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Moorer In Isits
W. J. GÄTTS KILLED
An Albany dispatch to the Morning
Let u* reason together a little bit
Oregonian on Monday night, stated
about tomorrow in Our Town. You
tbs’ Hoover, a sawmill town, located
and 1 won't be here. Wc have dor.*
at the eastern terminus of the C. A K.
what we could to make the drcams of htHÄl Ciuses AI.Dast lasIM Dediti ol
railroad, was totally destroyed by lire.
yesterday come true; we have built new i
I»«t Monday evening. The fire started
U m Cmly Farmer
house* and paved some of the streets <
from a hot box in the big sawmill, and
and helped the library and encouraged
so rapidly did the flame* spread that
the schools. We have done what we
people had to tire for their lives.
could. But our day has come almost to I A fatal accident occurred on the J.H. Sonic furniture, liedding. clothing, etc.,
the twilight. W hat about tomorrow? I Johnson farm, one mile northeast of were placed in an empty box car ami
What sort of boys and girls are Lebanon, alniut 6 o'clock last evening, was pushed out of danger
of the
growing up to take our places? Arc in which W. J. Hatts was killed, James flame*.
they going through the High School j W. Johnson had his right leg injured
The kata will easily reach I ItMi.OtM)
faithfully and patiently to the time of and I'has. Houck, a 12 year old boy, and every bouse in the village was
graduation? Are they planning not to was badly hurt.
consumed.
stop there but to go thnugh some
bitches were dug ar< und the town to
A 2-inch galvani*« I pipe had been
college? Ito they know that w> rk is a i driven Into the ground 2»> feet f. r a prevent th» fir« spreading to tie ad­
joy? Do they believe that it is their well, when an attempt was made to joining timber. Several Albany fami-
duty to oil the world'« machinery and )>ut a stick of dynamite down to the
■ ■ ■ taking an outing then-,
make thing* run amoother? Are they bottom for the purpose of blowing off lost t ir camp equipage and supply of
loyal to Our Town? Ar« they interest the end of the pipe.
Asa Baker and food.
ed in the library and the paving of Mr. Johnson were putting the dynamite
Only two weeks ago. a forest fire
Main street?
I in the pipe, while the other two Were destroyed some toil acres of valuable
(hit in Colby, Kans., the people ran i looking on.
Umber. Ix-longing to the Hoover mill
up against a few questions like these.
Inst< ail of the dynamite going down. I company, to the Curtis Lumber Co.
and found the young folks w ■»re anawcr- as was intended. It lodged at the top »" H ’«he government,
mg ' -No!" with all the lur.g power they of the ground and exploded, throwing
Th* Hoover
mill had a capacity of
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had.
When they finished the High the iron in every direction.
lOJHxl fret per day and was lieitig run
School they thought that was enough, i
Mr. Baker says he discovered that e*’n***n*ly. It is not stated, as yet,
Their parent* were well todo, there the dynamite was not down and tolil whether
' -------- the mill will be rebuilt.
was no immediate destitution staring the men to run, but neither Mr. liatts
tl.crn
th« f.i.-« if they loafed ar<
nor Mr. Johnson heedeit the warning.
Ne?rly i Fit
for a while and had a good time. Four Mr. Hatts was standing within three
I ant Mondaj the fierce alarm of < ur
young fellows, in particular, were in a feet of the pipe when the explosion oc­
fair way of becoming worthless, shift­ curred, and apparently was uninjured. flr.-l •]) brought our ciii'.en* on the
less hangers-on. lhal season a Lyceum
remarked "it has hurt my leg" ami street m a jiffy. The bell had scare« ly
-.• was preac.ite.l_ to th«
f.. r t„ * f. w s«.-»mls sank to the ground quit ringing when our fire l>oya had the
machines out and were racing to the
the first time by the High School. The anil died almost instantly.
’ scene of the fire. The fir»- was on the
first number on the course was a lectur­
The Dr*. Booth were called, but the
er who had a gift for inspiring young mj it.-.l ii . hii wc- .!• :vt before they nr- roof of Mrs. M. Alexander's residence,
people. He called his lecture "Day rived. Dr*. Booth also attended Mr ■ in south Scio. Th« nearest hydrant
Dream»," ami the effect bordered on Johnson. Dr. l.airxl was called to at- , was two blocks diafani and as then-
the miraculous. The next week those tend the Houck boy, who sustained an wa. not enough hose to cover the dis­
four boy* packed their tiunks and went injury near the liver, but it is not con­ tance, the tire apparatus was useless.
Fortunately the blaie did not get much
off to college. The right won! with sidered serious.
of a start and the bucket brigade soon
th* right amount of sincerity, carn«»t-
Mr. Hatts was about til year* old.
ncaa and inspiration had been spoken at Ho leave* a widow and six children. had matters under control. The dam-
just the right moment. Colby believes The deceased had lived in this county ngc was a hole m the roof four or five
in the Lyceum course since then, and for 25 years, was a hard working, feet in diameter and the room below
has made it an institution of the town honest man. well thought of by all with deluged with water.
