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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1917)
b* • ' « '■»> -j’.Y • ■'r.'i; ■ ■ ■ r.'i. PLANNING FOR BEST FAIR YET « Dates Set for September ’ Ö. YOUR RSwKIPTlON F\! II F- on the dab- stamped li> the apace I- low To tho«e who pay promptly in advance the xubseription price is *|.oo per year. The prie»- ia II.Ä if , mih I during year, rhe pa|M»r la ore ent to sube-ml-ers who are mure than on« year in arrears 19 and 20 I As usual the oldest and first established county fair in the state will be held at Scio, on September 18. 19 and 20. Thia will be the eleventh annual fair held by the association, and Mrs Alex McDonald dti-d at promises to excel any previous their home southwest of town one. An entirely new line of Tuesday night afteran illness of amusementt. and attractions will sever.tl months, and interment be brought forward this season was made today, Thursday in for the benefit of the many visi the Miller cemetery. She le.-tvt > tors. beside her husband, several At the recent annual meeting children and grandchildren and a an entire new- Ivoard of directors host of friends to mourn her de was elected with one exception. parture. Probably not another Dr Prill, the originator and head couple in these parts has hnd of the fair for the past ten years, more warm personal frisnds out being retained, much against his side the family than have Mr wishes. The new board of di and Mr > McDonald. rectors consists of I A Munkers, Geo M Bilyeu. J L Calavan, N 1 .Morrison and Dr Prill, all of Scio, and D W Rumbaugh of Albany. The organization of the board has been completed b> The Operetta. "Prince Charm the election of the following of ing." which was given at the ficers: high school auditorium last Sat I)r A G Prill, president, 1 A Munkers, vice president, urday evening, was well re ceived, over 160.00 being taken Jennie Shelton, secretary, R V Shelton, assistant secre in at the door. A Unit ninety of the pupils of the schools partici tary, pated and much hard work was E D Myers, treasurer. The following superintendents evidenced by the splendid man have been appointed, who are all ner in which the participants well qualified in their respective took their parts. The student body and the faculty deserve departments: Curtis Cole, Kingston, horses much credit for the play. and cattle, S F Zysset, Thomas, sheep, St IIDDL NOTES goats and swine. Edwin Holland, Scio, poultry, 1) W Rumbaugh, Albany, ag The operetta given at the riculture. horticulture and dairy, school audit >num last Saturday .Mrs Frank Gill, Scio, textile, evening Feb 17 was a great suc Mrs P H MacDonald, Scio, art. cess. AU parts were taken very floral and cereal, nicely and every one has spoken Mrs R L DeVaney, All>any, a good word for the school and school fair. faculty. Th-» operetta was Amusement program commit "Prince Charming” or "The tee: capture of th«- Q ieen of Hearts. 1 A Munkers. chairman, Scio, Ca»t of Characters Wayne Stewart, Albany, St. Valentin« W Ifreil t'slavan T K Sanderson, Scio, Prince Charming Pvibert Ixing Maur:«-!' Whit«- Cupid. .................. P H .MacDonald, Scio, Edris l’»M«ry Queen of Tarts.. Dr E ii Hobson, Scio. ........ Gai) Jun«» Jack The premium list has been re Freda Thayer Jill......................... vised and special premiums added Puck........................... ... Verl Tindall and the book will be ready for Maid Molly ......... Neva Thaver . Thoma» Prospal Father. .... distribution at an early date. Ethel Ingram The school fair premium list Mother ............ ... Ixrlta Coury will be more complete than ever, Nanette (French Mind) Coquette .................... Horvnce "mith a ¡d this department, with the Sally............................ Eleanor Parrish assistance of .Mrs Ida M Cum Jane ................................ Lavina Bauman mings, county school superin General Fairies. Special Valentine«. tendent, promises to be one of Tart Maids. Indians, Ri-ception Girl*. the most complete features of Butterflies, Violets, Silver and Gold, Roaes— from all grade». this year’s fair. , Tne Freshman clast is going A fine new barn for the hous ing of the cattle exhibit will b»- to give a program Feb 22. The ready for the fair this fall, being event being George Washingtons ¡AM) feet long and 30 feet wide, birthday. The program follows a .............. Eilns Peery With the liberal assistance of Piano Solo Doris Shelton the Linn County Court and the Bertha Patrony generous help of the citizens of |Ur”tatl„n .............. Lucile While the Forks of the Santiam, the Song Fr« hrr.an Class George Patrouy 1917 fair will be a record Ker.ution ........ Maurice Wh.te breaker. 8010 Mrs. A. R. McDonald Deceased Pri nee Charming A Success •peoch Green beef hides are worth 17ke per pound, veal hides 23c at I the Sanitary Market. % ■•’n7*" i -4? * *- ' * ' • a « Dr. F H Gasclbracnt The bubiic is cordially invited. The return game of the Kich- (Concluded on page 4) CoagreMman Sinnott baa recel» ed notice that th«- secretary of axrlrul lure has recommended the elimina tion of a considerable body of land along t'row nn«l Cheaultnus creeks In Wallowa uation j U forest. At a meeting f Canyon»Illi’s wo Principal Events of the Week man routu <1 held lart wick. Mrs T C. Sha». a promln -nt resident of |hat Briefly Sketched for Infor- eliy was idi-i-ti 4 mayor Th«- mayor «ration of Our Readers. of Canyonville Is elected by the couu ell and not by the voter«. In the endeavor tn further apricot Umatilla's woman mayor ha» »after- culture in The Italics section, the twu ed a tiervol!» breakdown l*rndleton's first annual automobile local canneries are i ffcrlng as an In.Im -'¡in-lit to sign contracts for all show waa held last week the growers can produce al *-’5 a In annual coavcnttoa the Grande • t> delivered at t the plants Ronde Haptlat a»» w dation held a If Infantile paral)«I« ahould break three day »esslon at Maker out In Oregon i thu summer, the state Fire destroyed the general tnrr< han I disc star« of G c Clark nt Flora board of health will hate trouble In dealing with the situation because of I with a loss of about *14.000 the small appropriation made, says Professor I .a in.I of the poultry and fi- David f’oberg. the'secretary pig department of <> a C.. held a Robert Gavin, of Portland. la to get j three da) s' ritension course in Free the reward of *¿00 offered by the slate water for the capture of Edward Bartholo The eyi'cuttve committee In chan?« mew. the convicted murderer of John of the Reseturg strawberry fcatlval I.Ind. the "green trunk" victim In a lias decided t<> hold thia year's car- Portiund lodging !iou»< a year ago last nival May 17. IS and 19 The governor appointed I. I. Mullí. fall of Portland, and William II (lore, of Th" following fourth class postmas Medford, to ths board of reg' nt» of ters han- Veen appointed in Oregon the t'nfversi.y of Orizon. IP mil— H<> kli-r 1'1 «»ant Valley, vice A banquet «»I tendered to the of A F Staler, resigned. Evan M liar fliers and men of the returning Ore rls. Itujada vice I. H lllstiey. resign gon ami Washington troop* from the ed: Hertha M Cleer. Harriman. vice Meilcan bord-r at Portland C I- l.ie. r.algned Th* |M>tato grow era of il-nton conn The SuulJern 1‘aclflc company ha* ty h< Id a meeting at lrfbh H-nd last placed arm d guards at bridges and week and orgat.Ued the llenion Coun tunnels both on the main Hue and ty Potato Growers' a* <« latlon the Coos ba< and <>ak Itlditx branches The logging camps In the vicinity out of Eug ne to guard against pun of Black Kock are bu»y and a full slble Interfi «nee with traffic In view force of men Is employed In Ixilldlnx ot the Inter- -itlocal situation new roads and getting ready for the Proponed ’.'