THE STAYTON MAIL
25th. Year, No. 36.
STA Y TO N . MARION COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,
THE LONLEY BOYS
IN SIBERIA—HOW
THEY GET ALONG
THIS IS THE LATEST
COUNCIL WILL BUILD
FROM THE STATE GAME NEW BRIDGE ON 3RD
W A R D E N ’ S OFFICE
ST. OVER SALEM DITCH
AS USUAL!!
The following letter wan re­
ceived from Wm. H. Smith, who
it< with the Medical department
A. E. F. in Siberia. The post­
mark reads Siberia, August 19:
We were sent to this part of
the world to quell Bolshevism
and to guard the Northern light«
We are so fur north the dog-gone
sun works only when he feel« so
inclined, and in that way is like
everything else in Russia. The
moon isn’t so particular. She
usually come« up backwards, at
any time day os night, in any
part of the skv. Having no reg­
ular schedule she often gets lost
and is still on the job at noon.
Yes. we are so far north that
thirty six degrees below' zero
will soon lie tropical to us. They
have to build fires around the
Every
cows before they can milk them. it back to his barracks.
This is a tough town, there are time we get on a street car we
26V.K31 inhabitants of whom 61,- have to count out sixty kopecks
929 are humans and 208,509 are for farefand most of us would
dogs. I)ogs from every descrip­ rather walk than be jammed into
tion from poodles to St. Ber­ a two by four bus. Before en­
The Kaiser’s picture in the
According to Roy O. Kelly,
nards, and from wolf hounds to tering a car a passenger hunts
geographies
used
in
the
pub-
proprietor
of the Kelly mill in
dashunds which are half Ger­ up a couple of five gallon milk
lie
schools
of
the
state
almost
Happy
Hollow,
he has been
man and half Bolshevick, and cans, a market basket or two
caused
Albany
school
children
to
awarded
the
contract
to furnish
look the part. The wind whist­ and a bag of smoked herring, so
lumber
for
two
rock
bunkers,
les across Useless Bav like the that he will get his kopecks go without textbooks this year.
which
will
be
used
by
the
coun­
Twentieth Century I/m ited pass­ worth out of his ride, besides Almost, but not quite.
When the state textbook com­ ty in connection with the paving
ing Podunk. The snow flakes making the atmosphere nice for
missioner, of which A. C. Schmitt plant that will be located be­
are as numerous as retreating the rest of the passengers.
If you should see a soldier of this city is a member, came to tween Turner and Aumsville.
Germans were in France a few
ago.
walking down the street with consider a geography, none of The mill will also furnish the
Cectimes and Francs may be his nose in the air and his mouth the publishers would submit a lumber for four bridges that will
hard to count but did you ever puckered up with apparent con­ textbook this year until the geo­ be built between the above named
hear of Rubles and Kojiecks? A tempt, it would be wrong to think graphical boundaries of the old towns. The contract was let by
Kopeck is worth one-tenth of a he was conceited for if the truth and new countries of Asia, Afri­ L. S. Lambert of Stayton. who
cent and there are one hundred were known he had just got his ca and Europe are definitely fixed' has charge of the road work.
of them in a Ruble. The Ruble shirt from the wash woman who The company publishing the old
is worth one dime. Ordinarily a used fiish oil instead of soap and textbook proposed th at t h e i r
Ruble is worth about fifty cents. he is trying to escape the fumes. book be continued for the pres­
To make m atters worse all of When you take your clothes to ent and a new edition would b e ,
the money is paper. Coins have the laundry you tell the woman put out next year. This was
gone out of circulation since the to please omit the odors. She really the only recourse open to
mixup. A Kopeck is the size of will tell you that he has no soap ¡the commission, and the old text
a postage stamp and looks like a and if you want them washed to was continued,
The ladies of the “ Eastern
The fact th at the ex-Kaiser’s Star have organized a social club
cigar certificate. A twenty-five your satisfaction please send a
Ruble note resembles a porous cake of soap. Anything in the picture was in the book caused among the members, known as
plaster. A one hundred Ruble world to keep the clothes from P. D. Gilbert, president of the the “ Etolle de L ’ E s f ’ Club. and
note looks like the Declaration smelling of fish oil. so you double Council of Defense, to make in­ have elected the following offi­
time back and get a cake of soap quiries, and it was learned that cers: President, Mrs. J. P. Wil
of Independence.