The fireboys are to bo commended
The »am« thing happened in Inde- whom he came in contact. Lebanon
for their promptness in answering the
oendence, Ohio, with a different set of Express, Sat, July 30.
alarm. The water for that part of
boys, another lecturer, and another
town had boon cut off in order to lay
subject. This time the inspirational
listened to a lecture by Edward L. Iin extension to the Fair Ground*, but
call was dubbed "Uncrowned Kings,"
Youmans, on "The Chemistry of a Electrician West plugged the pipe in
and the effect upon the High Sch.Mil
Sunbeam," and it started the boy on short order and hail water in full force
pupil* was startling in its quick re­
the right road
for self-expression. by the time the hose was connected
turns, Boys who had not planned to
Tlii* is no unusual Lyceum experience; onto the hydrant. West wadml through
return for the next year, finished the
sometimes it is a |>oct. somoaimes an , the creek in order to get to the station
course, For the ten year* preceding
artist, sometimes a reformer, who finds ¡quickly.
that lecture the school had rail turned
hi* first open door to Paradise through
out a single teacher, the year after,
the guidance of a Lyceum lecturer.
«even pupil ■ were teaching. Others
Went on the Excursion
The men and women on the Lyceum
went away to college; still other* went
platform are people who are worth
Quite a numtier of Sc loan* went to
Into business. A roll-call recently re­
while. They are people who have done the bay, last Sunday, on ths excursion.
vealed the fact that all of th.-nf arc
thing*; they have fought a good fight , They were: Henry Stcpanek, Ix-ster
prosperous and helpful citisen*. "And
against heavy odds, and they know Arnold, Forest Woodmansee, Edwin
it was ‘Uncrowned Kings’ that gave
what they are talking about. Just to' Holland, Misses Immogene Hill. Auda
me my start." was the universal, un­
see them and hear them is an Inspira­ Shelton, Ora Weddle. Neva Balachweid,
solicited explanation offered.
Inde­
tion and uplift. They are living, pul­ Nellie Morrow, Ida Funk. Mr. and
pendence believe« in the Lyceum.
sating, flesh and blood examples that Mrs. (Joo. Morrow, Mr. and Mrs. John
Fo it goe* in towns all ever the
ambition and determination ami hard Leffler, Ed Balschweid, E. I). Myres,
country. Ora Samuel Gray, a Lyceum
work pay good wages. They are a Con Donohue, Hale Jones, Ot Bilyeu,
lecturer, tells the atory of a lecture
power for good for tomorrow in Our Wilber Funk, Huy Funk, Miss Tompson
course that failed financially. They
Town.
and Mr. Tompeon. There were a few
lost "fourteen dollar* and fifty-five
others whose names wc did not learn.
cents," everybody in town, th* station
■ They reached their homes almut 2 a. m.
agent, the hotel clerk, the girl in the
Notice to Contractors
| on the following morning, reporting a
post-offlee, the man on the street cor­
good time and a big crowd.
Sealed
proposals
for
the
construction
ner. knew the loss by heart to the very '
last penny. It was a New England of a one-story, with basement combin­
The Western Forestry and Conser­
town; it, too, had buys who were ed, union high school ami public school'
vation Association, which embraces tha
building.
Bids
will
be
received
until
getting shiftless and laxy and content
state* of Oregon, California, Washing­
with things as they were. Two of •he hour of " p. m., Saturday, the 13th
ton, Montana and Idaho, is carrying on
day
of
August,
1910,
by
A.
E.
Meyer,
those boy« heard the first lecture on
a camfialgn to save the forest* from
the course. It wa« the story of the clerk of Union high school district
the usual fire losses that occur each
No
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poor boy* of the country and what they
summer Thia organisation represent*
Plans and specifications may I m > seen
have accomplished.
Now th«»« two
13 minor associations. Printed matter,
boys had become resigned to staying at the office of Architect Wm, R. Hand, fire warning* and circular*, ar* living
all their live* on the farm, "p«ifKinK Flinn block, Albany, lire., or of the sent out to limiter owner*, millnwn,
along for enough to live on." But clerk, A. E. Meyer, Crabtree, Oregon. farmer* and other* directly concerned.
after that lecture they began to ask The achool board reserves the right to In it* literature the Association state*
themselves, "If those other boy« could reject.any or all bld*.
that half the merchantable timber in
A. E. M kykr ,
do things, whv can’t we?" A few
' I State» IS Contained In the
Clerk of Union High
years later the boys answered the
five state* in the Association, and that
School Diet. No. I
question for themselves. They receiv­
their production of lumber 1« one-fifth
ed degrees with honors from one of the
of the total in the country.
oldest universities in the country, and
Teacher's Eia<niniii«n
are now on the highway to joining the
The legislator who do«-s not aubacrib*
Notice i* hereby given that the Coun­ to Statement No. I, will have hard
rank* of the "poor boy* who became
ty School 8upt. of Linn county will sledding in Linn county, this year.
famous."
The Lyceum lecture doean't always hold the regular examination for appli­ W hilc there is no United States senator
send boy* to college to save them. It cants, • for state and county
„ certificate«, to elect, for the safety of that feature
sometimes open* the dour to a particu­ at the court house in Albany. Oregon, of the law, every candidate should be
lar line of research and endeavor, and commencing August 10, at 9 o'clock a. required to subscribe to the pledge,
then leave* the boy to find himself. m and continuing three days for county State senator* elected at thia time will
That was the way it happened to John and four days for state certificate*.
be holdover* and will vote for senator*
I Burroughs. When he was a boy ho
'V. L. J ackson , County Supt.
two years hence.
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