IMPROVING FAST
Progressive Residents Build
Sidewalk from Peacocks
to Gibson Hill.
CRUSHED ROCK ROADS ALSO
PLANNED BY THE FARMERS
Meeting Will Be Held Tomorrow
at Oak Grove School t Vote
Special Road Tax.
Continued from Friday, Dec. 27.
That the residents of North Albany
are becoming more progressive each
day is indicated by the fact that a
board sidewalk is now being con
structed from the residence of Wil
liam Peacock out past the railway
station and across Thornton's Lake
to the North Albany schoolhouse.
There is also talk of extending it
as far north as Gibson Hill. The ex
pense is shared by all the residents
benefited.
The sidewalk is proving a boon to
the residents of the suburb who are
employed in this city and who are re
quired to walk to town. '
Another indication of the progres
siveness of the residents living north
of the Willmactte river is the apparent
activity that is now being directed to
ward securing better roads.
The Democrat was informed that a
meeting will be held tomorrow at the
Oak Grove schoolhouse for the pur
pose of voting a special tax to defray
the expense of placing crushed rock
on several miles of road in north
Henton county.
According to the information given
to the Democrat, the tax will undoubt
edly be voted as the majority of the
residents of North Albany are in favor
of crushed rock roads. The Henton
county court offers to furnish the
crushed rock free if the residents will
vole a tax to place it on the road, and
from present indications the tax will
nc voieu wun nine opposition.
The move for better roads which
has been started by Rcnton county is
worthy of emulation in Linn.
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SUPERINTENDENT CAMPBELL
INSPECTS C. 5E. RAILWAY
SPLENDID RECORD MADE BY
ALBANY HIGH FOOTBALL TEAM
Played Seven Games During
' Season, Winning Five and
' Losing Other Two.
His Special Train Was One and
a Half Hours Late Reaching
Yaquina on Wednesday.
The Albany High school football
eleven which recently closed a most
succssful season made a splendid rec
ord and will put forth every effort to
put out a championship team next
year. During the season just closed,
the local eleven played a total of sev
en (fames of which they won five and
lost two.
The first game of the season was
played with the Alumni and the regu
lars were defeated after a hard fought
contest by a score of 7 to 0. The first
out-of-town game-was played at Leb
anon with the high school team of
that city. Albany won that game by
the close score of 6 to 0.,
The next game was played at Al
bany with the Salem High school and
resulted in victory for the home team
by the score of 7 to 0. This game was
attended by several hundred students
of both schools and was played on
a wet field. In the game with Wil
lamette University, Albany High re
ceived the short end of a 12 to 0
score. 1
The Thanksgiving day game at
Corvallis resulted in victory for Al
bany by the score of 21 to 0. Shortly
after the holidays, the Albany team
accompanied by Coach Marquam
made a trip to Southern Oregon
where they defeated Ashland by a
score of 23 to 7 and Medford by a
score of 12-to 0. 1
The officials of the local eleven
were Lloyd Marquam, coach; Student
Manager R'o'IIa Bruce; Herman Abra
ham, captain; and G. E. Finnerty, fac
ulty manager.
Following the close of the football
season .ill of the members of the
squad who participated in a certain
percentage of the games were pre
sented with a mackinaw by the ath
letic association.
i Basketball is now on full blast at
the high school and it is expected to
develop a champion team.
C. M. KENDALL WILL BE
THE EW DEPUTY SHERIFF
Sheriff-Elect Bodine Chooses a
Well Known Albany Man For
Important Position.
According. t' an announcement
made this 'afternoon by Sheriff-elect
1). H. Ilodinc; C. M. Kendall of this
city will succeed Deputy Sheriff Del
Smith after the new incumbent takes
his oath of office.
' Mr. Kendall is a former resident of
Kansas1 but has been a resident of
Albany for several years. He is a
graduate of a well known eastern busi
ness college ami is well fitted for the
duties of the office to which he has
been appointed by Mr. Bo'dine.
