SCORES ATTENDING
liOE EVENT
Auspicious Ceremonies Mark
Opening of P. E. & E.
from Corvallis.
HUNDREDS ATTENDED
BIG BASKET PICNIC
It Is Said Road Arrived at
Phychological Moment
Bounteous Crops.
Monroe, Sep. 3. (Special to Dem
ocrat.) Whatever the Hill interests
may have accomplished in the past
in the Willamette Valley, it is ap
parent that Robert E. Strahom has
now secured an advantage for his
Portland, Eugene & Eastern lines by
occupying a commanding position re
garding freight tonnage out of the
South end of the big basin. When
considered in connection with the lo
cation of 'the main line and the
Woodburn-Springfield branch of the
Southern Pacific, it is being pointed
out that the strategic generals of the
Southern Pacific-Portland, Eugene &
Eastern combination have succeeded
in surrounding the Oregon Electric
territory to a considerable extent.
The Woodburn-Springfield line of
the S. P. courses down in front of
the Cascade range foothills on the
east side of the valley. Then along
the river bottom comes the main line
of the same company.. Just west of
that road and at no great distance
from it, lies the Ocgon Electric.
The two S. P. lines practically con
trol shipments from the country sur
rounding Tallman, Lebanon, Foster,
Brownsville and Wendling. The S.
P. and the O. E. may be said to com
pete for mid-valley business, with the
O. E. heretofore in position to com
mand business on the west as far as
the Coast range.
Then President Strahom quietly
dropped the new line of the P., E. &
E. from Monroe to Eugene in be
tween the Oregon Electric and the
.'oas-t range, placing it far enough
out in the valley lowlands as to com
pete with the rival Oregon Electric in
:ch of the territory and making the
P. E. & E. the most valuable line for
the. use of all shippers in the highly
productive region along the Coast
range foothills.
It is this road that is beintf opened
today by a celebration at Monroe.
Special trains will be run from Cor
vallis and Eugene for the accommo
dation of the commercial clubs and
business men of those sections while
the farmers came out of the grain
fields and orchards by hundreds. Ful
ly 5,000 persons joined in the basket
picnic held in the grove south of
town. The details of the "golden
spike" celebration arc in the hands
of J. G. Crozier and W. A. McGillis
of this city.
The "Willamette Valley Line" has
arrived at the psychological moment
for the gathering of crop shipments
this season. The yield of grain,
fruits and products of all kinds is the
largest in a long time, and in expec
tation of handling this business the
railroad company is hustling its road
into shape as fast as construction
trains can be handled over the rails.
One hundred cars of ballast are be
ing taken from the pit at Corvallis
every 24 hours and the larger portion
of the material is being placed be
tween Monroe and- Eugene. The ev
Kinecrs declare that this n?w line wdl
be one of the finest pieces cf con
struction in the state It is a tangent
of lis miles between Conallis and
Monr.e and ;'rom Eug-n to Monroe
contains but three curve-..
Jleiwcrn "'onroe and F.i:,:er.i. 22
mil j are ,'ie shipping ?'!:. Fer-
rftisi-n I. la. Hubert, rjrieml!. M
vadore, and Clear Lake, each of them
with checker-boarded townsite at
tachments. Lela and Hubert are so
located as to command a larue por
tion of the Lake creek shipments, a
rccion that produces immene quan
titirs of lumber as well as farm ship
merts, while Alvadore is to be the
center of the great Fern Ridge or
chard tracts where E. L. Klemer has
made such a remarkable showing
with his !5X) acre demonstration
farm. Ferguson has already orga
nized a commercial club and is pre
paring to get into the game of reach
ing out for immigration.
The importance of the new Port
land, Eugene & Eastern lies in the
fact that it gives egress to a section
of "es-:r:: Oeon that must inevi
tably develop with great rapidity.
The Bel! fountain ( the Alpine and the
Long Tom district surrounding
I. BRYANT A5KE0 TO TEAR
DOWN BARBED FENCE
IS
Will Remove It and Replace
Another Around Chautauqua
Park.
To the Citizens of Albany:
I have received the following com
munication from the city attorney
relative to the barbed wire that I have
put up on my land just across the
Calapooia:
"Complaint has been made to me
that you are maintaining a barb wire
fence or a fence composed partly of
barb wire in violation of ordinance
No. 566 of the city of Albany.
