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About Albany weekly democrat. (Albany, Linn County, Or.) 1912-1913 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1912)
Grover H. Gatts rf Lebanon Protests Against father's Gift to Virginia Widow. SAYS THAT SIRE NEVER MET MRS. LOUISA YANCEY IN LIFE Corresponded With Her Some - Little Time Prior to His Death in September. Continued from Thursday, Dec. 5. That his father was aged and feeble and mentally incompetent at the time he made his will last January, Grover H. Gatts of Lebanon today petitioned the county court to set aside the will made by his father, F. M. Gatts, who died in Lebanon on Sept. 12, 1912, and in which he gave $1000 to Mrs. Louisa Yancey, a widow, residing in Wilmington, Virginia, whom he had' not seen for over twenty years. Young Gatts alleges that when his lather made his last will and testa ment in January of this year he was nearly 70 years of age, sick and feeble, and not competent to make a will or transact his business affairs. He says that his father had never seen Mrs. Yancey and that the only acquaint ance he had with her resulted when he advertised in the newspapers for proposals of marriage. , He says that his father and Mrs. Yancey corresponded and that the Virginia widow expressed great love and friendship for his father, although she had never met him, but that her letters always ended up with a re quest Tor money. Young Gatts further alleges that Mrs. Yancey persuaded her father to leave h'.-: a sum of money when he died and that he was ignored in the will. Upon these facts, Grover Gatts asks the court to set aside the will and make him the executor. According to the story, F. M. Gatts was married and with his wife was living in Virginia. He became ac quainted with Mrs. Yancey who was also married at that time. Mr. and Mrs. Gatts came to Oregon, locating at Lebanon. About five years ago Mrs. Gatts died and Gatts learning that Mrs. Yancey's husband had also died, began a correspondence with her which lasted until his death. When his will was opened it was found that after the bills and funeral expenses were paid the executor, was to send $1000 to Mrs. Yancey and the remainder was to go to Grover H. Gatts. the son. who protests against semlintf tiie widow SKXIU and is now seeking to have his father's will set aside. AT THE CHOBCF-TWO BRIDES Men Who Promised to Marry Failed to Appear for Thanks giving Day Ceremonies. Cincinnati, Pec. 4. Two Cincin nati women, who had expected to be Thanksgiving brides, were left "wait ing at th cchurch" Thanksgiving day. One of them. Mrs. Seidler, was as mad as mad could be. for she had lost not onlv a second husband, but also $3(V0. The other woman. Miss, Clara Wi !ke, said she wasn't going to let her disappointment in love keep her from catintr a turkey dinner. .Mrs. Seidler told the police that Rernard Powell had fooled her into believing that he was anxious toshare with her his' "inheritance of $7.000 from Holland." and so she loaned him some of her real money. The Rev. Calvin A. Hackcnbcrg com ' plained to the police that he had loan ed Powell $89. After Miss Wolke and her brides maids had waited an hour for Tolbcrt, according to her story to the police, the bridal party went at 3 p. m. to the Tolbert home and there were told that he had left the place early in the morning. . ' Advertised Letter List. Albany, Ore., Dec. 4th. Letters uncalled for and advertised Dec. 4th. 1912: Mildred Allen, T. E. Bowman, Herbert Brown, B. B. Bott, Mrs. W. H. Bartges, Mrs. J. R. Bark ley, W. E. Collins, R. P. McCormick Jr., Frank F. Doleshy, Mrs. . E. T. Dow, Jake Eglice. Mr. Maurice A. Frye, Earnest Jacks, D. D. McKay, C. N. Smith, Mrs. A. E. Taylor, A. B. Thompson, Mrs. R. Wilson. Roy White, O. W. Watson, C. Y. Wright, Henry White, F. M. Syoungs J. S. VAN' WINKLE. P. M. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned, administratrix of the estate nf . Marv F. Rhoades. deceased, has filed her final account in the matter- of said estate with the County Cleric of Linn county, Oregon, and the County Court of said county has fixed Saturday, December 28th, 1912, at 10 o'clock a. m. as the time for hearing objections to said final account and for the final settlement of said estate. Dated this 29th day of November, 1912. NELLIE R. MYERS. T I QTITFC Administratrix. Atty. for Administratrix. N29D27 ALBANY MERCHANTS WILL HAVE STRONG ORGANIZATION Committee Meeting With Great Success Securing Members for Retail Merchants Assn. To secure members for the Albany Retail Merchants' Association which was organized at the Commercial Club in this city a few nights ago, a committee consisting of W. V. Mer rill, G. T. Hockensmith, F. J. Fletch er, L. E. Hamilton, F N. Braden, D. O. Woodworth and C. E. Scott are today circulating an agreement among the business men of the city inviting them to join the association. i he committee reports splendid success in securing members, nearly every merchant visited being in favor of a strong organization in this city and no trouble is being experienced in getting them to sign up. It is be lieved that when the local association is perfected, fully 80 local merchants will be on the membership rolls. A meeting will be held at the "Com mercial Club this evening to which every merchant in the, city is invited to aitenu. i lie meeting will be called to order at 8 o'clock. 