DR. I I, ELLIS Physician and Surgeon Albany, Oregon Calls made in city and country. Phone MjiSn 38. THEVERYBEST dontirtry on tha Pacific Coajtt Is executed here. We have built np-oiir reputatiou on it. on can depeud on iimhrV and cannot prt better nainlvaa work tuuwbara, no matter hoir much you pay. la;u,iiVWJ'-"".iNlaij'" " e finlan plat an4 r M.iaJm.si i 1 ri.ie work for oua- iWrTo .. r32Sl " " t Ai. -.-- J.SVS bridge work ia order- r.ff .JBfceKf -"" At'(3eJ- Cwuullilioo frri. :.pri HtCr,., 55.Q0 ''.'"v''it'322kB"lliTi4.00 kVfii-'- sidstidFiiiiiii. i.oo p,tt" 5.00 :.;-.M5j PItao 7.50 M.W.A.WIIE, PimjiruiMimu P,n,ei ExtrMUn .60 it ium imiiou ia mum but methods AH work fully KuarantMd for flfCoon yean. Wise Dental Co., inc. Painless Dentists Fllllnj BulUlm, Third and WMhlnitoo.fORTUND, ORE. OllFc. Heart: I A. at. to I f. k. Sandayi, I ta 1 CITATION. In the County Court of the State of Oreeon. for Linn county. In the matter of the estate of Con rad Scheubel. deceased. To the unknown heirs at law of Conrad Scheubel. deceased, and all others interested in said estate, greet ing. In the Name of the State of Oregon, you are hereby cited and required to appear in the County Court of the State of Oregon, for the County of Lirin, at the court room thereof, at Al bany; in said county, on Monday the 6th day of February 1911 at 1 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, then and there to show cause, if any there be, why an order should not be made authorizing and directing the admin istrator of the above entitled estate to sell the real property of said estate at private sale as prayed for in the petition of said administrator on tile herein, said real property being !e- scribed as follows, to-wit: i Lot No. twenty (20) in block io. four (4) in Bartons Addition to the city of St Johns, Oregon, according to tne maps anu puis ui nu : tion on nie anu oi tctuio m nu-v of the county clerk in and lor .huh- noniah county, Oregon, and lying and ( ueing in me (.uuiiij "-"-" state or urcgon Beginning ai a pom. turn and liftv feet (430 ft.) south, and three lmnrlreil nr.d thirtv-hve tcet It. I west from the northeast corner i the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 19, in Township 13 south, Range 11 west, Willamette Me ridian; thence -south two hundred and ten feet (210 ft.); thence west two hundred and ten feet (210 ft.) ; thence north two hundred and ten feet (210 ft.); thence east two hundred and ten feet (210 ft.), t9"the place of begin ning, ' containing one acre, more or less, in Lincoln county, Oregon. Witness, the Hon. J. N. Duncan, judge of the county court of the state of Oregon for the county of Linn, with the seal of said court affixed this 14th day of December, A. D. 1910. (Seal) J. W. MILLER, Clerk. By W. L. MARKS, Deputy. NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING. In the County Court of Oregon for Linn County. In the Matter of the Estate of I. L Mbyer, Deceased. X'ntire is lierebv eriven that the un dersigned have riled their final account j as executor ana executrix oi tne auuvc entitled estate, and that the County Court has fixed Monday the 20th day of February, 1911, in the County Court room in the Court House in Albany, Linn County, State of Oregon, as the time and place 'for hearing objections to said final account, and for the final approval of said account and the set tlement of said estate. JEFFERSON MYERS, Executor. LAURA L. AMBROSE, Executrix. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned administratrix of the estate of Conradina Arnold, deceased, has filed her final account in said estate with the county clerk of Linn county, Oregon, and the county judge has set the 20th day of February, 1911, at 1 o'clock p. m. and the county dourt room as the time and place for hear ing objections -to said final account and the settlement thereof. .MINiNIE FROMM, L. L. SWAN, Administratrix. Atty for Adnw. l'roim-tly obtain,!, or FEE RETURNED. CO YEARS' EXPERIENCE. UurCHARCIS ARE THE LOWEST. Stud model, photo or akeu-li for expert search and tree report oa