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About Albany daily democrat. (Albany, Or.) 1888-192? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1920)
NEW YEARS WELCOMED WITH NOISE AND HILARITY BY ALBANY PEOPLE Amid tht clang of bells, th blow ing of whistle, the tooting of horn ' and tha ihrlvk of sirens, lama old Mr. 11)19 alowly allppod- out of existence last night and bright and cheery llt tla Nlnuteen-Twenty entered tha threshold. Tha midnight hour found a goodly number of Albany paopla up to wel coma in tha new year. Tha Aaasmbly Club made merry at their regular monthly danca at Mooaa Hall. Tha Globe Theatre held a mid-night mati nee which waa attended by a full house. Many partlea were In progreaa throughout tha city and nearly every church held watch meetlnga. Many f.mlllc. quietly ataid up without any other axcuaa than to bid good-morn Ing to tha new member of tha galaxy of yaara. Tha paat year haa been moat proa peroUa ona for Albany, Linn County, the etate and nation at large. Al though having Juat paaaed through a terrlffle war and aoma twenty billiona of dollar having been apent In need lral waate in providing tha ainewa of warfare, tha country doea not even aeem to feel the flnancutl drain, and la njoylnb tha greateat period of pros perity. reaalmlata and conaervatlvea may nav their aay and dire reaulta may be predicted for the coming year. Hut there la no galniaylng tha fart that thla haa been good year. There la talk of high pricea for labor and com moditiea, but thua far moat everyone aeem to have withstood tha atraln. Naturally, there ia deaire to aee aoma thinga a little lower, but very few people would like to go back to the old timea. The workman haa had money. The farmer la bulging with con if ha waa ny kind of an agrlgarlan. Tha do poult in tha local bank atteat to thla, aa la ahown in another column of thla issue. The merchant have en joyed th greatest year In the history of th city. Salariea aa whole have been higher and everyone haa had more money and apent It freely In The Peoples' FULL LINE wram. w, -of- Fresh Groceries and Bakery Eats ALSO "333 Glass and Aluminum Ware, Dishes, Crockery and Cuttlery Customers Order by Phone and Pay By the Month , Holman & Jackson . jllll I Albany Furniture Manufacturing Company Tj ,flffliiimmHim llimwiMwwmuwIi bettor living and mora luxuriea. Soma have been wise enough to lay by a good neat-egg while timea are good. The trend of the timea la ahown In tha wonderful demand that exlata for automobilea of every deacrlption. Thi aale of diamonda and Jewelry haa been beyond tha wlldeat expectationaa. Fine clothea at what would have formerly been termed fabuloua pricea have aold readily. Yea, It haa been a great year and there la no denying the fact. Although there la no attempt to poae aa prophet, It" la difficult to ace where timea are going to. change during th coming year. Many commoditiea wiil tabllla aa production catchee up and pricea win evesujr, wv . atandarda of living will prevent any decided alump In very many lines. The excellent financial eyetem which haa been constructed In thia country prevent th manlplation of tha mon ey market by any amall group of men, and, to tall tha truth, very few would want to attempt It now, anyway. Tha Democrat haa had a moat suc cessful year tha first of tha preset.; firm, and tha publisher take thla op portunity to thank their subscriber and advertiser for their hearty co operation and aupport and iuuvm them 'that tha aama constant endeav or to produce a bigger and better pap er will be carried on in 1920. Again wa wish you A Happy, Pros perous and Contented New Year. Went To Salens Mr. and Mrs. Everett Fisher and two daughters went to Salem thia morning to spend the day with friends Returned to Coosrr Mrs. J. A. Comer left on th arly train this morning for her horn at Conser after visiting friends her. From Toledo County school superintendent R. P. Coin of Lincoln county registered at the Van Dran tost night on his re turn to Toledo from th Stat Teach er's convention at Portland. "The Store of Service and Quality" - Opposite Post Office WHEN BUYING FURNITURE ' i ! Insist on Tables That Are ' " -! ' Made in Albany Yours For A TTnrmv and I'rosnerous New Year. MANY PRODUCTS ARE MADE HERE Albany, tha 'Hub City' of th Will ametie, la noted for what 71 the question often asked by the atranger