When a soldier is in search of Then she gives her kids a bath the publishers of the book have bur; Vice-President, Mrs. Sarah
a meal he enters a restaurant and that is the end of the soap, 'supplied C i t y Superintendent Berringer: Secretary, Mrs. Emma
When a Russan meets a man Boetticher with extra p a g e s Sloper; Treasurer, Mrs. Eliza
and says “ baresnya sakajreetyah
bifsteak pozalysta” an order of he knows on the street both lift which can be substituted in place; Taylor.
beefsteak lady please. She will their hats and flirt with each of the obnoxious sheet bearing, The new club is organized for
answer the younger customer other.
If they stop, and t^)k the likeness of the arch-criminal the purpose of promoting socia­
with “ yas ochen sojalaylu shto they always shake hands even of the world— Albany Democrat. bility among members, and for
tyest yestinkpupason syeche” a if they had not seen each other
our language, how do you do; to the purpose of getting together
(a simple cure for loce jaw) for fully twenty minutes. They
this she will reply "Blogardduvas more often than the regular
meaning I am sorry sir but we must shake hands again when
yhocheo karacho” or very well, meeting nights of the order of
are out of that today. He will they leave. When a man meets
thank you. It is a knock out. A Eastern Star. The club meets
try another place, and if lucky, a lady friend he usually kisses
twice a month on Thursday af­
is apt to get something to eat; her hand and shows her how far fellow has to shake hands so ternoons.
many
times
that
it
is
getting
to
but when he looks at the bill of | he can bend without stretching
The residence of Mrs. Grace
be a habit around the company.
fare he learns that it will cost his suspenders and says, “ Yh
N iebert was the meeting place
Another
thing,
they
are
holding
him about $7.50 for a sandwich ochen bard vaseneedyet kakvur
a separate war up here for our last week.
and a cup of coffee and he heats pazaharactye” which means in
benefit. Just because we’re not
Dr. Edwin McKenney and
in the big doings in France is no
wife,
of Union. Oregon, and W.
reason why thev should run pass
L.
McKenney
and wife and son
the season’s series especially for
Salem,
were
visitors
at ye editor’s
ua.
home
Monday
of
this
week. The
We appreciate the kindness,
doctor
is
a
brother
of
W. L. Mc­
honor and all that, but believe
i
Kenney
of
Salem
and
together
-— » IK E ANYTHIN*I ELSE, one \Jnnts nnd should
me after all the dope you’re get­
with
his
wife
are
taking
in the
g e t th eir full m on ey's w o rth . T o do th is in bur-
ting about pianos, wooden floors,
ing J e w e lry nnd D iam onds yt f n m ust n ot on ly
State
Fair
and
visiting
old
time
steam heat and other conven­
secure beau tifu l design s bu t vo n m ust g e t the
friends
in
the
state
for
a
few
iences being furnished us over
days.
here, and when we see ourselves
Very Best in Q uality
on post duty with a blanket or
Dean Cromwell, director of
W e G uarantee The Q u a lity o f E v e ry
poncho or sleeping in twenty in­
atheletic3 in the University of
ches of ozzy mud, which before
A rtic le w e S e ll to be ns E xac tly
California, at Los Angeles, ac
we awaken turns into thin ice,
R epresented
companied by his wife and baby,
it’s a joke brother a joke. It
were here last week visiting at
IF Y(>r AR E GOING TO KEY tN f THING ESI A L L Y
makes us cry out and ask the
the
Byron ltenny home and at
FOEND I NJ EW E L R Y STORES ¡HE SERE AND
Universe “ what ha^ve we done to
the
Williams home. They re­
SEE OER LARGE DltjPAAYS
deserve this misery.” Do not
turned to California last Thurs­
think we are kicking. American
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H artm an Bros. Co.
soldiers never kick. We just day.
