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STA Y TO N . MARION COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920
26th. Year, No. 6.
NATIONAL BANK
POPULAR CITIZEN
John A. Hess Claims But One Wife
TO BE STARTED IN
ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY
Wife No. 2 Affinity Only—Both
OUR GROWING TOWN
FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR
Deney Marriage at Vancouver
LLOYD RIGDON TO
BAT-INFEST­
FOR
ED BELFRIES BE CANDIDATE
COUNTY COKONOK
!
It does seem as if we poor mi­
We are triad to be able to print
Lloyd T. Rigdon, member o f 1*
Mr. F. N. Austin of Maxwell,
croties here upon earth just had
thin week the formal announce*
W. T. Rigdon & Sen, undertak­
Nebraska, arrived in Stayton,
to have some sort o f hallucination
nient of Oscar Steelhammer, as
ers,
today filed his declaration
John
A.
Hess,
formerly
resid­
ranged in the justice court he rainbow to chase after and if it
Thursday, and contemplates put­
a candidate for the Republican
of
intention
o f being a candidate
ing
at
1703
South
13th
street,
waived examination which puts is not one kind of a bug in our
ting in a National Hank in our
nomination for County Assessor.
for
the
republician
nomination
Salem,
has
been
arrested
on
a
the matter directly before the bonnets it is another.
growing town.
The office o f County Assessor
for
connty
coroner
o f Marion
charge
of
Polygamy
upon
the
in­
grand jury for investigation.
He says the field looks very
The occult is always alluring,
is one of the most important
county,
in
the
primary
election
formation
by
his
wife
Maude
A.
He and wife No. 2 now daim because we know nothing shout
good for a second bank, and,
county offices that the people will
on
May
21.
Mr.
Rigdon
has
Hess.
It
is
reported
that
Hess
that they were not married.
he knows the community will
it, and the less we know about
he culled upon to fill at the com­
nev
?r
been
a
candidate
for
or
and
his
wife
separated
last
fall
Mr. Hess while in Stayton on such things the more many of
grow bigger and better with com-
ing primary election, in that the
held
any
political
office,
except
while
working
at
Livesley’s
hop
his (honeymoon ?). claimed that us want to be stirring up their
petition that two banks will
duties o f that office are such as
as a member o f the Salem City
give. He has been in the bank­ yard about four miles south of he was a member o f the fire de­ fffy bones and rattling their
vitally effect the interest o f every
council,
which office he resigned
It is reported that the partment o f Oakland, Calif., and skeletons. Some religious creeds
ing business in Nebraska fifteen Salem.
taxpayer.
Marion county has
early
in
1918 to enter the service
y e a « and carries some good let­ trouble between them in part was onlv up here on a visit when are based upon superatition, and
too long elected to important o f ­
o
f
Uncle
Sam. Upon his return
was one Nora Dennis, also known he met the woman whose name thus attract the superstitious,
ters o f recommendation.
fices. politicians who have prov­
from
the
army he assumed ac­
as Nora Blakely, formerly o f Ft. is “ Dennis, ” although it is now while other creeds are hasted
ed inefficient in the performance Etoile de I/Eest Club
tive
management
of the under­
Worth, Texas.
known that he has lived in Sa­ more upon common sense and
o f their duties by reason of their
ing
establishment,
and has con­
Electa New Officera Gosip has it that this woman lem for several y e a « last past attract the sensible.
political prejudices and favors,
ducted
it
since.
came to Organ from Texas in and has a wife and child also
Some trilies worship the sun.
which were used for the political
Lloyd Rigdon is a native of
The Etoiie de L’ Est Club met August, 1919, upon some kind of living there. Hess and the Der • and others w’orehip snakes, while
advancement of the office holder
Marion county, attended the pub­
last Thursday at the home of matrimonial adventure. Seem­ nis woman both claim to be one back in Wall street worships
ami at the expense of the un­
lic
schools and University in
ingly
she
later
changed
her
mind
childhood friends and met here golden calves and one is about
Mra. J. W. Mayo with Mra. Hob-
favored who were forced to liear
Salem and is a graduate of the
son and Mrs. J. C. Mayo assist- and found employment at Salem by accident. This story seems as sane as the other. Some people
the unjust burden o f over taxa­
where
she
met
Hess.
