The Scio tribune and Santiam news, consolidated., August 16, 1917, Image 1

THE SCIO TRIBUNE
AND SANTIAM NEWS, CONSOLIDATED
• >L. XXI
NO. 2.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
SCIO. LINN COUNTY. OREGON. AUGUST 16. 1»17
SHELBURN ITEMS
I
GENERAL GORGAS
Alfred Blaich ford »nd family left
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched fer Infor*
mation of Our Reader».
John Jungwtrfha.
nicely.
W. H. McLain, wife and »on
¡drove to Mci'leay laal week to viait
their «laughter. Mrs. Russell.
Many of the farmers are harvest­
ing and threshing this week. Most
all report a better turnout of grain
than was expected.
I
Will Shope and family, of Grand
Canyon, Aritona. Mr. and Mrs IL
Shope and Mra. McLain spent Sun­
day at the home of H. 0. Shilling.
W. H McLain preached at Gates
Sunday and visited a cousin, Mrs.
Florence Star and family.
Oval Shilling spent the week end
with her sister. Mra. Iva McRae,
of near Thomas.
The two-months-old baby of Mr
and Mrs. Guy Wyman has the
whooping cough pretty badly.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Gibbons called
Burgeon General Gcrgss of ths
at the McLain home Monday evening United Stetes army, who will raise a
The Thomas Fire
On Wednesday. of last week, the
Thomas store, owned by S. S. Slew­
art, was totally destroyed by Are.
The Tribune has not learned how
the fire started. There was no firs
protection whatever and even the
well waa soon so involved that no
water could lie obtained therefrom.
The entire stock of goodsand house­
hold fixtures, it is said, were de­
stroyed. with but small insurance.
Several parlies from Scio drove
in their autos in quick time, but did
not arrive soon enough to be of any
service
The loss is estimated at
16000,
has arrived at
All are doing
Mias Riper and little brother, of Dtpudtucf Mast It Shows Btiond
Bor Hand, are vimting the Jaynes
Qatstiti Bttort Eitmptioa
1 family.
Erank Bletroke loaded another
car
of lumber at Shelburn this week.
The »late normal arhool will reopen
He la now waiting for the carpen­
at Monmouth Mepiembor •>
A total of 2743 persona visited Crater ters to atari on his new house
Lake during the month of July.
HInc< January I, thia year. 43.144
automobiles have been registers^ la
Oregon.
Corvallis has had a building growth
thia spring and aummer tha< wtO tot»'
3100.000.
K Yokota. a Japanese ranch hand,
eras fatally hurt In a runaway accident
at Hood River.
Oregon has an automobile to every
19 people, according to figures com
piled up to Auguat 1.
Yamhill county farmers are thresh
Ing a wheat crop that la averaging
two Hurds of normal.
The Oregon Agricultural college has
been rated by the war department as
of "distinguished rank.”
John Whitaker, a resident of Renton
county since I4&3. died at hla home In
Corvallis at the age of 74 years
Purina the first tlx months of the
present year Multnomah county has
expended 124''.314 on highways.
Ex< opting In a few favored localltlea,
young birds are declared a minus quan
tlty tn central Oregon thia year by
aasrhen hunters
No award has been made by the
Port of Aatoria for machinery for the
new 1.000,00V bushel grain blns. Only
one bld waa received.
Freda, 12 year old daughter of Poo
Mfollette of Colton, was thrown from
a rig and Instantly killed In a runaway
accident near Prineville.
The state highway commission has
entered upon a new method of con
strucUM by agreeing to pay contrac
tore actual cost, plus 12 per cent profit
Since the organisation of the state
in.!u» trial sc< ideut comcnlaaloo. Nov
ember 4. 1414. 23.442 accidents have
b> -n reported. of which 242 a era fatal
John Mci'urdy, 31 years old. was In
stanily killed at Heaver Crash ranch
near Usher when the roof of a grauary
ah cb be «as tearlug
collapsed
The pastoral conference of the Ore
gun and Washington district of the
evangelical Lutheran synod of Missouri
will convene in Salam. August 14 to
II.
An organisation to promote the in­
dustrial and agricultural development
of Clatsop county has been formed
by 24 representative men of the
county.
Yields of wheat In the vicinity of
Roseburg show that tall sown grain Is
yielding far more than --x pec ted al
though the apring town gram la a
heavy lose
Sale of state bunting licenses has
fallen way below the normal mark
for this period of the seaaon, accord
»M to Hute Game Warden Carl D
Shoemaker.
