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to prepare yourselves. The hoo-
ason is close at hand. Yon will H iw
supplying your many necessities both small and
large at this time.
Hop-pickers and hop-yard
Retail Quantities at
owners will be supplied in
All phone and mail orders will receive CAREFUL
ATTENTION and PROMPT DELIVERY.
May we not receive your order today? It will receive
our personal attention.
PbUPLES' CASH ST OWE
SALEM, OREGON
'$hop Where the Crowds Buy"
"BEN" FRANKLN NOT FIRST
Contention Made That New Hampshire
Had the Earliest Periodical In '
the United State.
I claim that the oldest periodical In
the United States Is the Newllampshire
Guzette, published weekly at Ports
mouth and founded In 1758, the next
In age being the Weekly Mercury, pub
lished at Newport, R. L, and founded
In 1758. "Benjamin, Franklin did not
found the Saturday Evening Post or
any other paper In 1728. The Penn
sylvania Gazette was founded In 1728
by Samuel KeJraer. who did not make
financial success of It and sold It to
Franklin. . It was first called Th Uni
versal Instructor In All Arts and Sci
ence and Pennsylvania Gazette. Ja
his autobiography Franklin aays of
Kelmer and. the Gazette: He began
M paper, hewever, and after carrying
It on three-quarters of a year, with at
meat ninety subscribers, he offered it
to me for a trifles and I, having been
ready for .some time te go on with It,
took It In hand directly ; and It proved
la a few years, extremely profitable te
me,'" ' t -1 .
. Samuel Atkinson and Charles Alex
ander combined the subscription lists
of the Pennsylvania Gazette and the
Bee and Issued the first number of the
Saturday Evening Post on August 4,
1821, and the Gazette and the Bee went
out of existence forever. Thomas Cot
trell Clarke was th first editor of the
Posrt. All old newspaper directories
give 1821 as the year the Post was
established. , K
BOSSY HAD DELIRIOUS "JAG"
o
No Wall Flower
M in intellectual vounr
wo-
f yet I, understand she's nop-
low do you account for
"When she goes to
checks her brains,
speaking, at the door"-Age-Herald.
t dance she
figuratively
-Birmingham
Corvalli Corvallis Feed & Seed
Co. erecting new building.
Mis' Universal Grinder
or Grinding Pistons, Piston Rings,
Wrist Pins, etc., on
komobiles, Trucks and Tractors
lias been added to our equipment.
)0OD & COZINE, Independence
Mt fT
LESS PROPERTY'
TAX FAVORED
ia li-i i t HJS.
WSmJ
tune
vith progress
. . .
morication has advanced
7 the days of tallow on the
gon hub. Today it is a
J'ence-wjth a correct grade
""rolene for each type of
"fee.
Mre than half the automo
J" equipment owners of the
J Coast follow the rec
ordations of our Board of
"cation Engineers and use
correct grade of Zerolene
yv automobiles, tracts,
J" and airplanes. Ask
ralcr for a Correct Lu
booklet for your en-
,TandArd oil company
(California)
Agrade
"foreach
engine
TRACTORS
Thera la a correct
grada of ZaroJen
for each type of
tractor.
Salem Raising state revenue by
indirect taxation, or fees that will
relieve property of a good part of
its direct burdens, and protecting
state highways against destruction
at the hands of commercial automo
bile operators who use the roads for
their personal profit, are two mat
ters which should have considera
tion of the legislature at its next
session, according to Frank Davey,
republican nominee from Marion
county for a seat in the lower house
at the November election. In con
nection with Mr. Davey's candidacy
it may be said that he will have no
opposition at the general election.
"There are two outstanding sub
jects which to my mind should have
the most serious and painstaking
consideration of the legislature at its
next session,'' said Mr. Davey.
"Probably the most important of
these is a means of raising state rev
enue by indirect taxation or fees, that
will relieve property of a good part
of its direct burdens. Other states
have found ways and means of doing
this, and there is no reason why Ore
gon should not find them.
"I understand the state tax com
mission has given considerable at
tention to the gathering and compil-
. . . . i 1 i.
ation of information on tne suoject
ftnd I expect that Governor Olcott,
who, as secretary of state, became
very intimately acquainted with the
needs of the state, will be able to in
,vnfp. n reliable course of action
alorg this line.
"There is nothing, m my view,
that will better encourage a healthy
immigration to Oregon . and a pro
gressive development of all its lines
of industry, than a knowledge abroad
that the burdens1 of taxation are re
duced tu the lowest possible limit
and are not destructive.
