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About Albany weekly democrat. (Albany, Linn County, Or.) 1912-1913 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1913)
OLD GQUNGiLMEN After Four Years of Faithful Service Snell and Chambers Retire From Office. COUNCILMEN-ELECT BLOUNT AND JOHNSON BEGIN DUTIES Mayor Gilbert Extends Thanks te the Retiring Alderman for Services Rendered. The adjourned meeting of the city council which was held last eveninK at the city hall was its last one for two of the members of that body, Councilman Robert D. Snell of the third ward and Councilman J. N. Chambers of the second ward retir ing after four years of faithful service for :the city of Albany. Their places were taken by fc. A. . Johnson, a well known Albany flour manufacturer, who was recently elect ed councilman from the third ward, and Fred T. Blount, a local building contractor, whom the people ot the second ward have selected to repre sent them in the. council. . Mayor Gilbert in a neat speech com plimented Messrs. Snell and Cham bers, the retiring councilmen, for the splendid manner in which they have performed their duties for the people. "Both of you have given four years of faithful servioe to the city, said Mayor Gilbert. "You were always here and . 1 know and feel satisfied that you have always worked for the best interests of the city during your term of office, both during the year -i i -...1 ;n th nrprenincr ones. JUSl tlUSCU UlIU " V f- fa I want to thank both of you for your co-operation ana iiarmumyu - . .. ,l..Mic whllp in Office lstraiiou oi juut - - and I sincerely hope that the New Year win De one ui yivpv.... y Councilman Chambers arose and said: j . y it- T u.mt tn s.iv that 1 in TClllWK i - -j have always taken pride and pleasure - : u n-;,ir the four in serving nit .-..J. i 1 oorol a rnimcilman 1 years iuai i a-t' . --- have been in Albany most of the time and I probably naven i uuuitu n- u: :-.nMUDn,nnts th.it have many uik i"'"u'"" . been made during that time as much as an outsider wouiu. ..T i, nlnnG,irp nf 1-ipmtr a mem ber of the first council that awarded a paving contract in tins city, v ... f. .T. .1 - In... hlnrtc thpil. lilt t ie omy jtavcu n." ---- movement for hard-surfaced streets has grown rapidly and .many of our local thoroughfares are now paved one ot tne best asseis nun "-j have. "We tried for several years to get a new city charter and were recently successful. We now have a modern electric railway through the valley which was completed last year. Many people kicked when we granted the company a franchise and they kick On lots of other things, but I feel that their kicks should be taken as com pliments for any man who is doing right and working for the best, inter ests of the city is bound to make somebody growl. "1 want to thank the mayor, city officers, and members of the council for the courtesies extended to me while a member of this body and 1 bespeak for my successor a prosper ous administration and I would ask that he be accorded the same cour tesies that have been extended to me. Mr. Blount, my successor, has been a resident of this city for many years and I am sure will give a good account of himself." . . Councilman Snell, the retiring coun cilman from the third ward, address ed the mayor and council briefly, thanking them for courtesies extended to him during his term of office, and said that he hoped the future would be prosperous for the city. Councilman Henry Lyons arose and requested that a vote of thanks be ex tended by the members of the council to Messrs. Chambers and Snell for their energetic administration and co operation during the past four years. A motion to this effect was made and unanimously carried. The old coun cil adjourned sine die. Mayor Gilbert, Recorder Van Tas sel and all the members of the old council, including J. R. Hulbert. John Simpson, M. J. Cameron, J. N. Cham bers, R. D. Snell, and Henry Lyons were present last evening. . When the new council met a few minutes after the adjournment' of the old council, the following officers were in their places: Mayor Gilbert, Recorder Van Tassel, and Councilmen Lyons. Johnson, Blount, Cameron, Simpson and Hulbert. The same rules of order that have been used in the past were adopted and it was decid ed to keep the same offices for 1913. Mavor Gilbert appointed the follow ing standing committees for the year: Wavs and Means Councilmen Simp son, Hulbert and Johnson: Ordinanc es Couiicil.nen Lyons. Blount and Cameron; Accounts, and Current Ex penses Councilnic; HulheH. John son and Simpson: Ftrci-ts and Public Property Councilmen Cameron, Hul bert and Johnson; Fire and Water Councilmen lllount. Lyons and Hul hrrt: Health and Police Councilmen Johnson, Cameron and Lyons; Licen ses Councilmen Simpson, Cameron and I.vons; Printing and Supplies Councilmen Blount, Simpson and Johnson. Councilman Lyons Mated that ow ing to the amount of time required to serve on the streets and public prop erty committee he would be in favor of compensation for the members of that committee. Mayor Gilbert in a short address to the new council told oi the work that had been accomplish- WESTERN STAR GRANGE IS OPPOSED TO APPROPRIATION Not