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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1922)
CLATSOP PLAINS HAS SPOT . SACRED TO PRESBYTERIANS ; A spot sacred to Presbyterians Is the place where the oldest ex isting Presbyterian church west of the Rocky mountains was or ganized t Clatsop Plains, Or. The history of the struggles of this little church is deeply Interesting, and its striving, for success has at times been most pathetic.'" but never once since ft was organized. September 19, 1846, with four charter members, has the church as an institution been abandoned. tus yrwni ciiurcu uuiiuiug was erected about 40 years ago on the apot where the old church stood. Iq 1847 Mrs. Nancy Irwin Morrison gave tne church ten ac res of land, on which a parsonage was built in 1896. The church had a small beginning,. and yet it Blood-Cleansing, Strength -Giving Arsy ths, Effects You Naturally Want from Your Spring Modicine And Hood's , Sarsaparilht satisfies these needs as nothing else can. This marvellous restorative tonic and blood purlher has been recog nized for nearly fifty years as the tit spring medicine for restoring the blood and circulation to their natural richness and vitality. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is more' thaa food's Sarsapariila PURIFIES. VITALIZES AND I FERTILIZERS FOR ALL ; 3 We'have fertilizers for every purpose: the Lavn, the Flower Bed, the Garden, the House Plants, the Field j Crop, the Berries, the Fruit Trees, etc. SPECIAL FOR ONIONS The Onion growers everywhere and especially on Lake Labish lands are finding it very essential toluse . Potash in order to produce a hard, firm, well keeping 'onion and to make it ripen earlier. We have some High Grade Potash and our price is right. But place your order quick as the demand will . be larger than the supply. KILL-MOSS ' . Order a sack or so, according to the size of your . lawn, of our Lime Kill-Moss. It surely kills the moss and makes the grass grow. D; A. WHITE & SONS Phone 160 251 The Take notice, your next opportunity, a s to the character of the furniture in the home where yon are calling. If this is clean, correct, refined in appearance, then ' look for the same characteristics on the part of its owners. If the furniture is shabby you will see those with whom it is associated un tidy in dress, careless of appearance, etc., provided always that it is not a matter t of finances that prevents the purchase of proper furnishings. m i Jl f am . ..... , . 5 i ou wm enjoy going over ine saiesnoors in mis Dig establishment because you.Vill meet so many friends in the way of refined pieces of furniture, rich, k warm toned rugs, etc. And when you find out how little it costs for eood depend- ' t - ' : ji a a in i . i ..... r. . aoie mcrcnanuise at our store, you win oe more man giaa that you came and in spected our stocks. Watch our windows for the big display of, Da venports , that will soon be on sale. I has proved to be a potent factor i alone worth the eartv efforts n Christian work by other denom inations, in redeeming a great country. Business foresight was not keen enough in these early days to per ceive that any good thing could come out of Oregon. It is said that a Mr. McDuffe in a speech in the United States sen ate in 1 843. declared that the country was bare and uninviting, that he would not give a pinch of snuff for it for agricultural pur poses; that a railroad to it could only be made by tunneling through 500 or 00 miles of mountains; that if there was an embankment of only five feet to be removed, he would not consent Appetite-Flaking food, because it creates an appe tite and promotes aasimiUttion ot all food taken, ihun atecurinj; 100 per cent, of nourishment. Thus it contrfbutea to make rich red blood, which carries vitality to all parts ot the body and gives the strength and nerve forre that nature demands day by day. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla. small loa after each meal, and you will soon note how much refreshed you are, how good your food taste, and how cheerfully you do your work. Hood's Pills relieve headache, biliousness, constipation. ENRICHES THE BLOOD. State Street, Salem, Oregon Refining Influence Good Furnittre 5 -piece Ivory Bed Room Suite, Extra Special $85 See Windows C. S. HAMILTON GOOD FURNITURE TfiOd JPdfs?- Ciufc&. to the expenditure of $55 to re move It so that the population might go there and finally- closed for thanking God for his mercy in putting the Rocky mountains as a perpetual barrier to snch an in hospitable region. Another congressman a year later said: -Of all the countries on the face of the earth, Oregon is the leased favored by heaven, it i9 the mere settlings of creation. Russia has her Siberia and Eng land her Rolamy Hay. and if the United States should ever want a place to which they might hanish her rogues and scoundrels, the utility of Oregon would be mani fest. Such was f.ne man's estimate of this fair land from a business standpoint, while the pastor of this early church was braving' the overland trail to Oregon for the purpose of planting the standard of the gospel. Alfred P. Bates was pastor or this church fr.r three years in I connection "villi the Warrenton. Ctrl, Methodist Episcopal church before comin to school In Salem. There is no permanent pastor at present, but church services are conducted as