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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1914)
» ’ . • 9. • « . »UV i I: . « I •» .»• ». a « * . . s* • * • * » • # •» ’ -• • * i. .7" H ,» * •» » (Ght ^.intiarn jlcu.5 J ■9 9* •« a F • *• •• * » ? 1 • t •ASw1!» L W. CHARLES Fxiitor Santiam News. th-ar sir: I want you to jom in saying, "Hur- Entered at the p<»stofllce at Scio, Ore., rah for the Farmers Union,” whi'h I as seeund-claaa midi matter. know you will, when you read what w« are doing. Sim e Mav 5 up to date, Richardson Ht'IIM’HIPTION HAI >*: Gap Local No |W2 haa pawl out through 'ine year in advance....................... SI •tf. couj rative purchaaea, *2.5UO.no. Our («ne year, at end of year ......... 1 I fur< han- w»« for lol »arks txwt tig month» tn advatn-.. ................. IJ <» fruit and berry sugar, »Ince which 5U we have bought groceries, hardware, Three months tn advance ............... bii >-r twine, gram sack«, machim- oil, Advertising rates made known on brooms, fluor, ubirgtes, fine and eusirse application. i.li, !u„ t> -sit, sulphur and many other thmgs. Our getieral average on the piirchases we hsve made haa been nt 3X( per cent saving to us. un the , price* we would have paid our local rw- tail merchants. <> 1 a great many of j <mr purcha.f« » we have saved 1W per ¡cent on retail price«, such as salt, 1 broom«, li e. etc. We have our bills stop »nd you can com pure them with the re- t:iilprci-v you are paying th« local The New» is in receipt of an : merchant«. We recently placed an or intel eating c immunisation from: der with the Scio Flounng Mill for JM2 immw« Tsua cm :smnw n .< hi who i* picking hoj near 1 • '•* l-r- •;« *hl’ •u" h»'«’ ••••»<-1 ;>.'i73,.yi over the retail price of hard Indep«*ndence. but as it is un sl it flour, according to what my signed. we are unable to use it. o gt.bor paid for a »ack the other day, ('orrespo'ideiits w ill please Iwnr . ! i On our salt we saved 1U0 per in mind that their name must c i t, on brooms 100 p«r cent, on the per cent. On accompiny articles for pablicn* 101 sacks of sugar groceries in case lots, 25, .10 and 50 per lion, as an evidence of goo«! per cent. Now who says it does not faith. ! P»y for the farmers to co-operate in i th< ir buying. Wo expect to have a drygoods mtn The annotincetTwnt of a regís- I wi'h u» in October »ellu« underwear, t«‘r< (I h iy sale will be found at overall», »b rls, »ox, etc, and the same th«» top «if pau? throe. Thi t «de for nomen*« good» In Seetember we wiii- It will take p'ac<» f,'> < .ik> > x|-«-< t a boot ar,d »hoe man with a full station on Oct«>b r 7. will n«» line of »ample* of winter -hoc« lx th doubt nt tract mu ny who wish to for n.en, w omen ai d children. The«e g«*t into the business of raising: two ord- r* will prubuldv make another »*> 0 to add t-i our S2,fv«0. We lino I’.ogs. and will he a li-nefit to have nt. order on now for school tablet«, the whole community. I he lead |e:icil«, etc. breeders announce that this sale I W« are in correspondence now for a will be mud» an annual event, sr lux I of binder twine for next year lirt t from thr manufacturer, also for hereafter. ' 1 rorlmul ot wire fencing direct from ' the factory, and next year we expect to The first rniu «if any conse >uy a car load of sugar direct from the quence since Jun«» 21 fell last I refinery. Sundry evening and kept up al If any of our Scio merchant* want in most a .¡terdy downpour until I .11 thone deals, we might be courteous mough to let them in and show them Tuesday evening, Wednesday now and where to buy. morning the sun came out bright We have written 100 letters socking and ci* ar without n cloud in the price* and places to buy, and arc re- sky. and the smoke ai d dust i reiving letters every day bidding fur I live and grow fat off of the farmer» hard earned money ami toil? All lines of business now are organized into union*. Why should not the farmers have their unions as well? borne may ask how it is that a few farmers can make such purchitse». The Farmers Educational Co-operative ; Union of America i» a national organ! I ration of farmers, with » membership ; of over 3,000.01«). Rlchard*«>n (lap lx>- , cal No 102 in Oregon numbers taboo! Ml member», who represent