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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1908)
SC|<). (»KEGOX. Al'Gl'ST 11. l'.HJS. loi n t v COl Wl. The application for increased run- pensetion of judc-s and clerk« of elec tion of West Alfiany precinct, wa.- <!■»• missed. Warehouse license granted Alex Power, with |25ut> tmnd. A »arrant Tor f ■ J. in favor uf I h< • „t.-r M . .-r« lit -I <-t. ’ .... • w •« ■ . reissued. ACCOl NT POOR. F'oshay A Mason I R. J. Moses * Son St Mary’s Hospital, Sarah Hines I no ... St. Mary's Hospital, John Smith 10 days ...................................... .. Adams & Ia-mke..................... 7 25 8 <J0 30 00 21 50 9 00 ROADS AND HIGHWAY?«. Jas Church 129 W Beall A Co.................................. 7 50 < 'urtis I.utnl-er Ce Thonqieon Cramer ........ 44 9n Z. T. Mountjoy ... 8 79 Sawyer Pros ................................ 5 75 <'has Troutman . .......................... 4 00 I’. Rundt ........................................ 10 00 F. K. Churchill 23 DO G ‘O. Westerhouse .3 50 Penton Lumber C 40 48 1 ' I ' ■ ■ i I w w aoa I' Hollinger Bros 22 50 Hitler Gill Co .. 34 00 Bridge gang fur July................ 493 45 T. J. Butler . 35 06 Mrs. Rue Hoflich .............. 40 00 Lebanon Lumlier Co.................... 82 53 and h • son A. C. to luncheon at the Commercial club to-day and showed them through the wonderful t ew t idd ing. The pioneer was surprised sni d< lighted with some of the vr.odern im provement* and facilities. He has never had a res r on h>« f He aid hie whiskers wire | t there by nature, and he thought a lot uf them. He ha* always advised hia sons never to shave. "I crossed the plains w her. I v ns a |6-year-ol«l boy, in 18 .’, and drove a team and some loose cows,” Mr. Gaine« said. "We went to Linn cuuntv. I have lived since Ih58un the plan where I now stop. I am 72 years ol I My wife has lived out there since 1-47, but never had I een to Portland until I brought her down yesterday. 1 told her we would just lav aside every thing and go away and have a good time. I used to drive to Purtland before the railroad was built.” Mr. Games bel.ev.i in building stone culverts, and he is opjv-cd to wo«len bruiges. He has some decided ideas about budding public highways. It is said of him that he never passes along a road that he doe« not get off his horse or wagon and throw louse atones off of the highway. Mr. and .Mrs. Gu'i e« are the parents of 12 children, and have reared rune an<i given each one a farm of from Itki to iHO acres. They still have a bit of land left, their borne place being 5»X1 acres. Their living children are Alvis Gaine«, Yamhill county; Frank Gaine«, Albany; Herman A . Lee J , and Jerne W. Gaines, Linn county; Mrs. Eva Davenport, Mrs. Sarah Laver, Mrs It.a Buhite, Linn county. should come to bitter w ords alwut it, drop into personalities and each go off and call for helo. It is always in the power of one wo man to keep a difference of opinion from tiecunung a fight uf words. She can always state her side of the ease, listen, more or leas amiably, to a dif ferent opinion and then desist from anything further. There is no use trying to convince any one in a heated argument. This never worked out in political debate or in friendly conversation. If you would be happy in your own mind, you should make it a maxim for your guidance not to argue with whom you differ. Rrfuse to il«i it. Thia isn't weakness. This is strength. — Pittsburg Gazette. DON'T GIVI I P l<M> SOON. owners of new orchard* think of pull ing up their trees and planting apples. Such a course would he sheerest folly, for. pursuing the same policy, these same farmers would dig up their apple trees after the first year or two of low price«. Nothing but financial ruin can possibly result from such a course, especially when the trees planted can not t-e expected to produce a commerci al crop within ten ur a dozen yearn. Those who engage in either cherrygrow • Ing or applegrowing must not expect to receive every year the prices which prev ail< d If , t> <■ re.-oi ■■■<., They must count upon an occasional year of loss If they are not pre|>ared to sustain the loss and continue opera- lions until the year of large profits comes again, they should not undertake I to engage in an industry which requires a large initial investment and a heavy ; annual expense. There is no reason why any healthy fruit tree should lie dug up in Oregon. There is nu place where fruit grows to greater perfection or where yields are larger, or cro|* more certain than in Oregon. The in dustry is a safe one in w hich to engage, provided intelligence and preswtence are qualities |«*»c*sed by the grower. There la scarcely any industry in which there is room fur the man who gives up in duqiair at the first sign of adversity. —Oregonian. The man who engages in some useful occu|>atiun and follows it diligently for a period of many years is much more likely tu succeed than is one who changes from OM o Cttpal OS I as temporary conditions change to en courage or discourage him. We have seen this illustrated very frequently in the hofigrowing industry in Oregon Those growers who owned their yariis and cultivated as many aerrs of ho|« as they could properly care for year after year, made money at the occupation. But, while they were doing so, a much Idling Character by the I yes. larger number of farmers made a fail ure of hu|arruwing. Two or throe If are placid t«< <b-«e t „-ether, years of high price» have brought im CURRENT EXPENSSS the owner is jealous ami critical. mense profits to hopgrower». Hundreds Herald.............................................. 34 75 If ryes are lar apart, the osner bat a of farmers rushed blindly into this In Irwin Hodson Co .................... 