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Despite the damage of the long hot
season, reports from th« harvset fields
indicate that the yield of Umatilla
county grain will be a fair one
la
some places It will be as good as tn
the past
Pendleton has the distinction of kav
Ins provided riure nm for the second
officers' training camp than any other
Oregon city except Portland
Eight
of the successful applicants were from
Pendleton.
With ths draft machinery well an
der way, reports from all parts of
the slate to Adjutant General Georgs
A Whits Indicate that Oregon will
be ready with her quota of 717 men
September L
In lieu of the Josephine county fair,
which has been deferred on account of
war times, tbs merchants of Ornate
Pass plan a thres-day harvest horns
festival to bo held during tee week at
BÜRDEN OF PROOF
ON MARRIED MEN
JORDAN ITEMS
A bran new boy
I for Newport last Thursday
»1.50 THE YEAR
force of 45,000 surgeons fee army cerv­
ie e.
HOOVER TO CONTROL
FOOD OF AMERICA
Will Bi Grant*»
Bortland. Aug. 16. Exemption
claims
of young married men exam­
Aunt Jane Shelton, of Lyons, is
ined
by
Bortland's local exemption
visiting at the home of her son. H.
Ivoards must be proved lieyomi a
Shelton.
doubt if they are to be allowed.
Mra J. N. Bilyeu, of Crabtree,
Thia was agreed upon yesterday,
visited relatives in this vicinity
when the 11 local boards held a
recently.
joint conference at exemption head-
Mina Enid Kimball, of Corvallis,
quarters at the court house yeeter-
came up Saturday to I m * orcaent and
jday. The burden of proof in «vary
assist with the program which was
| instance will rest with the men who
held at the Wilton nark Sunday.
thus seek to evade army duty.
The Hag raising by the L. R. B.
Men of conacriptive age who have
League Sunday was largely attend­ relatives financially able to care fur
ed. An old time dinner and a tine the dependents will not be exempt­
program waa enjoyed by all.
ed. In this specific instance the
rules as laid dawn by the Ixtarda
Tipped off ol Bridge
vusterday are drastic. If it is shown
that the relatives of a prospective
John Frost recently purchased a conscript are able to take care of
new Grant Six automobile and start­ the dependents, they will be made
ed to drive the same to Scio last to do so whether they wish to do it
Friday with two ladies in the rear or not.
It was further agreed by the
seat. In making the turn to come
members
of the local boards thal in
into the apomach of the Miller
all
cases
of
doubt, the exemption
bridge across Thomas creek. John
claims
will
be
refused and the regis­
failed to make the turn as required,
trant
will
txr
compelled
to appeal to
if one wished to drive over the
the
district
board.
Unless
a regis­
bridge. As a result, the car took a
tumble from the approach and waa trant can show that his family must
tipped onto the aide. Two wheela, have his support to escape ixting
the femlera and the running l>oard thrown upon the charity of the
were smashed. Fortunately neither county, he muat be drafted into the
->f the occupanta were injured, We new selective draft army.
Washlngti-a -The American go«
srnmsnt assumed control of the cotin
try's food supply with ih* signing by
President Wilson of the admintslra
Uon s food survey and regulatory bills
Formal announcement of Herbert
Hoover's appointment as food admin
istrator waa made at the While House
soon after the measures were ap
proved
The food administration plan for
controlling wheat, flour and bread re
reals that th* government la pr>|>«erd
to take over the whole IBI7 wheat bar could assign a cause for the mishap
vm I it necessary to ronaervs the sup
if prohibition waa not in vogue. but
ply. obtaining just prices
EUROPEAN WAR NEWS
such excuse is not now in order.
Establishing of buying agencies at
Additional Japanese naval unite all the principal terminals, licensing Nor to John a new hand at running
have Joined the allied forces in Kuro of ele-. store and mills, fixing of prices a car for he has been driving one
peen s Aters, the British admiralty an to be considered fair, regulation of the . for the past five years and cannot
amneed
middleman and of grain exchanges, : plead the new beginner excuse.
in Galicia. Roumanians. Russians. with the elimination of trading in fa­
Germans and Austrians are locked in twas. are the chief features of the
a series of battles, which have been plan
The llceuaiug will begin Sep
in progress for days
temtxr 1.