SMtl.OuO in i farm value» and we never place an or I der without the cash and our mon. y talks for business ju»t as well as the local merchant«'. Aberdeen Loral near l-ebanon ordered a ear'oad of wire fence from the factory and made a sav ing of XT4 per cent on retail price« in l^banon, only one grade of friK-e being better than the one they gut. Mv advice to the country merchants is not to turn up their noses at the Farmers Union for it m here to stay and grow bigger an I better »• the year» go by. We are commissioned to organize these unions and during the coming fall and winter we hope to organise a half dozen more local* in the forks of tie Santiam and wl en we get thus organ ixed we all expect to co-oprrate in bui* ing and selling our farm products, and ■ >ur local nu-.-cha' t* hz I J ut a. »■ . get busy and ad JU t their bu-irir«« t meet the change that is coming, as to Set round and make faci a at the Farr era Union and its work. Any community that would like t< have a Farmer* Union organized, w< will be only too glad to come and ex plain its workings and organize one f i you. The initiation fee In *2.00. an. 25c per month dues for male memtu-ts, I ladies admitted free, no dues, initiation I ire or aAM-svmenta to them. For any further information, write t G. I.. SUTHERLAND, -ec and Tree« Richardson Gap Local No. 102, F. K. A C, U. of A. Thomas. Oregon. (Paid Advertisement I efore you SIGN B An Application for Life Insurance in any other Company Serve Your Own Interest by examining the dvgred nut of the air. Th*» tret»? ,,ur tr,K,e' Some say, why, we will ruin the New Low Rate Contract on the diMtant hills stand out like towns by sending our money away. st*»el engravings, the air is sweet >ur mereh.inUi never consider thi» and balmy and taken all togeth-| when they are »ending their money er, it m.iki» « a fellow glad to be ¡ ■way. Why don’t they buy Oregon' living in the Willamette valley. «'>■*'*■ gixxbt and help build up its manu- f Thu has been on » of tne bot . »during «-»tabiiKhnirnt«, in»trwl of i l»o<v lluunrw .ending our money, that we pay them j years for saving all crops with I nwuy to build up eastern establish- ' Exclusively In Healthful Oregon out rain in the history of the neet« nnd manufacturers? I »up|s>»e state. Harvesting is nil done! l make» a ::(Terer.ee who »end* it away. • for with a good yield of giain, and if they can buy good» from Tootle. H<>MF omot I hop and prune picking which ar«» Wheeler, Mott r < << of St Joe, Mo, or CartMrtt IkiUJiog. lot F»fth ard M**rt*i»f*. P««*!U*».I W yman, Partridge t'o of st Paul, I Will« I SAMI fl CIABIMI S %4Mlf | under wav are not injured by Minn, or bool» and »hoes of eastern A F»« m 4««-< O«w«»l Ma»*rr« K im » i »M the rains which we have had this non», », it is all right, but if lhe farmer week. There is no reason why I'loe* thi«. my how they howL If we Oregon should t ot junt be er ter- lu* our K'-*1* m ch'’“P ««they ean «nd ing an unprecedented era of thus save to ourselves So to 100 per cent on the price* they charge us, why prosperity. h-tuld wc not do it? Why should they Orcgonpfc Best Oregonians D. M. John Dist. Manag'er Corvallis -uiiiLirixnt— —— The tire company was tailed out aat Saturday t» put out a blaz" at Mr R J Compton’s p'ace whieh burned a lot of grass and destroyed a line of elothet*. The fire was tart •<! I y a b ¡rich of boys playing w th a burning glass. ’• * i lurrah for the F ann ers Union! PUB; ¡SHED EVERY THURSDAY 3Y -z ' - • - • ' •» * • • .«W * • ? * 9 • ’ 1 .«• '** * < ?•*? 4 • t* « ■ • « • * ? -J; •*. y’.- • »N » ■' - - » » *r*A „ ■ .‘.«I -’AF’a* ■ V-« s. ■ '• U « w. «Wr -a w PROHIBITION WHY Mor» 'han zlxty year» ago Prohibition became th« name for a theory advanced In « n effort to ov«r>-imv »uch vice» as could I* laid at the door of Intemperance Prohibition at Its birth was fathered by men of tins* .¿liable virtue It was spoken of as a panacea for all humanity The Intention or motive was admirable and the spirit of Its authors »as cumtu.-udxble Many thousands of good m<n and women took kindly to the theory and In the belief that it was practicable, they voted it upon the stat«. Brought up wl'Mn a horn», «htwlded from th» aeamy aide of life or the trouble« of the aubmerged half of humanity, they did not know what ptactlie would do to tb.tr theory They have since found out. WHERE Pmhlbl’lnn was adopted In Maine by Constitutional amendment In ISM by a n..ijorlty vote of It .