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Our Valley Mm . By CHARLES IRELAND ' The community-celebrati4n season again is in full flower . . The North Santiam area has just concluded one of its finest bean festivals and, like the Dayton Buckeroo, is now history . . . This week comes the new Dallas Smileroo (Thurs day through Saturday) which will have to share top billing on Saturday with Silverton's annual Western Horse Show . . . The annual Keizer carnival also is coming up this weekend and another suburban community, Four Corners, will hold its barbecue on Sunday, Aug. 14 . . . The Four Corners celebra tionis unique in that it is transplanted, being held annually on the outskirts of Turner at the ranch of Fred Smith, Four Corners merchant. . - .The Clackamas County Fair, billed surprisingly as "bigger afltT better than ever" is scheduled Aug. 17-29 at Canby . . . Then come the Yamhill County Fair, Aug. 25-27, at McMinnville, and the constantly-expanding Polk County Fair, Aug. 26-28, at Rickreall . . . 4-H winners, etc., barely will get a breather before the State Fair comes along Sept. 3-11 at Salem . . . The North Marion County Fair at Woodburn, Sept 22-24, will serve as sort of a main wind-up to the fair season, although several farm organizations will hold community lairs uier in uc iau ' I can't write from memory ley, but most of today's fairs and celebrations are quite dif ferent from the small-town fairs of a generation ago when many counties had two or even more fairs . . . They were ex pensive affairs to produce, and they began to die about the time that the automobile supplanted the horse and buggy . . . But it was a mark of civic pride for a small town to have a fair, and most of them went down fighting.. -.The depression, in many cases, was the blow that killed daddy. . . By then there weren't enough solvent men on Main Street to renew the ever-present mortgage on the fairgrounds. . . The tnortgape had been incurred, as any oldtime fair sec retary could tell vou, because it always rained on the Big Thursday of fair week . . . When it came time to pay off the premium list, the professional "free acts" and the harness race winners, there just weren't enough shekels in the till to go around. , :. " The format of those oldtime county fairs didn't vary much with 4i iTtnaiu nin heatc nf xulkr racine. intersnersed with j.mm . ' !.-..-; .. . . .u. t . ... linhLrniu walker and the down who 4.1 v . . . Mwwmj teetered back and forth atcp a tumbled down . . . Over in tne quartersireicn, a reanoi oascoau game was underway . . . The man who announced the race results e,... m4 M mntinn in this era that knew no nublic address system . . . Nobody could ... At least the real, live band was superior io uc oiaiam canneu music heard at so many events today. It's easy to shed a nostalgic tear for the county fair of boy hood, but, as any youngster can tell you, the celebrations so prevalent in the Willamette Valley today couldn't possibly be more exciting . . . And most of them feature tree enienain ment, something that couldn't be said of the oldtime county fair ... All in all. it's a lucky bration for its small fry and forward to. Mock Tank Battle Slated at Smileroo - i." : ? statesman News nerTlee t. r, , ; IAAS One of the many features of the Dallas Smileroo Aug. 4-6 will be a mock battle staged by the Dallas Tank Company, National Guard. - ' . The event is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Thursday at H. M. Webb farm a mile north of Dallas on the Coast Highway,' according to Capt Stanley Singlef, company commander. Anacucal , prowem wun in fantry troops and tanks will, be set up by the company. Tank cannons, machine guns and other firearms will be used, the com mander said. Will Destroy Shed Climax of the mock battle will be s the destruction of a shed erected for the show. The guard unit is offering a taxi service for persons having no other means of getting to the Webb farm. The taxis will consist of four army trucks each . capable of carrying about 40 persons. The service -will start at 5:30 p.m. Thursday from Academy street between Main and Jefferson streets. 