"I have thought that you probably
have overlooked the provisions of
said ordinance and knowing that you
desire to obey all the city ordinances,
I would request that you forthwith
remove the barb wires within the
city limits on the fence in what is
known as cryant s f ark so as to save
me from having to file a complaint."
I wish to humbly apologize to the
city authorities for this breach of an
obsolete ordinance of which I was in
ignorance. I will take the barb wire
from my fence at once, and substitute
ometnmg that will not be objection
able to my friends.
When Mrs. Bryant and I offered
the forty-four acres known as Bry
ant's Park to the city for a city park,
we did it in good taith, thinking that
it would be appreciated by the splen
did little city where we have lived the
most of our lives, io our surprise
we were turned down. The city of
Albany did not want the land. We
cannot allow this land to remain open
without anv notice protection, as it
has been open in the past. A wide
open park where there is no restraint
of law, so near the city, is not good
for public morals. We have there
fore, fenced the land, and forbid all
trespassing without permission from
the owners.
Respectfully,
H. BRYANT.
CITY NEWS
Nuttings have Returned. Return
ing last night, Mr. and Mrs. F. P.
Nutting are home after visiting with
their daughter Miss Flo in Seattle
for the past 12 days. Mr. Nutting re
ports a pleasant visit in the Puget
Sound metropolis but is glad to be
home.
Weather Fair. The range of tem
perature for the past 24 hours has
been 58 to 49. The rainfall is .76. The
river is at 1.4 feet.
Black Goes to Lebanon. Leaving
this noon for Lebanon, Ben Black is
on his way there for the purpose of
securing a job as bricklayer on a new
building now under course of con
struction. If he is successful in land
ing a jab, Black will return here for
his equipment and make his head
quarters there. If he is unsuccessful
he will go to Portland. Black has
been working on the new library
building but the work has been de
layed on account of delayed arrival of
material.
Saturday Evening Post Out The
new Saturday Evening Post is now
out and you can secure a copy from
Riley Lobaugh. Remember Riley
when you are subscribing for maga
zines because he can save you money
on your stibscripition on all of the
leading periodicals.
Returned from Deer Hunt. Re
turning Saturday. Wayne Dawson,
Grant and Cecil Frotnan are home af
ter a three weeks' deer hunting trip
in the mountains above Cascadia. The
only member of the party who en
iovs the distinction of brincine a deer
to earth is the youngest member of
the party, Cecil Froman. whose feat
of killing a deer with a .22 rifle when
he was only taken along as a camp
roustabout has been exploited con
siderably through the press.
Lebanon Mayor was Here, Pass
ing through the city yesterday after
noon. Mayor Wcnnerstcin, a promi
nent merchant of Lebanon, was on
his way to Portland to attend "buy
ers' week."
Visits in Corvallis John Scott, for
merly of Corvallis, father of Robert
Scott, the engineer of Albany, came
in this morning from the Hub city
for a visit with old friends before re
turning to his home at the bay.
Republican.
Married in Eugene. Bccson-Fish-er,
at the home of the officiating min
ister, Rev. H. S. Wilkinson, on South
Pearl street, Saturday evening, at
7:30 , August 30, 1913. Miss Lois A.
Fifher. of Albany, to Harvey H. Bee
son, of Jefferson, in Marion county,
Oregon.
If You Dont Eat An Apple You
Will Be One of Few I ho
Do Not Celebrate.
SPECIAL FESTIVALS ARE
ARRANGED FOR THE DAY
The Apple Is a National Health
Food Says Eminent Food
Experts.
FARM HOUSE COMPLETELY
DESTROYED BY FIRE
CITY COUNCIL HELD BRIEF
SESSION LAST NIGHT
Portland. Or., Sep. 3. If you don't
eat an appie Tuesday, November 18th
you will be one of the few people in
the United States that fails to cele
brate.
Let it be known far and wide that
Tuesday, November 18th is apple day
all over the country. Some places
will celebrate, but one or -two days,
but in other sections a whole week
will be devoted to special bargain
days for the king of fruits.
At the same time you are made
aware of the date for the second Na
tional apple day, you are notified that
the best way to celebrate and the
cheapest will be to buy the product
by the box. Those in charge of the
apple day campaign urgently request
the average man or woman to retrain I
from becoming a piker by failing
to celebrate.
