THE AURORA BOREALIS
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DIXON & HOSKINSON, PROPRIETORS
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Aurora, Or., Thursday, Oct I 1908
ROAD EXPERIMENT.
Dil Containing Asphalt to C Ustt
With Sand at Cap Cod.
The Massachusetts' highway com nils
felon U to conduct an Interesting ex
periment In road building on Cap
Cod, where there Is too stone to ppeok
of. A hear? grade of Texas crude oil
containing a largo percentage of as
phalt will bo used tilth the sand. The
sand road will first L4 shaped with i
road machine, and heated oil will be
spread over tho surface. A second lot
of oil will be sprinkled on when the
first coat bns been on for two weeks. ,
The surface will then be cut tip with
a dlxk harrow so lis to tnlz the sand
and oil to a depth of four Inches. Aft
er thin has been done tho road, will be
rolled and the surface sprinkled with
Jlilu layer of sand to absorb tho sur
faro oil. A llttlo work of this sort was
'done under tho Llghwny commission's
supcrvlirlon about two years ago,
which has resnlted satisfactorily.
Importance of Good Roads.
. Tho Oaffuey (S. C.) Ledger gives the
following fact and comment, which af
ford n practical argument on the, sub;
ject of highway Improvement In a
nutshell:
, Pome Cherokco county land sold the
other day at public outcry and brought
from $10 to $37.50 per acre. Thin land
was twelve tulles from tho county seat
lit that. If we had macadam roads'
this sumo land would havo brought
$:0 to $100 per acre, tlalf a million
dollars spent In building good road
Ju Cherokeo would mean an Increase
of n million dollars In tho Valuo of our
arm lands alone. Will people never
awako to their own Interests and be
gin doing something for themselves, or
otvlll they cohtlnuo to abide In the
mud?
Good Roads Mavomont Proflr.illng.
, rostofflce department officials are
enthusiastic over tho movement In
(some of the larger states of tho Union
for the Improvement of the highways,
nd It Is claimed that the liberal ap
propriations for tho rural free delivery
Kcrvice have stimulated this move
mcnt. From Information leliig to
telvcd at the department, It Is believed
y tho officials that highway Improve
Incut will tie stimulated In all the more
thickly settled Ktatos as rapidly .as the
Jural delivery ts cjteuded, and one of
he conditions for establishing a fiew
irouto Is that tho roads must bo lu good
(condition. It U claimed also that the
service Is enhauclng greatly tho value
of farm property.
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Will Lay Three Gradss of Qravol Roads.
In order to get tho greatest possible
ibeneflts at tho least posHlblo espouse
travel roads In Grand Itaptds, Mich.,
will hereafter bo divided into thw
Vlasses-thoHo designed to carry the
heaviest traffic for which travel roads
arc considered as suitable, those of
'medium traffic and tho little used roads
f tho outlying districts. lr these
etreets three grades of gravel will b
'used, varying in the percentage of
tone which they carry and tho care
wim wuicii the material 1.1 screened.
Mow OH Savsd tho Rock Road..
"I am busy day and night repairing
washouts lu tho rock roads because of
.tho heavy rains," Oscar Koehler, couu
ty surveyor, said the other mornluir at
Kansas City. "There Is no doubt in
iny mira that the oiling of the rock
road In a great economy. There has
not been n single washout lu the roads
that wero oiled. Tho oil serves to
pack the gravel so that It resists the
erosion of the flood waters.'
, OLD VILLAGE LOCKUP.
Quaint Structures For Confinement f
Rogues and Vagabonds.
t Peveral villages In the midlands pos
sess In more or has ruined state their
old parish lockups, commonly knon
, as roundhouses.
rtreedon, n Leleeslershlro village,
close to the South IkTbyshlro border,
possessea Its hn kup," a junlut Hone
building eighteen feet high and fight
.feet klx Inches diameter Insldo. The
walls are fifteen Inches thick. The
dm.r ts of stout cmk, studded with
uuiiv l.ircu Iron nail.
The lock U ery strong, and tho key
hole Is covered with an Iron plate,
vhlc'i It.n-lf has to bo unlocked by a
, spanner before tin? door key can K
Inserted. Ventilation U afforded by
mall holes punched In an Iron plate,
six Inches by seven, fixed In the cen
ter of tl) '.oor. There Is no window.