and overlooked by many of our citi (en. In addition to lliig favorably located aa farming, fruit and atock center It 1 noted fur numerous man ufacturing plants. It can boast of aving ona of the Wt canneries in this part of tha state it haa a fin meat packing plant that ''is still In its Infancy but sending out Uhousanda of dolLira worth of high 'cUm meats. All kinds of furniture far manufactured by Albany furnl- I tur Co. Chairs by th Veal chair I factory. A box factory I con ducted by Roner brothers. Th Far ! West manufacturing plant is doing a ! thriving business in making mpny ! kinds of. ladders and wheel barrows. I Siloes made by th Cameron plaining mills. Sash and door made by the Sears planing milla. Flour in great abundance by th Portland flouring mill plant here. C. G. Rawlings Is th proprietor of th first class brick yard for the new building of Albany and elsewher. Th Sand and Crave) company are tha producers of a high clasa hard brick for special finishing work. Th Albany Tannery send out a fine class of leather nude her and is constantly Increasing In th demand in outside markets. Th Albany foundry Is another subitancial manu facturing plant that is in a position to manufacture any thing made of iron In the moat up to date plant Wm. Eagle makes cigars Candy la produced Wholeaal. Th Albany Lumber company manufacturing all kind of lumber for the local and out side market in addition to tha Ham mond Lumber company yard which keep In itoqk a big stock of all kinds of lumber found On the ararket in this part of tha stole. Albany in th minds of th thinking elass haa bright future as a producing center in manufactured and agricultural pro ducts. WHEN AN8WERnQ tUaatfleds ada etwrfly mention The Democrat. Store to E:3 RESOLVE TO SAVE DURING NEW YEAR W. S. S. and Thrift Stamps Offer Excellent Induce ments to Save Many men are going to miaa the pleasure of making their favorite re solution thla New Years "I Won't Drink Another Drop." New Years wouldn't be New Year without reso lution!. Next to th general apirit of well wishing, perhaps th best thing about New Year ia th chance It seems to afford to blot out the mis takes of tha paat and open new books There la ona resolution that ought to be mad by tippler, teetotalers, and all of us. It is a resolution which on is tempted to keep aa time goes on rather than break Thia ia the resolution: "I 8HALL SAVE SOMETHING EVERY WEEK." Th person who makes that reso lution and keeps ia predestine a sue eeaaful future. A successful philos opher said: " If you want to know if you ar going to be a success or a failure in life yen can easily find out. The tost ia simple and Infallible. Ar yoo able to save money? If not, drop out. You will fail as aura as you live. You may not think ao, but you will. The aeed of success is not in you." Th Government of the United States of America asks you to make thia New Years resolution. It pro vides Thrift and War Savings Stamps and Treasury Savings Certificates, all securities of th government, to help yon do it. Every post office and bank handles them. The price of a Thrift Stamp ia 25c the year round, and the price of a War Savinga Stamp in Jan uary ia $4.12. War Savings Stamps and Treasury Savinga Certificates bear four per cent interest compound ed every three month. Make that resolution. LARGEST CHAIR FACTORY HERE R. Veal & Son Factory is . Largest Exclusive Chair Faetory on Coast Albany proudly boasts of being the seat and principal place of operation of the largest exclusive chair factory on the Pacific Coast The R. Veal A Son Chair Factory, located at East Sixjh and Main Streets,' employs a force of more than 100 people and turns out chairs of various grades for the wholesale trade. "A chair complete from th woods to the retailer" ia the alogan of thia institution. Operating its own woods and logging crews, the Veal Chair Factory takes the tree standing in th forest, loga it to its saw mill on th banks of th Willamette river at Albany, cute th timber into boards and transports it to the main factory where) it ia taken through the manu facturing process. The product of the factory goes to all parts of the west and to the Hawai ian Islands. The' retail trade ia sup plied through a force of aalesmen who cover the territory and keep the mill busy with the results of theri effort. R. Veal and sons came to Oregon in 1886 and