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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1916)
4 FACE THE EACTS! Weeks Talks About Our Navy and National Defense. insiste on Military. Commercial. Fin ancial and Industrial Preparedness — Let Uo Ü« Ready for Peace aa Mall aa Mar. Ry JAMES B MORROW. In the Philadalpnia Record. ^,(INE of the Weekaee eave John Mil.: ale the «etiator and Ibe • ’ Mai huantta candidate lor pri'aldrni tolling aa they all did among the granite bump« of New Hamp dilrc ever noted tor hl» ac- oui. uiaiion of cash or property .hoy farmer» mostly. begin n i; with laxinard Weeka. who. etui- V-'.ng from England in I8M. became t r- read and aourc f of the family Ag. 'tilture sternly practiced among Ho- embedded rocks and Irremovabld bowlders taught them to be r< source ful and to keep al least ono eye opeu to opportunity bo William 1». the father of the »<*n atnr. was a probate Judge and once ar ayed to be a manufacturer With tl.. looporatlon of neighbors, likewise alert and adventurous, be started a fu<lory at Ijtncaatrr for making starcb from potatoes I will never forget the look on ray fathers Tate CaMBiB M ««*ks told me. "when, on a Hunday morning Just as we were leaving church, we saw men and * ys running down the street and board them crying The starcb fac tory la burning ' *. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS teacher'fur tbefr district school Th« school »IS then closed a group of Ibe large boys having carried the teacher into the road slammed him All Announcements under this bead are dawn In the dirt and warned him paid advertisements. never to return ’Lick 'em and lick 'em good " the . rudentlal commflt«« aald ‘Well ba k you up If you do " "The third day. Captain Weeks told me a big r*-<l fa« rd boy took i «r.dxlat# for th« nominaUvn to the bls pen in hand »nd lahorlousl be office uf gan lo write a letter that la. be «as seemingly engaged In writing a 1st ter; MS matter of fact he was show •>« ’ I for« the a* bool and eipert- * »• '*■ the ttew tea-hsr When I am s ramlidatr for the nomination I am e-t-red to ,»t.t h.s pas svd pa -er to the office of county surveyor .«w serving m. fourth t«*rm a» eoun*y away h« smiled around ibe root, at the pupils who had slopped work surveyor for Linn county and feel that this service ,!»ou>d t>e a recommend to ing and then resumed bls writing I took him by the collar, dragged t .« voters of I inn county The office of county surveyor is <me him out of hla seal and gave him a thorough whipping lie turned out n which jgperiwMW makes proficient. to be the son of the chairman of the It requires ■x-veral yvais «xperiance in he matter of hot dung deed, road and prud'-mial routmitt«-«* Th« old man never spoke to me again, not even « her record» in connection w-th the when I met him In the road, be rid • ir»eyors office before a surveyor 1» ing In a buggy and I walking to or r»mpetent to give hi» best matured iudgi-ment to UMM requiring the *ame from my work." I am familiar with all pvrts of I inn Went to Sea for Two Years. On his graduation al ths Anna|»'lis county in c«»nnecUon with road ami Naval Academy, young John Win- other survey a I am the peraonal owner of what is gate Week» went to s«a for a cruiso of tern years He*, enty men were in known to the early settler» of the his class hut there was mom for only county a» the E. T T. F isbcra fl« M lo of them tn th« navy. The navy note» which cover a period of over 20 It-«'If consisted of but five steam veo- »ears surveying in I.inn county. These seis classed as first rates, and they r. tea arc the government tteHnoti-s written in book for"» and have all the were obsolete and unfit for active r> e»lab!i»t ment» of government cor d-ity. Georg«* I'arnett. his roommate, ners insert« d. Theac notes make an went Into the Marine Carps and la ■ nvaluahle record f<«r accuracy aid ef- now a major g«*ncral and the com ficisney in surveying mandant at that branch of the naval I attended school at the University Service. ••( tiiegon ami served »ev« ral years as In Florida where he had been en I S deputy