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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1920)
THE STAYTON MAH, ¿5th. Year, No. 48 THE OUTLOOK FOR 1920 PROMISES TOBETHE BEST -- The War Hat Taught U t Many Lessons Which, if we Bear in Mind, Must Work to our Advantage, Morally, Physical ly and Every Other Way. è** The outlook for a very happy ami prosperous year for 1920 is most fluttering to the United States and everybody in it, and if all of us do not do well during the year it is going to be more or less our own faults, for the op portunities are grout and big with promise. This is now the creditor nation of the world: all other nations owe us money and depend upon us for all manner o f food and subbliea. The reconstruction lieriod of matters upset because o f the war is now rounding into tangible ahape, and while there is much yet to do. much has been done. Capital ami later are get ting nearer every day to n set tlement of the various difficulties which have been upsetting their serenity and equilibrium, and the outlook is bright for a bet ter working understanking than for u number o f years. Both are beginning to understand that euch must meet the other part way. The war has taught us many lessons which, if we bear in mind, must work to our advant age. m< rrally. physically, finan cially and every other way. While welcoming the birth of the new year, fresh, strong, young dimpled and feeling the new resolves strong and pulsing within us, it is also well to note and remember the death of the death of the old year, as typ ify ing our own lives to some e x tent. We are much like the years and the seasons, are born, change and die. as they do. and then live again, as all nature does. The darkened clouds now hang low at times, and scud across a laden sky, before the winds whicli twang and chill, while afar the hoary mountains glisten with white frost which pencils red and brown and yellow glints upon the quivering leaves and hurls them to the sodden earth, to again tecome a part of it. even as we must so become when the frosts o f Time have sent the sil ver to our hair and nipi>ed the bloom aud fruitage of our lieing. Nature dies and sleeps and then resurrects and lives again, gay and young and blithesome the one miracle that laughs at the inconoclast and skeptic and so shall we die and sleep and resurrect and live again, for fol lowing the dirge o f tne old year comes the heralding of a new one. Now it is winter and the grass lies soar and brown, the flowers have gone to sleep, the trees shiver naked in the winds and drear is the honk of the wild goose winging south. But al ready down in the earth the germs of a new life are sprout ing and seeds are sending up- their tender shoots. But a short nai) and then will peal forth to a glad world the welcome rhythm of Easter hells, proclaiming the glad tidings health, happiness and pr osperity. tl K. Bennett, who recently purchased a half interest in the Stay ton water |mwer project, made a business trip to Eugene and Portland last week. STAYTON. MARION COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1920 Rally Parade IhiH kel H all Cairn* Gr-r-r-r-r-r-r! ! The Stayton High School teurn met with defeat lust Friday evening, in the basket hall game with Amity High, by a score o f 7 to 24. No especially brilliant or spec tacular playing was done by (•ither team, However, the visit ing team showed excellent team work and played a fust but rough game. In the first half Amity made 7 points before Stayton finally scored two points w'hen Wiliing made a long field basket. The score at the end o f this half was 12 to 2 in Am ity’s favor. In the second half Stayton made five more points w’hen Rossell threw a field basket and Fisher threw three baskets on fowls. Amity scored 12 more points, leaving the score at the end of the game 24 to 7 favoring the visiting team Between halves the l a r g e crowd was entertained by the high school rooters who serpen tined on the floor giving yells and songs and pulling off an e f fective funeral stunt for Am ity’s benefit. Student Body I'lay “ The Hoodoo" a light comedy in three acts has teen selected for the first High School Student Body play, w hich is to bepresent- ed under the direction of Miss Moore, during the first part of February. The cast has