4 - 1 trill rire Cinnoa ' Participating in the maneuver will be virtually all of the com pany's 100 men and officers. The guard unit also will take part in the queen's parade which is slated for 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Queen Donna Mendenhall will signal the opening of the Smil eroo by touching off a 90 mm. cannon on one of three tanks. Youngsters will be offered tank rides after a kiddies' session at the auction. Proceeds will go to the swimming pool fund. Albany's U. Fund Goal: $34,450 ; Statesman Xcvs Service ALBANY The Albany area United Fund for 1935 will seek to raise (34,450 during its October campaign, newly appointed drive Chairman Hal Byer reported Fri day. . Quota established by the United Fund board is an increase of $1.- f If yon'd only gone could he spending our lZ And if there was a cvuitt anaujc juaii, wj panning -aiai GOfiGnni FinnncE con p. - license Nes. SO 38 M-33S 137 SO. COMMERCIAL ST. PHONE 3-9161 5 aT .. It season. concerning the Willamette Val . - - stack of tables until he finally understand him, but who cared? town that has an annual ceie a lot of the big ones to look ' ' Horse Show Due Saturday At Silverton SUtttmaa News Service , . SILVERTON This city's ninth annual Western Horse Show will be held Saturday night at Mc- Ginnis Field. A concert by the Citizen's Band wul open the snow at 7:15 witn the grand entry of participants in the show scheduled at 7:45. Competitive events will include a stake race for five-man teams. judging of pleasure, parade and Palomino horses, a Shetland ponies to bike race and a bareback rescue race. ' , Drills are scheduled by the Ore gon Governor's Guard, the Salem Sackfl I dub and Silverton Saddle Club. A six-horse-hitch demonstra tion also is on the program. . The event is expected to at tract horsemen from all around the Willamette Valley and from Wash ington. Elmer Lore nee is chairman of the show. , A grand parade at 1:30 p. m. Saturday will open the festivities. NOAH BERKEY ON LEAVE SHERIDAN Noah Berkey is home on a two-weeks leave from the San Diego Naval training sta tion. 250 over the 1954 budget, Byer said. , The campaign will begin Oct. 17 and continue for three weeks. to General Finance Corp.,- we vacation ia a much nicer place!" telephone ia this damp, we still Ride on Winning Float at V STAYTON' Pretty girls are traditionally associated with the Santiam Bean Festival, and here are five that were par) of prize-winning entry in grand parade. All Rainbow Girls, they are . (left to right) Patricia Humphries, Pamela Keyes, Donna Moreland, Beth Norton and Bonnie Bryant Many other Stayton Rainbow Girls- appeared on the float. The festival ended Saturday. 89-Year-0ld Seamstress 'I - Still Active at Her Trade By JAMES ALLEY Statesman Correspondent AMITY In one of the most stately homes in this historic, pi oneer village lives a remarkable woman. She is Mrs. Martha Brown. She is 89 years old. She is still active at her "trade" of dressmaker. , She has made several formals in the last few months that will be seen at lodge conventions all over the state this summer and fall. S7 Years Ago .. . All of these dresses were made on the sewing machine that was waiting in the house for her when she came to Amity as a bride 67 years ago. "I would like to say that it sews as good today as it did the day I came in this house as a bride and found iC there in the corner, brand new. Mrs. Brown's tiny hand pointed to the well preserved machine in the corner o( her din ing room. "You see, Mr. Brown bought the machine before we were married and had it put in the house as a surprise wedding -present. It was the most useful wedding present I have ever heard of," Mrs. Brown said, flashing her ever ready smile. Bern in Missouri This woman was born Martha Stephens on a farm near Morrison, Mo., on Dec. 23, 1865. She comes from two. old Virginia families the Stephens and Dallas families. She has seen three of her grand parents who .were born about the close of the American Revolution. Her life has-been one of pluck and courage. She tells of a diph theria epidemic in Missouri when she was a girlrof 12. Her Jather would make coffins for the chil dren of the neighborhood whor had died. Some families would lose three or four children in a few days. Martha and two very young brothers would take a lantern and go across the fields and through the dark woods carrying coffins to