No less a national authority than
Dr. Wiley, former head of the pure
food bureau of the government, has
made the statement that eating of
apples is the best possible method of
preserving the health of the nation.
A national health food, has been
the title that has been given the ap
ple. It grows in most sections of
the country and in fact the world, al
though to be sure, its greatest per
fection is reached west of the Rocky
mountains.
The International Apple Shippers'
Association some time ago prepared
a special booklet telling of 197 ways
of preparing the apple. These book
lets are for free distribution and will
save many a family quarrel about the
way to servie that special dish.
Country Home of S. R. Yutsie
Near Price School House
Is Prey to Flames.
Fire of unascertained origin com-
til.itotip i1ci,n.j f i e
r.v.vtj umiujiu me lunii House oi
S. R. Yutsie, located 6 miles east of j
here near Price school house yester- i
day afternoon about 4 o'clock. The
loss is estimated to be from $700 to
$800 with $500 insurance.
Practically everything in the house
is a total loss. Some few pieces of
furniture were saved.
When the fire was iirst discovered,
one side of the building was in a
bright blaze. The only persons in the
house at the time was Mrs. Yutsie
and her small child. They were in an
other part of the house and escaped.
Mr. Yutsie at the time was nway,
working with ' a threshing outfit.
Neighbors frantically tried to extin
quish the fire and hurried php-ie calls
for help attracted scores to the scene.
The phone call to the city asked that
the fire department be sent to the
scene but at that time the fire was
practically byond control.
A report has it- that the fire origi
nated from matches in the hands of
the young daughter of Mr. Yutsio
but this afternoon he did not confirm
the report, stating that he was at a
loss to assien the real source of the
blaze.
NEWS NOTES AND PERSONAL
MENTION FROM OAKVILLE
Dr. A. Stark went to Newport this
noon where he will join his wife for
a week end visit.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schaf
fitz yesterday afternoon, a 11 pound
boy.
Mrs. Maggie Clem, of Roseburg, is
expected -to arrive here this after
noon to join her brother Belding
Scffling, to leave sometime tomor
row for the hop yards near Indepen
dence. W. H. Terrill arrived this noon
from Tacoma to visit here with
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ficklin returned
this noon from a visit at Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Devine arrived
this noon from Portland to visit here
with friends.
o
Prof. J. A. Button of Button's Busi
ness College went to Corvallis yes
terday and secured positions for three
of his pupils as stenographers and
bookkeepers. Seven of this summer's
class are already in positions.
dly a30 wly s2
FOR SALE 80 acre tract northeast
of Oakville Station. All in cultiva
tion and good land. For terms see O.
A. Archibald at First National Bank.
A4 S4 dly wkly
FOR SALE 10 acre tract at south
end of Takena street, just east of
the new college site. Lays fine for
division into 1 or 2 acre tracts. Al
so house and lot at corner of 3rd
and Calapooia streets. For terms
apply to O. A. Archibald, at First
National Hnnk. A4.i4 rlv-wkly
Oakville, Sep. 3. (Special to the
Democrat.) The harvest of this year
will soon be over and the grain saved
in good condition.
The Corvallis cannery is a busy
place. Everything the farmer has is
canned there. Some of our farmers
have had a large crop of blackberries
canned. The cannery employs a
large force of help, mostly women
and girls.
Mr. Elmarian Smith of Halsey vis
ited relatives here Saturday.
An Iowa picnic will be held in
Smith's grove on Friday the 5th.
Many Iowa people will be there and
mostly natives of Iowa.
Mr. Weigand and family of Corval
lis passed through here last week in
their new auto.
"Mr. C. E. Hart and family were
making calls among the people last
week.
The Lincoln highway is marked
out through here and we can expect
better roads in the future.
The hreshers didn't stop their
worK Labor Day. .
8 News on This Page is
From Daily Issue of
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3
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Mayor and Recorder Were Au
thorized to Sign Up Contract
for Sewer Improvements,
Meeting last night for the purpose
of authorizing the mayor and cily re
corder to enter into a contract for
the construction of sewers on Geary,
Oak and Baker streets, the coucil au
thorized the officers to complete the
contract and transacted other busi
ness of minor importance.
The contract for the sewers on the
streets above mentioned has been
awarded to James Kennedy.