At Worihlngton, the next vlf.ige to
Hrredon, tho old lockup is a seven
ktJed brick building, badly la need of
restoration, an opprtuaity for archae
ologists which It Is hoped will not be
xnlss.Hl. I'.otU at Itrefvlon and Worth
Ington these dimlnu'.lrs misused prls
ons are in the roadsldo adjacent to the
pound, or pinfold, so that the constable
had conveniently side by side the
trayed cattle an 1 any human rogues
or vsgalonds ho Lad charge of. There
sro fchi'Mar old lockups at FuUsby and
fcTlcknall, two villages close to Lvlces
tershlre. Sheffield (Cngland) Te'.e-1
frupu.
PENNY POSTAGE
Made Possible by Recent Robust,
Constructive Republican
policy,
Convention Sstweea Amrt and
England in Effect Oct 1 Its
Blessings to Foreign
Bora Cltlaona.
ORDER NO. mi.
Tlie Postal Administration of Great
Britain having concurred therein)
It Is hereby ordered, That, comiueno
Ing on the 1st duy of October, 1908,
the K)stage rate applicable to letters
mailed In United Btatee, addressed for
delivery at any place In the Uulted
Kingdom of Or eat llrltaln and Ireland,
shall be two (2) cents an ounce or frac
tion of dn ounce.
Letters unpaid or short paid shall be
dljntrhed to destination, but double
the deficient postage, calculated at said
rate, Khali be collectible of the ad
dreNmrs upon the delivery of the un
paid or short paid letters,
0. V; fc: MRYDli;
Postmaster Cenerat
Tehlnd this simple statement Is a
Taut amount of ltepubllcan construc
tive leKlsIatlon which resulted In the
significant accomplishment act forth
by the Postmaster General. It Is elo
quently prophetic of a world wide pen
ny postage, for which the credit will be
due to a ltepubllcau administration.
Slilh t alrrraal Postal CoigrMi.
The Sixth Universal Postal Congress
convened In the city of Rome, Italy,
Aprll 7 and continued until May 2d,
11 Ml. Sixty-five countries, Including the
United States, were represented. The
assembly was for the purpose of dis
cussing the postal systems of all nations
and, If possible, agreeing upon measures
for the Improvement In all practical
ways, of tho regulations governing In
ternational Intercourse through the
malls. The first congress of this kind
met In lleme, Switzerland, In 1874.
The United States Tostoinee Depart
ment was represented In this World
Postal Congresa by two delegates the
Superintendent of Division of Foreign
(Malls, as In previous postal congresses,
and the Hon. Edward Kosewater of the
Omaha Ilee, who had also served In the
preceding postal congress.
Mov. tt L'nlval Franf Vestas;.
At this Universal t'ostal Congrctui
representatives of the Uhlted States
proposed a universal two-qent postage
to all nations. The Ilou.r J. .Ilennlker
Lleaton, M. r.,iwho Is the father of the
two-cent idea in England speaking of
America's action at the ,Rome conven
tion, In standing out ,fr a universal
two-cent postal rate, sald .t , -
."The Iirltlsh members stood coldly
by. They did not recognize, that this
was a great historic occasion, a worthy
parallel of that solemn scene on Jul
4, 1770, when the Declaration of Independence-was
adopted; for If the
Americans are willing to adopt a penny
postage to all parts of the world, it fol
lows that they are willing to establish
It to the Iirltlsh Empire and form with
us a 'Hestrlctlve Tostal Union.' M
The Hon. Whltelaw Held, America's
republican, minister to the Court of St.
James, praised the work of the Ameri
can delegation and solicited the friendly
co-operation of the Iirltlsh government
at a Fourth of July banquet speech in
London lu 11)00. Mr. Held said:
"The American people hoped for
closer .and - cheaper" communications
with all other nations as the best means
f promoting better acquaintance and
peri'ctuatlng friendship. They were
gratified to And that the ItrlUsh apostle
of penny .postage (Mr. Heaton) at this
moment focusing his efforts on what
oupht to I the easy tllsk of persuad
ing the authorities on both sldwi of the
Atlantic, that It was as cheap to carry
a letter from London to New York as
from London to Calcutta I or from New
York to Manilaand quite as useful."
American Itepablleaaa t.ra taa War
f o It has come to pass that the Unit
ed States, under Its ltepubllcan admin
istration, has finally succeeded In en
tering Into a convention with Great
llrltaln whereby after the lit of Octo
ber this year, a two cent postago rate
will obtain 'U'twecU this country and
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
We already have such an arrangement
with Canada. Mexico, Cula. Panama
and our colonial nMUtn. This great
accomplishment Is universally recog
tilicd as the prcper beginning which la
to remit In a uulversnl two-ecu t postage
rate around the world.
Isaaaitaat Talaa AeoaalUti4.