in Favor of State Granting Funds for Construction of Interstate Bridge. The information given to the Democrat yesterday relative to a resolution recently passed by Western Star Grange No. 309 ap pears to have been erroneous and for the benefit of those who are interested we will say that the information was given to us by a member of one of Linn county's granges and that it was publish ed 'as handed in. The article in last evening's Democrat read to the effect, that Western Star Grange favored an appropriation by the state for the construction of an interstate bridge across the Columbia river at Vancouver., We are informed today by F. M. Mitchell that Western Star Grange recently passed a resolu tion opposing any appropriation by the state for this purpose, the members believing that the re sults to be obtained from such a project would not justify the ex penditure of money asked for from the state, and that the rep resentatives to the legislature from Linn county would be in- structed to oppose any appropri ation from the state for this pur pose. The Linn County Council which met at Bussard's hall in this city last Saturday went on record as approving the action taken by Western Star Grange in the interstate bridge matter, and the resolution passed by West ern Star Grange was adopted. THE COUNTY COURT .LEFT- TODAY FOR CAPITAL CITY Joint Accounts Between Two Counties for Preceeding Year Will Be Settled. Leaving today for S;ilem the mem bers of the county court of Linn coun ty will hold a session this morning with the commissioners ' of Marion county for the purpose of settling the joint accounts of the two counties for the year 1912. County Judge Dun can accomDanied the newly elected members of the court. He is familiar with all the business transactions be tween the two counties and will be of great assistance in sottling up the business tor the preceding year. PASTOR, CRITICIZED, NOW A FLOORWALKER Censured for Advanced Ideas, He Resigns and Takes a Mercantile Job. Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 7. Mem bers of the congregation of the Hemp hill Presbyterian church are balloting on whether they will-accept the res:? nation of their pastor, Rev. J. P. Hicks, just now a floorwalker in the hosiery department of a big depart ment store. t The polls close the second Sunday in January and the preacher is hoping they accept his resignation, for a taste of floorwalking has spoiled him for the pulpit. Hicks' advanced ideas of theology invited criticism among his flock and, without apologizing, he resigned. Too many of the church members, how ever, sympathized with him and the ballot was taken as the best means of determining his relative popularity. The preacher and W. G. Burton, de partment store head, are close friends. Burton a few days ago commented on the lack of help during the Christ mas rush. "Hire me," Hicks said. 'If they ac cept my resignation, I'll need money to meet old obligations." . . "You're on," the merchant said, and Hicks went to work. ' The floorwalker went home tired the first night of his new workSatur day night, and the next morning he preached a sermon on "Why I Resign ed, or Cogs in the Wheels of Prog ress.'" Hicks is a deep student, and until he took his new job, never knew any thing familiarly but theology. Some of the more staid members of his congregation regard his latest venture as the most daring and unconventional thing he ever attempted, but it is not' his first dep?rtnre from convention. . CITY NEWS. The Ladies' Aid Society of Albany will hold itS(annuaI meeting on Thurs day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. L. E. Blain, corner of Seventh and Broadalbin streets. All those interested in charitable work are invited to attend- Mrs. A. H. Martin, Secy. There will be a meeting of the Al bany Retail Merchants' Association at the Commercial Club tomorrow even ' -g at 8 o'clock. Every merchant in ed in the past year and said that he hoped the coming year would be a larger and successful one, and that the work would be carried on in the same friendly spirit as in the past. ALBANY PEOPLE Eighteen Suggestions for the Name for Portland, Eugene & Eastern Railway. PROMINENT CITIZENS OF ALBANY SUBMIT NAMES $50 Gold Watch Is Prize Offer ed by Company for Best Name Suggested. Eighteen Albany people have thus far filed claims against that $50 in gold which the Portland, Eugene & Eastern Railway Company is offering for the best nickname for the new road which will be running" its big steel passenger coaches through the streets of this city by this date next year at the lattest. Each of them has received a nicely worded letter ac knowledging the filing of the entry in the nickname contest and a few lines briefly outlining the purposes of the company. Electrical interurban railroad devel opment in the United States is the product of the last 10 years. During that ;;me the cities and communities served by them have outstripped all. others in growth of population and business importance. It is this fact that the Portland, Eugene & Eastern is endeavoring to impress upon the people of the Willamette valley, that there may be co-operation in "letting the world know that the district is