The bid ow Will Weaver for the ex
tension of the Railroad street sewer
was also discussed but was referred
back to the committee on streets and
public property. It will be consid
ered at the next regular meeting.
Won Handsome Lamp. As the re
sult of a guessing contest, N. Q. Bar
ton won a handsome $6 electric lamp
from the Newton Electric Supply Co.
of the East End. The contest was a
unique one in which a jar of beans
was laced in the window of the es
tablishment. The party who guessed
the nearest to the exact number
would be awarded the prize. With
several close seconds, a peculiar in
cident is that Mr. Barton guessed the
exact number of 5777.
PERFECT PRUNES ARE
DEMANDED AT CANNERY
Eugene Plant will Refuse to
Accept Cracked or Dirty
Fruit.
Eugene, Or., Aug. 30 None but
strictly first class prunes will be ac
cepted at the cannery of the Eugene
Fruit Growers' Association, accord
ing to a statement, made today by
Manager J. O. Holt. The Eugene
cannery has joined in the state-wide
movement to make Oregon prunes
the highest standard of the market.
Prunes with mold, dirt or cracked
will be rejected and only the perfect
fruit admitted to the drier.
Drying will begin in about 10 days
at the Eugene cannery and it is esti
mated that there will be between $50,
000 and $100,000 worth of fruit taken
care of. This will mean the shipment
of nearly 20 carloads of dried prunes,
the greater part of which has already
been ordered.
Canning of beans soon will end and
"Evergreen" blackberries will be fin
ished in 10 days. Some pears are
coming in, but regular canning will
not begin for several days.
Clifford Simon arrived this after
noon from Shcdd to visit at the home
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. G.
Simon.
DAIRYMEN
You Can Get
"CIDOL"
FLY KILLER
at
BARKER HARDWARE CO.,
216 West First Street, Albany, Ore.
Monroe, arc mostly in large hold
ings, the land is not intensively farm
ed and is producing the minimum.
The soil is largely of the red shot
character of the Wnldo hills country,
of continuation of that belt, appar
ently. These farms are being sub
divided. 40 acre plots of ground being
the favorite size for family uses, and
with the construction of canneries,
dryers, etc., the railroad tonnage
from thin section of the Willamette
va!!ey will be quadrupled within two
yea rs.
Monroe has been waiting for 30
vears to turn looe the bras bands,
fireworks and oratory marking this
step in Western Oregon dc'elopmcnt,
and will be prepared to care for ev
rybody who makes the journey to-
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CHAMBERS & McCUNE
ALBANY'S LEADING
CLOAK and SLIT STORE
The New Corsets for Fall and Winter
Are Here
Corset importance can hardly be over-esthuatedthese days, where there is so
much talk of "new lines."
It will interest any women to visit our Corset Department. Here she may see
the latest models of La Vida and W. B. Corsets, built on the very newest lines for the
coining season. The new boneless and real low bust corset are extremely different.
Every Express Brings to the Chambers & McCune Store
THE SMARTEST AUTUMN TAILORED SUITS
Beautiful Styles, Beautiful Materials, All Exclusive to this Store
Every day sees new arrivals in this sectionsuits that represent the most au
thentic fashions for the Fall and Winter season. At no time in years have the suits
been so beautiful--each garment is a work of trueart--in every way they are decidedly
different from the suits of last season.
There is the blouse model and the cutaway model-two new styles that promise
to be very popular. While we have had suits in the cutaway style, they were not
like the coats of this season-some taper gracefully back from the fromt, and others
are draped back and held in place with buttons or straps, or perhaps a bit of trim
ming. The skirts are all draped and many are held in small pleats at the waist line
in fact very perfectly plain skirts are to be seen.
The materials are very soft and rich in coloring. There is the wool niatclassc,
beautiful wool poplins-a new eponge-soft fine serges and chevoits and many mater
ials that are decidedly original. Copper and mahogany shades are noticeable-numerous
shades of plum-rich browns-taupe, raisin and the always popular navy blue
and black.
The beauty and smartness of these new suits are unequalled anywhere there are
not one or two designs, but litterally dozens of styles that retail from $17.50 to ?85.00.
All the Few Fall Shoes, Gloves, Sweaters, Under
wear, Hosiery, Curtain Nets and Scrims are here.
Kilts' Temple, First and Lyon Streets. Albany, OreKon