surveyor m the district» gag<-<! as a surveyor on a railroad, the f w ashington «ml Idaho late Mldahlpman W«eka l«arn«<! that If nominated in the coming primaries an old firm In lloston was going out »nd «lectc’i m Novcmlx'r to the office of business One of ths partners had f county surveyor. I «ill endeavor to died and another bad become blind •ive to the citigen» c»f Linn county th«* Henry Hornblower, a sou of one of - »t of my know l«-dge ard experience. th«» partners. and the youthful Mr. Weeks bought Ibe business, the lat I* »id tdv ) ter borrowing the money with which to begin bls career aa a banker and broker llornblower acted for the firm on the floor of the 'ioston Stock Ek- change Weeks kept the books and waited on th« ruslom-rs as they ap peared In a few years the two young men had offices all over New England and lu cities as far away as Chb ago. "1 got my first valuab'e business Idea from a famous New ' rigland dressmaker," Captain Weeks »aid to the writer of thia artlcl "A friend u.io cam« to spend 'be night at our bouse was talking to Mrs Weeks while I was reading a newspaper I hear»! her say that she had bought a ’aid Adv.) dress in Jtoston. an«! that soon after, on returning to the store, the pro prietor. noticing her al the «-ounter aake<! if she had purchased th«* dross «he was wenrltig at his «stablishment Republican candidate for nomination On learning that she had. he said: for the office of ' Il Is not right Please give your nam«* and address to the clerk and w< shall correct the matter at once.' A Story of Great alue. ' ’Hut." th«* * oaten replied the dress If elected I will continue my same pol la satlsfa* tory lo m« Whatever is • y to faithfully diachrrgv my duties wrong is ho small that It Is not worth at all times; strict law enforcement; mentioning ' 'Rmall to you. uadam.' th« man »¡ecial attention to tax collection, par ticularly <ielinquent taxis. answered hut very la»g«* to us' (I aid Adv. " And do you know,' the wuman told Mrs Weeks, the dress was not only taken back, hut it was kept and I was given a new one. I repeated th«- s'ury to my partnei next day,' Captain Weeks said, and from that time otiaard we tried tc pleas«* our < uHtomers before we thought of ourselves and the probable profit*» we could make In our trans actions.** Three years ago. following at once his eleciion to the upper II oum ol Congress. Captain Weeks sold out t< his partner» and dlspos«-d of every in V terest that might be thought, even In directly, to Influence hi» Judgment as (Paul Advertisement) a lawmaker It It aald in New Eng land that he has always been <cry ■ a refill about bls re| itation a» ■ lusl nets man An anecdote told Of him In State street, the Wall street of Itos ton. shows how his sensitiveness tc Candidate for public opinion on one occasion proved highly profitable to bls («rtner and himself (Concluded next week) Having had experience with the county records, and being familiar with the work in th«* Recorder's office, I feel that I can run the office efficiently ai d economicaliy. Your support will 1« Candidate for th<» Republican nomina ajipreciated. (Paid Adv. tion fur ALFRED L GEDDES County Surveyor Ford CWIl E'HS.IL cm 77/A’ There is only one n-aaonwhy Ford cars are de- rrar>!«“-l by over half the car buyer» in this They are better cars. country. The Ford has demonstrated its auperurity by all the Usta of tun--, in every kind of use The demand is great becauc'-thwvaiue is greet, liettcr buy y«*ur» now. IL ■ al ut >390; Touring Car S44O; >.'4*0, Town t ar IMO; Htdan 1740. • Coupeiet All price» f. o. b. Iktroit. j On Display ami For Sale at | FRED T. BILYEU Residence t Ph no. Home 27 SCIO, OREGON R. M- RUSSELL ItepilblicHli CHihli- (hitc for County ClerK Present incumbent D. H. Bodine SHERIFF Captain John Wingate Meeks "There was no Insurance the pol had lapsed and the Ore swept Sway all of my father's means and put a burdensome mortgage on his farm, t -.o and a half miles in the country." If there had been a navy of a re • ¡able else In HUH John Wingate Weeks would now be a captain In • ad of a senator