bought out an old chair factory at Stayton which had operat ed for perhapa 30 years, before that time. Two years later they moved th plant to Albany where it began a steady growth. Fred Veal, who waa associated with hia father from the time they came to Oregon, haa been in active management of the factory for the last 25 years. New County to Be Created HARDIN Mont, Creation of Jo Brown county out of portions of Big Horn, Powder River and Rosebud coun tie ia to be duscus'sed at a meeting of residents of the district affected to be held at Forsyth, January 7. Ashland or Blrney would be the county seat under the proposed plan Most of the land to be embraced is devoted to cattle raising. .1 Many Prosecuted For Profiteering LONDON, In th past month there have been 871 prosecutions in Eng. land on charges of profiteering In food supplies. Convictions were ob tained in 861 caaes and fines ggre- Wild Elk Are Sent to New York From Mont. LVINGSTON Mont Wild alk form Yellowstone national park have been sent to hunting country In northern New York slate, wher an attempt Is to be made in propagate them. Hor ace N. Albright, national director of parka, was In Yellowstone to super. vl th shipment. The elk are a gift from park service to the state of New York. It Is thought th animals will thrive in their new horn and if th exper iment there proves successful, th an imals ar later to be sent to other east ern states on th northern tier. French Soldier Convicted After Being Elected PARIS, By Mail) An extraordin ary story of th election of a French soldier to th Chamber of Deputies and hia subsequent conviction by courtmartial and sentence to impris onment for two years haa com to light her. Lieutenant Verniers, of artillery, ia th man. When the tick- eta were being prepared for th elec tion, aoldier candidate waa desired in tha Department of the Njrd and Verniers' nam waa proposed by national republican senator who aaid that Verniers had 56 wounds and had received 17 citation for bravery. Verniers was then in hospital but he waa elected without appearing be fore hia constituent. Later it learned that ha- waa charged with stealing 20,000 francs from the funds of hi regiment. He waa eourtmar- tialled and sentenced to two years im prisonment and haa resigned from th Chamber of Deputies, after having been a member of that body for 48 hours. GRAVES ARE BEING CHECKED PARIS, Dec. 81 American army of ficer believe very few unidetified bodiea will lie among America' aol dier dead in Franc when the army Graves Registration Service complete a thorough rechecking of records now in progress. Every grave record ia being checked against the army's cas ualty list Each little white cross or six-pointed atar over the Jews is having an embossed aluminum strip placed on the back, duplicating the name, rank and organization already painted on the marker. Thia ia be ing done as a precaution against the possibility of winter weather wearing away the stencilled information. Nearly 70,000 American boys are buried in the eleven districts of Franc the Belgian battlefields and the Duchy of Lundenburg. There are S8 ceme teries of 300 or more graves, cared for by discharged soldiers. The larg est of these ia Romagne, north of Ver dun where lie 23,000 of our men. The next in sire is that at Thieraucourt with 4,500 graves. Many of those who fell in battle ar sleeping in British and French military or the French communal cemeteries. A few were left where they were first put in the ground, as in the Vosges moun tains. All grave are under the care of th commanding Graves Officer in the eleven district and a caretaker watches over them. Officers make periodical inspection. Where practical, grass has been aown on the battle burying grounds and in the spring thia work, previously hampered by the task of grouping the bodies, will be carried on. When the present Graves Service Administration took over headquart ers in Paris jn August the records were found to contain a list of 12, 000 names, of men buried but with- out giving tha exact location of the grave. The present check includes the compilation of a complete direct ory of every American grave. In the first 18,000 graves recorded a fourth of these unlocated ones were found and properly marked. Inspection of battlefield burying grounds have been the alowest but tha American officers said they expected