(‘•J J Maine only retained the law tn it! I by a bare majority of 75x Prohibition was adopted In Vermont; was retained under trial for fifty-three years and was REJECTED Prohibition was voted and retained In the State of New Hampshire for forty-eight year» a tid was REJECTED. In all. during ths past sixty years It la a fact that twenty-four States accepted the prohibition doctrine and It la a fact th», fifteen of tb< **• states bave REJECTED IT WHEN When prohibition wra rejected in one state after another those "WORKERS" who are drawing 110.000 and (20,000 |»r tampalgu from the funds" »et up a hue and cry for Nation-Wide Prohibition by United Stat«» Constitutional amendment. Those WORKERS" »ere not the men who conceived the theory of Prohibition They are men who. actuated by ■ principle»" of mere personal gain and aggrandizement poured oil on th burned out stump of the old theory In the hope of creating" aentiment ao that they could bold their employment Indefinitely at (lu.uuu and 130,00 per campaign. WHAT \\ hat will be the verdict of Oregon voter» when they realize that »u< h as the». have "talked" enough good men and women into their line a« to tie uble to place thi» exploded theory on the Oregon ballot* Will the voter» experiment with a theory exploded In fif teen «tale» of the tweniy-four that have te»l»d It and found It "wanting"? True temperance la» been advanced through the Home Rule or lex-al Option law» Communltl.» govern tiiemselves. Prohibi tion wl]«.» thia excellent system from the book« Thousands of good people, anxlou» to do good, have been misled Into accepting prohi bition a» a "cure" when In reality It I» a menace. WHITHER? Whither will the economic and industrial future of Oregon lead. If through real and prejudice the saner voters of cool brains and knowledge are defeated and thia exploded experiment shall be placed on the statute books of Oregon? Fourteen hundred farmers representing holding» of 25,000 acres of hop land, part of an Indlfttry bringing more than Ifi.oOO.- 000 annually to Oregon are asking you to THINK There are 50.000 people now In the hop fields harvesting this year's crop They, with other labor, will receive 93.OOU.UOO in wages They too are depending upon you to THINK Inquire into the statements made in this appeal. They are true. Then look for more Truth* tn this P>|*r every week and — THINK VOTE 333 X NO. ( HOP GROWERS AND DEALERS ASSOCIATION J. S. STICK A, Proprietor (’< infect pinery, Ice Cream, Tobacco S and Cigars I Post (’aids a Specialty $ I W E Brown matte a business trip to Albany last Thursday. SCIO, Diarrh >ca Quickly lured "My attention was first called tu Uhamlierlain's colic, cholera and (liar- rhu a remedy as much as twelve years •1 ugo. At that lime I was seriously ill with summer complaint. One dose of thi« remedy checked the trouble.” writes Mrs C W i lorcr.cr. Rockpotat, ¡I Ind. lor »ale by all dealers. i Anyone wishing a good, reliable, -afe, sound horse, 1< I2.’O lbs, call at the Santiam Fntni.au I have decided to ! sell my firn- farm and buggy horse, lie it* ten yean» old, j not a blemish, good a« a horse of six years—S \\ Gai net*. OREGON a Cash Paid For Eqqs, Poultry, Dressed Meats, Etc. A. J. Shelton Succcsor to Thos. Larqc SCIO, OREGON t HOMEDALE STRAIGHT WHISKEY Pall Qwrt Only «Be I»«,«»» p«M E are now making a special introductory offer to secure new customers. Send us eighty- five cent*—-monev order or »tamps—we w ill »end you n full quart Imttlcof "Hornet I ale", a Fill R YEAR OLD STRAIGHT WHISKEY pack'd in a sealed ca-w—cxpn-iM charges paid. HianedaleU Imth pure and good. It will sun-ly please you and win vour future trade. We arc the largest .Mail-Order Iaquor House on the Pacific Coast perfectly re- •punsible—l>ern in business over forty years—capital SI00,000.00 fully paid—have twenty thou_«and satis fied customer* in seven states, shipping over three quarters of all the whiskey leaving Portland by ex press. Don’t overlook this sjasnal offer—your order will go out on th«* first train. W F. ZIMMERMAN & COe — « _ -X •* -LV« *