IN OLD BUILDING
Thirty Sticks of Explosive and
Twenty Five Feet of Fuse
. Discovered by Boys.
THE IDENTITY OF THE
OWNERS IS A MYSTERY
City RecorderOrders Dynamite
Dumped in the River; Offi
cers Have No Clew.
Who hid thirty sticks of dynamite,
twenty-five feet of fuse and seven dy
namite caps in the old Fromm build
ing on Water street, is the ,jestion
which is just now being asked by
Chief of Police Austin of this city.
The dynamite was found in this
building, by Albany boys who yester
day reported the matter to the police
officers. An investigation was at once
made and the explosives brought be
fore City Recorder Van Tassel. The
recorder ordered Chief of Police Aus
tin to dump the dynamite in the river
which was done late yesterday after
noon. The Fromm building is located in
the rear of Magnolia laundry and the
xplosives were discovered by accident
when the boys were playing in the
basement of the building. As far as
the officers were able tj ascertain
no dynamite was being used by the
crew of men employed in the con
struction of the Water street grade
tnd the men asked in regard to the
ownership of the dynamite knew noth
ing of the matter until informed by
the police oficers.
Chief of Police Austin is conducting
an investigation but thus far has ob
tained no clew as to the identity of
the man, or men, who placed the ex
plosives in the building.
iBiiini
JOHN DEERE SPREADER
The Spreader with the Beater on the Axle
The Simplest Spreader Made
4 MS3k
. f ' j Roller Bearings fcJSa
tO L.0(ia Light Draft
Entirely New . . Nothing Else Like It
M rflHE JOHN DEERE SPREADER Tlui Spreader with the Beater on the Axle to as much of an Improve- .
g I merit in spreader manufacturing aa the self-binder was over the old reaper. It is made along entirely
g new and different lines from the ordinary spreader.
g The first manure spreader ever made was built in 1878 by the Kemp & Burpee Manufacturing Company.
H W to tho time of the John Deere Spreader every spreader has been made along the same general lines as
g this first machine. Power was taken from one end of the main axle and transmitted, either through chains
g or gears, to the beater, mounted above and in the roar of the axle. Heretofore the only improvement in
manure spreaders since the first one was made in 1878 has been in the refinement of details,
g The John Deere Spreader is a radical departure from the old method of construction.' It is made along
m entirely new lines and is a great improvement over the old style spreader. .Come in and examine the machine
g and you will readily see why the John Deere Spreader is so far superior to any spreader heretofore constructed.
Even if You Don't Need a New Spreader Now l0nacnTZtl
g of articles on why farm manure should be used on the land, how it should be applied, how it should be stored,
gg the value and effect of using it in various ways. In addition there is a detail description of the John Deere
II Spreader with illustrations in colors of this spreader working in the field.
. Better Investigate .. It's Worth Your While
( We will have a special spreader expert at our store December 1 6th and 17th. Call and let him
s show you the John Deer. Sold and guaranteed by
I WALDO ANDERSON & SONS, Albany, Or.
m b
That the roadbed of the Corvallis
& F.astern is to be. placed in first
class condition in the near future was
indicated by D. W. Campbell, general
superintendent of the Southern Pa
cific and, Corvallis & Eastern rail
ways, who spent Christmas day on
his private car inspecting, the road
from this city to Yiiuuina uud from
what that official stated, crews will be
placed at work immediately.
The frequency at which' wrecks
have occurred on the Alhany-Ya-quina
road during the past few
mouths is believed to have been the
principal thing that has caused the
Southern Pacific to have the roadbed
repaired immediately. So bad is the
roadbed that Superintendent Camp
bell's private train was one hour and
thirty minutes late arriving at Ya-ijuina.
Indianapolis, Dec. 26. Whatever is
to be the outcome of the three months'
dynamite conspiracy trial, in which
40- labor union officials arc accused
of complicity in the McNamara plots
to destroy property, including the
wrecking of the Los A'nireles- Times
huildiu'gi'where 21 persons were kill
ed, now rests with the jury.