She
had
unprobable in view o f the cir­ believe sins can be forgiven after Capital Business College and the
, ing.
tion.
lived
in
the
horn
;
of
Judge
J.
B.
cumstances.
Mrs. Hess No. 2 death while othere beiieve sins Cincinnati School o f Embalming.
During the s h o r t business
Mr Steelhammer is a young
Grier
of
Stayton
for
a
while
and
seems to be a woman of forty must be forgiven before death, H? has been associated with his
session oiHcers were elected for
man. and this is the first time
after
her
alleged
marriage
to
years of age. although she claims and it is barely possible that both father in the undertaking busi­
the next 6 months as follow’?:
he has ever been a candidate for
Hess
they
came
to
Stayton
pre­
to be only 26.
Hess is 28 ac­ are right. Those who arc dead ness for ten y e a «, and is emin­
Mrs. Grace Niebert. Pres: Mrs.
any elective office, ami he has
ently qualified for the position of
have a habit of staying dead a
N'ina Ringo, Vice-Pres.: , Mra. sumably to spend their honey­ cording to his own statement.
no political friends to reward,
There have been some .stories long while and not coming back coroner. He is 29 veare oid.
Emma Sloper, Slc’y .: Mra. Eliza moon, during which time they
nor enemies to punish.
He ha3
On his declaration of intention
were guests at the Grier home- circulated that Mrs. Hess No. 2, to put us wise about all these
Taylor, Treas.
Mr.
Rigdon states that he will
had six years experience as chief
The afternoon was planned as They represented that they had is a wealthy womon, owning things.
“
perform
the duties incumbent
deputy in the office which he
That is. not until lately. We
a "Mad March Hare” party and been married at Vancouver, Wn. over z thousand acres o f land in
upon
the
office
in a straightfor­
HIM* ks and consequently is famil­
it was greatly enjoyed by all Things v ent well for a few days Texas and interests in several underatand they come back every
ward
and
economical
manner."
iar with the work in its every
i present, after which the hostess and then the whole romance was oil wells. Her conduct indicates few days now and make mani­
He
also
claims
to
stand
for “ hon­
detail, and is capable o f and will
broken like a huble from a new that she has a childs mind. Her festations and talk politics and
served a dainty luncheon.
render efficient and impartial
est
and
faithful
service;
econo­
clay pipe,
representations of wealth may other interesting things to those
mical administration.”
service if elected.
Hess was arrested by the sher­ have had some bearing upon the who sit around a ouija board
Mr. Steelhammer has been a
The office of coroner has been
iff of Marion county upon a war­ situation as it has now developed. with fingers on the board, feet
resident o f Marion County for .'to
held
in this county for 24 yea«
rant charging him with larceny Hess, although not living with upon the chair rung and brain
by
A.
M. Clough of the Webb &
y e a « and is a son o f A. II. Steel­
I formerly announce my ean- by bailee, and was taken to Sa­ his wife is a proper subject of pan entirely empty. The dis­
Clough
company.- Capital Jour­
hammer. the honest, resjiected. jdidacy for the nomination of lem where he was lodged in the
censure, however, this woman, patches are stating that men and
nal.
hard working blacksmith o f Sil- County Assessor Jor M a r i o n county jail. It ¡.ppears that he who is reported as having been women o f supposed sanity and
■-■SSL;
verton. Although never active County, on the Republican tick­ was charged with stealing a suit married more than once, is de­ intelligence, some o f them noted,
O B IT U A R Y
in politics, he has alvsays been a et at the primary election to be
of clothes he w as wearing.
