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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1909)
• •* > t 4 4 * < 4 • » • » « «• • « or' • ■■Tita*- voir /o/; good ku . ids Vr» lnlu«lrj l<> Sr «upfUrd b> We have now on Í hand a Swell Line of I ar mar» (M|»a>clal t orrraporwirr cel HE SEASON is now at hand when road work Portland. Oregon. April 2Eth. I! will be in order. Heretofore, in certain Swift ami l'un.|»anv ant.ouncv lha U m localities, the work on t\e public highway plan to begin actual packing o|«ra ion Politically Independent I.as been conducted in an intelligently practical in tbeir rew plant al Portland n Jul manner and the splendid condition which tne roads Th e bring« to the anrface the r.«c »ait Entered at th« puelutbce at helo, Oregon. ** second-. Ia»o in these localities now are in. is an evidence of tne for the f»rn«ra of Oregon to gn u.ail matter. fact. In other and moat localities, the work ha* n>ora boga. Piga can be raiaed unt they are three montha old on «rich « been directed in a perfunctory manner and the other roughage at practically 1« conditions of the roads in these localities evidence eipe»>ar other than for paaturage / fat SOU pound hog in Portland today i this fact as well. north S16.1U caah. live weight. Tt Now what can I m * done in one road district can Mt’llru HII'IION HATKH: packer» will have to get a aupply. »i 2ft be done in others, if the same d«*gree of practical Ow ysar te advMaa. »•>•••? muat th«-> a> rnl the money for the h g i Ml intelligence is employed. Onr v « mf , al ami ■>! mt..................... T iere is no parti u ..r to Nebraaka, or will we raiae them 1. i 7ft One year, al ami <>t 2 year»................................ .. i IM reason, for instance, why the roads in South Scio Oregon? One year, al ami <>( 3 /rare......................... .............. 7ft precinct should Ire in better condition than those Hit monili» in sdvance ............................................. The Livestock Sale at the Portlarx fA> Tl>rw immiti» in «Ivance........... .............................. Country Club thia week means ■ gr-a Oft of North Scio precinct, the conditions for building Hmgl» copy ,n «Trapper.................................. ..... roads being, practically the same in each precinct deal to evaryone in Orirgon. Saturda Mens Suits AIJVKHTIMINO HA'l'KNl and Sunday witm-e«ed thou*aid» o ft > Every other precinct in Albany prairie can have people visiting the gr< u-uia to.iiipcC Cani of thanks .............. ................................... $5.00 n $20.0C w just as good roads as Tangent precinct, if road H|eelal «btloarv notiewa, per line. ... .................. what is universally «-«»needed to be h« US Eiteit>lnl wa«idii»g commenta, per lina .............. t ie same practical, greatest gath«rtn< of bk*-d«*d hoi <1 06 building is prosecuted in I <a-al advertising, i—r line par l»eue .........;... tn»plav ad», 2 changee per monili, olir coluti«*» wide intelligent method. It is a fact well known to ever collected >n the PaciAc Northw«»t I Boys and 10 t*r indi .......... ..... ......................... to t»e »ol«1 to the highest bn’der. h- Youths Suit? l'riilra.limal lard». I % Indir», |ier iminth.................... I U> every teamater, that the drawing power of a team »al»« al Portland have uniformly Iwei I ong lima contrari» for ailvertlelmr mede no application. of horses must Ire measured by the load it can more successful thai even those II $1.75 1 $8.01 dnrv over the steepest hill or over th«- roughest or t’hiragu, in proportion. The sale wil softest roadbed between the points to be traversed. continue up tv Frida»- rd, hl at th ATTACKS hit PKIMAhY LAW I Now if the steftp hills could be graded down, or a Country Club, Saturday bring devo'«« DOWN IN PORTLAND, recently, in order to new road made w here the grade would be less entirely to cattle at the t.niofi Sloe Yards. Oregon la making a wondertu cause a unity of political action in th»- abrupt, the load could be doubled witiiout over- snowing, and there is aaaurance tha If two tons is a buyers will be here from all rwighboi selection of a candidate for mayor. the tax'ng the capacity of the team I mihhvs held a sort of rump convention. The| heavy load for the team, with the steep hill to Ing states and British Columbia T wo million» of dollars for the fou purpose of this convention was twofrid. First, negotiate, or the atony or soft road to bo passed the naming of a man for the office of mayor and over, it could draw double this amount if these hundred and sixty two arret univeraall second, a covert ussault upon the Direct Primary difficult places were replaced w ith better con known as the “I add harm” put Portland city lota in a ria»» wit law-* ditions. Oregon orrhan‘a. and the developers < With the first <»f these propositions the people, Now every farmer or teamster, who transnorts thia magnificent pto|«rty will certain outside of the city of Portland, have no direct freight of any description over the highways, I* satisfied if It pays divider» interest. If the people of Portland want Mr. knows these conditions to be true. He knows e«|uallwig thus« of a weli-kept, model OREGON SCIO Simon, Mr. Rushlight <>r any other man for mayor, that a new wagon is required more freq lent, if orchard. While estimate» as to the prvaei that ia their affair. B it, with the second feature, the road lie is compelled to pas.