"An.-ther thing of vitai import-
nnce to xne state ia
it jwvmanent highways from the
des;m(tive effects of i-otor vehicles,
too heavily loaded with ut regard to
.... It 1 4. Jmirn-n
the distribution oi wegiu.
too fist, and carelessly and in every
way (''ngerous to the Hie or tne
roads and travelers, uregon
,i.,M rnfid-buildinc law ana tne
curu under its operation will be
Oregon 8 most valuable asset.
"In justice to the machine owners
who are paying for the roads, and
in order that there may be encour
agement to build such roads all over
the state, we must make every rea
sonable effort to prolong the life of
the roads, and to collect reasonable
revenue for their use from those
who are making them commercial
highways for their individual profit.
There must be a law devised that
will regulate the loads that may be
carried by any motor vehicle of giv
en wheel base; that will prescribe
the width of machines and their
cargoes; that will dictate the max
imum speed of such machines; that
will regulate license fees in accord
ance with loads transported, and
that will provide heavy penalties
for violation of any and all provis
ions of the law.
"We shall of necessity be com
pelled to depend upon the state high
way commission and its engineers
for the scientific provisions of the
law as to the relation of load and
speed, wheel base and such other
safety measures as to their trained
minds will be suggested. I intend to
take this matter up soon with those
officials, though others may already
be wording on the same proposal.
"Irrigaiion will also be an import
ant Fubject. Being well acquainted
with the great empire of eastern
Orepon, I know what irrigation will
do fo.' ths state, and I know that
wherever it can be brought :nto sue
i? an inuJIigent way it will mac? for
proswvlty and progress.
"I 'nfoitunately irrigation, like
mining, has been made an agency
by sharpers for extravagant specu
lation and the cause has been in
jured in places, but that does not
detract from the importance of the
industry."
It is said that Mr. Davey will have
the support of the entire Marion
county delegation in his efforts to
regulate the driving of automobiles
on state highways, and it is likely
that a measure framed to that end
will be introduced early in the next
session of the lawmakers.
Results of Imbibing Barrel of Home
Brew Disastrous to Morals of
Sedate Old Cow.
Milk, that mild and healthful bever
age beloved of the young, usually held
In light esteem by the antlprohlbltion
1st, but
It happened not long ago since Jan.
16 In the mining camp of Sand Cou
lee, Montana. A "Bohunk" miner's
wife, apparently seeking to keep her
lord and master In good humor, mixed
a barrel of. home brew guaranteed to
develop a real kick, and set it out In
the yard to ferment A neighbor's
cow happened along and tasted.
One taste led to another, and finally
the barrel was empty. But not so the
cow. She was most decidedly and sat
isfactorily, "full." Anyway, bossy was
fighting drunk, and she started out to
clean up that mining camp, and suc
ceeded almost completely. But she
met her Wellington In Deputy Sheriff
Adolphson. The cow charged the
sheriff, woo dodged.
' Then bossy suffered from the hallu
cination that has afflicted humans un
der similar circumstances. She gave
evidence of seeing a multitude of
Sheriff Adolphsons, and finally tiring
herself with aimless charges fell down
and asleep. When she awoke next day
her "Jag" was over. But It Is reported
that her milk sold at a premium for
several days among the strong men of
the camp. Wall Street Journal.
The old-fashioned girl who was as
fast as a little red wagon now has a
daughter as swift as a large red
touring car.
Another thing When sugar is as
high as it is now why don't sensible
folks eat more pickels ?
Of course it is none of our business
but if we were a woman and weigh
ed 200 pounds we , wouldn't try to
dress like a magazine model, even to
please a husband who calls her
Chiky-Icky. "
Others can do as they please, but
personally, we have quit buying; our
kind of cigars at a place where the (
salesgirl acta as if she is hired only,
for the' millionaire trade.
this world is how patient a woman
can be with the . kind of a husband
who stuffs himself -down town and
then complains of the children's ap
petites at home.", ' ' "
1 Percy Nodles says that ; .when he
asked the capitalist's , daughter what .
kind of a man her mother wanted
her to marry she, said she didn't
know but she thought mama favored
MV. - At 11 11 t.W HSMJkli V bfUVO OVA '
vantage of the housing shortage to
live at her house. Galveston News.
First Aid on the Water
Once upon a time the
term
Ammonia by New Process.
. An enterprising American has se
cured from the Italian government a
concession for the utilization of 800
horsepower of the Marmore cascades
near Ternl, about seventy miles from
Rome, and maintains that he can turn
out nitrogenous plant food for the
Italian farmer at a cost as low as 1
lira per kilo (equivalent to $0.08 per
pound, with the lira taken at its par
exchange value of $0,.193). , It Is said
that the falls are capable of generat
ing not less than 150,000 horsepower.
