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About The Scio tribune. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1914-1917 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1915)
r ■ % ♦\ Í* « , I Î • > * '• i /' H • « >'"• « - - ♦ i _>. » •. • '»!'■•«-«-■-— < y :< : • - ’ * < f •< «,.♦ • • « I-V» ,• ■ • K. i»' >*v* f > ‘ I •« » V w >* • U' * • % • i ' THE SCIO TRIBUNE UttfUKP KV KRY THIRRUAY HY T. U. DÜÜUKR. Kt>in>K BNt» flCOI' n termi at the rmatotfice at Scio. Oregon a* æcond class matter. atium KtrnoN. in a uva Ni k IL26 AT KNl> or YKAR L5o SIX MoNTHM .Th AtlVKKTIHINt; KATKM: l/ical advertising, par line 5c Display advertising, per inch 10c Display advertising, long time, are manager. Extended marriage or drath notice»' per I Im- Sc Special rates on long time display advertising WHY STRINGENT TIMES’ T is gem-rally admit ted that, while there has been plenty of mom-j in the Irnnk« and to loan on first clas* farm mortgages during the past war. there has existed a finan cial stringency a dis|swition not to «|H*nd money in investments hy our moneyed men. Just why this condition exist can l»e, at least, partially accounted for Alsiut the only sourr«-« of bringing money from outside points to On- gon. aie our wheat fields. Hocks, dairies, stock, salmon industry and lumtw-r Other manufacturi«*« are small Our expenditures for ordi nary family supplies, farm imple ments. (mtronage of the mail order houses, automobiles, etc., are the things which attract money else where. Of course our merchant« supply their stocks of goods from eastern factories. Our farm implements are nearly all products of eastern factories likewise our pleasure carriages, automobiles, etc. arc all products of the east Secretary of State Olcott is authority for the statement that Oregon has 22.000 or more automobiles The average cost of these machines is. probably. fNiin each, making the cost of thia one item more than fl7,000,000. If to this we add what goes to the mail order houses and what merch ants pay for their goods, an immense sum of money leaves the state, never to return, unless we sell Ore gon products to bring it Itack I »• * . • . ’ •“/ -r - ‘i »• , - -. • .•»•• i - f -•. r? \ • •. • «. '-. • >v- »• < ► THE EUROPEAN WAR » * . *■•*■•' r K «els Bomb dropping upon unforti fied towns by which women ant children are murdered, has become a common piactice Might make« right” seems to lie the rule of action especially from the German view point. < >ur friends on the other side, nevertheless th«-y ls>ast of place« of education, their excellence in art and other things which are suppose-! Pi indicate a high state of civiliza tion. have at <>ne leap jumped back to the Dark Ag»-» »nd rival ev«m Caligula in brutality and Itarbarism What an immense responsibility they bav«» assume«! in thus setting the world liackward a thousand years General Sherman characterized war as "hell.” This term would not express his idea, if he were alive to day and should express bis opinion.. Possibly this unusual cruelty am! brutality may Is- the means of bringing al»out a general disarma ment of th«» worid sooner than would otherwise lie if Th«« Hague agree ment* were strictly adhered to. l«et u« hope that w h««n pence i* finally ■utablished that a broader liberty for th«* people involve«! will reoult. |»»t u* hope that this, the moat cruel of modem wars, will so inspire th«’ pe«>ple of it« terrible connequences that war will be displaced by arbi tration amt that the arbitrament nf the «word will no longer have a place among civilized js-oples • > V. « . ■< \- .- * r *.t* A ># • • ♦ ' .lisWwáafaM Spring Time is FORD Time 1915 MODEL FORDS HAVE JUST ARRIVED All new 1-ords are fully equipped, having electric lights and stream line body. A new idea is the Ford Buyers Profit Sharing Plan. 5-Passenger Touring Car - $ 565 2-Passenger Roadster - - $515 For f urther I’articulara arc b red T. Bilyeu Ford Agent. Scio. Ore. Th«- Tribune sincerely hopes that tentative plan* for improving Main street l»y cutting it to grade and covering the same with crushed rock, will materialize in the actual work tx-ginning l»-forv mid summer W - are told that nearly all, if not all. the l>usin«-M men am! property owners along ths street, favor the proposition In order that the im provement shall have the sanction of law. it ia necessary for the city council to enact an ordinance order ing th«’ improvement Petitions are being prepare«! which The Tri bune hopes, will I m * signed by every property owner Then the city council can not refuse to act. The streets of all our neighboring towns are in better condition than those of Scio. There is no reason why th«» should lie so. except that our citizens refuse to act Thia fact is cause for remarks by visitors and will soon liecome detrimental to our town. The Health of Your Baby Depends largly upon the regular movement of the child's bowels. A gentle laxative is very likely just what your child need». Rexall BABY LAXATIVE Will tend to produce a gentle action sure, safe and not followed by the weakness which so often accompanies bowel regulators • Rj-xall Raby Laxative contains no harmful drugs an«! is guaranUwd to satisfy or your money back 35 cents SOLD ONLY BY E. C. PEERY, DRUGGIST TTAc T^eiall Store SCIO ■> y • yM«-* •••K'*“***’* W • F* • !