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want something to write about
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Jew elers nnd O pticians
to remind you that we are part
Mr. and Mrs. H. Lilly returned
of the American Expeditionary from a visit to Spokane and Pen­
Forces in Siberia although iso­ dleton last week. They also
5 SALEM
OR BOON
lated in the hell-hole of creation
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attended the fair at Yakima.
Vladivostok, Siberia.
KAISER’S PICTURE DONT KELLY MILL GETS
LOOK GOOD TO THE CONTRACT TO FURNISH
COUNTY LUMBER
SCHOOL DIRECTORS
ETOILE DE L’ EST IS
NAME OF AUXILIARY
TO “EASTERN STAR”
In an opinion given by Attor­ The big truck of the Brown-
ney General George M. Brown, Petzel Lumber Co. that is haul-
to M, A. Biggs, District Attor- ¡ng ]0(jrg to the mill, went thru
ney for Harney county, the shoot- the third street bridge in town
ing season for ducks, geese and last Friday and put the bridge
other migratory waterfowl has out of commission.
been definitely settled. Confus­
At a special meeting of the
ion has existed in the minds of City Fathers Saturday evening,
many shooters on account of a it was decided to build a new
difference in the Federal and bridge, as upon investigation the
State seasons. The state cannot structure was found to be in bad
legislate within the closed season shape and not safe for traffic.
of the Federal regulations, but
Councilmen W'ilbur and Thoma
it can legislate within the open were appointed a committe to
season. The Federal open sea­ look after the bride and the
son is three and one-half months, work of tearing out the old one
but the state, if it cares to, may has been under way this week.
close any portion or all of this It is rumored that the new bridge
Federal open season. The shoot- w||| be built of concrete,
ing season, therefore, which
The w ater committe which is
must be observed by hunters composed of J. H. Thoma and J.
throughout Oregon is as follows: R. Gardner, was instructed to
For Multnomah, Clatsop, Col­ complete the repairs that have
umbia and Tillamook counties, been started on the water plant.
the open season begins on Oct- This means th at a new flume
ober 1st and closes December 31. j wj|i be built, the water wheel.
In all other counties of Game > that has long needed repairs will
District No. 1, which compaises be put in shape and the “ groan”
all that portion of Oregon lying will be taken out of the city
west of the summit of the Cas­ pump, before the committe gets
cade mountains, the season opens through with their work.
on October 16th and closes on
When this work is completed
January 15th. In all counties o f ! tbe water users will begin to re­
Game District No. 2, chich com­ ceive service that they should
prises all that portion of Oregon have had a long time ago,
lying east of the summit of the
Cascade mountains, the open
Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Riggs of
season begins on October 1st and Seattle, who have been visiting
ends on December 21st.
at the Wm. English home here
and other friends in Happy Hol­
low, left for the State Fair Wed­
Don’t Forget
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Riggs
There will be the usual servi­
formerly
resided
here and they
ces in the Methodist church on
were
surprised
to
see the num
Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
ber
of
changes
that
have taken
League meeting at 7 p. m.
place
during
the
time
they have
Fourty five per cent of all an­
nual promises to the Centenary been away
will need be in not later than
There will be an auction sale
Sunday, as all reports for the
annual conference, which will be on the John Kusey place, two
held in First church. Salem, have! miles north west of Stayton, on
to be ready on Tuesday the 30th. the 15th of October. There will
-
ibe quite a number of cattle and
J. B. Jeter and family went to horses, also farm machinery to
Ashland. Oregon, Wednesday, be sold. Sale bills will be out
where they will reside for the next week.
winter. The move is made on
John Dozier, of Kingston, has
account of Miss Elva’s healtn, purchased the 205 acre farm of
The Mail will keep the family John Kusey, located west of
posted on Stayton happenings Stayton and will take possession
while they areçiway.
I about the middle of October.
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