to have 340 miles of railroad that will make every and any point just "30 minutes from the farm," It was probabk that J. Basinski, 41$ West K-ifth street, had the notion that the P. E. & E. was destined to raise ne mischief with the immigration towards the West when he suggested "The Buster Brown Route" to the committee. The Royal Route to wealth, as suggested by him, -might p!o'c true for those settler? who will be induced to come here, after the roau is constructed. Glenn Ohling, a country lad, sub mitted 12' nicknames beginning with "Sunbeam Route" and passing along through the changes of an Oregon diiy o "Sun Pog." J. E. Torbct made a bid for the money with "United Electric'1 and a design lor an announcing board, carry ing t list of names for tnrivi. Among; them were Albany Hummer, Varsity Spivia!, Queen Valley Lim.ted. and a slip nt Salein with "Capital Accom modation." Walter K. Dresser, of Presoyterian Co'h.'ge, thinks it ought to ')e "Stray Horn,' while Mrs. T. E. MarMi. K J. D. 1, looked over the map oi" Mraifcht tracks and concluded that Oregon speeder would, do. Mrs V. S. Smithy, Twelfth and H;'il streets, sttbm'tted "Threo-In-One It .ute." Sarah Pearson Adams is one of a larcc number to select "Peerless" as y u;table nickname. R. A. Newport, manager for the Newport Jersey Cattle rarm, 1; strong for "Pacific Arrow" route, while Barney Glenn stands for "Pa cific Alsca." J. C. Way, 620 West Fourth street, is an opponent of the use of the name "Webfoot" in connection with Ore gon and has written a strong letter asking that the road be named the China Pheasant Koutc, using pic tures of the bird in advertising. J. A. Croft wants "Valley View' adoDted because the new electric sys tem will reach all portions of the real agricultural portions of the valley, in stead of following the river winnings T. M. Gallagher, 1539 East Second St. is of the oninion that "Pee Wee Pike' would about express the idea, and Cecil Croft wants it "St. Mary's Road," after the well known peak of that name. Viola Price Franklin exercised con siderable ingenuity in evolmg Or- apavalc Route" out of Oregon's apple vale, while Miss Emma R. Bruckman thinks "Paradise of America" would be a suitable recognition of the Wil lamette Valley. A. L Hodges wants it "Pacific Elec trie," while Dan Johnston joins the Peer crowd. nee Line hJcctnc would suit E. H. Rhodes, "The Yel low Fir" is satisfactory to J. V. Pipe Mr. Pine believes that the P. E & E will eventually reach the big fir for ests now standing. Albany is expected to be present and all citizens interested in the coming convention are invited to attend. The report of Chief of Police Aus tin for the month of December, 1912. which was read at the council meeting last night, was as follows: Drunk 9, violating plumbing ordinance 1, ho- A fire which started from the stove at the skating rink yesterday after noon threatened for several minutes to assume large proportions and de stroy the place. However, the blaze was quenched before any serious dam age was done. ?Irs. Emma Crosno', the popular singer at the Empire theatre in this city, left yesterday afternoon for Cor vallis where the has accepted a two weeks' engagement; She will sing at the Crystal theatre in that city. SHEDDS FARMER HAS TAKEN DEOCTAT NEARLY 40 YEARS! W..Post Residing in Southern Part of County Renewed His Subscription Yesterday. W. Post, a prosperous farmer resid ing on the Oregon Electric, five miles southwest of Shedds, was in the city yesterday and renewed his subscrip tion to the Democrat, He states that he has taken the Democrat nearly 40 years and couldn't do without it. Mr. Post was raised in the vicinity of his present home and with the ex ception of eight years which he spent in eastern Oregon has lived in Linn county since 1872. He was married in 1876 and on the 13th day of this mouth will be 69 years of age. Mr. Post says he is enjoying excel lent health and from all appearances he is, for he appers to be of ususually fine physique for a man of his ad vanced age. Owing to the fact that a large num ber of the members of the hoard of directors of the Albany Conwnercial club attended the lecture delivered by Htshop uell at the U. 1. church, no meeting of the Commercial club was held last evening. It is possible that ,m effort will be made to hold a meet ing tonight. An event of more than usual inter est to the members of the First Prcs- byterirn church will be a social and chicken pie dinner which will be held in the basement of the new church building on Wednesday night. This II be the tirst event ot its kind to be held in the fine new building. PYRAMID OF GIZEH NO LONGER ENIGMATIC. Unexpected Conclueione. The very stones of the tireitt Pyramid of Glzeb are crying out In no uncer tain tones. Every lncb of the massive structure, with unerring precision, re veals the solutions to problems which for centuries civilized nations have spent fubulous sums in vttln to And and which men of science have encoun tered hardships to analyze. This wonderful testimony of the Great Stone Witness, with its general description and storehouse of Truth, scientific, historic and prophetic, with Bible allusions to it. the importance of its location and verifications of ns tronomical and geographical deduc tions, is an extensive chapter of a vol ume which may be obtained by send ing 85 cents to the' Watch Tower So ciety, 17 Hicks Street, Brooklyn. 