•■ r / <’A • >♦ ' icjitr »>■■■— , .' HILE most people are heartily tired of reading the conflict ing European war mws, then- is a certain facmation which fore«-« on«1 tn give the war dispatches, at least, some notice We read French and Germany reports of th«- same Imttle when lioth sides claim to have made gains. We are. therefore, at sea. For Rent We do not know which side to lie While wc haw had the highest lieve. At the same time, we can | Small place for rent, «»ne-half mile grain priera during the past vrar not help feeling sorrowful for the south of Scio. Good house and bsrn. for many years, the price of meat boys in the trenches Poor fools plows, harrows, cultivators, both products la not so good as last year, they undergo untold hardsht|M, on- i well and spring water, all kinds of which ia also true of dairy products. dangering their lives and health and fruit, peaches, paars, apples, cher Wool is bringing good prices, but at the close of the war. they will go ries. gra|M-a. Ixgsn bornes. b00 the bottom has dropped from the home ami earn money with which goose liernes will he heavy crop. lumber market Building opera to pay the colossal war debt And giHMW Iwrry cleaner, some wood and tions have dropped off at home ami for what are they fighting! Just hay goes with the place. the war has shut down the European that the plans <»f the rn«»ney power In«|uire of R. Shelton, Scio, Oro. j market. Public enterprises, railway crown«*d head« and politicians may extensions, etc have dropjird off as Bid. W*anted further their own selfish purposes. well Fzigland. France. Germany. Russia Now as a matter of fact if we and Austria claim to lie civilized School District No 96, will issue buv more stuff than we aril, at the Christian nations. At The Hague, warrants to the amount of 11500. end of the year we are sure to have in times past, these nations have at 6 |>rr cent interest, denominations less money, for money must make subscribed to certain rules and of ||IM) or multiples, due 1500 in UP deficiencies Thia has bren our regulations. signed treatise, etc., one. two and three years. All blds condition for the past year. The which morally obligated the signa be received P. M May 10, 1915. depression of lumber has thrown tory powers. By this agreement, School Board reserves the right many men out of employment and the barbarous practices of former to reject any or all bids. labor feel« the strirgency very wars were supposed to have lieen J E Wesely. quickly when employment erases. ruled out. Noncomhattanta, mer 5-fi Scdiool Clerk. All of these combined causes, oc- chant vessels not earning contra curing at one and the same time, band goods, fishing vessels, etc., Fishing Tackle could not help but produce a finan unfortified towns and tip* ruthlesn rial stringency, But. if reports are destruction of private property was If you want fishing tackle to take true we haw passr<i the summit of forbidden. with you on your early spring out the stringency hill and times are The practice from almost the first ing. d«»n't fail to see Hagey, the likely to grow gradually better. declaration of war, has been to pay jeweler, about it. He has just re Eastern people are reported tn be no regard whatever to The Hague ceived a new stock which is the l>rst coming to the coast and many will agreement». Germany marched her the market affords. probably buy homes All will spemi armies onto Belgian territory, deal some money and these visitors alone ing unheard of destruction to pri-I If you want the Oregonian, the should materially increase money in vate property, all in direct violation' Journal or the Telegram, we will circulation Gram prices are likely of a solumn treaty. Unoffending furnish it to you at lews than to rule high, wool will bring the merchant vessels are destroyed Ml “bargain day” rates, providing you best price for years, many of our ruthlessly as if they were war vee-, are a subsrriiirr to The Tribune. W •< ¿fe V • ■»•». lutnl>rr mill« art* now «»(«’rating up to their cape«-ity. rn»-at ptKw ar»* likely to grow better, etc. All of th«-«e combined caum*« are likely to make the Belling end of the teter board the heavier and which will create a money surplus, causing im provements to again move forward and place idle lal»or at work Our republican brethren are charging the democratic adminintra- lion with living the cause of these conditions. Of course this i« unfair tn*causr the thinking man. providing he is honest ami unprejudiced, knows that the foreign war is the main cause. It has prevented the tariff law from operating a» it would under normal comlitions. thus creat ing the so-called "war tax” in time of |M-acr Had normal conditions prevailed, the increase in importa tion of foreign goods would haie greatly increased and their «ale in our markets, in compétition, would haw reduced the price of dona-stir made goods and a Consequent reduc tion in th«- cost of living Th«- war, in effect, amounts tn a prohibitory tariff So until th«- war is over and nor mal conditions ate restored. a true test of the tariff law and other democratic policies cannot lie tried out and their worthinewi or worth- l««wsn«*s* tented So we cannot mea»ure or estimate normal conditions when th«- abnor mal maintains The «»-called finan cial strew» is now improving and will continue to improve as time advan ces. With the harvesting of wheat which now promises to lie a bumper crop and the good price we are like ly to get therefor, the gorsi price for wool, the influx of eastern horn«- buyers, etc'. Oregon promise« to be herself again in the near future The only disturbing feature now to be consider«! is the prohibition law to I* inaugurated next winter This will disorganize matters for a «pell, but will »«in l>e mijusted and the most prosperau* times in Oregon's history will then lie at hand. • - * **L * Jl .... OREGON «
