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VOL. XX
NEWBEBG, YAMHILL COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 16.1908.
cos he’s too fat and ways 200
HORRORS OF W AR
B. Á. Smith
S. S. Duncan
pounds
or more. The neighbors
NOT RECORDED,
J. P. Irvine
J. G. Eckman
think he have dropsy, but I know
<M
.
E.Johnston
A.
C. McKinnon
he
have
no
dropsy,
bee
os
he’d
Old Soldiers Tell of Strange and
M.
B:
Hendrick
R.
L. Harris
Startling Afflictions When Ap bust if be had had more inside
W. H. Latourette.
him than he now have. He are
plying for Pensions.
without vitious habits or refer
Every ailment known to medi ences.”
cal science and some that are en The widow of a man who
Miss Lillian R. Heacock was
tirely original, if not imaginary, shouldered a musket in the Penn
born
near West Branch, Cedar
are included in the category o f sylvania Reserves wanted a pen
county,
Iowa, May 29, 1881,
afflictions which seek ameliora sion and she was asked if her
tion through the United States husband was ever wounded.
pension commissioner, says the
"Oh, yes,” was the answer,
Kansas City Star.
“ he received an ax wound in the
No matter how unreasonable left foot.”
may appear the stories contained
Being asked to explain the
in these applications for pensions circumstances surrounding the gave zest to the pleasure. Mrs.
each receives a thorough investi wounding o f her better half, she Harford, in a few well chosen
gation by the secret service of said he ent his foot while split words, greeted those present,
the bureau, an organization ting w ood. It was not during closing her thought with an ear
which shrinks from advertising the war that this occurred, but nest prayer that the young peo
its exploits, although its mem in 1899 at their home in Penn ple might have high ideals, and
bers could tell hundreds o f tales sylvania. The pension attorney honor the Master to whom the
o f interesting variety. Pension wanted to know what bearing larger number present has given
Commissioner Warner has de this had on the pension law, and their allegiance.
The receipts o f the lunch was
cided objections to publicity be the w idow answered curtly:
$8.50,
which is to be used to
ing given the secret work o f the
"Well, Mr.» Smarty, the ax b*
send
the
Union Signal to each
office, but a leak will occasonally cut his foot with is the saine ax
occur. Not infrequently the ap he brought home with him from home where there is a member.
Also to send the Crusader Month
plications show clearly the ear the war. It was an army a x /
ly into the homes where these are
marks o f fraud, and sometimes a
children. As this last paper has
shrewd detective is sent thous
A Fatal Accident
each month space for helps -in
ands o f miles to gather facts as
Much
sympathy
is
felt
in
.New
teaching Scientific Temperance/
to the claim. Often both men
berg
for
J.
F.
Durst
and
family
it will be o f inestimable value to
and women stretch their imagin
ation as well as conscience in who removed from here to Port the student as well as the teach
their persistent efforts to be land last season and who have er. This will place this Union on
placed on Uncle Sam’s pension suffered the afflictio^ noted be- the National W. C. T. U. Honor
rolls. Some o f the cases are as ow which appeared in last Mon Roll.
Mr. Harford will accompany
o d d . as they are interesting. day’s Oregonian.
Lucile-
Durst,
the
9-year-old
lis
wife as far as Portland on
Here's a fellow who wants a
daughter
o
f
Mr.
and
Mrs.
J.
F.
Saturday. Mrs. Harford leaves
pension for "total wreck.”
Durst,
o
f
Woodstock,
was
shot
the first o f the week for South
” 1 fust got to be a total wreck
through
the
heart
and
instantly
Dakota, enronte for Manitoba,
from liver and kidney trnbbles
killed
at
12:45
o
’clock
yesterday
where she is to be speaker at the
Mr. Cake is the advocate of
and then I was totally wrecked
afternoon,
by
a
bullet
from
a
22
Provincial
W.
C.
T.
U.
Annual
Statement
No. 1 and the popular
by consumption, which come on
caliber
rifle
in
the
hands
o
f
her
Convention.
She
has
calls
from
election o f United States Senat
me suddenly like, and now I am
several states tor field work but ors; tw o years ago he took the
m ore'totally wrecked by army brother, Rodney, aged 16.
The shooting was purely acci goes to onr neighboring country, 'Sttrmp for his successful oppo
troubles, sprains and hard march
dental and when the boy learned his being the third time the in nent. He deserves the support
ing.”
what he had done he was heart vitation has been extended to o f every loyal Republican who
A henpecked husband, who evi
broken. Rodney had, but a few ler.
believes in pure politics. The
dently has no use tor his wife,
minutes before the shooting,
machine
element concedes his
says in his application: ” 1 got
asked permission o f his mother
nomination if the people go to
blood poison by being hie with a
to accompany some boys on a
the
polls, but boasts that believ
hen’s egg which was not good.
T o the Voters ofYamhill Coun ers in Statement No. 1 will not be
shooting trip in the woods back
When you send my pension I
o f Woodstock, but his request ty Oregon, and o f the Fourteenth interested enough to vote at the
want it made so my wife w on’t
was refused. The boy thereapon Representative. a n d Twenty- primaries. This is the last ap
g et any of it, for she is the one
went to a tent in the rear of the Fourth Senatorial Districts o f peal to those who believe in the
who throwed the egg.”
)urst home and proceeded to un- Oregon, Greeting:
popular election o f United States
A veteran in West Virginia oad the magazine o f the weapon.