been selected and w’ork on the play began this week. l.ast week Forrest Mack pur chased the ground where the liakerv and Davie's barber shop now stands. Forrest will build a new barbersnop thereon in the spring. B a s k e t B a ll S c h e d u le A heavy basket schedule for Stayton High remains to be played, for Stayton will meet such teams as Albany, Wood- burn. Siiverton, Junction City and Amity, and may make a trip down the Columbia river. The “ down the Columbia trip " as proposed by Joseph Ellis, manager of basket ball at the Uaineer high school, was receiv ed very favorably by both the coach and the Manager. The only thing standing in the way of this trip is financial difficul ties and it is hoped that these may be overcome. I f this trip is made Stayton High will meet some fast teams including those of Rainier. Clatskanine and St. Helens. The American Legion team of Mill City, wishes to schedule two games with Stayton, and imme diate action will be taken oa the matter. The next home game which is with Albany promises- ttt furnish thrills for teth the players and the audience. STAYTON LIGHTING SYS- ' TEM GREATLY IMPROVED That Stayton was indequatelv lighted was acknowledged by the city council recently when they voted to have thirteen 100 w,at lights installed on thd main streets o f town. Some time ago. in order to de fray the town’ s expenses, every other light was ordered removed throughout the whole town. Tin- need of more lights lately resulted in replace!ng these lights in addition to the thirteen larger ones. The “ pepiest” rally ever put on by the Stayton High School students was staged in the streets o f Stayton last Friday afternoon, just proceeding the basketball game with Amity. Arrayed in their purple and gold rooter caps, the students fell in line at the high school and marched down Main street s h o u t i n g “ S T ,A .Y -T -O -N .” When the reached the end o f the street they formed a large circle and enthusiastically sang “ O Stayton H i’ ’ and “ Stayton Will Win” and gave some snappy yells u>-der the direction of yell leader, Cecil Schaefer. As a comic stunt two o f the boys led a pony, across the back of which was thrown the limp form of a badly ‘ eaten “ A m ity” h e r o i c a l l y impersonated by Frank Scofield. Another feature of the parade was A m ity’s goat which was hauled about in an old hack draw n by a couple mules. I SPOKEN DRAMA AT THE STAR THEATRE The Howard Foster Players will put on a dramatical show at the Star Theatre Friday, Jan. ,16th. These people have teen play ing Salem two nights a week for j the past 14 weeks and the best ing and are residing with the recommend is to ask some one Roberts-Frank groom’s parents, that has seen them in Salem. Sergt Frank in listed in the Two hours o f entertainment. The wedding o f Miss T. L. United States Marine Corps Oct. Roberts and Mr. W. L. Frank 2. 1916 at Marie Island. Calif, Tom Fleming was trading in took place at the bried’s home 60 spending about 12 months in Stayton Tuesday. Elmhurst Ave.. Elmhurst. L. L. South America and 17 months! N. G. at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday Dee. with the 5th Marines 86 Machine Lyceum Concert 30. gun company in France and was The bride is from Georgia but- under heavy fire most o f the I the greater |»art o f her life was The Katherine Carroll Smith ¡time, being wounded three times spent in New York. The groom Concert Company, second num was born and raised in Shaw*. as well as gased. ber on the high school lyceum Oregon. They met at the Hotel 1 • --------- * course, presented a very novel Commodore one o f the newest Mr. Polpe, head accountant o f and entertaining program to a and largest hotels in New York j the Portland Wool Warehouse j large audience, Saturday even- City while attending a dance Co. at Portland, is is here this ing. Jan. 3. ia the school audi- given in the grand ball room on week establishing a system of torium. The three charming young la September 12th 1919. They ar- mill accounting at the Woolen dies of the company delighted rived in Stayton Sunday even- Mills. ------------------- - 1 ■ ■ ■ " ------ ----------------- -- : the audience with solos, trio«, . ^- x -<-- x -- x -->^ x --:*- x --:“>-:--:-- x -->^~ x k -- x --:--:-- x -- x -*>«- x >< x - x ~{~.