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Aurora AURORA Published E very Thursday VOL. AURORA. MARION COUNTY, X III. Impressive Statue of Lincoln V Frederick William Schrader Is Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Kreis enter tained with a dinner for a number of friends at their home last Friday even ing. Those enjoying the hospitality ot Mr. and Mrs. Kreis were Mr. and Mrs. E, G. Robinson, Mrs. Frances Green, and Edwin Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sadler and daughter Peggy, Mr. and Mrs. W. F, Prahl, the Misses Faye and Lucille Kreis. Aurora Woman’ s Club Laid to 0 Rest Frederick William Schrader, a na- tive o f Germany, but long a resident of this country, died at Gardena, Califor nia, February 7th. 1924 at the age of 90 years, having been born September 11, 1833. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. William Rogers, residing near Wilson- ville. Funeral services were held Wed nesday, February 13th, wtih interment at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, m] charge of Mr. S. A. Miller. The Aurora Woman’s Club met Feb- 'ruary 6th at’the-home of Mis. B j’ F. G:«3y, with Mrs. Grover Giesy and Mrs. B. F. Giesy, as hostesses. The old South and its literature were discussed with talks and readings by Mrs, Ben Stoner. Mrs, E. G. Robinson, Mrs. Diana Snyder, and Mrs. Clara Atkinson. Vocal solos by Mrs. Robinson were much enjoyed. Delicious refreshments were served. The next meeting will be on February 20th with Mrs. Blossef. Prayer Meeting Prayermeeting and Bible Reading, Thursday, 8:00 p, m., at L. L. Grib- ble’ s. Everyono cordially invited. Rev. F. E. Crook Y S Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y I I I Accumulating money consistently from one year’s end to the other always benefits the community in which you live— but it bene fits you first. It keeps you prepared for many undertak ings— it will pay the cost of a home, an automobile, a vacation or an investment. We welcome accounts, large or small, and aim to serve you persistently with every banking need. Y t 9 f Y Y Y Y Y Y f 1 f Y Y Y Y Y Y 1 Y Y Y Y ©fjr Jfftrnt National lan k OF A U R O R A t V V V V Y 9 Y Y f Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y T Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Claim Woodburn High Spirit Faking Case The following telegram has been re C. E. Spence, State Market Agent, will apeak on this subject in the Butte ceived at Community Club headquart ville Grange Hall next Saturday, Feb ers. and is self-explanatory: New York City, Feb. 8, 1924. ruary 16th, at 1:30 p. m. A complete Aurora Community Club, plan for reorganization has been drawn up and will be discussed on this occa Aurora, Oregon. Replying wire sixth.- A fter careful sion. The movement is to be initiated by the People’s Power League o f Ore ly considering all conditions in your ter gon. The following is the form in ritory, especially closeness to city mar which the proposed Amendment will be kets and in view o f present general printed on the official ballot: Consti market conditions we cannot see our tutional Amendment Proposed by Ini way clear to give further consideration to establishing ourselves in your terri tiative Petition. tory at this time. C. E. Spence, President. The Borden Company. O. R. Hart, Vice-President. W. E. Kinsey, Treasurer. W. S. U ’ Ren, Secretary. Purpose: To organize state govern- Old Resident K illed ment vesting chief control in iegisia- in A u to Accident ture o f only one house, elected in pro portion to registered voters’ occupa George Pendleton, who has resided tions without political designation; rep resentatives’ terms four years, salar on a farm near Broadacres nearly all ies $500.00 annually; representatives to his life, was killed last Friday when a elect goveror from their own members truck in which he was riding was with power to recall him; district at struck by a southbound Oregon Elec torneys, sheriffs and other peace offi tric train at a crossing north of the The automobile cers subject to goveror’ s orders for Broadacres station. law enforcement; any representative was thrown to the side °of the tracks, authorized to question state officers in caught fire and was burned. Mr. Pen legislature during session; representa dleton is survived by his widow and tives elected by first, second and other three children. Funeral services were held at Hub- choices by proportional representation one third of single tranferable vote;! bard Monday by the Masonic lodge, board created to make laws governing ¡ there being a very large attendance, including many from Aurora. first election o f representatives. Mr. and Mrs. Kreis Entertain NO. 7 Local Boy Witness in Down Project for A urora Organization Proposed $1.50 a Year OREGON, FEBRUARY 14, 1924 Condensery People Turn State Government R e- Observer 1 I This splendid bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln stands In front of the Court House In Newark, N. J., and is regarded as one of best in the coun try, although many cities have wonderful Lincoln memorials. i nave is my conscience, following. Ood in it. and these men will have to learn that yet.” At another time Lincoln was visited by a congressional committee headed by Thad Stevens, who burst In on Lin- Great Liberator Could Bare ‘coin with the accusation: Teeth and Fight When “The way you are running this coun try Is, causing it to be approaching hell, Necessary and;..very fast.’