These are the cascades over which
Byron waxed so eloquent in '"Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage." Alfred P. Den
nis, commercial attache of the United
States embassy in Rome, reports to the
department of commerce that the only
ingredients In the ammonia are water,
air and electric energy.
;&"CK 'Local Agent "Tentoce, Oregon - p -"
Or a Fishless Fisherman
"Fishermen are now advocating a
barbless hook," says the Kansas City
Star, "in order to give the fish a
fair chance for their lives. What
about a wormless fishworm, also, in
order to give the worms a fair
shake?"
Reality of Disease Germs.
Replying to a protest from Lee
White, publicity department of the
Christian Scientists, against remarks
on the death from diphtheria of a girl
under Christian Science treatment, the
Journal of the American Medical Asso
ciation says: "Had the nine-year-old
girl been buried beneath a load of
bricks, even Mr. White would have
suggested, we believe, that before giv
ing the injured child 'Christian Sci
ence' treatment 'absent' or 'present'
the bricks should be removed. What
Mr. White fails to realize Is that a
Klebs-Loeffler bacillus is just as ma
terial an object as a brick. It does
material damage. It Is true, not.by its
material weight, but by the equally
material toxins It produces."
first aid'' was used only in
the restricted sense of applying
simple rules in the treatment of
victims following an accident.
While still retaining its original
meaning, the term has broadened
to include rules and .practices for
the prevention of accidents. In fact,
in its up-to-date conception the first
principle of first aid is prevention.
Reverting from the general state
ment just made to a seasonable . as
pect of the subject, the primary
first aid applicable to water sports
and accidents of all kinds occurring
on the water is knowledge of the
art of swimming. The American
Red Cross is now coupling with its
previously established teaching of
first aid rules for use in saving the
lives of persons rescued from drown
ing, an intensive campaign on the
prevention side. The "learn-to-swim"
weeks that have been carried
out under the auspices of Red Cross
chapters in various parts of the
country have met with even greater
success than was anticipated, ac
cording to the reports thus far
made. In many instances the num
ber of free swimming lessons given
during the designated week ran into
the thousands. In some of the di
visions the "learn-to-swim" week
is still to take place, and if the aver
age is maintained the season's ser
vice along this line will be of ines
timable value.
The present season is also marked
by the far reaching development and
extension of the Red Cross life sav
ing corps movement. It goes with
out saying that the combination of
general interest, training In rescue
and resuscitation work and teaching
of swimming will prevent many
cases of drowning during the sum
mer months that otherwise would be
recorded. A notable case in point
is the record of the Red Cross life
saving corps of Galveston, Texas,
whose members saved 16 bathers
from drowning in a single day. Not
one death in connection with the
day's mishaps was reported. It is
to be expected that ultimately the
yearly percentages of drowning ac
cidents will show a marked decrease
in consequence of the service that
has been established, although the
number of persons going in for wa
ter sports and pastimes is increasing
in tremendous ratio.
Alaska is not all snow and ice.
Potatoes, turnips, beets, sugar beets,
carrots, parsnips, celery, rhubarb,
radishes, onions, cabbages, cucum
bers and peas are grown in Alaska.
Simple Telephony.
An Interesting development In tele
phony Is a new three-wire wall net
which operates on two ordinary dry
cells, says the Scientific American. The
telephone itself is built for the use
and pleasure of youngsters. The in
stallation is very simple, as the tele
phones fasten to the walls with two
screws and there is nothing more tech
nical for the boy to do than to follow
simple Instructions in connecting the
wire with the posts on each telephone
box. The set will operate up to 1,000
feet, instead of the usual 100 or 200
feet, If two additional dry cells ar
employed.
Giving Him Room.
"Gracious 1 I didn't know you were
going away."
"Yes, the doctor has ordered my hus
band to stop smoking, and I'm going to
mother's for the first few weeks."
Judge (New York).
Pulpwood will be sold frm the
Alaskan National forests with such
provisions for future supply as will
assure the permanence of the industry.
According to government estimates
it is believed that a, complete ex
ploration of the National forests
in southern Alaska will show that
there is a quarter of a million horse
power of undeveloped water power
possibilities. '
The
records of the weather bu
reau in Alaska show that the aver
age temperature of the ports of
Prince William Sound, 30 degrees
above zero, is the 'same as that of
New York and Boston, and that of
Nome (zero) is similar to that of
Manitoba and Montreal. 1
It is of interest to note in connec
tion with possible pulp plants m
southeast Alaska that labor in Al
aska is accustomed to work on a
basis rather than on a time basis,
and this would probably be reflected
in the employment of labor for log
ging operations of pulp timbers.