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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24. 1921
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The New Store
Worth & Gray
DEPARTMENT STORE
Successor? to W. W. Moore
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Dedicated to Stimulating Our Present Industries
And to the Establishment of New Ones
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The Way to Build Up Your Home Town
Is to Patronize Your Home People
The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Indus
tries Is to Support those You Have
VICE BROS.
Trade and High
177 H. Liberty SL Salem. Or.
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WEATHERLY ICE CREAM
: Sold everywhere
BUTTERCUP ICE CREAM CO.
. w P. M. Gregory, Mgr.
210 South Commercial Street
DRY GOODS
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:FURS
CORSETS
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Hariman Bros.
Jewelers and Opticians
i Salem, Oregon
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Your Clothes
Sivt Work and Worry
by hiving roar Unn
dry work don by tfcs
Salem Laundry
Company1
136 Liberty St. rhone25
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Kroom Handles, Mop Han
dles, Paper Plugs, Tent
Toggles, all kinds of Hard
TVod Handles Manufac
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vProductsCo.
t West Salem
Capital City
; Laundry ,
Quality and Service
' Phone ies
MonumentsaM
' Tombstones
1 Made In Salem
Tkls la th. only
atonaaMai work
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Big Stock on Display
Capital Monumental
Works
2ai 8. Com! Oppoalta Camaiary
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Made In Salem u
by experienced Swiss Cheese
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Swiss ".Cheese
Cream Brick Cheese
Limberger Cheese -Order
from - the 'factory or
; from your" grocer '. .
Salem Cheese Factory
. I'hone 81F11 J T
On pared reform school road,
southeast of Salem'
Salem
THE WEBB t CLOM COMPf OF UNDERTAKERS RUNS
BACK FOB MORE THAN FORTY YEARS OF UNINTERRUPTED
SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF SALEM AND ITS VICINITY
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Mr. Clough Was in the Undertaking Business Here When He Was His Own Manu-
;facturer Times Have Changed Greatly in That Time, and the Service Has
Changed for the Better An Up to Date Undertaking Establishment These
uays nequires a Large
People.
Through more than 40 years
of uninterrupted service, though
not always under its present exact
title, the undertaking ' firm of
Webb & Clough has been before
the people of Salem as a palliator,
a helper in the time of the last
woes. It began back in the days
KING'S FOOD PRODUCTS
COMPANY
Dehydrators and Cannerx y
; Oregtn Fniiti and Vegetables
Salem Portland The Dalles
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Mazdas f -j
Electrical Appliances
Salem Electric
Company '
If ItS electric, com to ns.M
Masonic Temple.'- Phone 1200
Our efforts will be to assist in every possible way the
development of the fruit and berry industries of this
valley
OREGON PACKING COMPANY
A Licensed Lady Embalmer
to care for women and
children "is a necessity la
all funeral homes. We are
the only ones furnishing
such service. , ,
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Terwilliger
Funeral Home
770 Cbemeketa St. Phone 724
SALEM, OREGON
'We carry fhe following lines
of PAIXT8, Sherwin Williams
Co. and Bass llueter Co.
1 Klso
Everything In Building
; Material
Falls City-SalemLumber
Company
A. B. Kelsay, Mgr. , ' r ,
349 8. 12th St Phone 813
Wa Ara Oat After Two MUllona
i Wa ara aow payta? rar thrf.
qnartra of a millioa doUr a yar.
to the dairymea f thia aartioa toe
Bilk.
"Marion Butter?
la Ua Bast Bnttar
llort raw b : Sattar fowa la tba
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MARION CREAMERY.
o , & PRODUCE CO,,,,
8alem, Ore. Phone 248S
This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made
possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by our public
spirited business men-men whose untiring efforts have builded our
present recognized prosperity and who are ever striving for greater
and yet greater progress as the years go by.
investment ana Means a
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when Oregon was larcely a wilder
ness; before the day of good
roads, of electricity, of gas en
gines. Indeed almost back to the
coming of the first locomotive to
the then interminable woods.