patentability. INFRINGEMENT auita conducted before aU coarw. Patents obtained thmtu-a oa. ADVER TISED and SOLD. free. TRADE'MARKS, PEN SIONS and COPYRICHTS quickly obtained. Opposlte U. 8. Patent Office, WASHINGTON, V. PROCURED UNO DEFENDED. ""del. drawlnaorpholo. fur eiiiertae arch and Tree report. Free adVlce, how to obtain patenta. trade mark., CoprrWhta. etc N ALL COUNTRIES. Btuhutt direct wilt WotUnfUm aot'rt (lav, monty and eflrm tlu pcUnL. Pitirt tad lifrlnpnnt Praetlc EieJealtalr. Write or come to a at 111 Rata SMI. epp. trailed IteM Meat Oaee, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. CITY COUNCIL. No session of the the city council was held last nignt, there being no quorum. Those present were the mayor, record er, street superintendent, and Council men Snell, Marshall and Curl. Mr Miller is in Salem, Mr. Chambers in Portland and Mr. Simpson in California. A paving petition that will come up is one for the improvement of Third, fourth, Fifth and Sixth streets, by paving, from Baker to Calapooia, signed by onemun for each street, Dr. Davis, C. B. Winn. J. G. Crawford and w. H. Hogan. There is said to be strong sentiment in faver of the movement, together with Seventh and Ninth. If one is paved all should be. Ellsworth and Washington will also be paved this year. Card of Thanks, Albert A. Hedrick desires to express his sincere thanks to the pall bearers, Odd Fellows, Kebekahs and many other friends for kindness, sympathy and many favors, on account of the dea'h and burial of his mother. The Weather. '36 in. of rain and melted snow fell, and a little more during the day. The river is 7.3 feet. The range of temperature was slight, 37-32- Fr edict ion: rain or snow tonight and r riaay. Capt. Slaydon, a prominent military man, died in rortianu yesterday. J. H. Mulchay, district agent of the S. P., was m the city last evening. West Virginia now has a big bribery case, is tne wnoie country corrupt. Lewis Hill left St. Paul yesterday for tne jn. w. on a tout ot tne tint tinea, J. H. Shrewry. of the Warren C struciior. Co. spent last night in Albany, Frar k O'Brien, a prominent suburban resinent or balein, nas been in tne city, lwoa Mclntyre. wife end Miss Lewis, of Croswece, Mich., have bten in the city. A vote on the Panama exposition site nas been asked and will soon be nad by congress. The Benton evy has beed pace,i at jg 2 Corvailis tax for cilv an 3,.hooi8 13 mills. The aviation meet at San Francisco. a ereat financial success, closed with- lout an - tatalit:es. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lowe, of the Cor vallis Home Telephone office, eame over this noon on an Albany trip. J. B. Thompson, wife and son Ken neth, of Dallas, formerly of Lebanon, were in tne city last nignt. Mrs. Bessie Cameron Simpson, instead of being in the hospital at Eugene, is in the hospital at this city, steadily im proving. Senator Lafallette has been re-elected U. S. senator, the proper thing. He is a man who stands for crreat thinzs in pjntics. Oregon has 658,610 white people, 1526 negroes. 5001 Indians. 7317 Chi. nese, mostly in Portland, 3206 Japs and o miscellaneous. The New York Journal of Commerce is reported to have been offered $100, 000 to give its support to the infamous .snip subsidy Din. U.O. and O.A C. will have to be treated alike, and soon Monmouth will come in for a like consideration. Three big schools nil doing a splendid work The Medford Library ABiociation has been informed that Carnegie will give the city a $20,000 library building. This is the kind Albany is after and will need, looking ahead only a few years A pecupar incident m the quiet life of Dallas was the birth on the same day and nour to a mother and ner daughter, of sons, each heavyweights, ten and eleven pounds. Mrs. Edward Allen, a resident of Lebanon, for a few weeks, was in the ciiy. During the absence of Agent Ford in California. Mr. Allen is officiat ing as agent there and residing in the l ord home. Besides having the best church build ing in the county, Lebanon proposes to have tne best residence, ti. w riogart has