« over is filled with (»pulation of Oregon vary, some m< the people of the entire state have a direct stones or has numerous unavoidable holes and who have the right to be railed w> chucks. If a few dajs labor contributed annually |oatc«j feel that the state today hi in terest It is well known that the city of Portland by every fanner and teamster in a neighborhood, upward of three quarters of a millh exercises a dominating influence in the politics of will remedy tnese defects, don't you think the people. With every county in ti. state getting new settlers, some hav. l>IRK«T«»NW <*r rieaaa the State of Oregon. In tl at city almost all pint r contribution would bo > Rood invMtnwntT attraried a greater immigration durln, PaaaibsNT, W F Hill. J J. Barnes, W. F. Gill, and schemes which effect the political wellfare o1 The road from our tow n to West Scio is the the past year than for Ave year SaiKKTvav, C. A. Warner J. A. Bilyeu, J. R. liarnos Oregon are inculmted. Nearly all of the plans moat-traveled road in this immediate vicinity. before. C. A. Mar luti. A party of IHinoia investor« rec*» tl for carrying measures through the legisla- But go in almost any other direction and the road t ire are conceived in that city. Hence, anv is found to Is* smoother and more pleasant to rlubbed together and sent one of thei jsilitical movement which is calculated to involv« travel over. Cannot this mile and one-half of numlwr who ha«1 visited Oregon dunr the Exposition, for a trip thr-*ugh th the political wellfare of the state thereafter roadl>t*d be placid in a more servicable condition state. Upon hi» latum to I ortlai d which is inaugurated down there, is a matter ol during the coming summer? Our condensery will thia gentleman raid h« had four»' Ht’<1 l >H< >HH TO concern to the entire state. I m * sending out over this road, tons of its pnsluct Oregon people rnurh changed At tha The attempt to return to the old conventiui weekly and dozens of heavy loads of lumlier time th«-y were intensely conservativ« method of selecting a mayoralty candidate, is i tM-sides the ordinary traffic daily, emphasises tne today they are enthusiastic, optimisti« and unanimously | r* di< 1 a gnat futur< c »vert attack upon our Direct Primary law. It i: need of a better highway between the points 1 In fact, many of the communitxa a a uirect alien pt to place tl e |oliti<al loss in tb< mentioned. growing a< rapnily that they imagim s.nldle again, a condition which drove the people t< This year there will be a larger fund to be they have all the growth, but th«»» the adoption of the primary law. If fifty or five- applied in road building, than ever before. The who have wm the new orchards, th h ndred unauthorized men are permitted to dictau people liuve tax-d themselves to provide this fund sulstantial farm bouses and nth« improvements taking place everywhere in advise w hom a candidate for office shall t»e, s uid they have the right to greater improvements ' know that the next tiecade will a«~ 1« sa numla r, say five or even one has the san > in the roads in consequence. ' record-breaking advancement aion r gi.t. Thus I hiss rule, plain Hhd simple, would in Tne opinion of the newcomer is, largely, colored • <*very line. Asked if he «11 satlaAe«* reinstalled. No other conclusion is tenable. Il >y the condition of the public roads. Mayhap he he replied: “I wouldn't return t the people of Portland must submit to an advisory, .ias come from a locality of good roads. If sc, he ■ Illinois, but »hall remain here to re | | reive my friends who are coming ii h If-cot slituted convention to name her candi will notice, sharply, any defect in this particular. I narties of thr«-e, Ave and even ten.” dates, a return to the old time delegate convention He will compute the cost of getting the products Acreage Tract» Wi iild I m * far more preferable. ie purposes to procun*, to market For this If you are looking for a ñire pirca o The rest of the state is concerned in this matter reason, if he is compelled to traverse a rough or A Nice Neu?, and li a bunch of disgruntled Republican politicians hilly road when he goes to ins|M*ct the farm or acreage, for a home or investment 1 >uy one or morr aerea in the Ewing & cun succeed in breaking down the spirit of the other property which is offered for -ale. the price I Itichardson plat, in and ail joining th 11 imarj law in Portland, in which more than one- ne will I m * willing to i>ay, is influenced in a more or city of Scio on the writ No. on Uo-to-Date Line of ti ird of ’he people of the state are involved, it leas degree, by the condition of the road. If the «oil will grow anything which grow» i would I m * an eas> matter to extend the revolt so roads an* objectionable, the property will, Irvgon, nearly all cleared roalthroug ti at the people of the entire state would I m * in probably, be rejected; unless the price asked is tract, price, only >150 ami up, »mal a»h payment. balance in inataiimenta v.