~X“X-- x -^ duets, trios, readings, character sk etches and impersonations. The violinist was especially praised by her audience for she rendered her most difficult num bers with exceptional skill. She won the admiration o f all as an artist both on the violin and on the piano. X he soprano soloist had a very sweet, clear voice and pleased her hearers with her splendid interpertation of such familiar songs as Tostis “ Good bye,” )V * “ One Fleeting Hour.” “ Laddie” and a lighter number or two. in cluding “ I f No One Should Mar ry me.” Miss Smith, who furnished A * A most of the fun of the evening, specialized in mtisical sketches in which her readings were ac- , companied by the piano. Her character work in costume was especially interesting and her last number in which she im personated a . “ tom-boy’ ’ was considered by all as her test work. > > . -V* - • Minstrel Show HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM WEDNESDAY EVENING I 1 January 14th, at 8 O ’clock f By the Chorus of Stayton Hi School A Füll Variety of Songs Playlets, and Recitations f T w o Solid Hours o f Fun— N ev e r Been Equaled by any chorus organ- iza tio n b efo re | '■ I Don't miss it Help Swell the Gym Fund | | A dm ission X Y 2 5 c and 1 5 c | j ROBIN A. DAY IS A CANDIDATE FOR, DISTRICT A T T Y : Prominent Salem Attorney and Graduate o f Willamette University Law Depart ment, Has TW owe H is Hat In the Political R in; The “ Political Pot” of Marion County in boiling and from the seething and bubbling “ Old Caldron” we learn that Robbin A. Day. prominent young lawyer o f Salem, has thrown his hat in the ring for District Attorney. Mr. Dav is a graduate of W iL lamette University, being remem bered by many of the old timers as a foot ball man o f r.o mean skill on the Varsity $quid and graduating from the law depart ment with the class o f 1913, in which year he entered the prac tice o f his profession in S a le tr i. In March 1918, Mr. Day en listed in the only Gas and Flame regiment that the United Stafes sent over seas, doing seventeen months service in France, two months and a half o f which his outfit was on the moving front, “ going over the top.” Day rubbed shoulders with the “ Boch” as it were, for the work assigned to his imm 'diate unit was to get German machine gunners in which little par: time Thermite was used in the Stokes motor, having a maximum range o f 750 vards. but whose usual : working range was something less than 300 yards. Receiving his discharge in late February 1919, Mr. Day again resumed his practice in Salem, at once taking steps toward the organization o f the Loyal Post o f the American Legion whose members honored him as their first President.—Turner Tribune. ESTATE OF STAYTON MAN DEAD 25 YEARS TO BE OPENED NOV A fter twenty five years the relatives o f T. E. Lambert, o f Stayton, have decided that hia estate needs administration and have petitioned the court o f Mar ion county that the neoeaaary legal steps be taken to declare the Lambert estate open for ad ministration. Lambert formerly lived , at Stayton and was last hearà o f 25 years ago wren he left for a po sition in the city of Wateom, Wateom county. Lambert's rel atives assert that they fifcve en deavored in every possible way to locate the missing mhn ani have long been 'Ctmvjnced ;thai he met with foul play soon i f his departure from Stajfcpn J 1892. In the petition, the t made that L. S. L ~ pointed administrator 1, tate which consists » T M k t o r f perr .41 property iff * MÌriòn county valued at $tfi00. j . T. Hunt. William Van Handel ¿fid Josephine Heuherger are named as desirable appraisers. County Judge W. jM. Busihey designated February V a s thè date of'hear ing and deebe on the petition. • Heirs and next of kin are: A large gasoline dredging out Brothers. H. J. Lambert, 63. Grand View. O regon;' P. H. fit was received hv Gardner Bennett, the past week, whic h is Lambert, 59, So:o; L. S. Lam to bo used along thi ir water bert. 50, Stayton; sisters of the power ditch. It is to do the 1 missing mar rre Mary Tate, 61. v,o k nrmerlv done by teams |Sublimity: k.t - Gourley, 55. Ta- ami scrapers and it is expected! coma Wash.: Frances Lambsrt. pected will great yexpediate the l/)s An refi *. CVifornia. Salon* lourr al. handling of such work. POWER DREDGER HAS ARRIVED FOR GARDNER & BENNETT