.riffs materially advanc cprlng work ing Inlrasu. ■■ freight rati-s on several ,MI»a Harriet lune, second daughter clan»'» uf freight Oil the Spokane. of Sender ami Mr# llnrry Lane, uf Portland i battle, the Oregon Elec Oregon, was married In Bah-more to tric and t% ■ Southern Pacific coin- Dr S D Hicks, a praev Irg phy»ici;in p in i lin. » tn Of on were suspended of Norfolk, Vs In ihrie nr-.t- leaucd by the public Hrgintratlun for the second seme« S' r»|iv com .tlsalon. ter al the L'nlvi rally of On got. .s now I'm'lam! » the official rose city of practically completed, si b th- book» Notice has been re «how in* In'!.' wh>i have signed the th- north*-st ceived that he American Rose bcm lety roll a'm e September a its PH" -ig In Philadelphia last It Is expected that the valuable |>»w » ». p i 4 Portland, thus ending W site near Sal n r ntly purr .I by the C K Spaulding ia>.rgliig com a tin- cor’i-nd fight for the honor pany. will be used to develop power wi "h has been waged by Portland. Seattle and Tacoma for a year past for a large paper mill Mor- ths JOO persona Interested In With a view of making possible the handling of all small fruit» pro'l l. c4 the gi.iin I idustry of the uoriliw-si In Douglas county, the business men Including g o«»rs. shippers and mill of Roseburg are considering the -stab era. attrndi 1 a hearing conducted In Portland la-: w-k by reprear nut I vea llshment of a cannery Governor Wlthycomhe apiHilnted of the department of agriculture Th" Dr C T Bacon, of I s Grande; Dr. h-arlng »■ .»llnl,to gather li.forma Robert J Marsh, of j-ortlatvd. and Dr lion and s»gk suggest Ions to be U»rd Harry E. Clay, of Salem, a» members later as a basis for establishing uni form grain itandards. of the state board of health Counting only g-neral bonds. Port Rcprt aentallvc Sinnott filled two land Is within l4.tl0h.0tW> of the limit vai atieli•» !• the list of appointees at of Its Indebtedness as provld-d In tlie ths Wr»t •olnt military academy, city charter The outstanding bonds appointing is principals Merrill C Jasper, of .taker, and E'lla V Will of Portland aggregate *17.047 wm Dr Frank Wood, of Portlard, was lamron. of tai Grande. As alternates appointed by Governor Wlthyeombe h" appointed Clinton ln«le. of lai to succeed Dr Luther H Hamilton, Grand», I rynton B Pinete, laike also of Portland, as a member of the view ; Asa -7. Williams. of Maker, and state board of medical examlnc-a Virgil H I rattaln, Lakeview. Dr II L Bte-vra. of Salem, was The few hop sales reported In th«* elected president of the board ot Iru» past weck were at low price«, The tecs of Willamette t'niveraity to sue outlook for ih" r< malnder of th" sea coed the late T S McDaniel at a eon la unsitlsfactory aa there la a meeting of the b< ard hel l tn Portland lari-- surpl-ia on the coast and there Th^ secretary of the Interior an la no chancy of th" export outlet b"lng nounces the opening to entry on np«-n"d. from present Indications. March •. of approximately 1300 acres Stocks left in Oregon are estimated at In the second unit of the west exten 17.000 bali-v In grower«' hands, while sion of the Umatilla reclamation pro dealers hoK about 5000 bales ject. That th" Ho>d River valley appt* Dairy products of all kinds will l>" grower« wl I receive at least *1,2*0.000 displayed at the Western Dairy Prod for their aople crop thia season now ucts show to be held In Portland a*-- ms - rtilti The apple crop of the March I and 2 under the auspices of valley, aa »s-lmafed by the shipping the Western Dairy Instructors’ a*so Interests, wilt to’al approximately !.. cist Ion 250.000 botes, and It la reported that Oregon's ftfty-elghth birthday, th* th" fruit • III net th" grower» bark, anniversary of the state's sdmlsslnn after shipping rhargre have been paid. to the Union, which occurred In 1*5®, appro»imat. ly Il per box average for was celcbra’ed by the Sons and all grades. Daughters of Oregon Pioneers with a Acting «i on Inatnictfona from Sher banquet tn Portland Iff George Quine. of llo«"burg. the of- Machinery for a recall election f1< > rs s’ Ti - oma. Wash., arrested Carl against County Judge M-salch and Si I >11 on • rha.