usual. ' Whp not have a contest to see who during the course of the last thirty days has leaped farthest to escape a fly'ng automobile? There ought to be a lot of entries. WANT A JOB? A large employment agency recently said. "The greatest trouble we encounter is that young people fail to better themselves for some special line of work. "There are many of them who think only of some sort of Job -and sort of job which will give them a lttle spending money and some clothes. Then when they are without jobs the Idea of training themselves for somethng better does not pre sent itself. "There are so many good business colleges that cost very little money, if only these peo ple would avail themselves ot them. If I could only persuade these people to take up these classes, they will not need to worry about positions." NOW Is the time to enter. Capital Business College Salem, Oregon of Your Rugs cleaned free. Phone 29 for a tryout with our Sweeper-Vac EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE The Council and North Salem TransKrtation Editor Statesman Transporta tion is the very life blood of a city. Cut off transportation and the city stagnates and dies as surely as withers a flourishing tr)pe whose roots are removed, f'ut off transportation from any part of a city and that part suffers the same fate. The young people move away and the old people keep away. North Salem needs better trans portation, needs it badly, needs it far more than any other single condition of its growth. If the good men of the ci,y council want to hand North Salem a really sour lemon with a lastinsr Litter taste, let them throttle the present jitney service with severe regulations making doubtful or impossible any real prosperity for the jitney. -t They must know that there is no alternative, that it is absolute ly hopeless to expect any exten sion of street car service. Talk of it is mere camouflage, because present leeonomic conditions and tendencies are wholly against such possibility. Years ago the people of North Salem enjoyed a jitney service. not a Ford. They rejoiced in it. It saved time. It helped real es tate, reduced community profani ty, and carried the rainbow prom ise of better things to come. But came war and misfortune. Two busses were burned in succession. The proprietors had not been rich nor getting richer. Licenses and gas prices and taxes soared Last but not least the sleepless eye of the Southern Pacific was on the jitney to do it mortal injury. So for four or five years there was no more jitney. The people lamented and de plored. At least threi ouhllc meeting were held in efforts to get some one to establish a ser vice. But promise of community support was unavailing. Appeal was made to the Commercial club, and to the newspapers in vain to find some one with the little cap ital and the big courage necessary to start in determined to win out. Meantime visionary souls would faithfullv start or renew rumors of the long dreamed of loop the 6treet car company was to build. Petitions, blue prints, etc.. were all in vain. The company was merely keeping its weather eye open for the jitney, and wjien "fi nally the littfe Ford appeared be hold the mighty noise we hear! The little jitney is loaded with dynamite! It may put the whole car system of the city out of com mission! It may force th-9 car company to raise its fare to 6 or 7 cents! It must be made sate for the public and absolutely safe for the car company! So it must carry heav insurance. The infant must have its fleet bound, and be given Btiff doses of general regulation, and be kept in a straight jacket of prescribed routes, lest by chance it might grow and pros per. Whent3 comes this implacable demand for regulation? Certainly not from the patrons of the jit ney nor from property owners in North Salem, who have petitioned in favor of the jitney. Surely it It not any sudden and original tender solicitude on the part of the council for the people of North Salem. In fact, the tender ONE FOR TWO Iff; better to buy one good suit and be satisfied than to buy two and never be satisfied. Any pattern color or texture of your heart's desire at prices within your reach. $32.50 to $75 We welcome your inspec tion of our woolen display. Where KAHN Tailoring company's Made-to-Measure Clothes are sold. A. A. Clothing Co. 247 N. Commercial I ' Aaron Astill, Prop. solicit uaeuseeins to be 1J f ot.thf car company. The rita question is. 'Whose; interests are paramount, those of: li.e 'otnpany or tlne of North Salem" Whom does this couucii iepreent? Can the council justly! a:fo--l to tak the position of eri dondns; a Jog-in-the-mauger alti tude by the street tar company.! unable "or refusing to' give serviie t, section conprisint: S: ci'y ViO ks an average dita;n-e of, Hght blocks from the present d.r" line, and at the same time doin its utmost to prevent a:y other cheaper form of service belns furnished to this -section? Ont wonders, after all. what ' right the working people of North Salem, or the Highland corumun-; itv have to ride in a jitney. If :t ! tak-'S them a minimum of 20 min-' utes longer per trip to walk seven i or eight blocks to tike a car. and j they average a trip a day. that is j only 121 hours-a year, or 15 work- j ing days of eight hours. After all. what is a little fax like that to! protect the street car profits and j service for tue rest -of the city.'j What really good citizen, or earn-! est councilman. would not give j 15 working days of his time toj help protect the profits and ser-; vice of the street car company fori the rest of the city? Taxes are a rather soro subject j just now. But here the council has a fine opportunity to confer a very great benefit upon North Salem without taxing the rest of the city a cent. Let it encourage the establishment of a permanent, prosperous, dependable and effi cient jitney service for this sec tion. Then will many a tired mother and home bound workman rejoice daily in precious time and exertion saved. The young folks will build next to the old folks, and the real estate men will smill. The home fires win burn moro brightly, and the home gar dens bloom more beautifully, a'l because their owners can spend more time daily tending them, and less timte and exertion trying to get back and forth to their work. E. S. TILLINGIIAST. ' Germs of Uisrei.se should be promptly expelled from the blooj. This is a time when the system is especially susceptible to them. Get rid of all Impurities in th? blood by taking Hood's Sajrsa parilla, and thus fortify your whole body and prevent illness. Adv. REALTY EXCHANGES Reported by Union Abstract Company 4 Geo. E. and Margaret Waters to Ida L. Niles. part of lat 3, blk 25. Salem. $10. Martha Hutsby to Agnes Slo cum, lot 2, block 1, Haddley add to Mill City, $1. Bulah M. and G. A. Thomason to Amma May Wilcox, lot 24. A. F. Waller add to Salem. $1500. Rose Hauptman to Antone En glebart. N 1-2 lot 4, block 3, St. Louis, $1. Antone Englehart to Rose Hauptman, W 1-2 of lot 3, block 3. St. Louis, $1. Gertrude J. M. Page to H. L. and Arthur J. Hemingson. W 1-2 of lot 8. block 7, University add to Salem, $1900. Archie W. and Victoria Light foot to C. T. and Elia Okerberg, northerly 65 feet of lots 1 and 2, block 74, Wilds' add to North Sa lem. $10. Aanda E. King to D. and Nina B. McHenry, south half of frac tional block lying east of block 7. North Salem, $1. Harriet L. Poe to Laura J. Mix or John Anthony, lot 7, Merri field's addition to Aumsville, $2, 400. Laura J. and J. W. Mix to D. F. and Anna W. Eastburn. lots 3. 6, 7 and S. block 16. Henry SmUh's addition to Aumsville, IHT.O. ( Virginia F. Phillips and hus Ijand to I). F. and Anna W. East burn. 101.07 acres in A. J. and C, Davie's donation land claim, a-l-W.. $2340. Eily Miller to George Miller. S acres in section 13-4-1-W.. $1. I. R. Farris to Roy Nash, lot 14, block 14, Riverview Park ad dition, $400. Matilda Heglin to Homer Bar-! ber, lot 17. block 2, Mill ad dition to Salem, $10. - Crosby and Eveyn Tayor to May Goury, ot 11, Woodburn Fruit farms, $10. A. J. and Minnie Potter to Rob ert Brownlee, northeast quarter of southwest quarter and north west quarter of southeast quarter section 3-9-3 W., $10. Orley H. and Lottie P. Gilbert to Hibernia Commercial and Sav ings bank, block 13, Aumsville,' $1. i i Henry A. and Gertrude M. White to Title and Trust com pany, lot 58, Vernon acres. $10. John A. and Myra J. Dyeland to M. J. and Carrie Lindahl, lots 10, 11 and 12, Yew Park annex to Woodburn, $10. Charles E. and Grace L. Bea man to Anton and Antonio Pave lik, lots 45. 46, 51 and part lot 52, Hall's Home tracts, $3500. W. G. and Ethel E. Muellhaupt to T. L. and Rosabell Benedict, lots 45 and 46, Ireton Fruit farms, $10. J. A. Jefferson to Elizabeth Bullock, part of block 29, Nob ma annex, $10. W. G. and Anna H. Kruger to Adam and Elizabeth Engel, part of block 48, North Salem, $10 and other considerations. Grover Nelson to A. R. New ton. 40x120 feet in J. L. Parftsh donation land claim, 7-3-W., $10. Katie E. and Ben Sutton to Ferdinand and Rachel Kurz, part of block 22, Nob Hill annex t Salem. $300. Adolf B. and Matilda Sta'nko to H. G. and Alice A. Thurston lots 6, 7 and 8, Edgewood. $10 and other considerations. Nellie . L. Barney and husband by Sheriff, to J. G. Pate. 31 ac:3 9-3-W., $795.72. Ladies' and. Suits New Silks and Cotton Wash Goods for Spring Our display of frocks and dresses is truly a review of Springtime fashions. Here, indeed, you will find all the newest styles developed in the American fashion centers. For grace fulness of lines, charm of design and general exquisitness in effect, they have no superiors. The newest Spring fabrics are ready for you to choose from. And day by day our stocks are increased by the never ending arrival of new crisp color ful merchandise. You will enjoy a visit to the store whether you come to buy or not Oar Prices Always The Lowest GALE & CO. Commercial and Court Streets Clean Sweep The Last Lap The Last Call The Race Is Ended The Deed Is Done For now and the last time The Final Wind-up Of a Worthy Event That Has Been Tomorrow night we tear down the signs and banners that flew high above our store, a symbal of the. in describable opportunities that has favored Salem's I buying public. You Still Have a Chance to Replenish Your Stocks at the insignificant prices that has moulded this sale into the most successful af fair In our history. r Tomorrow will be- the last Day, the End, the FINISH So Come! Everybody II Shop Early I THErOlfSTiT ib naicn uur I hA" I I II m - ! aai ii i ii 'Dresses, loud Offers Its n To the people of Salen radically FD 11 JiVl Reductions are now sweep all department from top Read the Classified Ads. m . . .. MMHHMHHMMMMB W. I " -r . - - . X