already begun on a $12,000 home, to be 3!i stories and have a pressed brick and marble front. A suburban car was robbed by a couple of men near Lus Angeles yester day. They entered the car li e Indians and held up 22 of, them. The men made their escape, one with a bullet wound. The junketing trip of the members of the legislature yesterday is said to have impressed the members with the need of the U.O. for more buildings. As the whole day was taken for the trip nothing was done at Salem. In response to a magazine ad. of two years aru, the commercial club today received a lettpr trom fritz aiegler, Wittenberg. Germany, addressed to Bury I. Disent, manager, asking for information. He is a baker and candy maker. Rev. J. T. Abbett, district superin tendent of the itl. E. church, was in the city last night and conducted the reg ular quarterly conieence ot tne church. His home it in Eugene, where he has bnueli' properly am' expects to reside with his family. hour distinguished me.i were at the depot tins noun: Dr. Withycombe, of , the O. A C, once nominee for gov ' ernor; Dr. Olmstean. lecturer of the j United Artizans; J W Sherwood, com , mander of the Oregon Maccabees and i W. H. Jenks travelling passenger ' agent ot the S. P. The celebrated Portage basket ball teum will r ay the O. A C. team hi 1 "rvallis suoD-iy nignt. toert, cn P ttMge "nier i 6 fet 4 and h piaved the p'mition for the team cV-h ve.trs Per age hut just beaten Id , Whitman W 8. C , Wuahii.Ktou .i Ml An.'el The heat the Spartans 5 io 11 and Forest Grove 61 to 9. A PLEASANT FUNCTION The reception given yesterday by the Civic'Improyement Club, for the benefit of the Scholarship Loan Fund, was one of the most pleasant and enjoyable social events of the season, notwith standing the inclement weather. The commodious rooms of Mrs Mason's pretty home were well filled, fifty ladies beintr present. The pro gram was one of rare merit. The tour selections rendeied by the ladies of the old musical club were especially appre ciated, and those, who in former years enjoyed the excellent recitals given by this club, were delighted to hear them again. The old members were all pres-1 ent except Mrs. Dr. Winnard and Mrs. trot. Lee. ibeir places were nueu Dy Mrs. Frank Powell and Mrs. Holbrook. The others were Mmes. Langdon. Nel son, Sox, Young and Nutting and Miss Irvine. Miss Grace Langdon and Miss Sox favored the ladies with several brilliantly executed instrumental pieces Miss Zijna Haight sang two D autuui selections, which were very much ap preciated, and Mrs. Flo sang in her ex quisite style two admirable solos. ine dining room was ablaze witn light, and daintily decorated with pink carnations. Refreshments were served by a bevy of cnarmihg ladies unde the supervision of Mrs. Bain. The offering amounted to fib. So eniovable was the afternoon that the ladies decided to have another function in the near future and Mrs. Wm. Pfeiffer graciously invited them to her home for the occasion. News fron) Albanys Six Early Trains. Prof. Henry Eby left for his former home at Lancaster, Penn., where he has relatives and will reside, taking tl.ings easy. He has been a teacher for forty-four years, twelve and a haif being in Oregon, near Albany. He likes the profession, but tmnKs it is now time to retire. He leaves many warm friends in Linn county. F. J. Fletcher and L. E. Prouty went to Salem to attend the convention of grocers. The Albany grocers are ad vocating a law requiring all packages to have the exact weight stamped on them. For instance crackers. As it is now if you buy a two pound carton you generally get abont eighteen oun ces, an item in high living. Represen tative Shaw will introduee a bill cover ing the matter. Rev. Lacey and H. E. Brown, of Lebanon, went to Portland to get a carpet tor tne new church, which will be dedicated on Sunday, Feb. 5. It was supposed the carpet was all ar ranged for, having been ordered of local dealer, but no order had heen sent torward. Mr. Ashby, of the Warren Construc tion Co., came over from Uorvallis. He will probably have a good