0. A. C.-OREGON FOOTBALL GAME WILL BE PLAYED HERE Graduate Manager Geary Made the Announcement While in Portland This Week. That the annual Oregon-O. A. C. football game will hereafter be play ed in Albany was the statement made by Arthur M. Geary, graduate man ager of the University of , Oregon, when he was in Portland spending the Thanksgiving holidays with his par ents. This news will he welcomed by football enthusiasts throughout the entire Willamette, Valley, the major ity of whom are heartily in favor of having the annual game played at this city. Albany's splendid location and its unusually fine transportation facili ties make it the most desirable olace in the state for the staging of the contest and the huge crowd that at tended the game here last month clearly proved this assertion. The attendance at the game next year will undoubtedly be even greater. AN 000 EYE IS THE LATEST FAD IN PARIS Belladonna Goes Only in One Fva Mornnfton Puoe Mnct bJV VlUU.ItVI) VII III 14 U h Match the Dress. t Paris, Dec. 4. The odd eye is the latest freak fancy of the fashionable women, but to obtain it she must be prepared to risk serious damage to her sight. If you wish to be alluring, weird, mysterious, have odd eyes to match the odd side of your dress. Nowadays gowns have in many cas es an odd-sided appearance. Some have only one sleeve, the second arm being covered with float ing chiffon. Other dresses are trim- jTicd and draped at the back on one siue oniy or laces ana son maiermis are swathed around one hip or one side of the bodice and not the other. Thus las evolved the idea of the odd eye, and now women are using belladonna to make one eye larger and brighter in appearance than the oth er, and they are even dropping col oring matter into one eye to make it a different tint. A woman who has adopted the "odd ere" fashion recently stated that it is supposed to fascinate men who are known to like anything unusual, be cause it attracts them in the first place, and the more mysterious wo men arc the more men will think about them. TWO ROUTES SURVEYED FROM ALBANY 10 WELLS AND SUVER Independence, Or.f Dec. 5. J. H. McClymonds and party of "engineers have finished their location survey work flere on the electric cutoff from Salem to Independence on the main line route from Eugene, Monroe, Portland electric service of the Port land, Eugene & Eastern road. They leave the main line of the Southern Pacific at Brown's farm, about "two miles north of Independence, keep ing west of the main county road, and in almost direct course to McXary station, making the route about nine miles from Independence to Salem. The same party had headquarters at Albany for over a week making a survey from Albany to Wells and also from Albany to Suver, the former be ing seven miles, the latter about ten miles, the company not deciding yet which route would be taken.- The surveyors are now in Oregon City, where they will take up the lo cation survey work there. s New. Beginning With This Head la From Daily Issue of FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6. $ TALENT SECURED I Albany's Fourth Annual Assem bly Promises to Be Larger and Better than Ever. WILL BE HELD AT BRYANTS PARK FOR TWO FULL WEEKS President Ellis, Rev. White, and J. S. Van Winkle Return from. Portland Meeting. That Albany's fourth annual Chau tauqua will be the largest and the best in every respect that had yet been given here was indicated today when President Ellis, Rev. W. P. White and J. S. Van Winkle of the Albany Chautauqua Association re turned from Portland where they have been for the past few days book ing talent for next year's assembly. President Mi H. Ellis of the Chau tauqua Association when interviewed this afternoon by the Democrat rep resentative said: "We met in Portland this week with representatives from all of the leading Chautauquas of the North west who gathered in the metropolis to confer with representatives of five of the largest entertainment bureaus regarding talent for next year's as semblies. There were present at the meeting, nine representatives from various Chautauquas in the North west. "Three of the Cha.utauquas of the Northwest were considered to be on a permanent established basis those of Albany, Ashland and Gladstone. We selected the talent for