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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.
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‘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
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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
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took them up in hi. conveyance, i 1 h,‘ ’;”w hammer ess \\m-
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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.
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«>( 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
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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,
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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
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! -•»,«. r-•■
It'*- far no credit in time of need. If w,
want high > hool*. ,-|. We mu-t rai •*
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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.