9 65 fine meiiKny and broad inlrlligeiic». dustry, causing over-production and <’. G. Rawlings 12 W> I keep set eves show melancholy ami consequent low price«, which left the Home Tel. Co .......................... 11 55 uiondiueee. Differ, But Don't Argue. growers no profit at all, or |ierhapa a 1 A. P» h ’|- I Protruding eves slmw self-indulgence. heavy loss. Farmer« who thus took up W. J. Junes .................................... 20 U ida ope:>, round eves mark a nurd It is only Anglo-Saxons wl o feel that ho|igrowimr alm««t invariably made a J. W. Miller, postage .......... 25 00 that is not devehqed, is cred ii loin at d it is not necessary to fight n.vrely lie failure. The same experience has W. L. Jackson.............................. 50 35 cause they widely differ. This truth fallen to wuulgruwers, though the fail »erloui aliout »mall g-mip. The owners MICEl.LANEot'S. have no self-control. Geo. Stough ... 5 00 was stated by r. man of vast exjwricncc , ures have not beeu su noticeable I«- ’ II the rye n very oval, almost almond in countries of the world. cause it has l>een difficult tu get into Dr. Davis, acct insane .............. 5 00 ■hap«, with Um outward drtop tlui|>ed Attracted by P--arl Jewell M 80 If it is true in a political and moral aheepraising quickly. to a puiut, look out for a crafty and sense, why couldn ’ t it be a maxim to high prices for wool and mutton, men E. C. Huberts .............................. 74 26 t* studied by all of us? have engaged in sheep raising when a suotle nature. • H. Writer <«r .v eyes are th »r of intellect and s Much of the friction of life, much of large investment was repuirod. and 1). S. Smith ... .......................... 8 2f> well-balanced character. They show A. Y Smith .... 100 the bitterness and unjust criticism , when prices fell, ns they were almost tm»elfi«liiie«s and a strict sen»» of could lie avoided by keeping to th< certain to do, the s|>asinodic sheep men L. L. Swan................................... 3 2u M lieu they are pul lielow a went to the wall. At the same time, justice. John Catlin.................................... 4 20 truth of this statement. broad, high forehr id, they denote grvat Why argue with any one whe differs 1 men who raised sheep year after year J. P. Hops ...................................... 12 80 latent. from us? What good does it <!>■? What made money. Dr. Jos. Mvers ... 0 00 Brown eves, with a touch of haxel, Two years ago loganberries yiekled Indigent soldiers ... .................. 138 00 court of high appeal is there to prove show courage, iiitrlhgeme ami aff ction. that we are in the r.ght and that other* fabulous profits to the producer». Im G. B. Cummings ................ 00, When the liaaid eye has an arclud Western Union Co 10 6»’> are in the wrong? mediately large numler» of farmers That woman is to t>e dreaded as i i planted loganberries, with the usual •v»brow , it shows a fickla temper. Braraict*rry A Wbeery 174 IS* Vrlve'y brown eye« »how interne feel H II A Pierce ................................ 4 00 friend, a relative or a companion who result. Some of them this summer ing, and are no* o’ten to lie trmtwl. goes through life trying to convince ! Dr. Kavanaugh................................ 10 00 plowed UD the vines they planted last A glittering bla :k eye expresses and convert every one who thinks dif i fall. Yet it is altogether probable that ferently from her on any question, ’ those who make loganberry growing a inragrr intelligence and < (ten physical First Visit Io Poll land. courage. from cookery to calculus. steady occupation anil who are content This is an utterly different frame of to take the bad seasons with the good, J Very light b.ue ejes are said to al- wavv show deceit and cruelty. Mr«. Sarah Shelton Gaines, wife of mind from the one that makes us feel will find the industry profitable. Violet blue eves are loving and J.hn W. Gaines, has lived in Linn coun we are right in what we think and in Illustrations might be multiplied al- j ty since 1M7 and to-day made her first what we do. The workl would lie a moat indefinitely, tending to prove, not ardent, but imprtm us and <io not rhuw visit to Portland. John Gaines, who mighty feeble place to live in, and that one shouldn't engage in a new a bigti order of intellect.—Ex. settled in IJnn county in 1N5N. used to rapidly disintegrate, if every one of us occupation, but that he should antici drive a team to Purtland occasionally born into it didn't have an opinion and pate years of misfortune and expect to The Best Place in Portland to Eat before the Oregon A California railroe«, could be relied upun to stick to it. balance them with years of prosperity. is at was built, but he has nut been a fre It is all right to have a conviction, These observations are prompted by quent visitor. right or wrong, and to believe that it is the reports that many farmers are now •'Here ts a man whose family jmy> right because it is yours, but there is discouraged with cherrygrowing. A at West end of the Murtieou Street mare taxes than any other in Lint •vo excuse or palliation for the fault of year ago cherries brought a good pnee county,” said Jefferson Myers, whoa« tilting a lance at every on* who thinks and, as might be expected, thousands of bridge. delight is to get hold uf an old tun« another way. CHARLES J. .MAHER acres of cherry trees were planted last farmer in the city and give him a go« If two women see different sides oi winter. This year the price of cherries (Succeeeur to Riner line.) time. Mr. Myer» tuck John Gaines an affair, there is no reason why they was very much lower and some of the PROPRIETOR. Pup’s Coffee House —.— ws., Brv*'V ■ TF-v«! ■4.