>lved. If a bunch of Republican* can do this, sufficiently low to overcome the handicap. We lave your earnings and place it in «roo another bunch of Iieniocrata, Social ib I m or Pro- may. therefore, assume as a fact, that the better lirt where it ia safe. For furthe liiliiliuiiiNta can do likewise. the road the better the price the property will sell ,Articulara, call on It. Shelton, agent and The auviNory manH convention would 1*0011 I m - for. Notice come bo corrupt and dictatorial, that the people This article is written, hoping that it will call Th<«e knowing tl«rni<wlvee Ind. I»«« • would gladly return to the leaner evil, the delegate the attention of our sujM*rvi»or readers, mon- the undemig'rd «ill plr»»e call an. convention plan. J uki think of it! A half-dozen pointedly to the importance of good and practi al I i .«.-I Uie money. E C. l*s««v or mayhap fifty politicians and bouses. aHaembling roadbuilding. Upon them mon.- than anybodv • nd at their own instance and saying to the people of else, depends the benefit which the tax moneys Oregon “You can vote at our primary election for appropriated for road purfioses, will arconipliah. A B for United States senator, C 1> for cohgress- Everj one w ho has charge of road building, »ho I ti an. E F for governor and so on. Would tms not go to the trouble of advising with road build» IB in be the moHt complete political Itossism t>ossible? localities w hen- they have model roads, if poss ble. Yet this ia the only logical outcome of this mas« The people demand that their tax moneys for roi i c -nvention movement in Portland. purposes shall be extended in the very I eat OREGON SCIO The NEWS believes that the people, through the possible practical manner. Direct Primary, may make an occasional mistake in the nomination of candidates. But as mistakes In almost any direction from Scio save, possib'j v ere frequently made in the selection of candi the west, can I m * found ideal fruit lands lai d I h E al hi Bl 7* ho dates in the old delegate convention days, the which can lie made as productive and profitable a- Cur ftpring aMortment i ( 04 I < ople have loat nothing, in this reaiM-ct, by the H<x»d river lands. All that is necessary to mak adoption of the primary law. Doubtless Mr. them as valuable and productive, is development uieiin' wear we have f«»r you Fulton thinks a mistake was made, last year, All of these hills, which are now used for |mstur* ire varied anti pleasing w hen he was turned down and the nomination only, are ideal apple lands and are far better for lit suits we have every was given to Mr. Cake. The NEWS is in doubt this purpose than the valley lands. The farmer is thing to lie found at the high atout that As Senator Chamberlain has con I who haH a north hillside and which he now regard ■ Tl tracted the habit of being elected when he stands as being only fl* for pasture or the produc'ion o elan« metropolitan eMahlitdt f<»r an office, Mr. Fulton would have been defeat* I firewood, has an ideal site for an orchard. If hi »neiit—numbersaud number» ufe ed as Imdly as Mr. Cake was. lb- that as it may, i will clear it of brush and plant it to apple trees o of AuitN jtiHl your size and as the people come to understand the importance a salable variety, and give the trees propel it—and all diff Tent too! of a proper selection of candidates, fewer mistakes attention, in a few years he will be getting $1« In furniahinga. our spring fish will lie made and the real choice of the people will per acre or more from lard which he now receives neckwear •» a delight to be selected. oh lie but a nominal income from, these hills, on the Every friend of the Direct Primary law. in north, east and south «*f us, can lie made just as everv man who taken pride MENS BOYS and 8 CLOTHING 9 YOUTHS I : n w SCIO ROLLER MILLS MENS 4 to BOYS HATS CAPS Hibler Q. Gill Co. I The Righteous Man I Portland, should vote against Mr. Simon, in order to rebuke the method of his selection. A fire is more easily sutslued in its incipient stage. This attack U|M>n the primary law is not uniike a tin*. If allowed to spread, it will soon involve our entire political structure. A decisive vote against Mr. Simon, who represents the revolt, will put a fir.al quietus to the attempted return to political I ahmumii . A. ! valuable and productive as the high-priced Hood in his personal appearance river lands, if we will use the same carv and In all the lurtrouft »hade* and judgement in pn-parmg the land and selecting the trees. It would not be expensive to clear, prepare tint* so popular jnet now and plant in fruit trees an acre or two every year, ItN easy to g> t juai a lint and there is evert reason to expect rich returns von want nt thia store. from the capital a ,d lalsir invested. The experi ment is well worth trying. The demand tor good THE BLAIN CLOTHING CO •»pples in the markets of tne world promises to be Albany, On-gun both continuous and remunerative, in the future. I •x* I l’«7raitleth the life of li Hi ose who feed SECURITY Stock Food fullfilling the scripture, I his stock foot! is sold on a |x»sitive (’ («iDirnntee. Read the guarantee every Package. Don't misled - by cheap advertising, SECURITY | means what it says. Ask those who * have used it. E.C. PEERY, Sole Ao't Scio Or. I