There have been many chsnrs
In personnel, but even more in the
Mambor Marloa County, Intar 8ta
U tnd Katlonal Baalty Aaaoclatlona
L A. HAYFORD
REALTOR
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305 State St.
SAtEM. OU EG ON
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BREAD
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SALEM BAKING CO.
G. SATTERLEE
AUCTIONEER
Phones: Residence, 1311
Office. 1177
SALEM : : OREGON
BETTER YET
BREAD
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It Satisfies
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M1STLAND BAKERY
12th and Chemeketa
Order from your grocer
Considerable Force of
physical appearance of the state.
The gloomy forest has been light
ened by clearings where hope
hlooms perennially. What were
then little clearings, have broad
ened into splendid, sunlit prair
ies where the darkness never
dwells. The Oregon of "Thana
top8is" was funereal; it did not
look towards the, sunshine, poli
tical or physical or social of to
day. There has been almost as great
an advance towards the light of
day in the methods of funeral ser
vice over the departed, in these
40 years since the Webb & Clough
firm came -into incipient being,
aa there has been in Oregon In
churches, or schools, or farm pro
duction, or any department of
society, politics or business. The
worshipers of "The Days of Old"
ought to know what those days
really meant, before extolling
tnem to the derogation of today,
Made to Order Then
The first Clough establishment
had to make its own coffins, in a
corner of the shop set apart for
wood-working. There were no
commercial caskets to be had
here. A shop might have on hand
a few hardware fittings, snd may
be a few yards of cloth; but nev
er a metallic casket, never a fine
broadcloth finished casket, nevi
a dre&m of the unobtrusive ser
vice of today. The coming of tne
dread angel was like the tramp
of a steel-shod horse clanging
over th cobblestone pavement; t
was like the surgery of the same
day, that held its victim by main
strength while it sawed orf a leg,
or an arm, or explored the body
for an experimental treatment of
wounds that it could not well
diagnose, nor palliate by anaes
thetics. Brutal in its uncovered
efficiency, the undertaking and
the doctoring of those days grated
cruelly on; the nerves of all who
perforce had to call nn these pro
fessions for aid.
Following a death, the order
would come for a coffin, made to
specifications. Mr. Clough says
that many a time the order has
come to him In those early day?,
with the length and breadth ot
the deceased cut on a notched
A. M. Clough
Seamless Hot Water
Bottles and
Combination Syringes
Guaranteed Not To Leak
Prices from $1 up -
Brewer Drug Co.
405 Court SU Phone 184
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stick; then he would have to
make a coffin to the required size,
hammer and saw making a dismal
din through the whole neighbor
hood and advertising the passing
of one more unfortunate. Then
the gruesome black coffin, and
with stock handles screwed to the
sides, "would' be carried to the
home, or the church, where the
services would be held. A horse
drawn 'hearse would convey the
remains to the cemetery, a group
of stout men would lower the
box into the grave, fortunate :
there was no stumbling or slip
ping that let it crash to the not
torn, and the whole service was
cruelly crude xlike rubibng salt
in a wound already feverish and
palpitating with pain,
Chancs For The Better
There is one change vastly
more, important than the mere
palliation of outward conditions
That is, the change In the age of
mortality. Such a priceless boon
as science, and education, has
conferred on mankind in lowering
the death rate for children! The
change is almost unbelievable; it
is almost like the miracle of the
. birth of a whole new race. For
merly, epidemics of typhoid, of
diphtheria, of scarlet fever, of
meningitis, took children almost
by the whole family; one, two,
three, half a dozen from a single
family, in as many days.
Ixwest in United States
But now, there are so Tew chil
dren's caskets in the Webb &
Clough stock, as to be hardly find
able. The last figures on the
state death rate showed only 62
deaths per thousand of children
under one year of age; the lowest
infant mortality in the United
States. So few baby deaths occur
nowadays that they don't need to
carry many baby coffins in stock
r-thank God!
There used to be a casket fac
tory in Salem, that was finally
moved to Portland. The caskets
first shipped in came from Cali
fornia; a traveling man, John P. .