His serving o f the same punishment educated and elightened, are
strong Republican and a staunch held on May 21, 1920. My cam­
Mable Smith, daughter o f
defence was that fce had only that will probably be handed out putting in no end of valuable
supporter o f the candidates and paign will be conducted upon the:
borrowed the clothes to get mar­ to Hens.
time conversing?vith the spirits Martin E. and Elizabeth Smith,
*
principals endorsed by the G. platform of fitness for the office, ried in and iutended to return
by medium of this ouija board was born in Ohio in 1888. She
0 . P.
■ based upon six year? experience ' them. He claimed here that he
and that one of them has just came with her parents to Oregon
With no feeling of animosity as Chief Deputy. I solicit and had purchased a wedding suit,
offered $5000 cash for positive in the fall o f 1891, they settled'
or ill will towards any o f the will appreciate the favorable but it did not fit just to suit his
proof of communication with the in the Waldo Hills district four
other candidates for Assessor, consideration o f the Republican
Joseph H. Klecker was grant­ spirits.
Scores are after the miles north of Sublimity.
taste, and that while it was be­
we must declare ourselves as be­ voters of Marion County of my j ing altered, he borrowed the suit ed a decree o f divorse from his
Here she attended school irf
coin, . (spiritual, mediums usually
wife, Elizalieth Klecker, by an
ing unquulifidely in favor o f Os candidacy for said nomination.
are,)
and
declare
they
will
pro­
the
Oak Grove school house and
he was wearing.
order of the court yesterday.
car Steelhammer and his nomi­
Oscar A. Steethammer
in that vicinity she grew to wo­
Mrs. Hess, No. 1. who is em­ The p o p e « state that the couple duce the proof.
nation and election signifies an
ployed in Salem, got word of the were married in Stayton, August
If spirits enjoy a joke they manhood.
efficient and impartial adminis­
29.
1914.
Mr.
Klecker
claims
She was married in the fall o f
trouble and discovered that her
must get a few smiles out o f the
tration of the office and a square
husband claimed to be married that his wife deserted him in fact that these deluded mortals 1911 at the Catholic church in
April of 1916. and since against
deal for every tax payer in Mar­
to another woman, although he his will, has lived apart from think the spirits have no more Sublimity to Joseph G. Etzel,
The Marion County Taxpayers
ion Count v.
and with the exception of a few
was not divorced from wife No. him. The divorse was granted sense than they have.
League nereby issues a call for a
This sort of thing can hardly months spent in California, has
1. She had him arrested on a on a basis of desertion. - States­
general mass meeting to he held
be accounted for upon any other resided in the Waldo Hilis dis­
charge of Polygamy,
When ar­ man.
at the Vlarion County Courthouse
hypothesis than that nearly every trict
Saturday, March 2oth at 10
She died at her home on March
mortal has some kind o f a crank
.Now that Peary is dead, what .o ’clock a.m. This meeting is to
in his mentality, some sort of 7th of Influenza, having been
has become of the North Pole?
afford citizens and taxpayers an
bug in the bean, some variety of sick Only a few days and her
We do not notice any mention of
opportunity to learn more about
bat in the belfry, which if it death was a severe shock to her
it in the settlement of his estate,
| the tax measures placed on the
does not manifest itself in one many friends and relatives.
and just as like as not it has got
ballot at the s o c ia l election in
way will, sooner or later, in an­
She is surviived by her hus­
away and gone back to the land
May next, which if sustained by
band
and a number of relatives
other-
of ice cream and front-bit ten
the people, will increase state
If
with
pleasure
you
are
viewing
any
work
we
have
If
there
are
any
spirits
“
over
in
this
vicinity.
veracity.
tax levies over one hundred per
been
doing.
yonder”
prolably
they
are
as
Funeral
was held from the Cath
Doc Cook still maintains that
cent, over and above the state
apt
to
be
everywhere
as
any-
olio
church
at Sublimity, March
If you like us or you love us. tell him now;
he has it, packed carefully away
levy a,ready made for 1920. You
9th.
jWith
Rev.