Federal Judge Anderson, a few min
utes after 5 o'clock tonight, instruct
ed the jury and ordered it to retire.
The court then adjourned until 9:30
a. in. tomorrow, thus precluding the
return 'of the verdicts before that time
should t'lcy be found. -
The verdicts, while separate as to
each defendant, are to be returned at
:ic time.
PASTOR AND WIFE ARE GIVEN
BEAUTIFUL SILVER SERVICE
Ladies Society of the First
Presbyterian Church Are
Donors of Gift.
SPARKS FROM THE
WIRE.
S
Princeton, N. J., Dec. 26. Propped
up in bed, President-elect Wilson sat
for two hours today talking about
currency reform with Representative
(Mass, of Virginia, chairman of the
sub-committee on banking and cur
rency reform, and Or. II. P. Willis,
a New York financial writer.
"The conference concerned general
ities," Mr. Glass said afterward. 'The
governor has some positive ideas
about currency reform and expressed
them more decisively and clearly than
anyone else 1 have ever known."
Mr. Glass said he was not nt liberty
to disclose what was done in the conference.
Kiigeiif, Pec. 26. Eleven city pris
oners, charged with vagrancy, are now
living on bread and water, as a result
of refusal today to go to work on the
streets. These men were picked up
last night and each were given five
days' work on the streets, but after
they had been fed a breakfast of good
beefsteak, fried potatoes, bread and
coffee, thev refused to leave the jail.
ntul the chief of nolk'c announced
bread and water diet until they agreed
to go to work or until their sentence
has expired.
The chief also took away their to
bacco and their newspapers.
Lincoln. Neb., Pec. 26. In an edi
torial in the Commoner tod.iy, Wil
liam Jennings lbyan predicts that the
Democratic party is facing a struggle
in both senate and house over com
mit ee assignments. "It (the party
Washington, Dec. 26. Admiral
George Dewey, hero of the battle of
Manila bay, today celebrated quietly
his 75th birthday. The veteran sea
fight said he never felt better in his
life, and friends-who called to con
gratulate him oil the anniversary of
his birthday declared that he looked
like an ensign.
As an appreciation of the esteem in
winch they arc held by members of
the congregation of the First Pres
byterian church, Rev. and Mrs. Ges
elbracht were presented with a beauti
ful silver service, at the Christmas
exercises on Wednesday afternoon.
The service consisted of knives,
forks, spoons, butter spreaders, salad
forks,' and bouillon spoons and was
presented H.o them by the ladies soci
ety of the church, represented by the
husbands of the committee, Messrs
A. CSchtnitt, J. N. Duncan and F. H.
Pfeiffer.
Colon, Dec. 26. The United States
battleship Arkansas, with President
Taft aboard, sailed from Colon at 7
o'clock tonight for Key West.
The presidential party went aboard
the Arkansas about an hour prior to
her departure. Col. Goethals, the
chief engineer, boarded the battleship
Deleware, which accompanied the Ar
kansas. The warships are requested to reach
Key West Sunday and the president
is due at Washington Tuesday.
Kansas City, Ma, Dec. 26. To ob
tain $250 worth of jewelry a robber
early today climbed a fire escape six
floors to the top of n building at 1023
Main street, made a perilous passage
down a , greasy rope in an elevator
shaft to the fifth floor and squeezed
himself through the transom of Ray
Bcniiert's icwelrv shop. The build-
ins was locked and in order to get I
away safely the robber returned the
wav he entered.
rfhe jeweler's more valuable stock,
worth $501X1 had been locked in a safe
which the robber did not attempt to
open.
Washington, Dec. 26, Ambassador
Calf rn of Mexico expects to leave
Washington for Mexico City Decem
ber 3 and the probabilities are, it is
said at the embasv here, that he will
not return as he licsires to retire and
practice law.
