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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1914)
SCIO. I.IW (OINIY. OREGON HIIK>I»\Y : Possibly About You :: I n> Kli-uox > M int ' on th« date »tamped in tin* *pa*-*- be O k llow !•» thoM* who pay promptly in • advance the mihncriptitm prier ,« tl.'Jb «»re-on Hr« rlopmrnt Nrw» in l.inc of I per year. The price ■» $1.60 if paid Irduvlri« ■<. I'*yr«tl». and Product- I •< er « »»f war. I hr pAjxr ta not •••nt Picture -how Sunday night. 10c and l‘> cents. ; 5 car m arrears. ♦ ♦ « ♦ * •♦«••♦♦»«««♦«•♦••♦«♦«»♦♦♦I» ‘gon News Notes ■ o iib*<*nlM*r« who art' more than on«* Our 13 acre ranch, a liargnin; on!y terms. J M Meikle- john. N Young came home fnn Con a 1'u, «lav after a week’.- visit with relatives there. Jim Parker's team took a live ly s mi up the -tr«‘-t, \\«dce>d:i. causing but little damage, how ever. Tl • ball game Snndav result« i in a score of 13 to 7 in favor ol .<•-••■ tin- Crabtree boys not pr-> ing as good f >»t racers as the local swatsmen. Mr and ?.lrs Albert Raid i and Miss Daisy Bakner left Friday for a months’ outing al London Springs. .MYLO BALTI' < Iradu it« <1 from the M«*vhani- Jack Abbott returned last week cal Engineering Department at from Breitenbi.sh and reiwyrts ! '.«■ Oi eon Agricultural College, th«- Si« co >n;. to be in the b s', .l ine 9, 1911, Graduated from of health and spirits. th«« ei.-hth grade of the Scio For Sale Lumber for sil«» <<•)■• I in lbbs, and <*i.ter«-d () A C ready to put up. Ralph M« D >n- i I e f ill of the same year. Mr j|U. 52 2 Bartu ; c employed nt OAC as draftsmen in the Department of Just remember that the New ■. S,ip..rinten<ient of Buildings, otf'ic • sells typewriter riblxii - and carbon pa|M*r cheaper than F J Denny was a Scio visitor anyone else in Linn county. Friday. Roll Morris left last week for Bring vo ir fresh vegetables to a visit with relatives and friends the Scio Hotel, in Washington, expecting to be gone several weeks. Why not ppend Sunday eve- t > -ning at the picture show? First Too much trouble to go class films, electric fan. and nd- cl ;r . and get dinner ti e (. ( mission price I k * and l<tc. Show day ? tiet Sunday dinner at starts at H:30 sharp. Sc;o Hotel. W A Ewing and family left Newt Crabtree left for eastern Friday for <’a-ca«lia for a few '»f’-on«a 1 week. w< ««ks recreation. Henry Miller ’ took them up in hi. conveyance, i 1 h,‘ ’;”w hammer ess \\m- — Chester Repeating Shotgun is Watch Morrison’s window and some g,in. Morrison has them you will see in a few days a in both 12 and 16 gauge, stunt in enamel ware never undertaken in Scio before. A Mens straw and light weight $50. range will be given away summer hats, just what you free with 300 pieces of enamel need for the warm weather, at ware. I have the range in Hiblcr & Gills. ■t««ck. but the granite ware lias Dr ¡’rill, C A Warner, J F not showet^up yet. It will be in ary day. Save your purchases of We.M-ly and John Frofet and partus from Harrisburg left on granite ware for a day or two. schedule for Marion Lake last N I Morrison. Saturday morning. They will CD Mn.ton who was in town return early in August. Monday from his orchard home at Gilkey , recently s »Id th«* Ore Mr and Mrs T W Dilley of gon Agriculturist to parti -s from Salem have been here this week Seattle ami is now out of a job. vi icing th«- latter’s parents, Mr Mr Minton had no thought of and Mrs A Montgomery ami selling out a couple of day s be other relatives. fore it happened, when a buyer strolled in and asked if he would Miss Ada Thayer accompanied sell the Agriculturist. Mr Minton Mr- Emily Martin to her horn«* gave him a price that. a< he puts at Corvallis Monday for a wreck.’ it, he thought would scare the visit. buyer back to Seattle on the next I >r W B Richardson of Spo train, but rather to his disap pointment it had the opposite ef kane, Wash, who practiced medi fect. Mr Minton built the Agri cine at Scio alxiut thirty years culturist from almost nothing to ago, was through hen* Monday. a live paper of good circulation He notes many changes in this and will no doubt In* like a fish part of the country, as in fact a out of water until he get. back f«?w of the old settlers is all that remains that he recognizes. into the harness again. . *1 «>( Ijibor and Knlt-rpriar. W R Scott. general ma* niter of th«* S I’ system on t’*e |’.i-,t;c coast, says railroad earnings will -<oon I k * on th«* upgrade. The bridge acro-s the river at Salem has been condemned ami th,* two counties and th«* city w. I «■net a $2tx».iX>0 structure. Eugene Iron Works has taken « t.t i . ’-» n..i th«* Harden Sanitary Drinking Fountains. A Federal Court and Po ’ - rli •« building will be erect, <1 at M, <1- ford. Hood River has vot«*d 0 •> road Kinds and ddicat« <1 an open-air theatre. Portland meat insp, *ti"n or«ii- nance has bedn taken into th« courts on th«* ground that it ,h» criminates against all . miiii 1 packers in favor of the n « al trust. Fruit packing w ill start Aug ust 1 in th«* Rogue nv, r • ;■ • : t. A *>10.11X1 cream, r will I <• •*r«*<*t,,1 at Alvmlor,* on F«*ri Ridge. Libor Commissioner H i! ,1— cid«d that th«* bridg,* crew on the Grants Pass railroad c«»uld i:«»t be employed over eight hours. The men got $3 20 a «lay and overtime, but Wert* uonpeti by lloff claiming it was public work, and that an emergency existed. Th«* time was cut to eight hours. L’nion Oil to builos a SlOJMM) storage plant a» Eugene. Booth-Kelly Co is erecting a large fire proof dry kiln at Springfield. A motor road will be built from Mapleton to the beach ut Florence. A streetcar line is to I k * built from Bak« r into tl.«* Eagle val ley. A schooner arriv« d at Marsh field loaded with skins, tusks and oil of sea lions, a new indus try on the Or« gun coast. Congress gave jloO.OUO for the fish hatching stations on Oregon waters. The Coast Bridg«* Co. of Port land got the bridg«* at 'i anihill for one dollar less than the Port land Bridge Co. its closest com petitor, $4.4!K>. Th«* lOO.IMM) gallon reservoir of th«* Bend Water Co is m arly completed. The Fremont hotel recently de stroyed by fire at Salem, will be rebuilt of brick to coat $20.000, Buis are being taken for a $110,000 high school at Eugene. Clatsop county has 700 men employed on the Columbia high way. Eugene Fruitgrowers Associa tion will manufacture loganberry juice. Grants Pass box factory is to resum * after lying idle four years. Sherwood gets a new Lank an«) hotel building, H I.Y I'll. N< ». I BOOSTING MAIL ORDER HOUSES s«» pleasant. One b\ on. our merchants moved ; • places whei • they were appreci.iti*d ami m«■ i of |«*ss energy mov«*«l in. Grad ually our town l.as gum- down; our husin«*ss houses ar«* "tiuky” in appearance, a number ar«* I -irrnn I ells I low I |r Rr«lui «-«I empty, our schools, churd « s ami I hr A alur of I lis I ’I ace walks are going down, we have no band, no library or bail t'-iur. Th< ■re is no business n «m* in th«* The following letter from th«* town, and »her«forc no tax«*- to I* n of a writer in the Farm ke«*|> thing. Up. Hotel i» i-lusci for l i it al • •ems so timely that w<* lark o! l- ,vvl. llo i I ok i 1» til-- i.,.i ot when the fr,-’,;*»t pu.i« m «u,.| you ,,, give it without comment; e the a<s|uel in in..i! order (»ackagi-s We farmers m«*«l awakening Nine years »«u my (arm wm w , rth to the fact that we have tinmis- $ I*.« • an aero; to .ay I'd have ., hi oi tai. iblv r> ich *«l the periiwl wher«* matter to aril it at |l«i,’ nn acre. It m w >• nr. .t think and p an. 1 am '•h«o far from a live tu-*n" so every on,- >f th low G< rrnnn farmers farmer Sas said that want.-« to buy, lie want, a plu c near • ,« h »I s and church t' »t I « i i<> - ow n, and 1 am ••» where hi, ,-hi.ilreii < an have a«lva< t a iving my experienc* that tagen I have usa.' iu'l to th. fn. t «»th> rs may profit, for Know ledge in helping t • pull th* town down it has Like the at th«* -chool of «xperience is c-'»l me I • «**• tn e. . ti.or«* exp usive now than ten majority •■( farmer«, I ii-l nt tigurv far enough ahead years ago. I his sort of btlsim*,* means th,- d. » o«*nt , nim* years ago I b,*gan ilig away of . ..u-try to* r ■- m' irm car«*« r. I hu«l nn «»Id it mean to farmers to have only a few '•an and $-'«<>. Our furniture large cities al a ili-.tai.. •• of .'