Two ether Important thing that the
Republican administration accomplish
ed at the Rome Universal Postal Con
gress through Its reprrsei.tatlves, must
hot be lost a!ht t. One was the adop
tion of a universal return eoupoa
stamp, in exchange for which, upon Its
presentation at a postofflce In another
country, the person presenting it shall
receive a postage stamp of the value of
8 rents. god In any country cf the
woild, thus enabling peopU here to
prepay postage at regular rates upon
reply letters.
The other ttgnlaBt concession was
tktt In all World Postal Congreifs to
be bel l In the future, the Ultel State
Is to be iruteft in aMUta lit, U
flew of Its Island possessions; so that
it all future congresses our country
will be entitled V two votes, as ag&lnst
one voto each cast by every other na
tion In the world.
rradlral HeatHs ta Taopl.
No doubt the Democrats may lniuIro
as to what all this has to do with the
welfare of American citizens. For
their enlightenment and Information It
may bo stated that, according to the
United States census of 1D00, the for
eign born population in the United
States at that time was 10,4'S0,0S5. The
population, born of foreign parentage
(one or both parents having been born
in foreign conn tries) was 20,108,039,
or a total foreign population of 3G,
C50.021. The report of the Immlgra
tlon Commissioner by year since then
shows that ti.COo.Ol have sli.ee com
to America, thus eking out the total
foreign ixipulutlon at the present time
to 4tJ,327,flKO. This does not take any
note of Increase slnco 1000 In Ameri
can-born children, one or both of whose
pu rents are of foreign blood, estimat
ing that only one-half of tills number
21.OmI.KIO write one letter to foreign
countries every two weeks, or 20 weeks
each year, we have 120,933,040 letters
written annually, which, at the present
rate of 8 cents postage each, amounts
to an expenditure of $(1,400,152 annu
ally. Under the" present postal law
foreign correspondents may send let
ters ti the United States "collect," but
When they reurl, their destination the
recipient must pay douMe i8tage. Fig
uring the double postage on the same
basis, tho foreign population of the
United States pays during each year,
for poatagt under the present system,
f JO,4.)7,i:.l.
Under the new and cheaper postal
charges udvix-ated by the Republican
party, should the 2-ceut rate become
universal, tho foreign population in
the United States, to their direct cor
riFpoiidcnts, would only pay $3,219,376
annually for direct postage and $9,743,-
i2M, for letters sent to them from for
eign countries "collect." In other
words, this Republican measure will
Save the highly esteemed adopted citi
zens of our country, and those born
here of foreign parentage $rA!KS.2.4
annually, In the invessary correspond
ence with their loved ones abroad. Hut
perhaps the Democrats do not think
this Is worth while.
Iowa Ularlnif laeonslstaarlra.
At present tin American can send a
letter G,0u miles by land say from
Mexico to Alaska for 2 cents, but
must pay 5 cents for 1 letter bf half
the weight Kent 3,100 miles to England.
Au Englishman pays S cents on a let1
ter crossing the Atlantic, 8,100 miles,
and 2 cents on one crossing the Indian
and South Pacific Oceans, 1(5,000 nles,
to New Zenlatnb All this is to bo rem
edled on October the first next, thank
to an enlightened Republican adminis
tration. .
World Is Head? for Ilrdactloa.
It will probably be but a short time
yftcj the convention between this coun.
try and England goes Into effect, untjj
(tho drea;n of a universal 2 cent lojtef
postage, championed by the Republican
party, wjll bo realized. Australia, New
Zealand and Egypt hare already called
for the 2-ceut rate. The Emperor oi
Germany Las said that If England es
tablishes a 2 -cent postage rate with
the Uulted States, he will have Ger
many do the same. France, Italy,
South Africa; Japan, Belgium, Hol
land, Denmark and .Sweden would need
little more than an Invitation to fol
low suit.
A 2 cent postal rate would bind all
the South American republics and the
Unit til States k. Ill more Closet y togeth
er into li peaceful, reciprocal, progres
sive, civilization, which would mean a
more rapid development of both Ameri
can continents and a hew application
of tho Mouroe . doctrine. With these
countries agreed, on the object desired,
the continent of Kurope alone would
then be wholly , outside .this .compre
hensive obtal union, and then the
continental powers would not long
stand aloof from')t. ' r I ,
It has remained, for the 'United
States td take the Initiative In a move
to reap the great glory of being1 the
tloiicers of A world wide J.cent post
b;;.. Mlll'tnr' ef our .citizen will feel
alnioKt ns gr.-.teful fof this bcnellccnt
n. t us nillli 'il.K of slave did, when the
Republican party ' b"ofco thp ' shack W
thai bound trom to penmtual piijslcul
rervlccs. . . . - .