our Chau tauqua carefully, anil believe that we meet with the approval of the resi dents of Albany and Linn county. All of our talent was selected from four of the five entertainment bu reaus and will be the same that is hooked for Ashiand and Gladstone. ''The Albany Chautauqua will open on Monday, July 7th, and will last two full weeks instead of ten days as heretofore. We will probably open next year's assembly with the Tyro lean Alpine Warblers. This company consists of seven people who are na tives of the Tyrolean Alps in Switz erland. They have pleased their audi ences wherever they have appeared and it is said that a finer company of singers has never been seen on the Chautauqua platform. "We have also engaged for one ap pearance only, the famous DeCaprios band which will be one of the leading features at the Albany Chautauqua next, year. Sign or DeCaprio will bring three solo performances from Chicago to strengthen his band and has announced that he will also have several noted opera singers with him. "Another feature which we have se cured and which promises to be pop ular with local people is Pamahaskias Pets. This collection of trained pets is valued at $20,000, and the per formance they give is said to be won 'crful. t "If birds and animals can be train ed to- do marvelous tilings, why shouldn't we delight in looking at them? "The Sierra Quartette is another splendid feature secured for next year's assembly and which is recom mended highly. While coming from San Francisco, they arc said to sur rnss anything of a !i''e nature in the lyceum course, and will undoubtedly be one of the drawing cards of next year's Chautauqua. - "We also secured for two or three appearances, the noted lecturer. R. R. Baumgart, who will give a series of illustrated travelogue.-, including one especially fine lecture entitled "An Evening with the Stars." He is said to be a most entertaining speaker and we expect him to be one of the strongest numbers on the program. "Other features secured for next year are Colonel Ban; the noted lec turer, who was so eminently satis factory to the crowds at one of our Tecent Chautauquas in this city and whom we have succeeded in securing for a return date; Holcoinb, another I speaker who is favorably rccommend--.wl v t j ru... K- nnn,1 Chinese editor of San Francisco who recently was entertained in Portland, Seattle, and other coast cities, where he spoke on "Modern China." Dr. Chew also spoke in the Presbyterian church in this city a few months aga and his lecture was one of the very best heard here for some time. ' "We have also secured a representa tive of the Panama-Pacific Exposi tion which will be held in San Fran cisco. He will give an illustrated lec ture on the coming world's fair and will tell of the Panama canal, giving many pictures of the work being done in the canal zone. The Albany Chau tauqua will ba held from July 7 to July 21 inclusive. PLANS NEARLY COMPLETED FOR TWO CONVENTIONS THIS MONTH The committees having in charge the conventions of the Oregon Butter and Cheese Makers' Association and the State Dairymen's association have nearly completed plans for the enter tainment of the several hundred men who will attend the conventions in this city on December 17, 18 19 and 20. Appropriate badges to be given the visiting delegates have been or dered and a big banquet will be ten dered the visitors on the night of the 18th. - AUDUA NO REWARD OFFERED BY THE COUNTY COURT Serious Question As to Their Authority to ray tor Arrest of Bootleggers. According to a statement issued this morning by County Judge Dim can, the report to the effect that the county court had posted a reward for the arrest and conviction of per sons engaged in the illegal sale of in toxicating liquor and gambling, is a mistake. A committee consisting of forty business and professional men who are identified with the temperance movement waited on the county court a few days ago for the purpose of in ducing the members to offer a re ward of $100.00 for the arrest and conviction of each and every person engaged in the liquor business and were assured by the court that they were in complete sympathy with the movement. At that time Judge Dun can and his associates on the board stated that they questioned as to whether or not they had authority to post such a reward and have since consulted with local members of the bar as to their authority without re ceiving any encouragement. The matter will be submitted to the attor ney general and unless he renders a favorable opinion the county court will not offer the reward. LEBANON BOOTLEGGER IS RELEASED FROM COUNTY JAIL After serving two hundred and seventy-five days in the Linn county jail for hootlegging, Dick Turpin of Leb anon was yesterday given his frecr dom having completed his sentence. Me was found guilty of bootlegging in Lebanon last March and sentenced to pay a fine of $450 and serve 40 days in the county jail. He was un able to pay his fine which made it necessary for him to sevrc a total of 275 days in the county jail. He sv.ya no more bootlegging for him. LOGSDON DISMISSES CASE AGAINST POWER COMPANY The case of Logsdon vs. the Ore gon Power Company which was filed with the clerk of the district court of I Jnn county during the month of July has been dismissed. Thii case was brought for the pur pose of compelling the Power com pany to connect the plaintiff with the water mam near Ins residence prop erty in Albany. The c nnpany agreed to make the connection, which dis poses of the case. FUNERAL SERVICES OF IS. WM. 