W. H. Record, the well known
Henton county assessor, passed
through Albanv this morning from
Corvallis to Salem where lie will at-
, tfml ill ntvtnrt' conference with
again threatened with the blight of j the ttate tax commission today.
seniority, the article continues that u Hoerr. one of the leading
is, it will be asked to mit jhc nU men of the Uebamn district, was
bilious and interests of individual transactinn business in this city yes
above the welfare of the party. terday.
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Kindly send me the Bible
Studies marked below: .
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"Forgivable and Unpardonable
Sine."
"What Say the Scrlpturee Re-
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"Rich Man In Hell."
"In tha Cross of Christ WeQIory."
"Moat Precioua Text." John
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"End of the Age le the Harvest.
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Depth of God'e Love."
"The Thief In Paradiee."
"Christ Our Passover le Sacri
ficed." "The Riaen Christ."
"Foreordlnation and Election."
"The Deaircof All Nations."
"Paradise Regained."
"The Coming Kingdom."
"Sin Atonement."
"Spiritual Israel Natural Is
rael." "The Timss of the Gentiles,"
"Gathering the Lord's Jewels."
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"Calamities Why Permitted."
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Sheriff Gellatly of Benton county
arrived in this city from Corvallis this
morning and is looking atter bustness
matters in Albany today.
Miss Lela Price and Miss late, two
of Albany's popular sch'oolteachcrs,
were passengers to Portland tins
morning to attend the state teachers'
convention now in progress there.
Miss Louise lilackwell ot tnis city
was among the Albany schoolteachers
who went to Portland this morning to
attend the state teachers'- convention
which is now being held in the me
tropolis. John Mars, chief fire warden of
Linn county,-who has been engaged
for the past few weeks compiling a
map of all of . the timber in Linn
county, passed through Albany today
to Portland where he will turn his
work into headquarters. He was ac
companied by his son. Asa.
Mrs. George Washburn of Portland
who has been visiting in Albany for
several weeks spent Christmas with
friends and relatives in Lebanon.
Prof. F. L. Kent of Corvallis pass
ed through Albany yesterday after
noon to Salem. He spent Christmas
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.. S. L.
Kent of Lebanon.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Moore of Sheri
dan returned home today after spend
ing Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Mi
nert, near this city. ,
Pete Williams of Lebanon returned
home yesterday afternoon after a
Christmas visit with friends and rela
tives in this city. He states that Mr.
and Mrs. W. B. Douglas of that city
recently returned from a few weeks
visit with friends in Aberdeen, South
Dakota, and that they were glad to
be back again after experiencing
weather 20 and 30 degrees below zero.
President Crooks and Dr. Ferguson
at in Portland endeavoring to raise
the sum of $33,000 before Jan. 1st in
order to secure James J. Hill's dona
tion of $50,000. The sum of $15,500
was raised yesterday. '
Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Mitchell of
Vancouver, B. C, are spending the
holidays in Albany at the home of Mr.
Mitchell's brother-in-law, George L.
Thompson, and Mrs. Mitchell's moth
er, Mrs. Mary Davis.
Sergeant H. H. Hern, a resident of
Lacomb, arrived in Albany yesterday
from a business trip to Portland and
is visiting friends here today while
on his way home.
Attorney N. M. Newport of Leba
non who was transacting business in
Albany yesterday morning, returned
home last evening.
FOR ? T K OR TRnP3 arr nf
lid new i'y noni hoiiw, and barn,
on TWtfMrt street hetrn Purk
hirt -id 3-tntim rnrtd. Will trade
for citv nrnne-tv i" rast or smith
"d Tnonirc of C V-1 R F f)
No 1. Daily D2?Tfi-WJ2
LISTEN!
Claaif aimed
Sale
will he greater smd con
sMeraMylbxeftteltlhiainieveir
THURSDAY, JAMUARY 2d
A geiawiniia tore&ft Is inn toir ffir ju
Eveiry.depairtoeinift will b mpmnted
Th prices will be a. plesaaumft swpirke
reinmemlxer ftlta daft
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2d
THE J A JlJL ' - EST
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