-ge of threatening to Commissioner J. P. Ritter was set In kill Attorni • General George M Brown motion at a meeting -of several hun of Salem. ■•-<! IHatrlct Attorney Oeorye dred representative taxpayers of Ba Neuner of Roseburg. Attorney Gener ker county at Baker. •I Brow« tald ile would either have I OF GE.1ERÄI INTEREST PAPER OVER CENTURY OLD • K Contains Account of, Death of “Father of I its Country J F Parker left at the Newt office it few tiny a ago. a copy of the Ulster County (New York! Gazette, which he prize» very highly, It bears the date, Jami- ary 4. 1800, consists of four pages of four columns each, ami is a little smaller than this paper. The first page is taken up with an account of the proceeding» of Congress, ami reprints from the Ixmdon pap.-rs of October 19. 1799. which had juat arrived on the "II tmburgh mini,” giving an account of the battle of Zur ich. Pages two and three have the column rules turned in mourning and ar«- largely given over to un account of the death and funeral rites of "General George Wash ington, who departed this life mi tile 14th I > c.'intH r, 17901 Also messages of condolence from the Senate, the House and from Pres. John Adams, from the latter of which the following (Concluded on |tage 4) Eehols tun id over to the fiderg! of fici Js f<>r prosi i utloa or committed to the Ore, >n hospital for the Insane, A new p*vfect for the Coquille river harteir has be« n outlined by the Port of Hand« n vud approved ty the United States engll iw-rs, which will nn an the Immediate eipendlture of 1100.000, sud llo.onn a year for an Indefinit» period ThJ alvi of the port la io maintain a 15 toot ( hannet from the month of lie river to >*ark«n>liurg and a 12-fOot channel from that point to Coquille. making It p itsibl" for oc ali gning alean, -ni I» dock at <' mullir An Irrtgat’on system ta scheduled to lw* Inatnlh' l I»i the Crane section. the water to b* derived from Malheur lake, pve i.iiloa southwest uf Crane. Surveys are low Icing rustie for ths main ditmea and a pumping plant on the ahora of the lake, electric power to be developed on 'he Malheur river above Drewxey II la learned that •ufflcUnt water will be taken from Lake Malheur to Irrigate ¿4.400 acres of laipl. located between Ijirrn and Crane, »r.d east and south of th« lake David (’. Eccles, wealthy timberman and railroar owner, of Ogden. Viali, and head of lie Oregon Lumber Com pany, which r< < rntly purchased 27.-’40 acres of chol> e Oregon timber land from the P-i Itola Lumber Company, has annoimi ed that the *4.000,000 pur chase was iitle fi r th« purpone of operation and not for speculation AO soon as cru sera have finished their work tn the tlmbrr a erow of survey- ors will bo »ent out with Instructions to rush the^- work as much as pos- elble that jeflnlte plans may bo launched for the n•■.strurthm of the logging road Oregon ya-k rabbit furs have been acceptixl as salute'torv for maklag hatters' felt t.v si« large .-astern man«- firturer» Vg • I-r «.interi firm has placed a teat irder for 1000 skins silk R A, Ward. I nlted States assistant biologist, who has ent several sample bales to eastern hat firms Mr Ward, who la conducting an anti Jackrabbit campaign In K’amstli county In oo- operatlon with the . ounty agent, re ports a standing order for all skins that can be furnlsned at 5 rente apiece. Th" fur le ri. 'i>torlly taking the piai ■ of former A istrallan and gtan Importai Ioti4 thaï have been In terrupt'd by th< Sun p< wn confi ick, i •' * > è I w >•■