Albany contract this year' J. W. Sherwood, head Maccabee, re turned from a Corvallis visit. Dr. Withycombe, of the O.A.C. went to Salem in the interest of O.A.C. leg islation. Jos. Meiser left on a Portland busi ness trip. Art Hubbs, a Lebanon merchant, went to Portland. Editor Kirkpatrick came down from Lebanon. A. B. Banta went to Lebanon. C. G. Cowles left on a Portland trip. Lawyer C. E. Sox returned to Salem tor more library work. A. D. Wheeler went to Lebanon response to a telephone message that ma motner was ill. Mrs. Wheeler pioneer, is now 83 years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Smith of New York, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Atterbury Smith of New York, are visiting at the home ot Mrs. smith s cousin, Mrs. P. A. Young. . Mr. Smith is a prominent New York architect, and they are out to the const on an excursion with a party of eastern aremtects trom new y.ork, Ch cago and other large cities, Mr. Smith has the distinction of having drawn the plans for Mrs. Vandetbuilt's tuberculosis apartment house, which,has attracted some attention there. It will futnish apartments for 384, families and has been established by Mrs. Va. der built to verify the fact that- such peo pie can live in New YorK as well as anyhw re. Last evening Mrs. Young e- tertaineri a few friends in a delightful social lunetion in their honor, Dur'ng the evening Mrs Flo was heard in a cycle of songs. Miss Emma Sox in plan solos, and, under the direction of Miss Isabelle Young, Caruso, Sc tti, Melnii, Tetrazini and other celebrities. Choice refreshments were served. A peculiar incident was the discovery that Mr. Smith in one of his European trips had been at the home of Prof. Flo's folks in Nurway, a theme for pleasant re membrances. Mavor Johnson Named C. V Johnson, the present mayor of Co vallis, has heen recommended by Congressman "'aw ey, as appraiser of customs at Portland, to succeed the ate lien. Sommers. v'r. Johnson was hairman of the c .ngressional commit tee, and his appointment is in keeping "iih the political Bpint of 'he age. At the same time he is a very competent man, and is very popular in Corvallis Some Smooth Alleys The alleys at the AIco Club have been put in Hrsi-clasa condition by the ecu- mar superintendent John Schultz, sand p.ipered an'l no!'hpd. Rnd better work ie being done Numeroui 200 scored i tve been put on the board. A nevt 4 rt will ha made at tbe beginning o ne "onth i jr black board honors. A THRILLING HOLD-UP. Los Angeles, Jan. 25. Yelling like Indians and firing promiscuously from pistols in both hands, two masked bhn dtts boarded an inbound beach suburban car on the outskirts ot Santa Monica shortly after 6 o'clock tonight, and after robbing 22 passengers, seriously wounding one of them, were routed Mid forced to flee by a single shot. The car on which were more than 50 people, was approaching Tokio station, when Ihe bandits boarded it, yelling and shooting through the roof and sides of the car. The terrified passengers suu mitted without a murmur, when one of the bandits ordered the moturman to take off his cap and pass through the car taking money and valuables. ine motorman and two bandits had not reached 'Herbert Harlan, who was sitting on the outside of the closed por tion of the car, and under cjver of his coat drew his revolver and fired. In stantly the smaller of the bundits reeled and with blcod pushing from both cheeks, crasned his comuanio.i's arm and both raced through the car to the front and leaped olf. Saw foxie Fall. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Chambers return ed last evening from a trip through California, visiting most of the promi nent cities, having a delightful time. They were at Los Angeles during the b.g aviation meet and saw Hoxie make I his tatal flight, a thrillinr scene one does not care to see repeated. They I were also at Pasadena during the great roBe restivai, a mid winter event that attracts wide attention. Altogether the weather was pretty good. Like other Oregonians they are glad to be lwck in me wniametie valley, though appreciating such a trip. The Tangent Grange. The following officers of Western Star Grange No. 309, were installed on Jan. 21, by Peter Freerksen, installing officer, ably assisted by Edna Bleyins ano raui Driver. Master, Henry Oh- hng: overseer. Nettie Hulhurt: lecturer. Winnie Ohling; steward, Walter Heiibe; ass't steward. Rollo Hulburt: chunlain. Emma Hulburt; treasurer, Warren Hul burt; aecretary, Lottie Hense; gate iteeuer. vviiue L,auDner. uerea. Kmmn Laubner; Pomona, Mattie Hulburt; Mora. Margaret Montgomery; lady ass't steward, Grace Hulburt; organist, Flossie Thompson. North Albany's Depot. North Albany is now squarely on the map. It has a depot. It was taken to the Junction of North Albany Avenue and the R. K. on a flat car and placed conveniently for the public. Hardly a train but what lets a passen ger off or takes one, eitherj to or from ilban to Corvallis. The Albany rate ia xv cents, tjorvaiiiB 4U cents. . FRIDAY- Larimie gained just 30 in ten year and now has 8,237. Ihe weather prediction IB rain to night anJ baturday. Dr. C. C. Wright returned this noon trom a protessional trip down the road. Chester Skeels, a pioneer Benton county man, returned (his noon from a Salem visit. A drummer reported two inches ef snow on the ground at Cottage Gro,ve yesterday. The Squaw Man will not come to Albany, as reported, but will be in Eugene the 31st, James Petty, of Oregon City hasjust been left $160,000 by a New York uncle. A poor man suddenly rich. Mrs. F. J. Heney died sudden'y in New York yesterday. They had been married only a conple of years. Mrs. David West, of Shedd, returned home this afternoon after a week's visit at the home of E. G. Snyder. Roosevelt will leave New York March 8 on a western tour. He will be in Portland about the first of April. . Charles Adkins, e( Wilson, Or., this season has killed fourteen cougars, and is said to be the ohampion cougar killer of Oregon for the year. Six land notices are running in the Scio News, all for Jas. Deering, by his attorney J. H. Bagley, of Portland. The land is all in 11-4 East, , At St. Louis yesterday in a ' bowling tournament A. E. Miner mado 279, the most ever made in a tournament. 300 has been made, but never in a tourna ment. $21,1)22 will be distributed in prizes at the tournament. The Williams Jubilee singers, who have heen in Albany several times, passed through the city this noon from the weet side to Eugene. They are a tine body of colored people, singing together for many years. W. B. Warren, president of the Warren Construction Co., yesterday delivered an address on paving to the stu-lents of the O. A. C. Mr. Warren is a graduate of the Univemityof Penn sylvania, an accomplished man. A good sized audience last night ap preciated the excellent rendition of the Climax, a play full of interesting events and situations. 'Iho Company was STiall. only four in4 it, but they made up in quality what they lacked in quantity. Corvallis G. T. : A let ter from ex Mayor Watters to his business assncia ales here says that he and his family r; located very pleasantly at 428 East 17th street. L-jg Ar.gelea. It is of in terest to know thai a completely furn ished six room bungalow witn every modern convenience, including gas and electricity, costs him but $30 a month S. F. Examiner: William D, Fenton f Portland is at the Palace. He is foremost among Oregon's corporation lawyers, and has served for years a counsel for the Southern Pacific lines, the Standard Oil and other big concerns in the State. Lawyer Fenton was a Democratic leader in Oregon up to lHril, when he espoused the cause of republicanism. 29 PASSED Out of 125 Eighth Grade Mudents. The county board has examined the papers of 125 students for 8th grade certificates, and out of the number only ZXJ passed, ao tailing, all in Brownsville and Crabtrce, 26 out of S'i in Lebanon, 11 out of 21 in Albany. The following passed; Albany.- Varda Bilyeu, Kittie Kyle. Faye Yoder, Miriam Page, Walter Gray, Lizzie Burton, Abbie Anntrsun, Mary Bender, Stella Hoover, Kenneth Stevens. Fry School. Daisy Truelove, Wallace lluiioway. Providence. Lina Stiers, John F. Middlestadt. 