charge of Home Eco- profiteer enough to reduce H. C. L. by bumming hairpins so she nomics. K have on display and for sale, a splendid complied and wondered what h e ! Ola Drake, of Parkland, is a graduate of the State Normal at wanted it for. assortment of medium and heavy weight Chenney. Washington, and will Cloakings in various patterns both plain colors Mr, Arnold deftly inserted the look after the Commercial de hairpin for a fuse, said hocus and plaids of very latest designs and colorings. pocus and the car lit up like a partment. New Up-tc-I)ate goods at very low prices. Lena Mize, of Salem, who will Broadway sign. teach the seventh and eighth Moral: (for m a r r i e d men Several patterns of the celebrated Polo Cloth grades, is a graduate of Krapp’s only.) If your wife finds hair the newest fabric in the Kastern markets, also College, of Salem. pins in your clothes, tell her you the heavy Mackinaw cloth for hard out door usage Mabel Walker of West Stayton think the fuse is going to burn who is a graduate of Stayton Hi, We extend a cordial invitation to you one out in your ear and you need it will teach the fifth and grades. in your business. Portland Tele and all to call at the mills and inspect these of Edna Holder, of Salem, gradu gram. ferings. If you are going to buy a coat or cape ate of Monmoth State Normal, is the third and fourth grade we can save you money. RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE teacher. In as much as it has pleased Stayton, Oregon, do hereby ex Devine Providence to call from tend to the bereaved family our X our midst our dearly beloved sis heartfelt sympathies; a l s o to ter. Permilla Caspell, be it d Resolved, that we. the officers r a p e our charter in mourn JOHN P. WILBUR, M anager STAYTON, OREGON t ‘t and members of Eva Rebekah ing for thirty days and to send Lodge No. !»2. I. O. O. F. of copies of this resolution to the r SEASON OPENED MONDAY SEPT. FIRST Serial No. 1169 STA Y TO N , MARION COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1919 2 5 th . Y e a r , N o . 33. PRESIDENT WILSON WILL DEER IS KILLED BY VISIT PORTLAND SEPT. piRE RANGER THOMAS President Wilson will visit WITH A HAND AX Portland on September fifteenth and will spend the day there as T. H. Thomas, fire warden for a guest of the Rose City. Port the northern part of Linn coun land is one of the thirty cities ty, was in town this week and that the president will visit on made the Mail office a pleasant his speaking tour. call. While out on patrol the first of the week Mr. Thomas came ac- cross a five point buck deer that had been overcome with smoke from the forrest fires, and which was practically mired in the mud near a stream. Mr. Thomas did not have his gun and was at a loss what to do. He finally took his hand axe and got close enough to the animal to send it to the happy hunting grounds with a blow between the eyes. That night there was venison in the Thomas household. The buck weighed 200 pounds. vxADODPOSk/ W l IS O N P1ESER & PHILIPPI FURNISH MUTTON FOR PRINCE QF WALES September 15th falls or. Mon day and there are several of our citizens who have announced Pieser and Philippi the sheep their intention of going to Port men received a wire from the land on that day to hear the Union Meat Co. of Portland to president ship them 12 head of choice lambs of not over 40 pounds weight. The lamby will be ser ved at the banquat that will be given the Prince of Wales on his visit to the Rose City. The The auction sale at the Titus iambs are to be shipped by the Archer place near Kingston last 8th of September. Monday, drew one of the largest crowds that has attended a sale in this part of the country for a long time. There was a number of regis tered cattle and sheep on the At the council meeting Mon bill besides farm implements and day evening, a petition was pre household g o o d s . Everything sented by Mr. Urban in the shape bouth top prices. of a protest against fast driving At noon C. E. Kramer of the of autos at the comer of Sloper’s Stayton Bakery, presided over Drug store. Mr. Urban said the the lunch counter and saw that autoists did not heed the danger the inner man was satisfied. Mr. Archer will leave this week at this point and that sooner or for California where he intends later someone would get badly hurt. to locate in the future. The council, after careful con family, to the local newspaper sideration of the matter, decided and to file one with the Secretary to place a “ keep-to-the-right” sign at this corner and in the of the lodge. future the autoist will have to Sign ed—M argaret Schaefer keep to his side of the road or Emily F. Star Anna Hobson tell the Judge why he didn’t ARCHER AUCTION SALE DRAWS LARGE CROWD COUNCIL PUTS BAN ON RECKLESS AUTO DRIVING ^wmswsmssaissaegiessesaes SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT T o th e L a d ie s o f S ta y to n a n d V ic in ity W ! Wilbur Wollen Mills Co. Received Every' D ay' Till 9 o’Clock p.m. Crates Furnished Highest Market Price Paid Chas. Gehlen