BRYAN'S POLICIES DESTRUCTIVE.
Mr. Taft Compares Republican and
Democratic Platforms.
(From Mr. Taft's Speech of Accep
tance.) The chief difference between the Re
publican aint the IVmocratlo platforms
Is the difference whb'h hat heretofore
been sen between the policies of Mr.
Roosevelt and those vthhh have Jeeu
advocated b.t the Democratic csudldate,
Mr. Rryan. Mr. Roosevelt's policies
have been progressive and regulative;
Mr. Rryan't destructive. Mr. Roose
velt has favored regulation of the busi
ness lu which evils have grown up so
as to stamp out the evils and permit
the bulnc4 to continue. The tendency
bf Mr. Rrjfi's proposals has generally
ben destructive of ttie business with re
spect to which he Is demaL ttr.g reform.
Mr. Roosevelt would compel the trusts
to cvuliirt their butluett in a lawful
hiauner and secure the beneCts of their
operation and the maintenance of the
prcierlty of the country of which they
are an Important pirt; while Mr.
Rryau would extirpate and destroy the
entire business In erdcr to stamp ot
the evils which they have practice!
Aurora Drug Store
Complet Stock of Fresh Drugs
Prescriptions A Specially
DR. M. GIESY, PROPRIETOR
FARM WANTED
We have a client for a 40 acre
farm, convenient to market
Must be well improved and not
exceedinsr $3500 in price. Own
ers wishing to sell should notify
us at once,
We also have a client for an
80 acre improved farm, prefer
ably in the Macksburg district.
Owners confer with us.
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MAUKS PRAIRrE
Indian summer is here at last.
The heavy frost of last week
did a lot pf damage here, the
corn crop is a total loss, and our
silo bins will be empty this win
ter.
Jack Kerr will move to the
place he has rented one mile east
of Wocdburn this week.
After a long fought battlo the
Oglesby Road is open for travel.
One part of the county is in favor
of progress if some of the old
mossbacks are not.
Geo. Oglesby was very sick a
couple of dcys last week but is
about allright at present.
Our supervisor has been haul
the "cow guano" out of the new
road for sevesal days'
i Almost all of our people wiil
attend the County Fair this week
at Caitby,
Percy Ritter is getting some
better and h on the road to re
covery, i . .
Jim Gribble killed a fine deer
on our prairie one day last week,
it was in Sam Cribble's pasture.
Geo. Oglesby and sons were
callers at Pen Wolfers Sunday.
Miss Viola Gribble will teach
the school at V hiskey Hill this
winter.
The hunting season is about
here. There are very few birds
on our prairie and there will be
ery poor hunting here.
Several parties of this vicinity
are over to the coast after salmon
for the winter.
Our priirie can beat the band
for "family goe3" as we have
heard of three so far this week.
Mm
A. H. GIESY & CO
Dealers la
General Merchandise, Dry Goods, Clothing
Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Flour and Feed
Hardware, Tinware, Furniture, Etc., Etc., at
Correct Prices
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Established 1898.
Aurora - . Oregon
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of the bar, but behind the bar.
Durrenberger& Fishe, Props.
Their long experiene in the business has taught them that it on
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Wines, Liquor, and Cigars
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Prices Very Reasonable. Strfctly Home febklng-. The
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aOregon
Builders
Are you doing what you can to populate your state?
Oregon Needs People-Settlers, honest farmers, mechanics',
merchants, clerks, people with brains, strong hands and a will
ing heart capital or no capital.
Southern Pacific o-Lin es irk Oregon
are sending tons of Oregon literature to the East for distribution
through every available agency. Will you not help the good work
of building Oregon b "rending U3 the names and addresses of your
friends w"ho are likel to be interested in this state. We will be
glad to bear the expense of sending them complete information about
OREGON and its opportunities. COLONIST TICKETS will be on
sale during the tnonths of September and October from the East to
all points in Oregon. The fares from a few principal cities are
From Denver .....$C0f00
" Omaha.......... $30.00
" Kansas City $30.00
" st. Louis $35.00
" Chicago $38.00
If you want to bring a friend or relative to Oregon, deposit the
proper amount with any of our agents. The ticket will then be
furnished by telegraph.
Geo. Miller. Agtat Aurora;
Wm. McMurray, G.
O. Rv
fj Furniture, Rugs, Glass
ujl anc Chinaware,
jxi Lace Curtains, Picture
' I 1 1' . Frames,, Etc.
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