tha work' when finished would leave few of those tragic mounds wherein would He an American soldier, "name unknown.' Many of these are expected to be Identified later when th description of the body, marks in the. clothing and sometimes a letter from home to "Dear Jim," sent back to the War Department, are seen by those who have been grieving over their boy listed among tha "missing." None of the bodies may be return. ed to the familiea yet but mothers and fathers have been coming to France to look at tha grave of their boy. Wel fare organisations have organised ser vloea to facilitate these visits and It several of the , American cemeteries th Your.g Men's Christian Associa tion haa provided rest rooms. FARMERS HAVE VERYBUSYWEEK Outside States Represented In Enrollment; B. F. Irvine Speaks .Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- vallia, "Something doing every min uet of th time" is th order of things at tha college. Farmers' week . This big event for tha rural people of tha state ha already attracted seven or eight hundred farmers and homemak era and scores are arriving by al most every train. The program ia varied something to Interest all per sona present. Sven outside states are represen ted in th enrollment Montana, III- inons, Michigan, Idaho, Washington, Iowa and Minnesota and practically every county in Oregon. Many grad uates of th college ar back to get the latest ideas on the various phases af agriculture or of homemaklng. Classes represented rang all th way from 1871 to 1919. B. F. Irvine, editorial writer for th Portland Journal spoke before a large audience in general assembly Tuesday night on "Radicalism and Citizenship His address was well received ,by those present, particuarly by th Am erican Legion "boys" who attended and who are down on radicalism. Various entertainment features were provided, including two reels of educe, tional pictures, a humorous skit en titled "Now and Then" by S. S. Har ralson, editor of the Benton county Courier, and music by a college orches tri. The opening assembly, the "mixer", was declared a great success by thos present, the opening feature being an oratorical contest in which representa tives of virions sections of the state told of the advantages of their res pective community. C E Spence, master of the State Grange, represen ting the lower Willamette valley, was awarded the prize of a box of apples President W. J. Kerr gsve an address of welcome and Albert Roberts of The Dalles responded. SULTAN CALLED HARMLESS MAN Mehmed VI is Last Enemy Emperor Left, Posses- " sions at Stake CONSTANTINOPLE, People of Constantinople call the Sultan, Meh med VI, "a nice, harmless old man". ilehmed VI is the last enemy empor- or left, the man whose tmeporal pos sessions are at stake in the making of peace. The Padishah, or "Father of All the Sovereigns of the Earth", is short, grey-haired, rather stoop-shouldered. dark-eyed, with short white moutsache etundcr the ehareristic beaked nose of the Turk. Bereft of good counsellors, worried by the actions of Moustapha Kemal Pasha, leader of the Nation alists, Mehamel is in quandary as to how to save his people and his throne. At that he doesn't worry too much thanks to the pervading orien tal spirit of fatalism. Every Friday, the Turkish Sunday, a crowd of Mussulman pitgrams and foreigners gather to seen him go to prayed. . The ceremony takes place outside th plaace gates of Yildix on the hills of Pent just above th Bos phorus. There ar the Sultan'a of ficial offices and also his harem in a flower garden part of an immense park. The Sultan wearing a fei comes in to view riding alowly in ;an open phaeton, preceded by a single horse man and followed on foot by a dozen or more of his rcd-fczzed suite dress ed in black frock coats and trousers la the European style. The Sultan bows right and left, in response to the acclamations, look to wards thcterrace wher are ranged th foreigners, and bows pleasantly to thm. The distance to th mosque s passed, then at the door of the mosque he steps out; from th interior ia heard a chant of a male chorus, and he disappears. Directly the general Mussulman public is permitted to en ter at another door of the moskue to take place in theprayerswhichcontin ue for a half hour. Meanwhile the foreign visitors diapers; their cur iosity in the Successor of the Pro-. pret satisfied.