'FELZER HELD ON TUESDAY The funeral services of the late Mrs. William Felzer, residing a few miles south of this city, who died last week, were held at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday morning at St. Mary's Cath olic church, conducted by the Rev. Father Lane, assisted by Father Ber nard of this city and Father Hamp son of Lebanon. Interment was had in the City cemetery. The services were attended by a large crowd of the relatives and friends of the deceased and many beautiful floral pieces were contrib uted. TO CUTTING APPENDIX OF RICH MAN. 1120,000 Williams Thought $5,000 About Right for Two Minutes' Work, but Dr. Danna Sues. New Orleans, Dec. 4. Appendix removal prices have taken -a jump in New Orleans. Heretofore the fee, for rich and poor alike, has been $250. Dr. Charles A. Danna, house surgeon of the Charity hospital, however, today filed suit against Frank B. Williams, millionaire cypress lumber manufac turer of Patterson, La., claiming $20, 000 for cutting out the appendix of Mr. Williams last summer. Mr. Williams, who is chairman of the republican state central commit tee, was stricken while in Baton Rogue, attending the state legisla ture last July. He was rushed to New Orleans on a special train and only two minutes elapsed from the time he went on the operating table until he was separated from his ap pendix. The bill for $20,000 was submitted by Dr. Danna several days ago. Mr. Williams entered a mild protest and thought $5,000 was about right. He offered this amount as a compromise. Dr. Danna indignantly spurned the offer, hence the litigation. Sam Worrell is giving a free dem onstration today of Leage & Haskins coffee. The demonsUation will be made all day tomorrow by a special representative from Portland and everyone is invited. FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH HAS NO TERRORS FOR GLEE CLUB Singers of the University of Oregon Will Open the Season in Albany Then. Friday, December 13th. has no ter rors lor the members of the irlee club of the University of OreRon, and they have decided to open their season's engagements on that dale in Albany with a fine program of songs and stunts such as have made the organiz ation popular throughout the state in years gone by. I Ins year s club consists of twenty five male students of the varsity who will present a program that is bound to please everybody. Their concert will be given under the direction of M. L. Bowman, formerly of the Sav age Opera Company and promises to eclipse anything heretofore attempted lly members of the glee club of the University of Oregon. College fun combines with good songs to make an entertainment that will please both the musically inclined and those who prefer boyish humor. 1 lie Uregon-U. A. L. football game which was played at Albany last month has not been forgotten in the performance and forms the basis of a clever little skit prepared by the mem- oers 01 tne chid. During the fourteen years that the U. of O. Glee Club traveled through the state under the leadership of Professor I. M. Glen, it received an impetus that has given it the leader ship among the glee clubs of the Northwest. Albany people should give the boys a rousing welcome when they come lo llii;. city next Friday and greet ilrcni with a packed house when the curtain is raised on the evening of the opening performance. The manage ment of the opera house has decided to sell the best reserved seats in the house for 75 cents and the rest for 50 cents. The entertainment will be worth every cent of the price of ad mission, t. M. C. A. WILL ELECT OFFICERS THIS EVENING For the purpose of perfecting a perir.anom organisation and electing officers for the ensuing year, a meet ing of the V. M. C. A. will be held this evening. Much interest is being manifested in the new organization by the young men of Albany and a larire member ship list is already ' assured by the committee in charge ot tiie organize tiun work. PRESIDENT CROOKS RAISES $31,000 FOR THE COLLEGE During the eight days that Presi dent Crooks of Albany College ha; been engaged in Portland, working tn the interest of the