Fin-ley, began to cover this terri
tory in the late eighties, and this
made unnecessary the little home
Casket shops. A factory was es
tablished in Portland in the early,
days, that lived a precarious ex
istence for several years; finally
being sold to the California com
pany and known later as the Or
egon Casket Co.
A funeral today, from a first
class house like that of Webb &
Clough, is so quietly conducted
that it seems to run itself; like
the air, the sunshine, the Truth.
The awesome silence, that made
every sound seem so abnormal
&ld so cruel, in the old days,
does not prevail. The crude fit
tings of the undertaking service
of 40 years ago, have given way
to a sympathy and a sure effi
ciency that was not even dreamed
of in the olden times.
A Fine .Chapel
The Webb & Clough Chapel is
a real jewel of decorative art. It
is designed in a general color
scheme of blue, yellow and grey,
with draperies and fitiing3 in per
fect accord. There is a reading
desk for the speaker; a choir loft,
curtained off. for the singers; a
curtained room tor $ the family,
with private entrance and exit;
and ample ground-floor room for
the transfer of the casket and
for the passage of the cortege,
direct to the Btreet under a cov
ered portico. The holding of
funeral services from such a
chapel, has almost entirely super
seded the older practice of a
borne funeral, where the home
was"tfTung with grief for days
and. days that could have been
mercifully modified by-taking the
services to a specially prepared
chapel.
There is a beautiful electric
fountain' playing in the chapel,
that gives a striking relief in its
breaking up of the, 'spell of dead
silence. The splash ot the water,
the glisten of the sparkling drops,
the motion as the little streams
play upward, hate a really Won
derful effect upon an "audience.
Nothing, 'jierhaps. can take away
the solemnity of the occasion;
nothing should, or would be done
to make it a gala occasion. But
to make the passing of life seem
more like a triumphant entrance
into the life beyond, seems alto
gether fitting and this little
fountain, far more than the beau
tiful flowers grouped around the
casket itself, seems to force this
effect. Some 'savage peoples
have had some of the same
thought to send the departed on
their way as to a triumphal Jour
ney, rather than as a severance
from all that is worth while. It
is worth while. ' It Is a great spir
itual advance, to restore, some of
this feeling. .
The Webb & Clough' company
keeps two auto hearses!; both in
grey, finely fitted and dignified
in appearance. Their latest ac
quisition is from the Saybrs & Sco
ville factory, at Cincinnati; there
is only one other its equal on
the Pacific coast. It ;Is a real
marvel of beautiful, massive wood
carving, mahogany interior, gray
Spanish leather upholstering, and
cast aluminum disc wheels. Thfcy
also have a pall bearer?' car; all
these cars are kept on jtheir own
premises, always ready, for ser
vice. More Room Xeodel
When the company : built its
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present commodious piaee of bus
iness, at Court and High streets,
it teemed adequate for jail prob
able needs. Now, however, it is
crowded for storage for all the
stock of mortuary goods kept ia
stock. The upstairs is; used -for
a display room, a- morgue, and
an attendant's room; tl.e p'.nce is
never closed, srnoe one jbeint; al
ways in attendance. Every de
partment of tfco place hs connect
ed with the main telephone line,
as well as each of the residences
of Messrs. W-3bi, Clough and
Paulsen. The Etock of clo5i. to
100 caskets, in the distiiay room
and the store room upstair, and
the large quantities ofisilgs, fa
brics, cbcuiicais. and the hun
dreds of boxes of metallic fi'tings
fill the place to more: than it?
originally rated capacity; tome
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extension of room Is already
planned for the future, The c6m
pany carries ( such a stock as
would warrant' calling it a whole
sale dealer, though itj buys only,
for ts own very large trade.
Carries Largt IJne
The company carries a very ex
tensive line of robes and suits,
ranging up to the most elaborate
creations of the finest materials.
The demand for such habiliments
Is increasingly large; designed j to
be especially suitable for tnoriu-
ary attire, they meet every need, i
and the company undertakes to
do everything possible to ibe
done, from the first call.