12 " FRUIT INSPECTOR GIVES ADVICE TO THE FARMERS D. W. Rumbaugh Urges Linn County People to Prune and Clean up Fruit Trees. Editor of Democrat: The first of last year I called the attention of the people of Linn county to the fact that the month of January was about the best time for the prun ing and cleaning up of the fruit trees and orchards, and advised them to be gin operations at once. Many of them followed the advice, and with splendid results, but many did nothing at all. Now I want to urge these people once more to grub out and burn all unde sirable trees, and to prune and clean up the others ready for spraying at a later date, and if the work is not done this time I shall then have to resort to sterner measures. When the time comes to spray for scale, moss, etc., which depends somewhat upon the season, but will probably be some time in February or March, I will. send out the latest formula for the preparation of the spraying material. D. W. RUMBAUGH, Fruit Inspector. WANTED: GOATS TO GET THE MOSQUITOES To Drive Away Malaria, Uncle Sam Advertises for Billies and Nannies. Washington, Jan. 3. The war de partment has posted this advertise ment: "Wanted, by early spring, twenty goats, Billies and Nannies, at Fort Washington. Goats must be healthy and strong." Fort Washington, not far from Washington, is the happy breeding and hunting grounds or the malaria bearing mospito. If requires mui:h quinine to keep the soldiers fit. It is believed that a herd ot goats would bring about better conditions eat up the grass and shrubs that harbor the mosquito. Besides there is the antip athy the little insect has for pungent odors. Leaders of the movement say that livery stable men kepe goats to drive away fleas. The war department docs not want any fancy goats, but the old, tin-can-rating varieiy. A bmich of pedigreed Angora goats died from poison ivy eaten near Fort Washington last year. The war department doesn't want that kind. VISIT IN THIS CITY Councilman Allen, Fire Chief Keating and City Attorney Goss in Party. ATTENDED MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL LAST NIGHT Invited by Mayor Gilbert to Address Council and Gave Interesting Talk. Frank E. Allen, a former Albany councilman and groceryman, now of Marshficld, accompanied by John D Goss, city attorney, and Dan B. Keat ing, fire chief of that city, visited the city council last evening. , They are visiting the various towns and cities' of the Willamette Valley, inspecting fire apparatus, with a view of purchasing an auto' fire engine for their cityt Mr. Allen who is now a member of the city council in Marslificld and an old friend of Mayor Gilbert, was in vited by the chief executive of the city to make a few remarks during the council meeting last evening. Mr. Allen said: , "I am indeed glad to be back here again for a short stay and to see a few familiar faces here, especially Mayor Gilbert's. He certainly makes a dignified appearance in the chair. I am glad to note the prosperity here and the many wonderful changes that have been made here since I left Al bany a few years ago. Your new buildings and paved streets arc a credit to the-city. . t . "We have our troubles in Marsh field just the same as you do in Al bany toward getting improvements, but we manage to get them by hard work. I am glad to have had the privilege of addressing you and for becoming acquainted with you. City Attorney Goss of Marshficld was called upon and said that he was glad to note the many improvements that had been made in Albany during the past few years. He said that when he visited Albany a few years ago he wasn't favorably impressed with the place but had now changed his views. He told of the time when he first went to Marshficld, of the great activ ity on constructing a railroad to Coos Bay from Drain, and that at that time people predicted Marshficld would become a city of 25,000 within a few years. "However," said Mr. Goss, "all ac tivity suddenly ceased and we are still waiting for the railroad, which we hope to sec completed to Marshfield some day." Mr. Keating was also called upon for a few remarks but declined to speak. Appropriate remarks Avcrc made by Councilineii-elect Johnson and Blount of this city and the council adjourned. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT. Notice is hereby given tint the un dersigncd administrator of the estate of W. A. Anderson, deceased, has filed in the County Court of Linn County, Oregon, his final account as .such ad ministrator and that said court has fixed Monday, the 10th day of Febru ary, 1913, at the hour of one o'clock in the afternoon, as the time for the hearing of objections to said final ac count and the settlement thereof. J. C. ANDERSON, HEWITT & SOX, t Administrator. Attorneys for Administrator. J10F7 gipeIiSoor The best help for changing the litter misery brought on by la grippe into me satisiaction and reliel ot prompt recovery is, wc believe, Rexall Grippe Pills. 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