homes where death had struck. Settled at Forest Grove She came to Amity as a bride in July of 1887, her parents having come to Oregon in 1883 and settled at Forest Grove near an aged aunt who . had crossed the plains in 1847. She married W. R. Brown, a pioneer blacksmith, at her parent's home on July 19, 1887, and "set out for Portland for our wedding trip. On this wedding trip she bought the furniture for a new home of 10 large rooms which the groom had built for her, and as yet she had not seen. The furniture that she purchased is still in the house and is used every day. She was waxing her dining room furniture with a new wax when interviewed for this story. Year's Groceries "You might be interested in this, " she laughed. On my wed ding trip to Portland, I bought my year s supply of groceries: , barrel of sugar, several barrels of flour, and a barrel of green coffee. You roasted it yourself in those days." Martha Brown has always lived in the house that was built for ber 67 years ago by her late husband She has been the mother of five sons. One of them, Francis, has been with the State Accident Com mission in Salem for 20 years. Mrs. Brown does not consider anything about her life remark Leston W. Howell T Pll ! ia.. 'j I jliiy V THE SAME CONSCIENTIOUS, DIGNIFIED, SERVICE ' WHETHER YOU DECIDE TO SPEND $100.00 OR $1000.00 Most convenient off-street parking for funerals, three tntranccs . - 65 car cipadry. Another Thoughtful Sarvk at No Extra Cost" i HOWELL-EDWARDS FUNERAL HOME 545 N. Capitol Stroot j i AMITY Dressmaker Martha Brown, 89, applies finishing touches to one of several dresses she has made this rammer. A bride of "1887, she still uses the sewing machine her husband gave her "as surprise wedding gift. v" Silverton Store . Names Manager Statesman News Service SILVERTON Walter T. Wiencek of Portland has been named man ager of the Silverton Sprouse- Reitz store. He replaces William Wortman who has been transfer red t. Prineville. Wiencek has been with the com pany for 5 years. He formerly resided in Grants Pass end The Dalles. He is married and there are two daughters, one 18 and Jhe other two years old. able. She is not a sentimentalist over the past. She will point to the original wall paper in the hall and bedrooms and say. "It has Cone very well, hasn t it? Mrs. Brown is no stick-at-home, She- has been a member of the pioneer Christian Church here for over sixty years and attends church twice on Sunday. She oftens comes to the church to quilt with the girls' on Wednesdays. Does Own Housework She is a charter member of the Amity Order of the Eastern Star She climbs the long stairs to the lodge room much faster'than many women half her age. Her house is always as sweet and clean as an old-fashioned nosegay. . Eighty-nine year old Martha Brown does all - her own housework and keeps a school teacher as a boarder. When the weather is nice she still does most of her yardwork. Martha Brown, the little dress maker of Amity, is one whose very life is a benediction and a lesson on how to live serenely in this aspirin age. Donald Waggoner a. p SO' "" CROSS FROM SEARS 4v' "jMBftT'lji.' ' - ii.ijii. u . . "'rif L1'Jr -nw Stayton Bertha Crites Dies, Rites at Independence Statesman News Service INDEPENDENCE Services for Bertha Augusta Crites, 68, ' Inde pendence resident for 15 years, will be held at Smith-Krueger Mortuary here at 1 p. m. Monday with interment at Belle Passi Cemetery, Woodburn. Mrs. Crites died in a Portland Hospital Thursday following an ill ness of several months. She was born Sept. 7, 1886, at Red Cloud. Neb., and was a member of the Pythian Sisters and Cloverleaf Rebekah Lodge 56. Surviving are her husband, Seth LeRoy Crites, Independence; son, Ralph H. Crites, Grand P.onde; three daughters, Mrs. Alice Graves, Silverton. Mrs. Violet Evans, Malad, Idaho, and Mrs. Hazel Giovinazzo, Monterey, Calif.; a brother, Fred Kehl, Cheyenne, Wyo., sister, Mrs. Mary Christenson, McCook, Neb.; six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. 