Father Lainck
wheare, but we should think
in moth bails, but then Doc as­
Don’ t withhold your approbation, 'til the parson
are invited to come to this meec-
thev could find something more officiating, interment was in the
sociated so many years with the
makes oration
| ing and consider whetner the
profitable to be doing than mon­ Catholic cemetery there.
Esquimaux that his veracity is
As we lie with snowy lilies o ’er our brow;
pro|H)8ed increase s h o u l d be
keying around a ouija hoard.
The pallbearers were:
Joe
like Morgan's money- tainted.
authorized at this time.
For no matter how you shout it, we won’ t really care
We have seen spirits, ourself, Shreve, JoeZuber. Michael Bene­
The only testimony we have to
about it:
in the olden days before prohibi­ dict. Amil Schott. Martin Zuber
support Doc is that of the little
If the "Father of His Coun­
We
won't
know how manv teardrops you have shed:
tion got stylish, but they were and Philip Steffis.
fur-dad niggers o f the frozen
try” could come hack and take a
If you think some praise is due us. now’s the, time
not the ouija hoard kind. That
north, and the Esquimaux, un­
look around any large city, and
H. B. Jones, who has been
to slip it to us:
kind had red eyes, saw teeth and
derstand, never heard of Ana­
note the three foreigners to one
sixteen tails, and they done a running a summer resort up on
nias. and don’ t care a darn if he
For we cannot read our tombstone when we’ re dead!
American, and listen to their
shimmy dance up and down the the McKenzie, for some time,
did. Although more dr less hu­
jabbering lingo about tearing
More than fame and more than money is the com­
footboard of the bedstead. They was in Stayton Thursday visiting
man, and a manly and corageous
I down the government he fought
ment
kind
and
sunny
were likely spirits, superinduced his cousin. Jack Jones. This is
race along purely physical lines,
I for, he would wonder what in
by beverages not drawn from H. R.’s first visit to Stayton for
it is authoritively stated that k
And the hearty warm approval of a friend:
1 the blazes he was father to.
s
Nature’s
pump, and akin to the eighteen y ea «.
barrel of gumdrops would cor­
For it gives to life a savor, and it makes you strong­
—
snakes people used to have to
rupt the whole of Greenland, in­
er. braver.
down and tap their heads sever­
empty out of their boots.
cluding every ice rouse abutting only what he is told, and that
And it gives you heart and spirit to the end:
One can see a goggle-eyed Joss al times on the fioor, a3 an evi­
adjoining or thereunto apper­ for not mone’n u minute.
If
vve
earn
your
praise.
l>esto\v
it:
if
you
like
us
let
any day or night in New vork or dence of good fait,h or some-
taining. The Esquimaux, even \ Well, anyhow, if Doc Conk
us
know
it;
San Francisco, sitting cross-leg­ j thing.
under normal conditions, never can’ t produce the pole or the
V,'e never drove down any
Let
the
words
of
true
encouragement
be
said;
ged in a joss-house, shitting red
even pretended to tell the truth. evidence, it is a cinch that, lov­
,
.v-iW
; in th** floor with our ivory
fire and ready all the time to p it
He is a prevericafor by any old ing Peary as he floes, he will’
Do not wait till life is over and we’ re underneath the
tdomethiit
«•?.’, but after al i i »
anybody in touch with tin* suirit
w rist watch, sans hands, crystal stoutly maintain that the latter
clover,
1
.«¡aid
ami
n6vu
, .iu»t is the dif-
1 upon two-bits Wing drop­
and int" tines, including stem- • swiped it and tooh it along with
"
For vve cannot read or tombstone when we're dead.
;
n
rou.
e
G
twt<m
>onw such spirit-
ped into the copper kettle near
w ind and mainspring, lit* knows him to v nrd off or alleviate cli­
lii.il
te.v.e
.s
t.
-f and the ouy.i
hv. Anti Chinamen come in ire-
nothing of sextants or chrono­ mate corditi. i. verging on the
FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR
Secures Divorse
Taxpayers Meeting
Lost— One North Pole
If You Like Us Let Us Know It
meters, latitude
or
longitude, other extreme.