VOL.
SCIO,
XIV
I.IW
< Ol NTY. OREGON. JUNE
22
I.<11.
from the train ami prises offered for
Gate receipts for the day, about Sd*.
the twat results obtained by farmers.
Saturday Races
i There wiil be a large representation
No. 4. kj furlongs C«mfederate let.
from the vari'tus Central Oregon com
Supulvada 2ml. Mclare 3rd. tin»«* 1 zM.
mercial clul a at the convention in Prine
No. 5. 3| furlong« Little Mack 1st,
ville June .» July 1. when the Centra)
Sir Ashton 2nd. Carrie 1 hatcher 3rd;
Oregon Development l.caguc will l*e
time 44 se<n»mls.
formed.
There i« keen interest
Pony race j mile Babe 1st. Black
throughout that section ami much is
ill Paris ol Oreyon is Giving Increase! hoped from the projected organisation, lit Fur hsocfilion Will Not PUy Even Beauty 2nd. Bill Short 3rd ami sorrel
I Warm Coolest For Director Ide Hti aj
Beauty 4th, time 1 minute.
which will take up the problems that
Says Prtsdint Pnll
mention to th Hghways
Matched race, | mile Whiskey King
Plant PrtiviM for
I confront Central Oregon, a new
1st. Samaon. 2nd. Paddy Ryan 3rd;
- country, yet in the making. It ia
time 25 swumb.
considered important that right step«
Base ball game Scio 5, Shelburn t).
For some reason, unnecessary to dix-
Gotxi roads throughout Oregon ia a be taken and the new league will b<- of
Not for many a year has there been
Financial Statement
1 cuss, the two days race meet, of lut
subject that will in. future receive a great benefit along these lines.
much inter.«: manifested at the
Th«*
receipts
ami
disbursements
for
Salem's annual cherry fair has tw*rn week, given under the auspices of the
great deal of attention from th«* Oregon
the meet were ax follows: Receipts, ai ’ ual -. howl meeting as at that of last
Development Mague. Besides having aet for July •». 7 and 8, ami promises to Fair Association, was not a success.
donations, 4205. entry fees. BAH.60; eon- Monday. Two features is rra|K>naible
a good roads day at the Astoria conven be bigger and better than ever. Port Whether the meet was not sufficiently
cessions. »12.50, gate receipts, »171.75, fi r the unusual interest. There was a
tion, August 14, 15 ami 16. the 1 eague land people are taking much interest in advertised, or whether there were too
strong effort made to defeat E. C.
making a total of 1448.75.
will take up highway betterment the event and a special excursion will many attractions at other points, the
Disbursementa printing, 16; indivi Peery, who was a candidate to succeed
actively and the offices of Secretary tie run from Portland taking prominent ■ crowd failed to materialize. The atten*
dual labor, »6 80; labor on track. »31.50 him .'if, hi opposing candidate living
Chapman of the League will be head business men to the fair. Big parades dance on Friday, the first day. was not
purses for races, »385; total expense W A. Ewing.
quarters for the gmxi roads movement. wiil be features of the event.
above 26» and not more than 500 on the
After reading and approving minute«
|3>>5.35, leaving n balance on hamf of
Through its ramificstions throughout
of ..i«t annual ami special meetings, the
Lake County will work as x whole in folkiwmg day.
»19.65.
the state, the Mague will learn p’lblic future for development. The former
It became generally known, a few
election <>f director wax declare«! in
sentiment on the subje't of good road« Lakeview Board of Trade has been day« lx-fore the meet, that hut two
order ami the fight was on. For the
ami strive to aid the various sections. dissolved and the Lake County Develop stables of horses woukt participate in
first time, for years, women who were
Tiro .1/ouster Cheeses
Secretary Chapman of the Mague be merit Mague has taken its place. the races, and a« the««* «tables of horses
entitled to vote were out to the number
Past ami Present
lieves the subject touches very closely Thoroughly aroused to the benefits of had been in daily training, workouta or
r
II. all but two of whom were for
the welfare of the farmer. H*- hoir united work, Lake County people mav _•« ' it not.
th«- «an:.- track, it brerm i-
The following interesting editorial Ewing When the «ots was counted
ie bring together the various interest« reasonably hope for results from the the general opinion that each race appears in a recent issue of the Spring Peery had 32 ami Ewing 29.
so/hey will work in harmony, hirst, new organization.
would !>e a "fixed" affair and that not field (Maas ) Republican.