'I Wood Cominir ' liaek
A rather curious reversion to
the old-fashioned, is thu com
back of many plain wood-finished
instead of cloth-covered caskets
These come in a variety of beau
tiful woods. There are. blzarra
tastes to be catered to, even in
the matter of funerals; soma of
the least expected colors and (de
signs are asked for. Almost the
whole range of primary and a
great many other shades, n.ay be
had in casket coverings, and some
two-color designs are called tor
as well. If ever plain black or
white were the customary habili
ments of mourning, the present
day demand goes far afield from
that practice as far as the ex
quisite chapel service exceeds the
cramped service in the house,
that used to be thought the pro
per place for a funeral to be
held. The world is not more ir
reverent or careless of its lost
loved ones; but tne conventions
of the two older mourning colors
have been shattered and today
carry little weight. Some wonder
ful bronze and metallic caskets
are kept in stock, besides the pol
ished wood and broadcloth crea
tions. The Personnel
The officers of the WVbb
Clpugh company are E. M
Webb, president; A. M. Clough,
vice president; C 1$. Webb, secre
tary, treasurer and manager. Mr.
E. A. Paulsen is the capaMe as
sistant; Mrs. Julia Davis, the lady
assistant; and Harold Lyman,
night attendant.
A I-arge Investment
Ttie company carries a line ot
eoods that would buy the ftock
for a strong community bank or
a large manufacturing establish
ment; its investment runs up high
into five figures. It rates as one
of the largest, most capable mor
tuary institutions, in the state; al
most certainly it is the second old
est under any part of the same
management, only the HolmaT
parlors of Portland antedating It.
How Method Have Changed
Illustrating how methods have
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Chiropractic Will Baaova tat CaaM
Your Health Begins When You
Phone 87
for an appointment
DR;0. L. SCOTT
P. S. C. Chiropractor
aj Laboratory 414 to 419 XT. S. Vat't Ek. Bldf.
to 12 a. m. and 2 to 6 p. m. ,
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Building, Salem
changed, one might compare the
dignified, capable service render
ed by inch rb establishment: tin
the Webb1 & Clough I company.
with jtbe .window, advertising car
ried many years ago by a Portland i
undertaker. ' dle.had seteral-yny? -coffins
made, rand dolls'. dresstlM
as for burials to fit them;., and
the whole dreary pantomime of "
the last rites, . displayed in his '
front street window, as a "fetch
ing" adyertisement. . If he had .
advertised a raffle on embalming, '
or a guessing contest for the next
free burial, it would have seemed
hardly more grotesque or minister. .
Tbe Webb & Clough funeral
records date back to 18S8J no re
cords are available prior to that -time,'
thongh'-Mr, Clough wa
here for years before that- date,
He served. as county coroner. tot
more than 26 years. He is a mem
ber of the Artisans, the Odd FeK-
lows and the Woodmen of : the
World lodges, and is also the old
est undertaker in Oregon, having
been In the business, more than
40 years.
Earl A. Paulsen enlisted In the
United States navy hospital corps :
in April, 1917, and served for It
months overseas; he was also for
10 months in charge of the naval -morgue
at Mare Island, Cat, a
total service of 29 months, lie
had been with the Epperly Un
dertaking company of Tacoma,
and with Chambers & company of
Portland before coming here to
Salem with the Webb & Clough
company a year ago. lie isa
member of the American Legion,
the Veterans of Foreign Wars. .
and also of Pacific No. 50, A. F
& A. M. j , , .
C. B. Webb purchased the bus- .
iness in, 1913, known! as Lehman ,
& Clough, Incorporating tinder .
the name of Lehman, & Clough:
company, and later as Webb f
Clough company, ! He has spent
the greater part of his life Inv
this line of work, having studied
under his father at Medford, who '
began the undertaking profes
sion in 18S4. lie was in business
later in Washington, and wag as
sociated -with Finley & Son of
Portland shortly before coming
to Salem. Since assuming own-'
ership and management of the!'
present establishment he has been
made a member of the Rotary,,
club, the Cherrians, the Commer
cial club, the B. P. O. E ' tho
Illahee Country club and vari
ous other small clubs of this city.
He has been a real Salem booster
in every line, and was captaia
of a team In; -each of the five Llb-r
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