32, Dixie.-Mae Caldwe:!, Ralph Har ris, Dee Walker. 83, near Scio. Laura Westenhouso. 49, near Harrisburg. Grace New man. 77, near Thomas. Lyman Small. Tangent. Kdward Greil. 34, near Lebanon. Leona Smith. Gates. Eftie Swink. Lebanon. Murian Muotzo, Lillio Dun can, Amelia Miller, Nullte Duncan, niii sell Hall, Arlena Hoerr. News from Albany's Six Trains. Ea: Miss Pearl Conn, daughter of Richard Conn, of Portland, left for homo after a visit with her aunt Mrs. J. A. Mc- Chesney and other relatives. She was 1 on her way home from ban f rnnctsco and otner uaiitornia cities, miss tonn handed the Democrat man a lemon about as big as a pumpkin, she was taking home as a relic of the trip. 1 gene, Roseburg, Medford, and other William Ritchie, president of the places, making an exhaustive study of Western Land Co. left on a Portlund the advantages and conditions. It is--trip. This company expects to do an said that they represent Minneapolis t aggressive businoss the coming season and St. Paul capitalists who expect to in the colonization of its Lincoln county . invest at least two million dollars in holdings. western Oregon in fruit land. Included I in this will undoubtedly be some Linn i came down from Lawson. He reports rhnllB-nri . hrtv here, If n- business begun for the season, Corvallis $fitfSjfiftJi&.. getting the first sale. I county either tore or at Lebttn8ni t0 . ' look after the business Editor Moore and wife, of the Cor-, Mr- Andrews is said to have resigned vallis Gazette-Times left on a trip an $8500 job to come out here and delve down the road. The G.-T. has ordorod in fruit culture. He was managing ed a Mergenthaler for its newspaper and tor of the Tribune for nine years and job business, a Corvallis need. for eight years of the St, Paul Dispatch, and hm associates are prominent in Frank O'Brien returned to Salem newspaper life in the twin cities. after a couple days Albany visit. F. M. French went down the road looking at watches, with Garvais in View. Mr. boars, of Portland, returned home after a visit with his brother C. W. Sears. Va.r A 1? l.nnnw i-ntiirnnri In l.Ohn. iw.. ... . v. . non. Rev John Acheson, of the Third United Presbvterinn church, of Port- land. BtoDned off aftor a trip to Shedd, It is expected the new church will be dedicated about the 19th of February. Coming, Grand Opera. To Albany next week. Tho Giind Opera Sextette, the best musical com pany in years if not for ever 1 1 1 1 Not mer ly one or two Grand Opera singers. Six high class Grand Opera singe a and an experienced and capable director, seven in all, will present the best por tion of five or six famous grand operas in Albany next week, at the Opera House, one night only, Friday niirht. This is the best number, and by far the most exuensive number that tho Albany College Lecture Course presents this year. Th .' c urse this year has been a most satisfactory one. This number, the American Troubadors, the Grand Opera Sextette, is to be the climnx. t will be real Grand Opera by real artists with full coBtumcs for all the reras. Wa ch for the circulars and tho posters. Watch for the date of opening the suut saie. l ii everyoout ot mo treat store for A bany on Fob. 3, 1911, The Vandran , . Last night b Journal gave an excel. lent picture of the Vandran Hoto , with the following write up: Albany s fine new hostelry, the Van- dran. is now open to the public, and the proprietors, Messrs. C E. and George vandran, are receiving tne congratula tions of their many friends among the traveling fraternity. The hotel cost $45,000 complete, and is modern in all its appointments, being hoated by steam. Every one of its 60 rooms hah an outside frontage, an I has hot and cold water. Twelve of the rooms hove private baths. The structure is ot ,cj pressed brick with white trimmings, and is a noticeable addition to tho busi ness edifices of the Hub It is situatod at the corner of Lyon and Ninth streets, nenr rnp t nion oenor. The Retail Merchants. The retail merchants of Oregon held a live session at Salem yestirday, full of snap. Among the subjects discussed was full weight, plainly marked for all gondii, and a committee composed of senator Kelluher, J U Mann. H. b. Guild, K, J.