The vote for the heating plant was
he will learn the wishes of the peopl««| Ashland will hold its annual Chautau the best that was in the horses would
One of the novelties of the next Min- for 4, against 21.
in the matter and do nothing not qua Assembly July 6 1K The talent lx- brought out. Whether this opinion '•«■■!.« tat.- f u > ¡ '. I . i «■ < i
.
Financial Statement
thoroughly representative of public offered this year is of a high order and ia founder! on facts or not, lhe News weighing more than five tons. Work
Receipts
opinion throughout the state.
11630 .14
the forthcoming session will attract will not undertake to aay ; but. we do is to I m * begun on the monster at once, Balance on hand last report
The railroads. state agricultural people from all parts of Southern know that two or three single-heat for it will need lots of time for curing From district tax
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horse races dors not furnish a sufficient A five-ton cheese, if made ten feet in
college and the business interests of Oregon.
” County sch«M>l fund
attraction to bring out a crowd.
diameter, will lie twelve or fifteen feet
Portland are unite«l on a plan to aid
" Stale school fund
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Portland was visite«! by an Eastern
The management of the meet waa high, and it ia proposed to put a ladder
Morrow, sherman and Gilliam counties
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Rato
bills
II.
8.
flax expert the paat week, who ex- good, the music donated by the brio
by the side of the bulky thing so that
in agricultural advancement. A demon
Other sources
53.75
preased surprise that more atter.t on 1« bam! was excellent am! the (tall game
people can go up and l.xik at the top.
stration train will I m * operated next
not paid to thia crop in Oregon. He on ‘«aturday between Scio ami .Shelburn
To construct a cheese cf this magnitude
Fall throu th that section and experts
Total
ftiOlU 66
praised the quality of th«- flax he found
from the state coll -ge will explain the here as being su|>erior to that found waa entertaining. All that was lacking will take something like 260,000 .gallons
Disbursements
possibilities of diversifie«! farming anti else where, either in thia country or was the rrowd with the holiday spirit in or about 150 wagons full of ten-gallon Teachers wages
I2M18.I4
cans of milk. A dairy of atx.ut 0000 S'h«x>i supplies
stock raising in order to buikl up the abroad and hopes to see the day when their hearts.
:
The Races Friday
fairly good cows would be required to Repair ami improvements
soil, although there is m> intention to
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a great linen industry will be built up
No. 1. 4 mile Zeline 1st, Wade 1 produce enough milk in one day for the l
do away with wheat as the principal
740.00
and farmers generally throughout Hampton 2nd. lardare 3rd, time 51 1-5. | big cheese. It is proposed that after I Bomia and warrants
crop. It is Iwlieved, however, that
Insurance
ILM
Western Oregon will grow flax with
No. 2. Sa«!<lle horses. ( mile Whisky the fair the great cheese shall b>- cut Clerk's salary
improved methods will conserve mois
M
00
profit.
King won in a canter from Samson; up and sold, but why do not the Reptib- I All other purposes
ture in the soil and by growing other
34 2. .36
Imana «»/
\Jmnaka>.la after
ufMx the
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time 5»i seconds.
lican«
of Minnesota,
precedent ! '
things than the single grain, ax at
No 3. 6 furlongs - Confederate 1st, established by Elder Mland in the time!
A full li~.e of Lilly's guarantee«!
present, two crops can be had in three
Total
»5596.41
years instead of two in four vears as ganlen seetls, chick feed, bone, shell Sup'ilvada 2nd. Little Mack 3rd, time of Jefferson, prv-ent th«- cheese lo 1 Balance on hand
i 11 M
1.17.
I'r.-sxl.-nt lift '
at present. Seod will be distributed ami grit at Weaely’a Grocery.
Thia imxicrn venture must recall to
•<ell wm rung while the people came
J Western Maasachuxetta people the
with rich cream, which waa handled by
great cheese which was built in Cheshire a committee of ex|>ert women, who
j in 1*H under the leadership of Ehler
engineered the preparation ami the
1 John Mland. ami then haulml by sled pla< ing of the curd within the great
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j to Hudson, from whence it was shipt>e«l
hoop The Ing screw of the cider mill
j to Washington and there presente«!