Nor would he t er have bocona» a banker and thus > v ■■ »<•! nt naught all the traditions of '. >. f.. i.il» for self respecting, «¿pable and wholesome poverty And yet a i <y<hologiial analysts of ■h'-rttod traits might show that the yenator come» naturally by his talents • >r public affairs and finance Anv *»qulry Into his personality must In 'Chide the Wingates the chief of wbotn, John, an Engllshniari. emigrated to .New Hampshire In 1666 The Week»«» and the Wingates In I rmarrled during the second Amer) r <n generation - the Weekses to con tinue as farmers, with an eicurslon ^Inlo potato starch as has been re 'corded, but the Wingates to become soldier», preacher» and statesmen , Paine Wingate for example the great grandson of John, was a member of the Continental congress and later a senator from New Hampshire A Big Man Physically. John Wingate Weeks of Masaacbu 4 tt*. In hl» name, therefore goes hack to the middle of the seventeenth cen turv Perhaps his gifts are equally aa ancient Whrrever they originated he has made good use of th« m He Is wellto-do hut has leas mon-w per haps than la often represented and republicans In Massachusetts have no tified the country that he Is their cam didst« for president If he la nonti naled at Chicago In June, th« main reason will have been that he In a husmea» man His candidacy, then. «Ill be something entirely new in na- . * **' polltli a in hl» measurements Captain Weeks 'i n A. ge man A reasonable go ess at J la weight would be !50 pounds S!*s stature, perhaps is five feet and elaven inches Ills eyes are gray and k»< xx«ner la frank and heartv While af Iks aaeal academy h« could slowly ra.'ae a 11.' pound dumbbell above his ka»d with his right hand Then kneel teg w.'lk one leg. he could alowlv raise •a g< pound dumbbell with his left 2>and More than that he could lower h.ls hands to hie shoulders and slowly and simultaneously put both dumb veils above his head Ike second liras A muscular youth he su recoin •a..id cd bv hl» principal to the pru dent lai committee' that cal1e«f at th« ac.'.iicmy in Lancngter on a. hupt ct a • '• A* J. H. GLASS ■iw .MOr or »i»a».>«ics»»»*»«-'>l»uw»aoawH»i»w»MHmuKar«»Miaa.i»w: t Mill Park SCIO. Company OREGON <7\\ *»til«i In pIc.iM d t<> figure on your lions»* anti barn liiU.x. <pV<* can fur.iinli «ilo nlave« in any length r« <|iiire<i. DOUGLAS FIR LUMBER Brownsville, Ore. Republican candi date for nomination (’onntv Treasurer Ralph Thom OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT ' JP FOLGERSÍS Is compii to and our stock fresh and (dean. üoideaÍMM S» line of Spiers, and in needed Countij Recorder CHARLES H LEONAFD County Surveyor radial«- m F*ig peering of O, l.C. and I ave had six years practical experience, on»' year municipal engineering ami live • •are surveying in I inn county ar»<1 am l.-c owner of the original field notes of i T. 1 Fisher. County surveyor from INMl to | am familiar with hand ling dceii», road records, and other : .-coni» of the co ntv | have platted tne Road Indnx of all th«* couny roads in I inn county which is in use at prvs- «nt. ii’aul Adv. P. H. FREERKSEN Candidate for Republican nomination for Linn W E. CHRISMAN ,,( ) Candidate for Re publican nomination tor (’onntv * < »oinmis- sioner tor Linn coun ty. i Taid Advertisement) COKNKK J. S. STICK A, Proprietor nerv, Ire Cream, TobaccoX nr.d Cigars J Ost Cards a Specialty r SCIO. OREGON J (Paid Adv.) Mrs. Ida Maxwell Cummings Coimtv •r Com- County School Supt. m ¡skinner Subject to the primaries May 19. 1916 ;V Republican candidate for Personal supervision of ail schools, lie tier text books and practical work. Paid Adv.) loid 1h»t I here Maa No «.ore lor as well an your own satisfaction that a Him 2Bc bottle of Chamberlain's tablets not "After suffering for over 20 years only relieved me but cured me within with indigestion and having some of two months although ! am a man of the be»t doctors here tell n»e there was 65 years.” writes Jul. Grobien. Hous, no cure for m<*. I think it only right to ton, Texas. Otnainable everywhere tel! jeu fcr tie sake of oll-er svffeirrs