-Fletcher end C. H. Buck- holder was appointed to take charge of the matter and se.-uro a proper law. l'hcro waa, though, considerable oppos- ition to to the idea of having all goodB marked Mayor Rodgers, of Salem, ofliclated s toast rm.sf3r at a big banquet. H. Alexander, of Pendleton, was t'cclared to be the wit of the occasion. Mr. Tom Richardson, visitod the leg isUiure yesterday. A great booster who once sent a chill down tho back uf Albany. (70.12 is the amount brought to W. J Crawford, of Z'ina, by two fat hogs which were recently purchased from him by by Steusloff Bros. The two hogs weighed 850 pound. Statesman, ir. Crawford is a former p incipal of the Albany schools, on account of hit health ratiring to the farm. Makes Home Baking Easy fed Absolutely Pure me only baking powder' matfo from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar NO alum.no lime phosphate OUR GREAT PROSPECTS.. The visit of T. E. Andrews, Arthur- F. Williams and John Day, of the , Minneapolis Tribune to .he Willamotte Vallev. is reallv an imnortant one and may mean a good deal. The men will I visit all the fruit centere, Albany, Eu- I Mr. Day, who was a caller, is very enthusiastic over the outlook for the valley and sees great things ahead, particularly in the fruit line, now at-- traciing wiue attention. i . , i wanii pavement ana ine urronn ., .s o OeCiriC. Scio News: W. A. Ewing started on his California trip Tuesday afternoon. He expects to be gone about' a month and will go as far south as Lob Angeles. . Why not have Main street paved with some standard Davinur material? Evhtv town, of any importance, is paving their main hu9inest streets those daya and Scio should keep in the nwim.- Mrs. T. M. Munkers, a Scio pioneer for many years, but a resident of Salem since the death of her husband, T. M. Munkers. some years ago, was buried at tho Miller cemetery last Sunday. E. C. Poery, Dr. A. G. Prill and Chas. Wesoly wont to Portland Tuesday " ctiinmiuuB to comer witn ine ure- gon Electric railway company with reference to building their main or brunch line into or near Scio. S, w. Duggor, whose enlistment as a bandman in the 14th Inft. expired last folks since, went to Bremerton the first of tho week, with a view of enlisting; in tho Navy Yard band there. Last Monday. Messrs. H. M. Mver and Fred Jones concluded the purchase of the hotel property from the then daughter, Mrs. Maud Holland, the purchase price being $3,600 for the block of buildings and the lots upon 1 which they stand, This is the price which was paid to G. W. Morrow sever- year ag0 including the hotel furni. ture. ' A New Telephone Directory. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph. CompHnv will issue their new dir ctory aboi.1 February 16th. The new direc tory will contain 108 pages and 3500 copies are required ino remarkable Krowm or tms company i- shown lo 'hat the uctober 1910 issue contained n7 ,BU a?cfl u"u ,uu copies were issueu. J""'" of ll'B "ov directory which ' .......... ..uv,u,. "j -"-a merchants is that the li K. D. of every farmer subscriber given. number will be A Small Blaze, ' "II Tho'e came near being a Berious fire nt the corner of Second and Ellsworth striets lust night, .v box with omj ashes on tne roof next to the frame building. n the outBido, cang t. rnd the flumes were leaping up the side of ihe building when discovered. An elfort was mad to get an alarm, hut Ihe wires wouldn't work. Then a po lice call was made, and a hose cart so i ii red rVith a bucket brigade the flames w re gotten under control and :iri..Hu .jtintrninhml. m In the City. Alice M. Heeler. Salem. C. A. Kevier, Gates. I), t.liff.ird, Scio. S C. Van Doozer, Ponland. J. L Norwood, Harrisburg. Leigh' on Wrignt, Brownsville. Dr. J. H. Olmstend. Portland. '. E. Dinger, Corvallis R. E Reynolds, Freebridge. Prof. C- O. Ilargxjve, Portlkxd..