103 People Attend Tri-Family Reunion WILLAMINA The Fendafl-Sitton-Rogers reunion, held at Johnston's Park near Willamma, was attended by 103 people. Vis itor from the most distant place was Dan Savage of Livingston, Calif.; eldest member of the fam ily attending was Ward Sitton, 84, McMinnville; and the youngest, Jeffrey Guy Mendenhall, 3 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chan Menden hall, Willamina. Charles Edwards - Phono 1-3672 " n i v Rose Willielm Scores Win at Stayton Show Statesman News Serrice STAYTON Rose Wilhelm, veteran Salem horsewoman, cap tured the second leg of the Stay ton Horse Show pepetual trophy for exhibiting the best parade horse during the final day of ac tivity at the 16th annual Santiam Bean Festival Saturday. Following the horse show, the annual bean hole feed was held at the Civic building with an es timated 400 persons eating a bountiful meal which was fea tured by the famous Santiam green beans.' Later in the evening, the Bean Hoppers ball brought the week long celebration here to a close. Preceding the horse show, par ticipants in the event staged the third festival parade through Stay ton streets. Glenn Minden of Sub limity was grand marshal. Winners of events in the horse show included: Terry Koll, quar ter mile race for boys and girls 16 and under: Roy Garlics, stock horse class; Oregon Mounted Pos se, team stake bending contest; Bob Frankie, adults quarter mile race; Rose Wilhelm, pleasure horse class and parade horse con test; Jimmie Jackson, Shetland pony with cart Queen Jane Cox presented tro phies and ribbons to the winners in each event. Polk Crash Victim Still Unconscious Statesman News Service WTLLAMINA An 11-year-old boy remained unconscious Satur day from injuries incurred July 11 in a traffic accident near Wil- lamina. The boy, Terry Dean Ellingson of Tillamook, is at Providence Hospital, where attendants said he is still on the critical list al though "responding better to noises. Young Ellingson incurred head injuries and several fractures in the Polk County accident which took the life of his father and a brother. Stroke Claims Bernard Duda Statesman Newt Service MT. ANGEL' Bernard Duda, prominent Mt. Angel farmer, died Saturday at Silverton where he wes hospitalued after suffering a stroke the night before. He was 70. Born Aug. 11, 1884 in Ashton, Neb., the deceased came to Mt. Aneel in 1893 with his parents, Mr. . and Mrs. Frank Duda. He married Mary Schaecher here on Nov. 23, 1910. Surviving besides his wife are seven children. Sister Bernarda of the Benedictine Convent here; Mildred Bradley, Agnes Zollner, William, Walter and Clarence Duda, all of Mt. Angel; and Ver onica Payseno, Salem; nine broth ers and sisters, Joe, Clem and Alois Duda, Clara Duda, Anna Duda, Teresa Duda and Mary Poepping. all of Mt Angel, Anthony Duda, Gervais, and Fran cis Duda, Portland; also 11 grand children. Services are pending at Unger Mortuary here. Valley Births Statesman News Service SILVERTON - To Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Barbour, Molalla, a daugh ter, July 27, at Silverton Hospital. To Mr. and Mrs. Niels Christen son of Molalla, a son, July 27, at Silverton Hospital. (HEMORRHOIDS) MonneKiAt TntATM WITHOUT MOSOTM. OFfaATIOM) MM STOMACM AM0 COLOM r CONVtNSINT CMMT SOOSUT . e CJ H0NC S-NeS 8. MTNOtDt Th REYNOLDS CLINIC Naturopathic t4 CHiroprabc Physician? Prescription Pharmacy Salem 4-3336 ' Opes Until 11 PJH. Sundays and Holidays 12 A.M. to 2 P ML PJH. to 9 PJH. . 130 S. 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Serving with Lundy are Kenneth Shetterly, Dallas, first vice presi dent: William Harland. Rickreall, second vice president; William Darling, Independence, third vice president; 'Mrs. Elmer Werth, Willamina, fourth vice president; Mrs. L. L. Linn, Dallas, secretary, and Mrs. Robert Mulder, Mon mouth, treasurer. First actual fund drive for the county under the new organiza tion is planned for October. Com mittees tiave been chosen to re view budgets and to secure a cam paign chairman. . Slated to, participate in the United Fund are the .American Red Cross, Salvation Army, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, Oregon Chest Agencies and the Arthritis-Rheumatism Associa tion. STATIONED IN GERMANY SHERIDAN Pfc Richard Gas ton, ton of Mrs. and Mrs. Ernest Gaston of Grand Ronde, now is stationed in . Germany, with the Army. He entered the service 18 months ago, after attending Grand Ronde and Willamette schools. 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