Whereas the time has past for Senators to assert the rights
thinks he should receive a pen After fondling the gun for a few filling nominating petitions un
which the old machine is trying
sion because he fell oft a thirty minutes he threw the lever, clos der the provisions o f the Direct
to wrest from them.
foot bridge during the war, ing the magazine,' and believing Primary Law, and no candidates
which resulted in a "general the weapon to be empty pulled satisfactory to those who believe
breaking up of my entire sys the trigger. The lad failed to in the principle embodied in said
tem.” A veteran o f the Fourth notice the entrance o f his young-' law and designated asStatement
Wisconsin infantry was salivated er sister, who stepped between No. 1 have filed nominating peti
by reason of excessive use-of salt the entrance flaps of the tent just tions lor the following offices,
pork during his army career, and as the rifle containing the over to-wit:
TIM
applies for a pension on the looked deadly missile was dis Candidate for Senator for the
ground that he got “ salvation charged.
24 th senatorial district, embrac
in the army.”
Rodney looked up and saw his ing Washington, Lincoln, Tilla
The following extract is an ex sister fall, and still unaware of mook and Yamhill counties.
cellent example of an injury the terrible accident, believing
Candidate for Representative
which made itself known after that the girl had merely stum for the 14th representative dis
an interval o f more than forty bled on entering the tent, he trict, embracing Tillamook ami
years: “ The way 1 got my war dropped the gun and hastened io Yamhill counties.
injury was ketchitv’ a hog. Our pick her up. Thinking she was
T wo candidates for Representa
captain wanted her for forage, merely stunned by the fall he tives for the 13th representative
w c h 'R e b m r iw o
an’ he was chasin’ the hog, and carried her into the house, several district embracing Yamhill Coun
she crawled through a hoale in a rods away, and while doing so ty.
Unless the delicate, exactly adjusted
rail fence. It was a big hoale, ciscovered she was wounded and
Now Therefore—Believing that parts of a watch are kept clean and
lubricated, they are certain to become
an’ I thot I was about the size bleeding.
it is necessary in the interest of worn to a greater or less extent and
o f the hog, an’ I tried to crawl
Hastily placing the child in the good government, tor all patriot the movement will surely lose its ac
thro’, but I stuk, an’ trying to hands of her mother, the boy ic citizens who favor the princi curacy. Tiny particles of grit are
wiggle out I throde the rales off, rushed to secure the aid of a phy ples embodied in Statement No. bound to work into the best protected
and one hit me on the hed and sician, who lives several blocks 1, and in the election of United movement; the oil will become gummed
knocked me senseless. I don’t away, but on the arrival of the States Senators by direct ’ ’vote in time and these combined will serve
think the ketchin’ of the hog had medical man tfie child was dead, of the people, to disregard for to cut and grind the pivots and cause
friction.
anything to do with my line o f and it is presumed she died in the time being, all former politic Every watch should be thoroughly
duty, an’ I wants a pension. stantly, as the bullet entered the al affiliations and unite for the cleaned and oiled a t least once in eigh
The hog was never ketched.”
left side and pierced the heart.
nomination and election o f can teen months, and if yours has not
cleaned within that time, it should
From Tennessee a widow
The boy was grief-stricken on didates for the above offices who been
have immediate attention.
writes: “ My husband was ter learning o f the death of his little shall be pledged to support the We will clean your watch precisely
rible bloated in his stomach. He sister, and while relating fhe ato- principles embodied in said State- as it would be done in the best watch
-couldn't stoop over or straighten ry to Deputy Coroner Baldwitv ment No. 1, a cordial invitation factories—take the movement entirely I
up without helping himself. To who was sent to the scene by j ¡»"extended to all voters, without apart, clean each wheel, cog and pivot j
ham, beans, pork, eggs and cab Coroner Finley, he sobbed piti- regard to partv, who so believe separately, assemble and regulate it— |
and when you get i t % back you may
bage his stomach was repulsive. folly.
.
* to meet together inmassconven- depend upon it being in “ perfect
Hisreumatics was the kind called
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tion in the City of McMinnville, shape.”
plumbago. His dropsy was ter Chehalem Center W. C. T. U. j Yamhill County, Oregon, on the
rible.”
25th day of April, 1908, at the
Luncheon.
hoar of 10 o ’clock a. m. for the
A neighbor of one Orville Jame
Fifty-five people gathered at purpose o f nominating candi
son who asked for a pension be
Newberg Jeweler
cause o f dropsy wrote: "I be the home of Mr. and Mrs. Free dates for the above offices, and
Next to Postoffice.
lieve that Orville Jameson is fa man L. Hartord, Glen Hazel, to for a full county ticket for Yam-
Be*» enee# ssere M S ,
reeM e.ee I
tigued from amiri1 his -livin’ be- enjoy the luncheon as announced' hill County.
NO. 25
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You are Cordially Invited to see the New Spring and
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P. S. Suits made to order.
W R IG H T A W H I T E
Have just gotten on a shipment of Oliver
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Also one o f the B E T RANGES on the
market
Our Seeds for spring sowing and planting
are here. We handle them in bulk and
buy from the Portland Seed Company, the
most reliable firm in the Northwest
We run a Free Delivery.
A Special Word.
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4^1
MILLS
a —^ '
We are now ready to furnish you
any kind o f a vehicle you need.
Come and take your pick from
the most complete line in town.
All are sold under a binding guar
antee, and priced according to
quality.
A large line o f bulk Garden and
Field Seeds o f choice quality on
hand.