. ... . ivsXLiColn a'sk^u: • “About how far from By PROF. B. J. CIGRAND, in Chicago! that place araywe now?” Evening American. Stevens sharply replied: “I would There Is a tendency In recent writ- j -ay about a mile.” ings to picture Lincoln so mild and j Lincoln smiled and replied: ‘ About meek that his red-bloodedness and hiss a mile—why that’s about from here to emphatic methods of rebuke are lost | the capitol.” And everyone save and the real value of the giant among i Stevens roared. men is destroyed. Stepped Out of Beaten Path. Several recent biographies and many] Seward, who had for years toiled to orations and magazine articles of late! subordinate Lincoln, finally wrote to years have given the Impression that j his wife: “Executive skill and vigor Lincoln was not master of his cabinet.! It is said he often laughed and told j are rare qualities. The President Is stories when his serious opinion w as; the best of us.” On July 30, 1863, Lincoln Issued a needed. public letter, designed especially for If any president endured intrigue at- the soldiers and sympathizers of the the cabinet board, Lincoln did. Not a ! single other man who ever sat in the i Confederacy: “It is the duty of every govern presidential chair would have per-1 ment to give protection to Its citi mitted the bold, personal campaignin' i zens and especially those who are of his personal associates. organized as soldiers in the public But Lincoln seemed to let these mec i service. It is, therefore, ordered go on, gradually disclosing not onlj that for every soldier of the United to himself but the public their selfish States killed in violation of the personal ambitions and then at the laws of war, a rebel soldier shall right time and in an inimitable way he be executed; and for every one en would grab the official by the coat slaved or sold, into slavery, a rebel collar and bring him back to the soldier shall be placed at hard straight and narrow path of Lincoln labor on the public works.” ideas. Promised Glory for All Officials, Lincoln’s manner of dealing with I look upon this order as the least men was entirely different from that epresentatlve sentence In Lincoln’s of any other president. He even “ ran after” General Me .ntire life story and doubtless it was Clellan and permitted offensive corre; nspired by the usages of war and- came spondence and no end of “ slights” to as a cabinet measure. Another message to his cabinet come to light. But Lincoln, like an indulgent father, could, when the shows how he guided them and con proper moment came, call a halt and stantly reminded them of broad patri- tism. It reads: take some of the officials “ in the wood “It will require the utmost skill, shed and dust their trousers.” influence and sagacity of all of us Ultimatum to Plotters. to save the republic. Let us for To show he was not intimidated, I get ourselves and join hands like give a copy o f a letter which he read brothers to save the republic. If at a cabinet meeting during the time we succeed there will be glory When Stanton, Chase and Seward were enough for all.” secretly condemning one another and And Stanton, who, In the early days suggesting removals so that they might all the better conduct their campaign of the Civil war, said, “Lincoln is a The to prevent Lincoln’s re-election and seat fool, a low, cunning clown. themselves. original gorilla Du Chaillu, the nat uralist, wandered all the way to Africa The letter reads: in search of when he might have found "I must be the judge how long to It in Springfield, 111.,” later said when retain in, and when to remove any Lincoln was assassinated: “Lincoln is of you from his position. It would the most perfect ruler of men the world greatly pain me to discover any of has ever seen.’’ you endeavoring to procure an other’s removal, or, In any way, to prejudice him before the public. Such endeavor would be a wrong Great Suffering in Near East to m e; and much worse a wrong to the country. My wish Is that on this subject no remark be made, Dispatches received from Oregonians nor question asked by any of you, now in the Near East, confirm Associ here or elsewhere, now or here ated Press and other dispatches telling after.” of the great suffering among refugees, One day early In Lincoln’s adminis both in Turkey and Greece. Recently tration, Mrs. Lincoln said to him: “ It is common rumor about the cap four American Relief Workers died in ital that Seward and not you will be efforts to relieve this suffering. The the president—that he will rule you.” care of 54, ('00 children now in the or He replied: phanages make it impossible for the ‘.