Thirty two persona were hilled and
43 were Injured by the bornbe dropped
TO DISCUSS FOOD PROBLEM
by German raiders on southeaster*
I
'■ I . —
English coast towns Sunday
Tea Interstate
Agricultural
Conference
Home. —- Peace proposals made by
men. 13 women and nine children
Ca led at Spokane.
were killed
Thirteen men. IB wo­
Pope Benedict have been delivered to
Pullman. Wash -President E. O.
men and 12 cbildreu were injured
all the belligerent governments. The
Holland, of Washington Ulate College,
The French forces made further
pope suggests restoration of Belgium,
received a request from Hccrelary
progress against the German positloM
Serbia and Houmania and peaceful
Houston, of ih« department of agri­
on the Belgian front. The Frenchmen
.' solution of the problems of Alsace
cultura. asking that arrangements be
broke Into the German lines, occupied
l Ixvrralne, Trent. Trieste and Poland,
made for an interstate conference in
several farms to the east of Hix
I according to reports received from
Spokane August FT and ZB to dlacuaa
eahoote and west of Langwark. and
Vatican aourcra.
winter wheat and rye seeding prob
captured a number of machine guns
lema
Andrew Bolter La*, the govern­
Washington —The state department
Seventy five persons from eight
ment spokesman in the houee of
acknowledges that it bad received un­
ststra will be In attendance, ho said
commons, told iho members of the
official knowledge of Pope Henadlct'S
Dr H A Pearson and two others will
lower house that the government had
peace pr<» pósale before news die
represent the department of agricul­
decided that permission to attend the
patches were received here.
ture
international social let conference nt
Within the entente diplomatic elr
ele the opinion was freely and prompt
Stockholm would not be granted to
Guardemon In Raid on I. W. W.
British delegates
!y expressed that the peace proposal
Oakland. Cal —Scores of national waa itwpired by Germany and was an
Two
French
aviators
dropped
bombs on frank fort on the Main, one guard*men raided th« Oakland head attempt to split the slltea In a con
of the moot Important cities of the guariere of the Industrial Workers of fileting discussion of their war aims
It an Inference might be drawn
German empire, having a |K>pulatiun the World and carried out the organi
of nore than 300.W0 A French offi­ Mtlon’e literature and recorda and from the undercurrents which were
cial stat-ment. announcing the mid. made a bonfire of them In the street started In official circles by the re­
says It waa in retaliation for the Ger­ The raid was said to be the outgrowth port. a trained observer would venture
man aerial bombardment of Nancy of an alleged attach upon two sol the opinion that the proposal la one
di.-ra. two week» ago
a.id the region north of Paris
which could be discussed In good faith
by the allies but that It dora not meet
P-Aer' Owene. engineer of a logging France Sospenda Duty for Americana their war aim* It waa Indicated that
Washington.—Fs-karra from boni« a peace proposal coming from the
locomotive, waa fatally burned end
logging equipment end two bridgea for Amer..an soldier« are to bo pass j pope—the Brat actual prop«.sal of the
by uiv Fren« L gov«n.meat <lutj kind to come lr«>m the vanean—would
of a logging rond of the Oregon Lum­
ber toihpany wee destroyed, when free and with..ut uuneve- <tiry delay aec< laarily bars to be tor aldorod
Hood River county experienced one of for examlnsuuc. according tu a Ioffe carefully ana deliberately and that an
the wore! forest firee In the valleys to the otate de.-sr^out fr >n Ambas noawer oonviacieg to the world would
•ador Jusaera.oi
necessarily bate to be made
PEACE PROPOSALS
MADE BY POPE
It was decided that all aliens shall
receive conditional exemotions only.
This action was taken in view of
legislation now before congress pro­
viding for the drafting into military
service of all aliens whose countries
are on friendly term» with the
United States.
The big liners. Great Northern
and Northern Pacific. the Hill boats
which plied iietwren Astoria and
San Francisco, have iaw-n requisi­
tioned as troop transports, to carry
g'tldiera from Atlantic porta to the
European Itaftle fields.
How Hot
is it
?
This is a common query
nowadays But you can't
take just anybody's word
for it, as reports vary,
(jet one of our true-telling
THERMOMETERS
and you will have authen­
tic information about the
temperature Wesellg<»od
thermometers, and have
them in all of the beat
styles and sisra.
Hang
one outside an«l on«- in­
side your house.
C. A. EVERETT
Druggist and Stationer