»«« H|>|>hed. and copious streams of
with gr> ¡it i « r« tine \ to I'rvsident
foaming whey were forced out. in an
^i( Thoma« Jeffcr-on
l he historic ch <■« •
eloquent Speech (.eland dedicate«! the
was a mighty one for its day, being
monster choeae. which wi-ightxl when
C'l ito-.lt ■■ ■ o-venth aa laige a- that
carefully cured 1235 |x>unda, to their
Se5 which ia to Ixe made in Minnesota.
honored friend, Thomae Jefferson,
Eider Mlard was an anient sup[x>rter prewident of the Unitctl States of
of Thomas Jefferson, although after America. A hymn waa sung. and the
;vr .-I
i the letter's nominstion for the highest
cheeermaaera were dixmiasrd with the
office in the republic msny clergymen
lieneiliction. Eleven days after thia
ik vt
presche«! against him, asserting that.
gathering the great cherae waa re
' if by any chance he should be eldcted
moved from the cider press and prove<l
1 president, all the Bibles, |*alm, snd to lie in perfect shape and condition.
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hymn books and sermons would l>e cast It waa taken to the dairy house of
i into bonfires, and that the Christam
Darius Brown to tie cured and dried.
altars of the country would lie de- The removal waa eccompliahod by
‘ molished. It is recorded that manv means of a hied drawn by aix horses,
Bibles and religious books were buried ami Moacs Wolcott gave a feast at hia
or otherwise concealed at the time of
tavern in honor of the event.
! JefTeraon'a inauguration, lest the
When the cheese waa preaented to
• prophecies of the ministers Ire fulfilled.
President Jefferson ai a Now Year'a
' But Elder Mland and hia people were
pr< «ent in 1H02 the whole country took
Jeffersonian Democrats, ami when the
notice. It waa accompanieal with a
news of Jefferson's election became
presentation address prepared by a
assured they resolved to express their
committee of five prominent citizens of
delight by building such a cheese as
Ch« «hire, to whom Mr JefTeraon aent
| the world had never lx*fore beheld All
back a grateful ami el<x|uent reply
. this wax decided upon in a mass meet
At the White House, Elder Miami
! mg. am! it waa further resolved that
made an addraaa, in which he told of
! Elder Miami and Dariua Brown, who
the loyalty of hia people and town in
had charge of tne construction of the
defending Jeffenion against cowardly
ch«*ese, should accompany the rift to
attack«, am! «aid that In the making of
; Washington ami turn it over to th>
thia token of their faithful adherence
chief magistrate aa a New Year's
to th«- administration every patriot
I present.
family ami cow in Cheshire ha«l taken
The construction of the gift was be
part. In rca|x>nac, Jefferson returned
gun July Io, 1801, when Mr. Brown
hia warmeat thank« to the |>eople. lay
prepare«! a ch«*ese h<x>p four feet in
ing that hr looked on thia New Year'a
, diameter and «-ighteen inches high,
gift aa a token of the fidelity of the
I which the village blacksmith secured
very heart of the neople of the land to
Ì with iron bands so that it could not
th«- great cause of e«|ual right« to all
I burst. Ekier Mdand had previously
men. “I ahall cause,'* continued he,
i announce«! from hia pulpit that the
“thia suspicious event to be placed up
cur«bi were to be brought to Mr.
on the archives of the nation, while I
One Price Clothers
| Brown's cider mill on the above date.
ahall ever esteem thia occasion aa one
! Mvy waa laid ujxm every milk-pmduc-
of lhe happiest in my history. Ard
ing cow within the precinct of the
now, my reverend and moat respected
; town, with the exception of those
owned by the f«*«ieralista. The church
(Continued on page 8)
GOOD ROADS
TO BETHEME
RAGE MEET
NOT A SUCCESS
w lil I- - Í
>ells the best mens
«il KI boys Suits. Hats,
Shirts and I’ I -
wear money ran lai v.
\ <>ti will limi more
standard makes of
( lothing. Hats and
Furnishing (Soods in
our store than any
<ither place in Linn
conntv. \V<* make a
specialty of Mens all
Wool $18.00 Suits.
I law s $3 Hats and
K nox $5 Hats, Id«*
e,
for 25 cents.
Shirts from $1 to $3, and Silva Collars
TRACY CLOTHING CO
330 West First St.
ALBBNY. OREGON
1 HE ANNUAL
SCHOOLMEETING
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