«i..r |< ini was in««stly l.om,-made, chaiis, miles? What ar«- «e going Io do with uur children w ho are d« rf.anding even cut «-.aril at <1 loung«* mad«* from better advantages than we had“ dryi ods b< \« -. matlv <*ov«*i,«| Those cities we help to build retrrn with lii>’ errtonn«* by my girl no favor*, they take our money but of •• i ■ ! -•»,«. r-•■ It'*- far no credit in time of need. If w, want high > hool*. ,-|. We mu-t rai •* 1 1 th«* money an«l build near our f.«i -i « • h 'l ii a. iincry and gr«K*eries humen or »eml our boy, and girls to the • «:' " ir home merchants on cr«*«lit ,-itie . at great ,-vp, r »m.J .t tempt tint.I fal'crops w«*re sold. Tin* lion, of whi'-h tin- farm hu : .« tai i«,rn first year was a wet s«*nson and Neither am I th« <mi; u >.nsem 1 «lidn't m in«* enough to pay er Thr»r mail order agents that • om« «■ ••I ior- I went to each on date I«» our homes every »«•« k are b« <• «i.iiig a nuisance and making it unsnf«- to «•I | ronii.-'*- ami explained condi- leave women and children aloio* on the !■• ” s. paying as much to each as farm. With farm cordiality' w«« take ]»<>' ible and they all carried the the»«- stranger« into our h«-nu «. often bai me«* over another y«*ar. They as on«- of th«- family, and w<- at* -om«- times pat,I m having th«-m entic- .■ •! continued to uccomodate me un girl» to the city. til I wa able to buy a 10 acr«* Thea«' are some fact* that nr, d con- piece of my own. »(iteration, and I have 1« • id. <1 t’ it the As .-«in as I owmsl these few safest pro|HM>iti<>a ali around, is for th« acres the mail order houses be country people to look aft« r their own interests, iml build up th« own «nun gan sending tin* their catalogues try town» that bring va • to their and grailuaiiy I began sending farma. I.et those who wa-it to patron- my loos«* change fo them, letting itr th«- <lty mall order huu*e go there my •••■couhl stand in my horn«* to live, getting their In g win re they town, where I had gotten my give their patroniige. I h<- rrtn» -d. r accomodation when I needed it. of my life will ire given to building up the home town that I h« l|«<J to pull We then ha«l on«.* of the thrif down. I'.roth« r farmer- you can take tiest little villages in the state; my »«Ivice or get your knowledge the good line of business in all way 1 got min«-. branches, merchants who were Doti’t pat out money for niaifa- willing to help an honest fellow zinea, We can give you four over a bad year, and a town full of ir’ople who came twice a week monthly ma/azincs for lh cents to trade and visit. Our little extra if you will subscribe to The country town supported a li News for one year. brary. high school, band, ball team, ami we had big celebra tions every year. A farm n«*ur a live t >w n sns»n «ioubles in value ami I -old my 10 acres at a big advance ami bought an Hl. grad ually udding to it until I ha«l 2»x) acres of the l.«*st land in Iowa. I then felt no need “f asking fa vors ami fourni it easy to patron ize the mill order agents that came weekly to our door. I re gret to ay that I was the lirst in th«* county tomak«* up a neigh borhood bill and send it to a mail «»rder house. Tlmugh we got bit every once in a while, we got in the halut of sending away for stuff. Gradually our merchants les- <*n«*d their slocks of goods, for la K of patronage. Finally we began to realize that when wo needed a bolt <|uickly for ma chinery. or clothing for sick/ws«; or death, we had to wait and sen«! away for it which wasn't Th«* Oregon Public I’tility com mission shows a <lHi»ositi«»n to al low capital investcil in their projHTties to mnk«* a fair return and thus encourage further in vestments. Mrs C A Warner went to Cor vallis Saturday for a visit with relatives. Bids Wanted Sealed bid- will In- received nt th«* Scio State Bank for building a new school house in District No. 100, located on Mt l’r<»s|»«**t. Plans and s»* cdic.it i«u ; may b«* seen at Sri«» State Bank. All bids must lx* in by July 30. Th«* board reserves the right to re ject any or all bids. Joe Liska, Joe Walter. Ant »n<* Liska. Boar«! of Directors of District No. 100.