‘I may not rule myself, but certain Near East Relief to aid other thouands ly Seward shall not. The only ruler equally needy. Lincoln W a s Not So Mild and Meek School Districa Legal Mr, W. A. Giesy, os this city, came Blame McCord, o f Woodburn, attor- home from Portland, where he is em-|ney for the Woodburn Union high ployed, for the week end. Mr. Giesy school district, the validitv o f which has been subpoenaed as a witness in the has been attacked in quo warranto pro case o f W. W. Aber, charged with ceedings in circuit court, was in Salem fraud in connection with spirit faking. [ Monday and disputed contentions o f at- Aber is the pastor o f the Mystery J torney Winslow for the petitioners Church o f Bethesda in Portland, but that the recent case from Umatilla uses his residence a t870 Belmont street county governed *n regard to the union as the scene of his operations in the high school dtstrict in this county. spirit world. Here he has a bevy of McCord states that a demurrer will pretty maidens always in attendance be entered to the prayer o f the peti when the spirits come some two or tioners In the near future. three times a week. For the privilege He states that the supreme court in >f attending these seances and hearing the Umatilla county case, did not hold the spirits speak through a trumpet as Winslow avers it did, and he con one pays the moderate sum of four bits tends that the new Union high school while to see them in person and speak district formation was legally brought with them the price is an even dollar. about and will stand. Aber is now out on $250 bail to await trial at 10 o ’ clock tomorrow (Friday) New Industry for Woodbnrn a. m. at the municipal court room at Second and Oak Streets, The California Packing Company has decided to enter the field here, contract Canby Youth Meets Death in Fall for 200 acres of cucumbers and begin at once the erection o f a pickling {riant Verme Leach, aged lg years, son of in Woodburn. Mr. and Mrs. William Leach, o f Canby, Joseph Paus,- the representative ot was ; instantly killed at 7:30 o ’ clock the packing company, has been here Thursday evening when he fell and the past week and gave out the infor struck his head on the concrete curb in mation that the company has leased front o f the barber shop. ground for five years, with option o f Eye witnesses stated that several an additional five years, on which will young boys were scuffling out in the be erected at once a 36x150 pickling street and that young Leach attempted plant. The site was leased from the to part them in a friendly way, when Woodburn Fruit Growers' Cooperative he became subject to a fainting spell, Association, who holds an option on falling with his head against the curb. the Livesay tract on the old sawmill lo Dr. Dedman was summoned at once cation, west o f the juice plant. and after his examination it was found This means that from $50,000 to $75,- that the young man’ s neck was broken 000 will be placed in circulation in this . and that death was instantaneous. section next season. The company The body was removed to Miller’s would prefer to contract with about Undertaking Parlor, Aurora. 100 growers for two acres o f cucum- bers each, which will mean a few hun dred dollars to each. Mr. Paus thinks it not advisable for a grower to handle Tips for Taxpayers more than two acres so as to give the growing, and especially the gathering No. 7. o f cucumbers at the proper size, the needed attention. Next season the Losses arising from fires, storms, price o f cucumbers will be $10 over the shipwreck, or “ other casualty"—for price offered last season. example, a flood or frost—whether or The suggestion has been made that not connected with the taxpayer’s bus much o f the vacant ground in Wood iness, may be deducted from gross in burn. could be utilized for this purpose come in hid 1923 income-tax return. I f and even from back' yards quite an in home or automobile is destroyed by fire, the loss is deductible for the year in come could be realized. This plant will employ the service o f which it occurred. Loss of property by theft or burglary one or two men the year round and is an allowable deduction and need not from 10 to 25 during the season. It is be incurred in trade or business. A also understood that this company is a loss for embezzlement is also deduc buyer o f small pickling onions, cab bage, pumpkins and beans. A rumor tible. All losses are deductible only to the is afloat that there will be a large extent by which they are not compen ware house constructed on the same site for other purposes.—Woodburn sated for by insurance or otherwise. Independent. OUR 6 L A S 5 E S « An th a t Afitbot Science. Aitistry- c&ttfiiye ^ —■ c/tn/um MoRRté Û P T id A L Co. 30Í-Z-34 Otedon Bldo~* SitemOt Dr.ltEMorris DrAJf&flodi. Basket Social A program and basket social will be given at the White School, February 23, 1924, under thé auspices o f the local P.-A. A. All invited to come and shrae in our usual good times. “ Emergency Arises ” YOUR BANK ACCOUNT MEETS IT —will yours —in the spirit of co-operation.