endowment innd for the college, he has succeed ed in raising $31,01X1, which leaves a sum of but ijo.UtX) to he raised yet. The other representatives from this cjty who are working in other Tarts of the state in the interest of the fund are also meeting with splendid success and it is thought that the entire amount required will he raised within a few months. MISFITS S ! Contributed By F. P. Nutting. - The snow at the armory indicates th:it Alhnir' is considerable ol chicken hub iils-i. The display of fowls is mute immense and very creditable The show deserves being seen by every one in the city, the best ever pecn at the Hub. The Alsuu boy who nunc over here with tiie white leghorns and scooped till Ihc blue ribbons against vets like Kd. jcliocl certainly had reason to l;e jiroud of his achievement. Speaking of pride nothing can beat a three year old rooster, with his head high up and a conlinual chuckle over his pomposity. The Gov. of S. C. is getting some notoriety by having declared that the lynchers of muro assaulters of white girls shall go unpunished. Well, they always go unpunished anyway, nevertheless a clnel executive snouiu not openly endorse Judge Lynch. The Russian bear is trying to stir up trouble in Europe, always in the trouble column. Next to Turkey the average person had ust as soon sec Russia licked. It is several years since Japan did it, and the time is evidently ripe for another drubbing. It is to be hoped, though, it doesn t reach the lighting stage. . An Albany V. M. C. A. is an as sured fact, one upon which the young men of Albany arc to be congratulat ed. The institution is ont that does a great work altogether, and there is a fine field in Albany tor one. There is some complaint that the modern Y. M. C. A. in some of the big cities has become somewhat too worldly in its methods, in order to reach a larger number; but, altogether it certainly has reached a high posi tion in the development of young men along religious, moral, educational and physical lines. A snow scene and a bathing scene, I Ml miles apart, is a Laulornia pic ture. Oregon also has some good weather pictures. ELKS LODGE IS IN A Bond Burning 'tizz Feature of Regular Meeting Held at the Temple Last Evening. FINANCES OF LODGE ARE IN EXCELLENT SHAPE Indebtedness on the Temnle Will Be Wiped Out in Five Years. That the Elks Teninle. erected in this city in the year 1908. is a nrofit- ablc investment is indicated by the lact mat over 300UU 111 bonds have been taken up and destroyed since the completion 01 t lie building. At the regular weekly meeting of the lodge last evening the Board of Trustees filed a report through J. J. Collins which showed the affairs of the local order to be in excellent con dition. After the reading of the re port $1550.00 worth of bonds were burned in the presence of the lodge- nieii uy me r.xaueu Killer. In addition to the $5600.00 in bonds which have been destroyed during the past few years, the floating indebted ncss lias been taken up and substan tial sewer anil paving .improvements made and paid for by the board of trustees. The floating indebtedness and the improvements made, in the aggregate amounted to over $10,000. Assuming that the finances of the lodge are conducted in the future as they nave been 111 the past the entire bonded indebtedness will be wiicd out within the next five years. POULTRY SHOW AT ARMORY ATTRACTING LARGE CROWDS The poultry v show now being held in the armory hall in this city is nrov- r to he a bin attraction and durimr the past three days hundreds of peo ple from Albany and other parts of the cmiuly have availed themselves of the opportunity to see the finest display ot poultry of all kinds ever shown in this city. Six hundred and fifty birds are on exhibition, including nil the well known varieties such as Plymouth Rocks, Minorcas, Orpingtons, VVyau dottcs. Lciihorus. Rhode Island Reds and mail)' others. J he show is open from 8 o clock in the morning until 1 1 o'clock at night and the people of this city arc cordially invited to attend the show which closes tomorrow evening. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD; HAS HIS FIRST SHAVE J HUNTINGTON, lud., Dec. 4.AI- Ji'ough he will celebrate lus one hund redth birt'uby anniversary on Dc-cem-i.er 14, Jacob Setters, 1 tunlitig'on'a eldest resident, submitted to h;s first sl'ave at th? hands nf a barber today. He did i,l under protest, de;!arn g he vould ".-have himself." Thi ar-t of the razor was sevretly summond by' a daughter, who wUhed to prepare the veteran for a photographer in an ticipation of the coming celebration. PROFITABLE DAILY TITHING. "Daily Heavenly Manna." ' This little book Is having tliu largest circulation of nil' or Its kind uud la conceded by Christians everywhere to be the most helpful. 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