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About The Scio tribune. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1914-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1916)
THE SCIO TRIBUNE SCIO. LINN COUNTY, OREGON. At Gt ST Called to Stayton The Holley agricultural fair will be held on October « and 7. Thl« ia a local fair generally limited to the Caiiponia valley, yet It ia grow- i mg in importance and 1« reaching out over into the Sweet Home country. It ia resulting in great good to the agricultural and stock interests in that locality and la at tracting many people from the out- aide every year. It ia a moat worthy enterprise and rertecta credit upon iu projector«. President Prill report« that the fair ground« are ready for the fair. The new exhibit building i* com pleted. the exhibit tenu are up ami the race track ia in the beat condi tion ever. e w £ XT Jr Ì < j J The 12-year-old e>n of Joe Rhoner when attempting to make a sort of bomb Tuesday, by placing powder in a l»>ttlr with |>a|wr for a ( um - To we if it would go, he touched a match tn the paper, while holding the bottle in his hand. The experi ment wan a success The boys hand was nearly tom away and two finger* are now lacking. Mrs. James Dorris. of Centralia. Wash., is visiting Mrs. Reliecca Morris thia week. Mrs. Dorris »»• s resident of Scio many years ago. when her family was small and her husband living. Now the husband is dead and all of the children grown and some of them have families of their own. ' / j Genuine War Picture* WHAT WILSON The Strike Situation The big railway strike, which would involve 400.000 employee and about all the principal railway lines is probably on the road to settle ment. The employes main contention was for an eight-hour dav and time and one-half for overtime. At the solicitation of President Wilson, they Most republicans have a feeling have modified the demand to an B- "I wish he had not come to the hour day and regular pay for over coast.” They are disappointed, but time. party fraltv prevents many of them The railway employers liaJked at from expressing their opinions. As the B-hour day and favor submitting the hope of electing Mr. Hughes the differences to a board of arbr fades away, they will more freely 11ration express tnemselves. As several roads now pay The supply of river boulders at men on the B-hour dav basis, the rock crusher plant seem« abun believed that ail the roada will, in dant for all requirements. Work the end. concede the demar da for in surfacing South Main street is the B-hour day. for one year at programing nicely and. doubtleas least and arbitrate the balance of will be completed in time for the their differences. This is the plan j President Wilaon prop uses fair. » Union of St. Louis, who made th» appeal, declared there were at l«-a«f 8.000,000 Catholic voters in the country, "quite a force for bringing about of proper condition" he said "That.” he added, "is almost as many as the republican party polled at the last general election. That very Dumbrr places in our hand* a power to be used in work« of social civic betterment, in work» of mercy and of peace. When the Catholic arm is uplifted let it Im for con struction always, but never for de struction." Mr. Zipf asserted he was not con tending for a religious party, but for an organization of Catholics to bring into public life a spirit of liberty and toleration, "We must be so organized, and under such leadership that upon ocea»i<-n* we speak forcibly a« one man and say to the Mack hand of religious in toleration. hyprocisy and hatred, 'thou »halt not enter here; so far ■halt thou go and no farther.’ ** Hie Pi-oplrs theatre will hair pictunw of some of the «cvne» of the big war now going on over in Europe, taken when the luittle« were going on, next Saturday and Liat oi Judge* lor the County Fair Sunday nighu. One may get some conception of the daily «cenea of Agronomy exhibit. Prof, J. E. horror, by visiting this show. Every (.arson. thing but the sound of the cannon ia Horticulture exhibit, including shown. , vegetables. Prof W. 8. Brown. Home economics de|>artment. Miss Ladies Special Notice Anna Turley. Dairy exhibit. Prof W. A. Barr. We would like as many exhibitors IJve «lock. C. N. Kennedy. in th* ladies depaitment as can do Industrial school exhibit, L. J. so, to bring their work to the fair Allen grounds Monday afternoon. Septem Poultry exhibit/C. C Lamb. ber 4. as our new pavilion ia com Dairy herd milking teat, will Iw pleted and thia will greatly facilitate announced later. our work. The judging of the industrial Mrs A. G. Prill «•hool fair will liegin on the morn Mrs. W F. Gill ing of Septemlier «. Superintendents. It is important that ail exhibits be in place the dav before, as noth- i Oregon's percentage of attendance mg will be received in any of the J of her rural schools is the highest de|«artments after six o'clock Sept. of any stale in the Union. Her 5. Judges in other departments will mark is 90«; Owineticut follows Iwgin work on the morning of the with HR.4. Maryland is the lowest 7th except dairy herd milking test, with M per cent. The average for which will begin on the fith. ’ the United States is 67.«. Cviipî? '•■s’ k r; I